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
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Last week there were links being passed around with the new Kanye West video for his latest single Monster. However it has since been removed due to copyright laws. So in the mean time check out this cool Muppets version of Yeezy’s latest single.

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Posted by: alberto
Posted on: January 4th, 2011
Tags: kanye west, monster, muppets, music video
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My list of best albums of 2010 was a lot harder to organize that I had previously thought. There was so much good music this year that I had originally wanted to do a top 10 or 15 but ended up with a list of my favourite 20 albums of 2010. Right from the start of 2010 to mid December great albums just kept being released. It started back in January with the release of Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra (#9 on my list). Following that release it was a non stop release of great records that will be on lists for many many years as all time albums. There were only two months where an album that was released is not on this list, those months are July and September. Other than those two months each of the 10 months produced an album that is on my list. I don’t about you but that’s got to be a good indication that this year was a good year for music.

Find out what was my top album of the year here.

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 30th, 2010
Tags: arcade fire, band of horses, cee lo green, crystal castles, deftones, four year strong, kanye west, kid cudi, kings of leon, mumford and sons, plan b, the black keys, the damned things, the drums, the gaslight anthem, the national, the roots, vampire weekend, warpaint, year in review, zeus
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2010 was filled with great music. It all started when Vampire Weekend released Contra back in January. From then on it was a non stop parade of awesome music. We heard new stuff from Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, The National, Kanye West & more. We were introduced to a bunch of new and exciting artists like Mumford & Sons, Plan B, The Drums, Tinie Tempah & Zeus. Besides Arcade Fire a lot of good Canadian music was released this year. Drake released his highly anticipated album Thank Me Later, The New Pornographers released Together and indie starlets Zeus released Say Us.

Click here to view the full playlist and also find out which song was my guilty pleasure of the year!

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 23rd, 2010
Tags: 2010 playlist, a day to remember, arcade fire, big boi, broken bells, cee lo green, crystal castles, deftones, drake, four year strong, gaslight anthem, kanye west, kings of leon, m.i.a., mumford and sons, plan b, the damned things, the drums, the gaslight anthem, tinie tempah, vampire weekend, warpaint, wavves, weezer, year in review, zeus
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