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Top Ten List - Joshua, Look Mexico/Sharkguts

Joshua Mikel - Sharkguts/Drummer, Look Mexico

#1 The Foo Fighters “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace” (RCA) - It’s called something fancy like silence, blah, blah, blah…not because it was really that good, but because they earned it. (Haha! - Will.)
#2 Fake Problems “How Far Our Bodies Go” (Sabot)
#3 Minus The Bear “Planet of Ice” (Suicide […]

SAL’s Top Sixteen EPs of 2007

This includes EPs, splits, demos and/or 7 inch records. Click on the album cover for a review. If you can not click on the album cover then there just isn’t a review…write your own!
#16
Gray Young “Kindle Field” (Self-Released)

- Just got this in the mail recently and it made a nice enough impression to end this […]

Top Ten List - Sah!, Half And Half

Sara Thomas - The Half And Half Designs, Columbia, SC
#1 Menomena “Friend and Foe” (Barsuk)
#2 Panda Bear “Person Pitch” (Paw Tracks)
#3 Eluvium “Copia” (Temporary Residence)
#4 Of Montreal “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
#5 Bracken “We Know About the Need” (Anticon)
#6 m83 “Digital Shades Vol. 1″ (Mute)
#7 Spoon “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” (Merge)
#8 Battles […]

Top Ten List - Patrick, The Winter Sounds

Patrick Keenan - The Winter Sounds, Athens, GA

(Two of these albums, Midlake and Futureheads, are 2006 Patrick! - Will.)
#1 The National “Boxer” (Beggars Banquet)
#2 Of Montreal “Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer” (Polyvinyl)
#3 Band Of Horses “Cease To Begin” (Sub Pop)
#4 Midlake “The Trials of Van Occupanther” (Bella Union)
#5 Shout Out Louds “Our Ill Wills” […]

Top Ten List - Mitchell, Fresh Kills

Mitchell Jordan, Graphic Designer, Bassist (Fresh Kills), NYC

#1 Battles “Mirrored” (Warp)
#2 Bloc Party “A Weekend in the City” (Vice)
#3 Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Is Is (EP)” (Interscope)
#4 Dinosaur Jr. “Beyond” (Fat Possum)
#5 Panda Bear “Person Pitch” (Paw Tracks)
#6 Band of Horses “Cease to Begin” (Sub Pop)
#7 Pig Destroyer “Phantom Limb” (Relapse)
#8 Rob Crow “Living Well” (Temporary […]

2007 Cheers/Jeers (Top Ten List) - Mattison

Mattison - Lawya, Columbia, SC

Cheers:
- Not ever having to go to school ever again if I don’t feel like it.
- Lifetime “Lifetime” (Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen)
- The Swellers “My Everest” (Search And Rescue)
- SOME people realizing bands like Arcade Fire, Interpol, Of Montreal, Minus the Bear, etc. aren’t really that good.
- Albert Hammond, Jr. “Yours […]

Top Ten List - Virgil, Suburban Home Records

Virgil Dickerson - Suburban Home Records, Denver, CO

Minus the Bear “Planet of Ice” (Suicide Squeeze)
The New Amsterdams “At the Foot of My Rivals” (Vagrant)
Portugal the Man “Church Mouth” (Fearless)
Band of Horses “Cease to Begin” (Sub Pop)
The Playing Favorites “I Remember When I Was Pretty” (Suburban Home - might seem shameless, but I love this album)
Kanye […]

Top Ten List - Matt

Matt Van Asselt - Westchester, NY
In Slight Order:
Moving Mountains “Pneuma” (Self-Released)
Explosions in the Sky “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone” (Temporary Residence)
Attica! Attica! “Dead Skin/Dried Blood” (Red Leader)
The Gaslight Anthem “Sink or Swim” (XOXO)
Cats and Cats and Cats “split with This Town Needs Guns” (Big Scary Monsters)
Bomb the Music Industry! “Get Warmer” (Quote Unquote/Aisan […]

Top Ten List - Bryan

Bryan Hatchell - AudioVideo guru/Guitar wanker extraordinaire, Columbia, SC

#1 The Weakerthans “The Reunion Tour” (Anti)
#2 The Forms “The Forms” (Threespheres)
#3 Mock Orange “Captain Love” (Asian Gothic) (Even though he hasn’t heard it! - Will)
#4 Dinosaur Jr. “Beyond” (Fat Possum)
#5 Rocky Votolato “The Brag & Cuss” (Barsuk)
#6 Self Evident “Self Evident” (DPG)
#7 Field Music “Tones of […]

Top Ten List - Megan

Megan Mulligan - Plays with kids, Columbia, SC

In No Particular Order:
Dartz! “This Is My Ship” (Deep Elm/Xtra Mile)
The Great Depression “The Great Depression” (Self-Released)
Andrew Bird “Armchair Apocrypha” (Fat Possum)
The Ackleys “Forget Forget Derive Derive” (House Of Love)
Modest Mouse “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank” (Epic)
The Avett Brothers “Emotionalism” (Ramseur)
Bloc Party “A Weekend In […]