8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?Yes I am. No, but seriously, this jubilant yet immensely depressing album really did something big for Of Montreal this year. Never before has intense personal drama been so much damn fun to witness, and it seems lots of ravey youngsters have discovered this truth, as [...]

I arrived feeling lucky to have scored second row seats at such a venue for such an artist, because although Iron & Wine’s latest, The Shepherd’s Dog has a few booty shakers on it, overall this is a pleasantly quiet act and it was nice and classy to sit back in the plush red seats and [...]

With each release, Sam Beam, the man and beard behind Iron & Wine, does theoretically what every lasting musician should: he expands the breadth of the sounds, instruments, and recording options available to him in order to allow that much more discovery and possibility. This is in one sense due to his simply being allowed [...]