Best of 2013

Top 25 Albums of 2013

1. Bill Callahan - Dream River

2. Moonface - Julia with Blue Jeans On

3. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

4. Deerhunter - Monomania

5. Fuzz - Fuzz

6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

7. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe

8. Mikal Cronin - MCII

9. Kurt Vile - Walking on a Pretty Daze

10. Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring

11. Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record

12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

13. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin

14. Ty Segall - Sleeper

15. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

16. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

17. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse

18. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others

19. Fiver - Lost the Plot

20. Majical Cloudz - Impersonator

21. Iceage - You're Nothing

22. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon

23. Devendra Banhart - Mala

24. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

25. Local Natives - Hummingbird

Honourable Mention

Sam Amidon - Bright Sunny South

Nobunny - Secret Songs: Reflections From The Ear Mirror

Islands - Ski Mask

Rhye - Woman

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

Top 25 Songs of 2013

1. Frog Eyes - Seven Daughters

2. Bill Callahan - Winter Road

3. Moonface - Dreamy Summer

4. Blood Orange - Uncle Ace

5. Deerhunter - Pensacola

6. Arcade Fire - Normal Person

7. Bill Callahan - Small Plane

8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - This Is My Cocktail

9. King Krule - Easy Easy

10. Islands - Hushed Tones

11. Kurt Vile - KV Crimes

12. Eleanor Friedberger - Other Boys

13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Mermaids

14. Thee Oh Sees - Tunnel Time

15. Fuzz - One

16. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel

17. Fiver - Gone Alone

18. Mikal Cronin - Change

19. Bill Callahan - Summer Painter

20. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula

21. Ty Segall - The Man Man

22. Iceage - Morals

23. Youth Lagoon - Mute

24. Earl Sweatshirt - Sunday (ft. Frank Ocean)

25. The National - Pink Rabbits

Top 10 Live Shows of 2013

1. Metz - Lee's Palace - May 17, 2013

2. Ty Segall - Phoenix Concert Theatre - February 6, 2013

3. Fuzz - The Shop at Parts & Labour - October 16, 2013

4. Destroyer - The Opera House - November 9, 2013

5. King Krule - Lee's Palace - December 9, 2013

6. The Babies - The Silver Dollar - April 23, 2013

7. Deerhunter - Phoenix Concert Theatre - September 12, 2013

8. Mikal Cronin - The Silver Dollar - June 13, 2013

9. Father John Misty - Danforth Music Hall - August 3, 2013

10. Cass McCombs - Lee's Palace - December 4, 2013

Best of 2012

Top 25 Albums of 2012

1. Ty Segall - Twins
2. Father John Misty - Fear Fun

3. Metz - Metz

4. Bahamas - Barchords

5. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance

6. DIIV - Oshin

7. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

8. Grizzly Bear - Shields

9. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

10. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse

11. Xiu Xiu - Always
12. Twin Shadow - Confess
13. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
14. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
15. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
16. Cat Power - Sun
17. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
18. Beach House - Bloom
19. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
20. King Tuff - King Tuff
21. Tame Impala - Lonerism
22. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
23. Purity Ring - Shrines
24. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
25. The Babies - Our House on the Hill

Honourable Mention

Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits

Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair

Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting

Top 25 Songs of 2012

1. Ty Segall Band - Tell What's Inside Your Heart

2. Damien Jurado - Working Titles

3. Lotus Plaza - Remember Our Days

4. Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings

5. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

6. Ty Segall - They Told Me Too

7. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

8. Danny Brown - Grown Up

9. Bahamas - Your Sweet Touch

10. Why? - Paper Hearts

11. Hot Chip - Flutes

12. Thee Oh Sees - So Nice

13. Islands - Hallways

14. Metz - Get Off

15. King Tuff - Alone & Stoned

16. Leonard Cohen - Going Home

17. Cat Power - Ruin

18. The Babies - Wandering

19. Twin Shadow - Five Seconds

20. Ty Segall & White Fence - Tongues

21. Divine Fits - Shivers

22. Purity Ring - Finshrine

23. Tame Impala - Why Won't They Talk to Me?

24. Xiu Xiu - Joey's Song

25. Andrew Bird - Hole in the Ocean Floor

Top 10 Live Shows of 2012

1. Ty Segall - Horseshoe Tavern - May 12, 2012

2. Father John Misty - Lee's Palace - October 27, 2012

3. Refused - Sound Academy - July 22, 2012

4. Divine Fits - Lee's Palace - September 5, 2012

5. DIIV - Phoenix Concert Theatre - December 11, 2012

6. Mount Eerie - The Great Hall - September 10, 2012

7. Lotus Plaza - The Garrison - April 15, 2012

8. Islands - The Music Gallery - February 28, 2012

9. King Tuff - The Garrison - October 12, 2012

10. Atlas Sound - Lee's Palace - March 6, 2012

It's 12 Inches!

So I bought this bad ass Greedo the other day at the
Silver Snail in Toronto.

It was $1.99... and at 12 inches.... that's just pennies an inch!

TMNT!

Sometimes your Mom saves the greatest things from your childhood... and I have no idea what persuaded my mother to keep these Bebop and Rocksteady masks? 

Back in 1989 I somehow convinced my Mom to buy me both of these... when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were at the height of their popularity with the cartoon... the follow year the first movie was released and TMNT was everywhere... I came up blank in a google search... I was wondering how many Bebop and Rock Steady latex masks were out there? All I could find was the plastic version... these masks say... ©1989 Playmates Toys Inc. on the back.

Record Cover Win.

New Daniel Romano record coming soon.

And potentially the best cover of 2012.

That was 34 years ago...

New BBQ