Slate’s music critic, Jody Rosen, isn’t a big fan of The Decemberists. I, too, share Rosen’s distaste for the most pretentious little Lord Fauntleroy in all of corporate subsidized nerd folk in one Colin Meloy. His reedy voice – embarrassingly overwrought lyrics notwithstanding – is of a timbre my ears find repugnant. When I dislike […]

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Odd collection, but an enjoyable read/viewing. [via The Daily Sabbatical]

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Logan K. Young contributes to Drawer B when he damn well pleases. He also writes for anyone who will pay him. Ladyboys welcome. 1. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing (ATP) 2. Baby Dee – Safe Inside The Day (Drag City) 3. Free Kitten – Inherit (Ecstatic Peace) 4. Lou Reed – Berlin: Live At St. […]

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I’m the less eloquent half of the Drawer B partnership and I am a fan of the Oxford comma. My tastes skew synth, twee, pop, and lately Scandinavian. I have been known to branch out from time to time, but judging from my list, I apparently did not do so this year. None of the […]

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Patrick Wall Music Editor, Free Times Blogger, weekendsofsound.tumblr.com. Knee Meets Jerk: In Which a Beleaguered Music Journalist Attempts to Identify Ten Albums Released Between December 2007 and December 2008 That Were Better Than All the Other Albums Released in the Same Time Period. Listed in no particular order. (Results Subject to Change.) Capsule – Blue […]

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Robert runs The Daily Sabbatical and has contributed to Drawer B intermittently over the years. 1. Deerhunter – Microcastles/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky/4AD) An album in the top spot should be difficult to describe, and this one certainly fits that ticket.  Deerhunter has thrown some elements of shoegaze in here, though without foregoing the crisp pop […]

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Year-end lists are gratuitous, back-patting, and masturbatory, but, like death and taxes, they are unavoidable. So, we succumb. We’re doing things a little differently this year, inviting current and past contributors as well as a few respected peers to submit their lists, while linking back to their respective blogs. They will be posted sporadically over […]

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