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EW's Top 25 Indie Albums; Does Radiohead Really Deserve No.1 Spot?


Entertainment Weekly’s editors feature the 'Indie Rock 25', profiling albums from 1984 (apparently the ‘beginning of indie’) to present, including classics from The Hold Steady, The Replacements, Yo La Tengo, The Pixies, Spoon, Pavement, Built to Spill, and The White Stripes to name a few.

Some of the choices are questionable, not for being selected, but for their position in the ranking. For example, why is Radiohead's In Rainbows given the No.1 spot on the list? (Modest Mouse's stunning Lonesome Crowded West release is buried in the list at No. 12, just to name one aberration).

Afterall, Radiohead's In Rainbows has been out less than six months, the band pissed off a lot of fans back in October for what was considered a dubious 'first release' and there are many other albums on this list that are well-oiled classics - truly landmark albums that have etched themselves in to the history of 'indie rock' - and beyond - to a greater degree than In Rainbows has or ever can.


Lastly, Radiohead has become so commercialized as an entity in the past year that I would argue they no longer fit into the 'indie rock' genre to begin with.


Nevertheless, there are still some good choices on this list, just their position on the list is highly question, even head-scratching.


1 - Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007) Stream: Radiohead's MySpace page


2 – Spoon – Ga Ga Ga (2007) – MP3: Eddie’s Ragga


3 – The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006) MP3: Stuck Between Stations (Live)


4 – Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005) MP3: Lua


5 – Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004) MP3: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)


6 – The White Stripes – Elephant (2003) Stream White Stripes


7 – Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (2003) MP3: Obstacle 1


8 – The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (2001) MySpace: Turn Me On

9 – Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000) MP3: None from this album, but there are eight free MP3s from Yo La Tengo


10 – Sleater-Kinney – The Hot Rock (1990) MP3: Get Up


Here's the entire 'Top 25 indie albums' list from EW's website.

Check back to the site later today or tomorrow (3/31) for a zip file of the MP3s above, including some bonus tracks.

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  10:22 PM March 30, 2008    2 Comments

Live 105 BDF Bloc Party Rock Festival Countdown to June 9 "Mini-Cochella"

Did you miss Coachella? Well, there’s good news for alternative and indie rock fans in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere who did.

There's a "mini-Cochella" (what's Coachella?) without the searing heat of the central southern California desert.

On Saturday, June 9, San Francisco rock station 105 Live FM is hosting an impressive line-up of artists from the indie rock scene, including Bloc Party, Interpol, Social Distortion, Kaiser Chiefs, Cold War Kids, CSS, Shiny Toy Guns and many more (full listing below).

The all-day festival begins at 11:30 am at the famous Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mt. View, California, approximately 30 miles south of San Francisco. The Shoreline has both enclosed and lawn seating (see below for ticket information)

The all-day concert is expected to sell out, so get your tickets now. You can subscribe to IRC and get updates on the show, including an MP3 podcast special that will include great rock songs from the various artists scheduled for the Live 105 concert.
While the line-up is always subject to change, as of May 22, 2007, here is the official rooster of artists billed for the Live 105 Bloc Party BDF:

*Note: My aim is to provide websites, profiles and MP3s of each artist appearing at the Live 105 festival. Sign up for the IRC feed or check back to this page often for updated information, links, free music and even a free ticket contest. http://www.live105.com/pages/547604.php

Bloc Party
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Official website
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Bloc Party mp3s

Interpol
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Official website
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Interpol mp3s
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Interpol videos

Queens of the Stone Age
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Official website
- Queens of the Stone Age mp3s
(These links below will be filled in throughout the night and tomorrow and hopefully we'll have some live clips to share!)

Social Distortion
–Official website
-Social Distortion mp3s

The Faint

–Official website
-The Faint mp3s

The Bravery

-Official website
-The Bravery mp3s

Kaiser Chiefs

-Official website
-Kaiser Chiefs mp3s

Silversun Pickups
-Official website
-Silversun Pickups mp3s

Cold War Kids

-Official website
Cold War Kids mp3s

Shiny Toy Guns

-Official website_
-Shiny Toy Guns:
Le Disko(mp3)

Sum 41

-Official website
-Sum 41 mp3s

CSS

-Official website
(mp3)

The Lovemakers
-Official website
-The Lovemakers mp3s

Street to Nowhere
-Official website
-Street to Nowhere mp3s

Scissors for Lefty
-Official website
-Scissors for Lefty mp3s

The Matches

-Official website
-The Matches mp3s

Every Move A Picture

official website

Tiger Army

official website

Honeycut

official website

Minipop

official website

Audrye Sessions

official website

Immigrant

official website

Poor Bailey

official website

- Live 105 Bloc Party page
- Review of last year’s Live 105 BDF –
Spin.com

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  12:02 AM June 8, 2007    0 Comments


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