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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Similar to 2010, this year has been a fantastic year for music. We saw debut albums from both Gallagher brothers, Cults, and Grouplove. We also heard some of awesome singles from M83, Lana Del Rey, and The Weeknd. Mixed in with these catchy singles and debuts were a bunch of solid albums. Some of those include Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light, Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life and Girls’ Father, Son, Holy Ghost.

As is the case with every year there is always this one song that gets to me that becomes my guilty pleasure. This year that award goes to Katy Perry. Her single ‘E.T.’ was so catchy and was played everywhere I turned that it got tattooed in my head. Also on my playlist are two tracks from Canadian rockers The Sheepdogs. Although their album ‘Learn & Burn’ was released in 2010, they really hit it big this year thanks to winning the Rolling Stone Magazine contest.

The 80 songs below is pretty much a soundtrack to my year. From songs that were released in January right up until December every song on here was played countless amounts of time. Hope you enjoy the list and let me know if there were any songs you really enjoyed that I should check out. Happy Holidays!

Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 23rd, 2011
Tags: 2011 playlist, bon iver, cults, dreamers, dum dum girls, foo fighters, fucked up, girls, lana del rey, m83, mastodon, playlist, the sheepdogs, year in review
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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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Not only was 2010 a great year for music but it was also a great year for video games. This year we saw a bunch of new titles, sequels and accessories for each console. Microsoft and Sony finally launched their motion gaming this year with Kinect (XBOX) and Move (Playstation). Having tested out Kinect it’s a pretty solid gaming experience that will definitely change the way we play games. Think about it, no controller required! With Microsoft and Sony now in the same market as the Wii I kind of feel that Nintendo needs to come out with something new to compete with their new rivals.
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Posted by: alberto
Posted on: December 30th, 2010
Tags: alan wake, assassins creed, battlefield bad company 2, brotherhood, call of duty, call of duty black ops, fifa 11, god of war 3, gran turismo, gta iv, halo reach, heavy rain, kinect, madden 11, mlb the show 10, nhl 11, nintendo wii, playstation 3, red dead redemption, sony, sony move, ufc undisputed 2010, xbox, xbox 360, year in review
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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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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.
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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
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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!)
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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
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