January 10, Happy New Year!

Let’s hope I will keep this up more regularly. Not weekly but every ten days!

1. King Charles – Love Lust
2. The Avett Brothers – Slight Figure of Speech
3. Vampire Weekend – Cousins
4. Kings of Convenience – Mrs. Cold
5. Tegan & Sara – Hell
6. Philadelphia Grand Jury – The Good News
7. Julian Plenti – Games for Days
8. Monsters of Folk – Say Please
9. The Mess Hall – Bell
10. Atlas Sound – Walkabout
11. Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing
12. Mumford And Sons – Winter Winds
13. Phoenix – Lasso
14. Manchester Orchestra – The Only one
15. The Seabellies – Orange X
16. Boy & Bear – Mexican Mavis
17. The Automatic – Interstate
18. Shout Oud Louds – Walls
19. Los Campesinos! – There Are Listed Buildings
20. Cloud Control – Gold Canary
21. Funeral Dress – Belgium Is Burning
22. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
23. [insert your own favorite song]

King Charles is the only song left from the last list, but it’s a name to watch for 2010, mark my words. Avett Brothers have the best video of them all. Vampire Weekend will rule 2010 just as they have 2008. Concert reviews on both in the next weeks. Norway at #4, Canada’s most celebrated lesbian sisters at 5 and Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie at 6, another great video. The Mess Hall seems to have stolen a Blues Explosion riff (sounds like Afro?) but who cares. Other countries in the list: France and Belgium.

Explorer 23 for November 15

01 02 02 Airborne Toxic Event - Does This Mean You're Moving On

02 04 04 Dodos - Fables

03 01 04 The Drums - Let's Go Surfing

04 05 03 Little Comets - Adultery

05 03 04 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You

06 06 03 The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo

07 22 02 The Very Best Of - Warm Heart of Africa feat Ezra Koenig

08 09 03 4 or 5 Magicians - Nice Little Earner

09 10 03 Wild Beasts - All The King's Men

10 -- 01 King Charles - Love Lust

11 08 04 Cancel The Astronauts - I Am The President Of Your Fanclub

12 07 04 Pharaohs - Squashed Against My Wall

13 12 02 Ida Maria & Iggy Pop - Oh My God Remix

14 -- 01 Moss - I Like The Chemistry

15 15 03 Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man

16 -- 01 The Joy Formidable - Greyhounds in the Slips

17 20 02 Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet

18 -- 01 Manchester Orchestra - Shake It Out

19 11 04 The Holloways - Jukebox Sunshine

20 13 04 Jay Reatard - Ain't Gonna Save Me

21 -- 01 I Concur - Sobotka

22 -- 01 Noah & The Whale - Love of an Orchestra

23 -- 01 The XX - Islands