January 2010
15 posts
My Favorite Bands of the Decade
In no order, off the top of my head:
Phoenix
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Spoon
Arcade Fire
Okkervil River
One last time, for 2009. →
Got me.
December 2009
13 posts
I have no problem with a Green Day: Rock Band game. They were my favorite band for a good stretch in 8th grade and were my first real concert. I would have thought there’d be a more generation-stretching pick like Zeppelin maybe U2, but Green Day is as good a pick for a band from my generation. Great arc…Scrappy punk band to MTV Sensation to, arguably, the biggest contemporary rock...
Phillies Favorites To Land Halladay? →
hotfoot:
Tom Verducci at SI.com believes the Phillies are emerging as the front runners to land Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay
“They’ve been very aggressive,” a baseball source told Verducci. “They’re putting…
The Mets are somehow very close to becoming the Baltimore Orioles of the NL East.
Shows of the decade? →
The Cure Interpol The Rapture Mogwai + Muse Cursive Thursday Head Automatica
Not only was Curiousa even more amazing in hindsight, it was embarrassingly under attended at the time. Randalls island felt about half full, at best. Oh well.
I still hold that the most amazing lineup I’ve ever seen at one show was The KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show in LA, December 11, 2004. I...