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My Top 10 Albums of 2009 (Mine is in alphabetical order, not by how I thought they were from 1 to 10)
1. Album - Girls
2. Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio
3. Born Like This - DOOM
4. Bromst - Dan Deacon
5. Dark Was The Night - Various Artists
6. Dragonslayer - Sunset Rubdown
7. Eskimo Snow - Why?
8. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
9. Tarot Sport - Fuck Buttons
10. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
(more of my list here)
My Top 6 shows of the year
1. Coachella 2009 @ Empire Polo Fields, Indio, CA
2. Bon Iver Sunrise Show @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, CA
3. Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Crocodiles @ Che Cafe, San Diego, CA
4. Dirty Projectors @ Birch North Park Theatre, San Diego, CA
5. Fleet Foxes @ Coachella 2009, Indio, CA
6. HARD SUMMER FEST FUCK YEAH!
Total number of shows?
~20, probably a little more
First show of the year?
HMMMM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ANIMAL COLLECTIVE @ THE HENRY FONDA, LOS ANGELES, JANUARY 22, 2009 IF AVEY TARE DIDN’T GET A FUCKING COLD. Never forget Avey, never fucking forget.
Last show of the year?
Haha probably going to the sketchy ass World Beat Center rave to see Le Castle Vania for NYE.
Most surprising show?
Buraka Som Sistema @ Coachella 2009 or Crocodiles @ The Che Café
Most disappointing?
HARD Summer Fest, I don’t even want to talk about it.
Farthest traveled?
Los Angeles, or Indio… whichever is farther from San Diego haha.
States attended shows in?
I’M GOIN’ BACK TO CALI CALI.
Venue most visited?
The Loft?
Worst injury?
Does blacking out at Flaming Lips count?
Most expensive ticket?
Coachella ticket - $308.30
Band seen the most?
No Age - 4 times.
Best new discovery?
Lots, 2009 was a good year in music.
Bands seen this year that also broke up this year?
I was going to see Mika Miko, does that count?
Friends made at shows?
CHILICHOW. and other randos.
Band members met?
Gaspard of Justice
So Me
Dean and Randy of No Age
A lot of people I initially talk to and make fun of at the Che only to see them up on stage thirty minutes later.
Best souvenir from a show?
I probably bought like 20+ band shirts this year that I actually never end up wearing, ever. Also that video I took of Deerhunter with Nathan Williams Wavvesbro thinking he’s hot shit in the background. Also Thor’s STDs (no).
Longest time in line?
If I had actually waited in that line at HARD, I would have still been in line when the riot police and LAFD came. But besides that, the lines weren’t too bad. Probably Coachella but the longest wait out of the three days was probably like 10-20 minutes.
Shows seen from the barricade [front row]:
LA Riots
Bassnectar
No Age
The Drums
Best Coast
Dum Dum Girls
Ganglians
Wavves
Nosaj Thing
Gang Gang Dance (I think?)
Steve Aoki
Surkin bscly (Also where I saw the love of my life not hiding his face in a picture, wait, what?)
Dirty Projectors
Most shows in one month?
August or October.
Most shows in one week?
I think just two, Dirty Projectors & Deadmau5 and No Age & Coachella
Biggest crowd?
Uh Paul McCartney? Maybe M.I.A.
Any drunk encounters?
I was the drunk encounter.
5 Shows you wish you would have gone to, but didn’t:
The Books @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
FYF Fest
Girls, ugh fuck UCSD so bad
Mr. Oizo
No Deachunter
Top 5 best 2009 show moments:
1. Getting Wavves really angry via my sign that said “PRIMAVERA FEST REPEAT PLZ?”
2. Sunset during Fleet Foxes
3. Sunrise at Bon Iver
4. Seizing during Beirut
5. Coachella Friday night at the Sahara from mid-Girl Talk to The Presets
Top 5 worst 2009 show moments:
1. Coachella Friday night at the Sahara from mid-Girl Talk to The Presets
2. HARD Bummer Fest.
3. Blacking out at Flaming Lips
4. Being stalked at at every show I would go to at The Che
2010 concert wishlist:
PAVEMENT, Arcade Fire, Panda Bear, Asobi Seksu, Castanets, HEALTH, Bowerbirds, toro y moi, The Ruby Suns, Vivian Girls, Vitalic, Atlas Sound, Yeasayer, Beach House, etc. etc. etc.
@2 years ago
#2009
Pitchfork’s Worst Album Covers of 2009: MSTRKFT: Fist of God
“It works because listening to MSTRKRFT is like being punched and shat on at the same time.”
okay I love Pitchfork again.
@2 years ago
#MSTRKRFT #Pitchfork #2009
