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LIST: 2000 to 2009 (Zach’s Staff Picks)

Posted in Lists, tagged A Thousand Shark's Teeth, Aaron Dessner, Ada, Anathallo, Anticon, Apple, Ashes Of American Flags, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Beggar's Banquet, Björk, Blood Bank, Bon Iver, Boxer, Braid of Voices, Brooklyn, Bryan Devendorf, Bryce Dessner, Cafetorium, Canopy Glow, Casimir Pulaski Day, Caskets, Caught in the Trees, Chicago, Crooked Legs, Damien Jurado, DM Stith, Electronic, Everything Trying, Flume, Folk, For Emma, Forever Ago, Ghost of David, Gloria Esperanza Montoya, Glory Hope Mountain, Heavy Ghost, HW / Hope of New Fields, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Ice and Storm, Illinois, Indie, Inside A Boy, Jagjaguwar, John J. Audubon, Jonny Greenwood, Justin Vernon, Lakewood, Low Gravity, Lullaby (Mountain), Matt Berninger, Midwest, Mistaken For Strangers, My Brightest Diamond, Nonesuch Records, Noni’s Field, Osso String Quartet, OST, P. T. Anderson, Panda Newsome, Paper Bag Records, Pity Dance, Poor Places, Proven Lands, Radiohead, Rolf Klausener, Secretly Canadian, Shara Wordan, Sheets, Skinny Love, Slow Show, Sufjan Stevens, The Acorn, The BQE, The National, The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!, The Seer's Tower, The Wolves (Act I and II), There Will Be Blood, Vermont, Where Shall You Take Me?, Wilco, Wisconsin, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Year End on December 8, 2009| 2 Comments »

The following represents what I consider the top ten albums of the last decade. The decision was beyond hard, but this reflects the albums which hit me the hardest and stuck with me the longest.

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LIST: 2000 to 2009 (Corey’s Staff Picks)

Posted in Lists, tagged 4AD, Akron/Family, Alopecia, Anticon, Architecture In Helsinki, Becky Starke, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Brooklyn, Capitol Records, Conor Oberst, Daniel Rossen, David Bowie, Dead Oceans, Decade, Department of Eagles, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, Eli Sunday, Fred Nicolaus, Grizzly Band, Grizzly Bear, Haiti, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, In Ear Park, Interscope, Jim James, Kid A, Lavender Diamond, Matisyahu, My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, New York, Parlophone, Places Like This, Polyvinyl, Radiohead, Return To Cookie Mountain, Set 'Em Free, Set 'Em Wild, Shara Worden, Staff Picks, The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love, The XX, There Will Be Blood, Top 10, TV On The Radio, Why?, xx, Year End, Yoni Wolf, Young Turks on October 28, 2009| 4 Comments »

The following is a list of the ten albums that I feel, are the best releases in the last 10 years. None of the decisions were made based on critical acclaim but merely on what I think are the most progressive and meaningful albums from 2000 to the present. Every band is trying to do something different with their music and the following are examples of success in that goal. Every one of these has a quality or style that is purely unique and influential.

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