Best of?

Hey, you know what? I never posted my “Best Albums of 2007″ list like a good blogger should. It’s only halfway through 2008. Oops. Silly me.

Here it is.

So, without further ado, here are my Top 15 albums of 2007.

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
3. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
6. !!! - Myth Takes
7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Band of Horses - Cease to Exist
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
11. Kings of Leon - Because of The Times
12. The National - Boxer
13. Imperial Teen - The Hair and the TV Baby and the Band
14. Dinosaur, Jr - Beyond
15. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!

Mystery Mix Monday

MYSTERY MIX, VOL. 45

Last week’s playlist:

Vol. 44

1. Love Psychedelico - Standing Bird
2. Shake Some Action! - Get It Together
3. Lanterns on the Lake - This Year
4. Beulah - Gene Autry
5. Palodine - Woman of Cain
6. Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral
7. The Museum Mutters - Bunny Goes Grunt
8. Nirvana - Mexican Seafood
9. Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets (live)
10. Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version)

Gentleman Auction House Tour Blog

In case you didn’t know, locals and Dividing By Zero favorites Gentleman Auction House are on a bit of a tour of the northeastern quadrant of the country, and they are keeping a tour diary that you can conveniently check out here. They are playing at Piano’s in New York City tonight.

Today: Southern Illinois Songwriters Festival

Today there’s a bit of fun going on in Collinsville, IL (that’s about 15 minutes east of downtown St. Louis). It’s called the Southern Illinois Songwriters Festival, and it goes from 2pm until 2am. In the spirit of full disclosure, I am playing in one of the bands playing, mY mUSIc aTLas. This is our first live show since I started playing with them, so it should be fun. I’ve included a few songs below. There are a whole bunch of great bands playing one several out door stages and in several bars on Main Street (we’ll be at Hurricane’s), including Wooden Kites, Tone Rodent, Palace of Electricity, DiBiase (Chandler Evans of Ghost In Light’s new band), Council of Fidelity, Pineapple Explode (from Nashville), Tree Heart Orchestra, Joe Eisenbraun, Corey Saathoff and many more.

MP3: Wooden Kites - You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three
MP3: Wooden Kites - Suicide Weather
MP3: mY mUSIc aTLas - Olivia Imperially
MP3: mY mUSIc aTLas - Frugal Traps And Happenstance
MP3: Council on Fidelity - Corpse On The Shore
MP3: Tone Rodent - Turn On The Light

At The Royale Tonight

I will be spinning at The Royale tonight from 10pm - 1am. Dividing by Zero compatriot AJS will be playing music from 6-10 as well. Come on out. Have some drinks. Listen. Ponder my impeccable taste in music.

Mystery Mix Monday on Tuesday

Here it is:

MYSTERY MIX, VOL. 44

Here is last week’s playlist:

Vol. 43

1. Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Churches Under The Stairs
2. Langhorn Slim - Rebel Side of Heaven
3. The Replacements - Favorite Thing
4. Jumbling Towers - Jeer
5. Ratatat - Shiller
6. Robert Forster - Pandanus
7. South - Better Things
8. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bring Me The Head of Paul McCartney on Heather Mill’s Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs on the White House)

Mystery Mix…postponed

Until tomorrow. It’s too late.

Old 97s Tonight

Just a quick reminder that the Old 97s are playing at The Pageant tonight. They put on one of the best show of the year last summer, so you’ll definitely want to check it out. One of the three bands opening the show is I Love Math, featuring John Dufilho of The Deathray Davies and Apples in Stereo and Philip Peeples of the Old 97s. As readers of this slice of teh interweb may know, I am a huge fan of The Deathray Davies, so I am really looking forward to seeing I Love Math play. They sound, with apologies to the other members of the band, like an acoustic, slightly countrified version of The Deathray Davies.

MP3: Old 97s - Big Brown Eyes
MP3: Old 97s - Jagged
MP3: I Love Math - This Is Something I Might Miss
MP3: I Love Math - Josephine Street

Toadies at The Pageant on July 30th

Oh wow, this is totally taking me back to high school in Dallas in the mid-90’s: Toadies are touring this summer (sans-Lisa, though) and will be hitting The Pageant on July 30th. I was all into Dallas bands in the years of 1994-1998, including Toadies, Reverend Horton Heat, Old 97s, Hagfish, Baboon, Brutal Juice, Slobberbone, Funland (featuring Will Johnson in his pre-Centro-matic days), Tripping Daisy (Tim DeLaughter in his pre-Polyphonic Spree Days and UFOFU (the Curtis brothers in their pre-Secret Machines days).

I always had a great time at Toadies’ shows and their debut full-length, Rubberneck, is still one of my favorite albums from that decade. They broke up in 2001 or so; by then I was living in St. Louis and I remember heading down to the Galaxy where they were supposed to be playing one night, only to find out that the show was cancelled. It was cancelled because they had split up.

Anyway, this one should be fun.
Toadies - “Possum Kingdom”

Toadies - “Backslider”

Toadies - “Tyler”

Toadies - “Away”

Here’s a way-old live clip of them performing “She Burns” live:

Mystery Mix, Vol. 43

Here’s this weeks’ Mystery Mix. Enjoy.

MYSTERY MIX, VOL. 43

Last week’s playlist:

Vol. 42

1. Pela - Tenement Teeth
2. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
3. Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
4. The Chaingang - I Wish Daft Punk Was Playing At My House
5. Heloise and the Savoir Faire - Downtown
6. Defex - Machine Gun Love
7. The Muslims - Bright Side
8. The Tubes - White Punks on Dope