Best of 2008...

[PWV]

My YouTube guilty pleasure of 2008 is Julia Nunes. Uke-playing pop singing college student from somewhere in New York. She's gone from playing in her dorm room to opening for Ben Folds. Well over 50,000 subscribers now.

Her vids are great, Dave!  Thanks for the tip - love her Beatles cover too of "Her Majesty." 

[Barklessdog]

Polysics - We Ate The Machines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfmWJBl6Qg&feature=related

[Chris P.]

Best cd of the year:
The Raconteurs second

Favourite song of the year:
I have a few. I'll Kill Her by Soko, the Bond-theme by Jack White and Alicia Keys, all Kooks singles.

Concert of the year:
The Bees (what a band!!) at the Melkweg, Amsterdam

Bass of the year:
BaCHBird

Man of the year:
Barack Obama for giving hope for a nice future
French president Sarkozy for doing nice things for the environment and screwing nice birds in between
Rob Basvarken of course for the BaCHBird

Man of the year 2009:
Uwe for his wiedergutmachungs-act for Dutch people and giving the chrome bikes back in way of real nonrev Birds. (Yeah, I'm hooked!)

Best movie of the year:
I dunno.

[uwe]

"Coldgreenrazorpatrol" - LOL! Playing their hit "Speed of Idiots in America(n) Cars".

[Basvarken]

Man of the year:
Barack Obama for giving hope for a nice future
French president Sarkozy for doing nice things for the environment and screwing nice birds in between
Rob Basvarken of course for the BaCHBird

you're too kind

[PWV]

Just downloaded their 2008 release "Directions To See A Ghost."  So I guess this counts as "Best of 08" - The Black Angels are a cool alt-psychedelic band out of Austin.  Remind me of Echo and The Bunnymen in their heyday.   


from 2006 (better audio on this one)



and from March of this year



No video here, but a cool song (and very Echo and TB-like imo) from this year's release:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVZy0cdOrX4&feature=related