Choosing 25 albums from the past year proved to be a difficult task. 2011 produced a whole whack load of great music and it was tough to come up with and order the list below. Other than the albums below, there were a bunch that I couldn’t fit in my top 25. Those albums include Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes, Adele 21, Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues and The War on Drugs Slave Ambient.

2011 proved to be another fantastic year for Canadian music. Leading the way was Drake with his second album Take Care. Other Canadians with good albums this year include City And Colour with Little Hell, Austra with her debut Feel It Break and Arkells with Michigan Left.

Hope you enjoy these albums as much as I did and as always if there was an album you really liked that I didn’t mention, please let me know!

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 29th, 2011
Tags: arctic monkeys, beady eye, bon iver, cults, destroyer, dum dum girls, florence and the machine, foo fighters, fucked up, girls, iron and wine, jay-z, kanye west, m83, mastodon, noel gallagher, pj harvey, portugal the man, the antlers, the black keys, the horrible crowes, the weeknd, watch the throne, wavves, white lies, wu lyf, year in review
Categories: Music
No Comments

British rockers Arctic Monkeys released a new video today to a single of theirs titled ‘Brick By Brick’. It is believed to be the single of their yet to be named fourth album that is rumored to be released this spring/summer. The track has a slightly different sound from their previous work but it still is catchy and good! Have a listen below!

Not only did they released a new song/video but they also announced a summer 2011 tour that kicks off May 17th in Washington DC and ends August 21st in the UK. The lads are scheduled to appear in Toronto May 21st at the Kool Haus and in Montreal the following night at L’Olympia. Those are the only Canadian dates on this tour. If you’re in town and want to see a good show check these guys out live as it is one hell of a show!

For now enjoy their latest ‘Brick By Brick’.

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: March 7th, 2011
Tags: arctic monkeys, brick by brick, Music
Categories: Concerts & Events, Music
No Comments

Continuing my Year In Review posts, I am following up my 2009 Playlist with my Top Albums of 09. I will admit that this list was a little easier to come up with than my playlist but was still difficult to decide what order certain albums get slotted into to.
Read More

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 23rd, 2009
Tags: arctic monkeys, band of skulls, bat for lashes, dead weather, dinosaur jr, glasvegas, julian casablancas, lily allen, mastodon, metric, pearl jam, phoenix, tegan and sara, the antlers, the big pink, the xx, them crooked vultures, thirty seconds to mars, white lies, yeah yeah yeahs, year in review
Categories: Music
5 Comments

With another year coming to an end it closes what was a good year in music. A number of artists hit it big in 2009 including Kings Of Leon (finally after three successful albums in the UK), Lady Gaga & Taylor Swift. 2009 also saw a bunch of indie artists rise to the foreground of the indie music scene. The UK’s La Roux, The XX & The Big Pink are just a few of the more successful bands that cracked the new artist category in 2009 (and I’m sure there are a bunch more!)
Read More

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 21st, 2009
Tags: 2009 playlist, a day to remember, arctic monkeys, band of skulls, bat for lashes, dead weather, drake, every time i die, girls, jay-z, julian casablancas, ke$ha, kesha, kid cudi, kings of leon, la roux, lady gaga, lily allen, metric, pearl jam, phoenix, the big pink, the raveonettes, the xx, them crooked vultures, weezer, white lies, yeah yeah yeahs, year in review
Categories: Music
4 Comments