Top 11 Albums of the 2000s

1. Radiohead - Kid A

2. Radiohead - Amnesiac

3. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

4. Joanna Newsom - Ys

5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

6. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

7. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

8. The White Stripes - Elephant

9. Radiohead - In Rainbows

10. The Strokes - Is This It

11. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

Read about why I chose them here.

Top 15 Albums of 2009

1. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

2. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. II

3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

4. Fever Ray - Fever Ray

5. Dan Deacon - Bromst

6. Mos Def - The Ecstatic

7. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young

8. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

9. Thomas Function - In the Valley of Sickness

10. tUnE-YaRdS - BiRd BrAiNs

11. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring

12. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

13. The Dutchess and the Duke - Sunset / Sunrise

14. Micachu - Jewellery

15. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

On this blog, I've made it a tradition to list my top fifteen records of the year (2007 is here and 2008 is here). For more words on why I chose the top ten, see our Time Out list here. Also, keep on the lookout for our decade lists and some Pazz & Jop action in January.

AOL

My first concert recap for AOL's Spinner ran today and—surprise, surprise—it's about Phish. The band played Madison Square Garden last night. Check it out here.


The show was my tenth of the tour this year…one more to go tonight and another tomorrow for the even dozen. I am neither proud nor ashamed of this fact.