Say Lou Lou + Okay Kaya at Mercury Lounge (May 2015)

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Stuck inside due to the snow, I figured why not post another gallery of never-before-seen pics! I caught Say Lou Lou last year at the Mercury Lounge as they were touring to support their album Lucid Dreaming. That album ranks as one of my favorite pop records of 2015 — alongside Marina and the Diamonds’ Froot (Carly Rae’s didn’t really do it for me and I can’t think of any other records offhand). My photos from the show, plus some of opener Okay Kaya and a great video made by I was Easy Meat from that night, are after the jump.

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Best Music of 2015 List (Pazz & Jop +)

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2015 was a great year for new music in all genres. Near the end of 2014, one of what would turn out to be my favorite albums of 2015 leaked onto the internet — The Decemberists What a Terrible World… But January, on the same date, saw the release of another great album, the comeback record No Cities to Love from Sleater-Kinney. But I don’t keep track of release dates really, I keep track of upcoming shows and events. So I can’t say for sure when I discovered other albums save for Grimes’ Art Angels which released near the end of the year. Both Grimes and Decemberists received slightly higher points when I was doing my Pazz & Jop tabulations for Village Voice given how much play both those albums received.

I did try to pick albums that were from a wide variety of genres which is perhaps why this site statistical site Furia considered me a  “Centrist” for 2015. But I would have thought I was less centric — however I did select many of the titles that made the Top 10, I haven’t perused the site too much, the amount of data is crazy to review in the few minutes I am taking to get this post up. pazzjop_furia2015

Anyways, check out my best/favorite albums and songs of 2015 after the jump. Click the album cover to visit Amazon and purchase the disc, watch the videos for the singles and be my friend on Spotify. Hopefully 2016 is half as good as 2015 for music.

RIP David Bowie.

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Savages “Adore” Video and Baby’s All Right 2015 Photos

The band Savages are set to release their new album Adore Life on January 22nd. They recently dropped the video for the second single from that album, “Adore”, online and you can stream that below. But first, I must catch up on unpublished photos. Last year the band had a residency in NYC with nine shows across a few venues. I caught them at Baby’s All Right on January 19th and hadn’t posted any of the photos till now for whatever reason. Enjoy some more pics below the jump and plan to see them when they return to the States (dates at the bottom).

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