December 23rd 2008 - Best of 2008 Show!

Parts & Labor - Satellites (Receivers)
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Dan Friel - Ghost Town, Pt. 1 (Ghost Town)
Gang Gang Dance - First Communion (Saint Dymphna)
volcano! - Fairy Tale (Paperwork)
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Marnie Stern - Ruler (This is it...)
sBACH - Track 2 (sBACH)
Zach Hill - Hindsight is Nowhere (Astrological Straits)
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Women - Shaking Hand (Women)
Chad VanGaalen - TMNT Mask (Soft Airplane)
Azeda Booth - Well (In Flesh Tones)
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Young Widows - Lucky & Hardheaded (Old Wounds)
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More (Matador Singles '08)
Koushik - Buttafly Beat (Out My Window)
The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me (Lust Lust Lust)
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Deerhunter - Never Stops (Microcastle)
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Show download link, good for about three weeks

Here are my actual top of 2008 lists... feel free to comment + add your own!

Pop/rock/"overall"

1. Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (Absolutely sublime, completely blew me away)
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
3. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (OK, this originally came out in '07 but I didn't hear it until the North American release date in '08 w/the bonus tracks, so I'm including it anyways because I really dig it)
4. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
5. volcano! - Paperwork (So under-appreciated)
6. The Dodos - Visitor
7. Women - Women
8. Marnie Stern - This is It...
9. Parts & Labor - Receivers
10. Zach Hill - Astrological Straits (Most insane 'rock' music I've heard in, well, ever)

Noise/drone/experimental
1. Oneida - Preteen Weaponry (Amazing neo-kraut psychedelia)
2. Burning Star Core - Challenger
3. MoHa! - One-Way Ticket to Candyland (The Norwegian equivalent to Hella, except more blown out and crazy)
4. Magic Lantern - High Beams (Psychedelic stoner jams so stoned out, you can basically smell the weed coming off of the vinyl grooves)
5. Sun Araw - Beach Head + The Phynx
6. Black Pus - Black Pus 4 All Aboard the Magic Pus
7. Windy & Carl - Songs For the Broken Hearted
8. Stag Hare - Black Medicine Music
9. Yellow Swans - Deterioration
10. Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black (Thanks Sydney!)

punk rock:
1. The Ergs! - Hindsight is 20/20, My Friend (This is a comp of b-sides/rarities/vinyl only etc tracks so it doesn't really count, but I just wanted to throw that out there)
1. The Loved Ones - Build & Burn (Between this, LaGrecia, and the Gaslight Anthem, passionate heart-on-the-sleeve punk rock (read: the best kind) had a great year)
2. LaGrecia - On Parallels
3. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
4. The Copyrights - Learn the Hard Way
5. Cheap Time - Cheap Time
6. Kepi Ghoulie - Hanging Out/American Gothic
7. Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
8. Off With Their Heads - From the Bottom
9. Nobunny - Nobunny
10. The Steinways - Gorilla Marketing


Electronic:
1. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
2. Near the Parenthesis - L'Example
3. Alias - Resurgam
4. Kieren Hebden & Steve Reid - NYC
5. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
6. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
7. Fennesz - Black Sea
8. Portishead - Third
9. Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir
10. Koushik - Out My Window


EPs
1. The Ergs! - That's It...Bye
2. Crystal Antlers - EP
3. Parts & Labor - Escapers Two (50 songs in 29 minutes!!)
4. Desolation Wilderness - Until Forever
5. The Famines - Black Sea 2X7"

whew.
there's a whole lot more that I liked this year too, and I didn't mean to draw distinctions between genres but if I were to give proper note to all the albums I enjoyed this year, the list would be over 80 entries long. whoa!

One more show to go in 2008! Special treat in store for the first show of 2009 for you huge noise-heads!