My November albums:

1. Steel Panther - Feel the Steel
2. El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
3. Sunset Rubdown - Sunset Rubdown EP
4. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
5. Tor/Sufjan Stevens - Illinoize
6. John Vanderslice - Emerald City
7. Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
8. Sam Roberts - Chemical City
9. Dennis Diken - Late Music
10. R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia
11. Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
12. Mastodon - Leviathan
13. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
14. Sleep - Dopesmoker
15. Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
16. Opeth - Watershed
17. Baroness - Blue Record


Metal albums discovered here.

My new music from October:

1. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
3. The Divine Comedy - A Secret History
4. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
5. Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
6. Lil B - Based Blunts Vol. 1
7. Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
8. Mojo Nixon - Bo-Day-Shus!!!
9. Mojo Nixon - Frenzy
10. Mojo Nixon - Gadzooks!!! The Homemade Bootleg
11. Mojo Nixon - Mojo & Skid
12. Mojo Nixon - Otis
13. Mojo Nixon - Root Hog Or Die
14. Mojo Nixon - Whereabouts Unknown
15. Mojo Nixon - Whiskey Rebellion
16. The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice - Moon Colony Bloodbath
17. The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Black Pear Tree
18. Muse - The Resistance
19. Music Go Music - Expressions
20. Roy Orbison - The Very Best Of Roy Orbison
21. Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
22. Tegan & Sara - Sainthood
23. Uri Caine Ensemble - Wagner e Venezia
24. The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa
25. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

Illinoize

Illinoize is a very tasty mash-up album of Sufjan Stevens songs with various hip-hop artists, including Outkast, Aesop Rock, Brother Ali, and Gift Of Gab (of Blackalicious). Oh my yes.


[via A.V. Club]

Christmas Playlist

1. "Winter Reveries", Hans Zimmer, Toys Original Soundtrack
2. "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow", Knoxville First Baptist Church Choir
3. "Christmas Lullaby", Songs For A New World
4. "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch", Aimee Mann, One More Drifter In The Snow
5."God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen", Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan, Maybe This Christmas
6. "12.5 Days Of Christmas", unknown acapella group
7. "Winter Weather", Squirrel Nut Zippers, Christmas Caravan
8. "O Come O Come Emmanuel", Sufjan Stevens, Songs For Christmas, vol.1 - Noel
9. "When The River Meets The Sea", cast of Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas
10. "The Closing Of The Year", Tori Amos, Toys Original Soundtrack

Sufjan

I have a new musical obsession. It was Jonathan Coulton, but after Holly informed me (multiple times) that he's old news I promptly burned all my MP3s (like, on a fire). My new favorite is Sufjan Stevens. I was up until 3 this morning hoarding as much of his stuff as I could. I was dismayed to find out that he is playing in Atlanta tonight, which I would have gone to in a heartbeat if I'd only discovered him a week earlier, and had time to prepare. From what little I've seen so far, his live shows appear to be very interesting events (with, like, costumes and stuff). He's definitely fun to listen to.