Erika's Top Tens

Top 10 of 2006
1. Destroyer- Rubies. If this album consisted of the title track alone, it
still would have made #1.
2. Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
3. Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
4. Beirut- Gulag Orkestar
5. Swan Lake- Beast Moans. Mickey thinks this album is a big
disappointment. HE'S CRAZY! It's a lovely mosaic of sound! Both diverse
and cohesive.
6. Islands- Return to the Sea
7. Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
8. TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
9. My Brightest Diamond- Bring Me the Workhorse
10. Califone- Roots and Crowns

Missed the Boat in 2005/Dust Offs:
I combined these two categories because I became truly musically
enlightened only in the past year or so. This is a list (in no order) of
tunes that are essential to my existence:
Pavement- Terror Twilight (duh!)
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (duh twice!)
Wolf Parade- Apologies To the Queen Mary
Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy
Joanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mender
Destroyer's entire anthology…or at least the parts I own.
Broken Social Scene- 2005's s/t and You Forgot It In the People
New Pornographers- Electric Version
Sufjan- again, the whole collection
The Arcade Fire- Funeral (duh thrice!)
Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
Animal Collective- Sung Tongs

So, both Wilco and Ted Leo/Rx are kind of conspicuously absent. I just
don't love them like the rest of the world does. They're good, but not
"OHMYGODTHISISTOOAMAYYYYYZING!"

Best Shows in '06:
Sunset Rubdown- in mid-May at Carleton. This show made me a Spencer Krug fan.
Frog Eyes/Wolf Parade- in August at First Ave. CRAZY times!
Ghislain Poirier- in the Biz3 tent at Pitchfork. The whole crowd had a blast.
Junior Boys- 400 Bar in October. The album is thirty times better when
heard live. It was a super fun dance party.

'07 Wishlist:
New Pornographers
The Arcade Fire
Hello, Blue Roses- Dan Bejar and his girlfriend or something.

Other Media:
We don't have TV at St. Olaf. So it's YouTube-
Charlie the Unicorn: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFP0q4qzGw4)
Shoes: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYnn51C3X_w)
Colbert at the Correspondents' dinner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOprXKpuVRc

Slate.com's Political Gabfest (weekly podcast)

Also, Good magazine. http://www.goodmagazine.com/

Oh yeah, and this one site is okay…Pitchfork something? Maybe you've heard
of it.