Robert Christgau: Expert Witness: January 2012. The Best Jazz Albums of All Time. Know why I love hip hop? The 40 Best Albums of 2010 | KANYE WEST. No Genre » Blog Archive » Love Remains. Best music 2011. Records To Die For. AllMusic’s Favorite Albums of 2010. Over the past month, AllMusic has chronicled the highlights of 2010, selecting our favorite albums from a wide variety of genres. Now, we offer the cream of the crop of those many lists -- the very best new albums of 2010, chosen from every sound and style. Yes, you’ll find some usual suspects -- Kanye West and Arcade Fire, Janelle Monáe and LCD Soundsystem -- but this list digs deeper, offering choice metal, electronica, and country albums, the music that wound up defining 2010 for us. Album Reviews. S 40 Best New Bands Of 2010. With fall on the horizon, we’re escaping a slow summer and shifting into that final, fertile phase of the music year’s release cycle.
Which makes it a ripe time to get some perspective on the year, in terms of the big records from past favorites, and here, the bands that have introduced themselves as new ones. Recently, NME conducted its own exercise in surveying the “new” crop of bands, turning in a list that rankled some of you, because you felt some bands were “old,” or because some bands were not to your liking, or because it was a list. The subjectivity of what makes a band the best at anything is of course primary grounds for debate; what makes a band the best at being “new” gives the argument more dimension. We found ourselves arguing and emailing about our own picks, and rules, and said fuck it: let’s publish this. So, qualitative concerns are one thing … but what qualifies one as a “2010 act”? We invite you to argue with us, and with each other (duh).
FROM: Los Angeles, CA. Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2010. Our Year in Music 2010 coverage has featured our Top 100 Tracks, Top Music Videos, the Year in Photos, our Best of Pitchfork.tv, the Best of Pitchfork News, and the Worst Album Covers of the year. Yesterday, we had the Albums of the Year 2010: Honorable Mention, our list of 20 great albums that didn't make our album list, and today and tomorrow, we'll be counting down the Top 50 proper. We start today with Nos. 50-21, tomorrow is the Top 20.
Here is what we have coming up later this month: December 20: Guest List: Best of 2010December 27: The Year in News Amazon have provided samples of the songs below and they've also set up pages for purchasing the music on our lists. Thanks for reading, and have a great holiday. 50. King of the Beach [Fat Possum] When Nathan Williams served up his new Wavves LP in August, it didn't seem like much time had passed since his insanely blown-out album just a year earlier. 49. Gemini [Captured Tracks] 48. Dagger Paths [Olde English Spelling Bee / No Pain in Pop] Experimental Artists, Albums, and Music at Metacritic. The Top 40 Songs of 2010: 10-1 « Frontier Psychiatrist.
(All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2010. For previous entries on the list, click here or simply scroll down. We hope you enjoy the music.) 10. The Morning Benders – “Excuses” It’s no secret: harmonies are in. The last ten years have seen the re-discovery of The Beach Boys, The Zombies, The Turtles, and a bunch of other 60s rock musicians who actually enjoyed singing. 9. Arcade Fire returned in triumph this year with The Suburbs, a concept album of pop anthems that reflect on childhood and adulthood while bemoaning the suburbanization of the modern world. 8. In Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (the album and the fantasy) he surrounds himself with considerable talent that gamely supports his celebration of all things Kanye. 7.
After abandoning his project to record an album for each of the 50 states, Sufjan Stevens emerged from seclusion this fall to release two records: All Delighted People and The Age of Adz. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. To recap, our Top 40 Songs of 2010: 40. Electronic music - Listen free at Last.fm. Downtempo music - Listen free at Last.fm.