TOP ALBUMS OF ’08!

Disclaimer: I didn’t listen to everything that came out this year (I know, it’s a shocker). There are albums that I know are good but that I didn’t listen to till way later than I should have (i.e. Fleet Foxes, She & Him), so I can’t really justify putting them on this list. Also, I can’t get the freakin’ apostrophe in the ’08 to go the other way and it’s really bothering me. Anyway:

15. Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
14. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
13. Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
12. Adele – 19 (Sony)
11. Hercules and Love Affair – s/t (Mute)
10. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Sony)
9. Kaki King – Dreaming of Revenge (Velour)
8. Santogold – s/t (Downtown)
7. Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner)
6. Noah and The Whale – Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (Cherry Tree)

Top 5 after the jump!

Live review (not really): Adele @ Billboard Café

One of the cool things about my internship is that we have random artists come in at least once a week to perform a couple of songs in our cafeteria (Billboard Café). They get filmed and then posted on the Web site with an interview and what not. Usually it’s pretty random people who come in, but we’ve had some interesting ones (interpret that how however you’d like), like Delta Goodrem (Australia’s top-selling female artist, who is super talented), Brianna Taylor from the current season of The Real World, and the new Menudo (there was an MTV show to form a new version of Latino boy band Menudo).

However, yesterday’s performance is the first one I was really excited about seeing, which was Adele, whose album 19 just came out in the U.S. last week. She’s 20 years old, British, has a phenomenal voice, and seems to be totally blowing up. She performed two songs, “Right As Rain” and “Chasing Pavements” and even though the performance was at 11:30 a.m. and she said she was worn out, she sounded awesome.

For some reason I can’t figure out how to get video in here, but the Billboard video of “Right As Rain” is here and “Chasing Pavements” + interview is here.

Adele feature on venuszine.com
Review of Adele’s June 15 show in Philly


Adele and me

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