Top 10 Albums of 2008

After being nudged by Matt from Harvest, I finally came up with my top album from 2008:

  1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
  2. The Dodos - Visiter
  3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
  4. Why? - Alopecia
  5. The Felice Brother - The Felice Brother
  6. Ratatat - LP3
  7. Thao Nguyen - We Brave Bee Stings and All
  8. Dosh - Wolves and Wishes
  9. These United States - A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden
  10. Daedelus - Love To Make Music To

I could link to the albums and get money back from Amazon, but I’d prefer if you went out and bought them locally.

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Still don’t have plans for New Year’s Eve? Here are some ideas:

What’s worse than being stuck on a booze cruise in the freezing cold? Being stuck on a train. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is having a gala full of dining, dancing, live entertainment, and nauseating motion.

If you haven’t been paying attention there is a new venue in the area called White Horse Black Mountain.  You can rock it americana style tonight with Barrel House Mamas and Dehlia Low. BHM are one of those bands that plays around a lot and we always say we’ll catch them next time. Well, we’ll catch them next time.

If you don’t feel like driving all the way to Black Mountain to see some roots music, Donna the Buffalo hits The Orange Peel for a second night with The Believers. Or you could join the Mountain Music Family Circus at The Grey Eagle with Larry Keel, Steve “Big Daddy” McMurry, Mad Tea Party and David Via.

The Asheville Chamber of Commerce has some other suggestions including lindy hopping and sophisticatedness. Mountain Express has some shoestring suggestions if you are a recently unemployed ACT staffer.

Our pick? If we had a magical transporter device, we’d be in Philly to see Gogol Bordello at The Electric Factory. Alas, we’ll be walking to The Admiral for a 4 course prix fixe dinner and drinking until they run out of liquor. There are two seatings and reservations are suggested.

We’ll see you on the flip side.

Colin Meloy (yes, of The Decemberists) will rock The Orange Peel on Friday, April 11. This falls into my holycraptotallyfreakingawesome category. Laura Gibson opens.

Colin Meloy (yes, of The Decemberists) will rock The Orange Peel on Friday, April 11. This falls into my holycraptotallyfreakingawesome category. Laura Gibson opens.

Destroyer (aka Dan Bejar from The New Pornographers) graces The Grey Eagle with his “lyrical” music on Saturday, April 26 thanks to the good folks at Harvest Records.

Destroyer (aka Dan Bejar from The New Pornographers) graces The Grey Eagle with his “lyrical” music on Saturday, April 26 thanks to the good folks at Harvest Records.

WHY? asks more questions at The Grey Eagle on March 19. I’m not sure how to describe their sound except to say that they bring the abstract hip hop stylings that we’ve come to expect from every anticon artist.

WHY? asks more questions at The Grey Eagle on March 19. I’m not sure how to describe their sound except to say that they bring the abstract hip hop stylings that we’ve come to expect from every anticon artist.