A few favorites from last year, in alphabetical order:
Alcest - Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde / Prophecy Records
First full length from Monsieur Neige, aka Alcest, who hails from Avignon, France. It’s shoegaze in the tradition of Pale Saints, Lush, and My Bloody Valentine… but especially Pale Saints. (Alcest began as a solo act, became a black […]

Cool book about the Internet that is destined to fail because it disses (or at least shines a harsh spotlight on) bloggers and Web 2.0 in general: Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur.
I haven’t read it. I saw him, er, “interviewed” on a (recent) rerun of The Colbert Report. I love the premise of […]