Articles

1. Sunset Rubdown - Paper Lace
2. Fever Ray - Seven
3. Andrew Bird - Nomenclature
4. MSTRKRFT - Bounce
5. Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
6. St. Vincent - Actor out of Work
7. Dan Deacon - Snookered
8. Atlas Sound - Walkabout
9. Destroyer - Ravers
10. The Flaming Lips - Scorpio Sword
11. Animal Collective - Lion in a Coma
12. The Fiery Furnaces - Staring at the Steeple
13. The Field - Everybody's Go to Learn Sometime
14. Swan Lake - Paper Lace

Albums

1. Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavillion”
2. HEALTH – “Get Color”
3. The Horrors – “Primary Colours”
4. Pictureplane – “Dark Rift”
5. Dan Deacon – “Bromst”
5. Fryars – “Dark Young Hearts”
6. Fuck Buttons – “Tarot Sport”
7. Telepathe – “Dance Mother”
8. Crystal Antlers – “Tentacles”
9. KASMs – “Spayed”
10. forest creature – “Frustrated Analogue”
11. Julian Casablancas – “Phrazes For The Young”
12. Deadmau5 – “For Lack Of A Better Name”
13. Hatcham Social – “You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil”
14. Wavves – “Wavvves”
15. Japandroids – “Post-Nothing”
16. A Place to Bury Strangers – “Exploding Head”
17. Times New Viking – “Born Again Revisted”
18. The xx – “XX”
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “It’s Blitz”
20. Girls – “Album”

Tracks

1. The Horrors – “Sea Within A Sea”
2. HEALTH – “Die Slow”
3. Fuck Buttons – “Surf Solar”
4. Pictureplane – “Goth Star”
5. Animal Collective – “Brother Sport”
6. Los Macuanos – “El Metralleta”
7. Crystal Antlers – “Andrew”
8. BDRMPPL – 2013 Part V
9. Deadmau5 – “Ghosts N’ Stuff”
10. Teengirl Fantasy – “Floor To Floor”
11. Washed out – “Feel It Around”
12. Wavves – “So Bored”
13. Passion Pit – “Sleepyhead”
14. Ulterior – “Aporia”
15. Fever Ray – “If I Had A Heart (Fuck Buttons Remix)
16. Delphic – “Counterpoint”
17. Telepathe – “Can’t Stand It”
18. MSTRKRFT – “Heartbreaker”
19. Lumina – “I’ll Be With You”
20. The Chapman Family – “Kids”

Misc Artists

1. Teengirl Fantasy
2. BDRMPPL
3. Los Macuanos
4. Factory Floor
5. KRY-LON
6. Los Amparito
7. Neon Indian
8. orso verona
9. S.C.U.M
10. Ulterior
11. Spam!
12. Three Trapped Tigers
13. O Children
14. UnKindness Of Ravens
15. 10-20
16. ALPHABETS
17. Bad For Lazarus
18. BEAT!BEAT!BEAT!
19. Hideous Men
20. Silver Columns

2 Many DJ's
A Brand
Admiral Freebee
Air Traffic
Alexisonfire
Anouk
Anti-Flag
Arctic Monkeys
Bart Peeters
Beastie Boys
Billy Talent
Björk
Boys Noize
Busy P
Daan
Das Pop
De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
dEUS
Diablo Blvd.
Discobar Galaxie
Dr. Lektroluv
Eagles of Death Metal
Enter Shikari
Erol Alkan
Faith No More
Fake Problems
Four Year Strong
Freaky Age
Glasvegas
Goose
Hayseed Dixie
Hercules and Love Affair
Janez Detd.
Jasper Erkens
John Butler Trio
Justice
Kaiser Chiefs
Kevin Seconds
Klaxons
Kraftwerk
La Roux
Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven
Mad Caddies
Magnus
Marilyn Manson
Maxïmo Park
Mike Scott
Millencollin
Mixhell
MSTRKRFT
Muse
My Chemical Romance
N*E*R*D
Panic! At the Disco
Pendulum
Pete & The Pirates
Placebo
Reel Big Fish
Samim
Selah Sue
Soulwax
Streetlight Manifesto
Strike Anywhere
The Blackout
The Galacticos
The Ghost of a Thousand
The hickey underworld
The Kooks
The Maccabees
The Offspring
The Raconteurs
The Rifles
The Ting Tings
Them Crooked Vultures
Thursday
Tiga
Vampire Weekend
Vive la Fête
Yevgueni
Zebrahead

Forgot to post my "seen live" of Dour Festival 2009!
It was on 16,17,18,19 July 2009.

Thursday

Nothing really, but saw/heard parts of:

Drums Are For Parades
Walls of Jericho
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Santigold
papa dada
Disko Drunkards
Dr. Lektroluv
MSTRKRFT

Friday

St. Vincent
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Au Revoir Simone
Deerhoof
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Animal Collective
Fuck Buttons

Saturday

The Dodos
65daysofstatic
I'm From Barcelona

And bits of...

Arsenal
Arbouretum
All Shall Perish
iLiKETRAiNS
O'Death
The Gaslight Anthem
Pet Shop Boys

Sunday

De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
Crystal Castles

And bits of...

Stuck in the Sound
Sleepy Sun
An Albatross
Naïve New Beaters
Heideroosjes
Bob Log III
Jamie Lidell
Caribou

Alpha Omega x2
Architecture in Helsinki
Beaches
Behind Crimson Eyes
Bullet For My Valentine
Cog x3
Cut Copy x2
Daft Punk
Devo
Dungen
El Guincho
Fantomas
Francisco Lopez
Franz Ferdinand
Gyroscope
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Hilltop Hoods
The Stooges
Iron Maiden
Jakob
Jet
John Butler Trio x2
Kora
M83
Midnight Juggernauts
Mogwai
MSTRKRFT
Muse
My Morning Jacket
Neil Young
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Operator Please
Pendulum
Pineapples From The Dawn Of Time
Pnau
Roger Waters
Rosetta
Sigur Ros
Spiritualized
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Cassette Kids
The Dandy Warhols
The Fratellis
The Hilltop Hoods
The Killers
The Living End x2
The Lovetones
The Mars Volta
The Music
The Presets x4
The Prodigy
The Saints
The Surrogate
The Travelling So-And-So's
The Vines x2
The White Stripes
Tool
Tucker B's
Vampire Weekend
Van She
Wolfmother x3

About You
So what's your weird name? Trouble; Ray LaMontagne
Who are you? Honey Honey - Terminal Disease; Operator Please
Who do you feel like? Live Like Music; Kyle Riabko
What do you feel like doing? No Sex For Ben; The Rapture
What is your biggest guilty pleasure? Cosmic Love; Florence + The Machine
What do people call you? Slippery Dick; Peaches
How's the weather? Hey Me, Hey Mama; Ray LaMontagne
What are you feeling? You Got the Style; Athlete
What are you craving? Gravity; John Mayer
What are you thinking? Chores; Animal Collective
Where are you? Nolita Fairytale; Vanessa Carlton
What should you be doing? I Live With You; Grizzly Bear
How is your day? The World We Live In; The Killers
What do you look like? Click Click (feat. E-40); MSTRKRFT

Your Random Thoughts On
Life: Body Control; Leighton Meester
Family: One of The Boys; Katy Perry
Parents: She Wolf; Shakira
Siblings: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat; Beck
Grandparents: Pavement; Cassie Steele
Love: Done All Wrong; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Friends: Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town; The Killers
Career: L'Via L'Viaquez - The Mars Volta
Food: When the Day Met the Night; Panic at the Disco
Celebrities: Hot Mess; Cobra Starship
The President: Bad Reputation; Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Politics: Weeping Willow; The Hush Sound
Death: When the Night Comes; Dan Auerbach

Random Stuff
Personal Motto: Listen To Your Body Tonight; Black Kids
Goal in life: Panic And Geo-Primaries; Falling Up
What you're thinking of: Pursuit Of Happiness (feat. MGMT & Ratatat); Kid Cudi
What you want to be: Born for This; Paramore
What you're most proud of: In Repair; John Mayer
What you're least proud of: Narrow Escape; Ray LaMontagne

Your soundtrack
Opening credits: 24 Hours; Alexz Johnson
Theme song: I Can't Stay; The Killers
Waking up: Tell It To The Volcano; Miniature Tigers
School: Walking the Dog; fun.
First love: From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins; Panic at the Disco
Childhood: All the Pretty Girls; fun.
Teen years: The War; Angels & Airwaves
Wedding: Message in a Bottle; John Mayer
Scary moments: The Youth; MGMT
Dancing: Far Away; Wolfmother
Funeral: Hearing Damage; Thom Yorke
Closing credits: I've Underestimated My Charm (Again); Black Kids

Finish the sentence...
I wish... Holland, 1945; Neutral Milk Hotel
I want... New Moon Rising; Wolfmother
I am... City Traffic Puzzle; The Hush Sound
My best feature is... Cassius; Foals
You should... Little Secrets; Passion Pit

NS's HOT 20 - - -
1. (-|1|1) Guns + Horses - Ellie Goulding
2. (2|6|1) Epic Last Song - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
3. (1|2|1) New Goodbye - Hey Rosetta!
4. (-|1|4) Heartbreaker featuring John Legend - MSTRKRFT
5. (4|5|2) Dawn of the Dead - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
6. (-|1|6) Satellite Heart - Anya Marina
7. (20|3|7) Fireflies - Owl City
8. (6|4|4) Sticks 'n' Stones - Jamie T
9. (-|1|9) Supernova featuring Kanye West - Mr Hudson
10. (5|4|1) Heartbreak - Magistrates
11. (11|3|8) We Made a Pact - Hey Rosetta!
12. (3|3|3) Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club
13. (8|3|8) Pogo - Digitalism
14. (9|2|9) Gangsta Luv featuring The-Dream - Snoop Dogg
15. (12|6|1) Wonder - Dan Black
16. (-|1|16) Love Long Distance - Gossip
17. (13|7|1) Burial - Miike Snow
18. (16|7|3) Life Slash Dreams - Dan Black
19. (18|6|2) The Listening - Lights
20. (14|2|14) Liztomania - Phoenix

OUT THIS WEEK - - -
(7|3|3) Sheila - Jamie T
(10|2|10) Replay - IYAZ
(15|1|15) A Thing for Me - Metronomy
(17|5|6) Silvia - Miike Snow
(19|5|9) Feelings Gone featuring Sam Sparro - Basement Jaxx


**Legend - - -
(LW|WC|PP)
LW : Last week's position
WC : Weeks on chart
PP : Peak Position


NS's WEEKLY PLAYLIST72 playlisted tracks (including new entries)

NEW ENTRIES - - -
Anya Marina - Satellite Heart
Gossip - Love Long Distance
Interpol - Evil
José González - Heartbeats
Madonna - Hot Revolver
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down
Misstress Barbara - four on the floor
MPHO - Box N Locks
MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker Featuring John Legend
R. Kelly - The World's Greatest
Sam Roberts - Brother Down
Tegan and Sara - Don't Rush
Tina Parol - Who's Got Your Money
We Have Band - Hear It In The Cans (DiY version)
30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens


PLAYLISTED TRACKS - - -
(2|4) Amanda Blank - DJ
(1|4|*) Anya Marina - Satellite Heart
(7|4) Basement Jaxx - Feelings Gone featuring Sam Sparro
(3|5) Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
(4|4) Boy Crisis - Dressed to Digress
(5|4) Cajun Dance Party - Amylase
(2|4) Calvin Harris - Flashback
(3|4) Cute Is What We Aim For - Newport Living
(7|5) Dan Black - Wonder
(8|5) Dan Black - Life Slash Dreams
(8|5) David Guetta - Memories featuring Kid Cudi
(5|4) Death Cab for Cutie - Cath...
(5|4) Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
(3|4) Digitalism - Pogo
(5|5) Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead
(6|5) Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Epic Last Song
(7|4) Drake - Best I Ever Had
(5|5|*) Ellie Goulding - Guns + Horses
(5|4) Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
(3|4) Filthy Dukes - Tupac Robot Club Rock
(2|4) Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool
(1|4|*) Gossip - Love Long Distance
(2|5|*) Hey Rosetta! - New Goodbye
(2|4) Hey Rosetta! - We Made a Pact
(3|4) Hockey - Song Away
(1|4|*) Interpol - Evil
(3|4) IYAZ - Replay
(4|5) Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
(4|5) Jamie T - Chaka Demus
(4|5) Jamie T - Sheila
(6|5) Jason DeRulo - Watcha Say
(1|5|*) José González - Heartbeats
(4|4) Joseph Arthur - In the Sun
(2|4) K'naan - Take a Minute
(5|4) The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way
(3|4) Late of the Pier - Broken
(6|5) Lights - The Listening
(1|4) Madonna - Hot Revolver
(4|5) Magistrates - Heartbreak
(4|4) Magistrates - The Inbetweens
(1|4) Matt & Kim - Daylight
(1|4) Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down
(3|4) Matt Costa - Astair
(4|4) Meiko - How Lucky We Are
(7|4) Metric - Gimme Sympathy
(2|4) Metronomy - A Thing for Me
(6|4) Miike Snow - Animal
(8|5) Miike Snow - Burial
(6|5) Miike Snow - Silvia
(4|4) Miike Snow - Black & Blue
(1|4) Misstress Barbara - Four on the Floor
(1|4) MPHO - Box N Locks
(3|5|*) Mr Hudson - Supernova featuring Kanye West
(1|5|*) MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker featuring John Legend
(3|4) Noisettes - Every Now and Then
(2|4) OneRepublic - All the Right Moves
(4|4|*) Owl City - Fireflies
(2|4) Phoenix - Liztomania
(3|4) The Postal Service - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
(1|4) R. Kelly - The World's Greatest
(1|4) Sam Roberts - Brother Down
(6|4) Sam Sparro - Black and Gold
(5|4) The Servant - I Can Walk in Your Mind
(2|4) Slow Club - It Doesn't Have to Be Beautiful
(2|4|*) Snoop Dogg - Gangsta Luv featuring The-Dream
(3|4) Stereos - Get With You
(1|4|*) Tegan and Sara - Don't Rush
(1|4) Tina Parol - Who's Got Your Money
(2|4) Vampire Weekend - Horchata
(3|4) VV Brown - Shark in the Water
(1|4) We Have Band - Hear It in the Cans (DIY Version)
(1|4) 30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens


OFF THE PLAYLIST - - -
(1|4) Asher Roth - Sour Patch Kids
(1|4) Bombay Bicycle Club - Evening/Morning
(3|4) Dan Black - Yours
(2|4) Dead Man's Bones - My Body's a Zombie for You
(3|4) The Faint - Southern Belles in London Sing
(3|4) Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
(5|5) Florence + The Machine - Howl
(3|4) Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
(3|5) Jamie T - If You Got the Money
(7|5) Just Jack - The Day I Died
(3|4) La Roux - Fascination
(3|4) Magistrates - Make This Work
(2|4) Maino - All of the Above featuring T-Pain
(4|4) The Servant - Liquefy
(5|4) Tiësto - You Are My Diamond featuring Kianna
(2|4) Two Door Cinema Club - Cigarettes in the Theatre
(3|4) Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work


**Legend - - -
(WP|RA|*)
WP: Weeks on playlist
RA: Rating out of 5 stars (i.e. 4 = 4/5 stars)
*: Powerplay this week

In an effort to organize myself for the arduous task of compiling a “Best of 2009” list or two (Albums? Tracks?) I have, here, a list of all the albums released in 2009 that I have listened to.

Without further ado, in reverse alphabetical order:

Yuksek - Away from the Sea
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
YACHT - See Mystery Lights
xx - The XX
Woods - Songs of Shame
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Wild Light- Adult Nights
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
WhoMadeWho - The Plot
Whitest Boy Alive - The Rules
White Rabbits - It’s Frightening
White Lies - To Lose My Life
The Warlocks - Mirror Explodes
The Veils- Sun Gangs
Thomas Function - In the Valley of Sickness
Therapy? - Crooked Timber
The Temper Trap - Conditions
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men
Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
Superdrag - Industry Giants
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
St. Vincent - The Actor
Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
Soap & Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
The Snake the Cross the Crown - On A Carousel of Sound, We Go Round
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Röyksopp - Junior
The Rifles - The Great Escape
Richard Hawley - True Love’s Gutter
The Raveonettes - In and out of Control
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
PJ Harvey & John Parrish - A Woman A Man Walked By
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
ThePains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T
Nouvelle Vague - 3
Neon Indian - Psychic Charms
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances
Muse- The Resistance
múm - Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
MSTRKRFT - Fist of God
Mr. Lif - I Heard it Today
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Monsters of Folk- S/T
Modest Mouse - No One’s First, And You’re Next
Moderat - S/T
Miike Snow - S/T
Metric - Fantasies
Maxïmo Park/artist] - Quicken the Heart
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Mando Diao - Give Me Fire
The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
M. Ward - Hold Time
Lucky Fonz III - A Family Like Yours
The Legends - Over and Over
La Roux - S/T
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti….Is Skyscraper
JJ - jj N° 2
Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
Joker’s Daughter - The Last Laugh
Jarvis Cocker- Further Complications
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Jack Peñate - Everything Is New
J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid
It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar
Islands- Vapours
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top
God Help The Girl- S/T
Girls - Album
Generationals - Con Law
Ganglians - S/T
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Florence + The Machine - Lungs
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
Eels- Hombre Lobo
The Drums - Summertime!
Doves- Kingdom of Rust
Doom - Born Like This
The Dodos - Time to Die
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Dead Weather- Horehound
Dead Man’s Bones - S/T
Darker My Love - 2
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
CondoFucks- Fuckbook
The Clues - Clues
The Cave Singers- Welcome Joy
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Burning Hearts - Aboa Sleeping
Burial and Four Tet - Wolf Cub & Moth
Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend
The Boxer Rebellion - Union
Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Beck - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Record Club Recording)
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Antony and the Johnsons- The Crying Light
Antlers - Hospice
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beaty
Akron/Family- Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
A.A. Bondy - When the Devil’s Loose


In the same fashion I went about doing this last year I will do a Top Ten Albums countdown beginning 10 days before the end of the year. I am also thinking that I will do a Top Ten Tracks of 2009 that will begin 20 days before that. I better get to work on this quick like.

Did I miss anything particularly noteworthy? Please let me know if I did so I do not forget to check something or another that might be awesome but forgotten out!