[List] Continually updated list of music I've heard this year

Legend: Italic- Top 60, Bold- Top 10, Red- Top Three, Gray- Bottom Five

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Del tha Funky Homosapien- 11th Hour
Jamie Liddell- Jim
Stephen Malkmus- Real Emotional Trash
Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts I
E-603- Something for Everyone
Animal Collective- Water Curses
The Black Mages- III- Darkness and Starlight
Boris- Smile
Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
The Dodos- Visiter
Earth- The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull
M83- Saturdays = Youth
The Magnetic Fields- Distortion
Opeth- Watershed
Silver Jews- Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
A Silver Mount Zion- 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Smashing Pumpkins- American Gothic (UK Tour Edition)
Times New Viking- Rip It Off
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
Wolf Parade- At Mount Zoomer
Xiu Xiu- Women As Lovers
Robert Pollard- Superman Was A Rocker
No Age- Nouns
The Tallest Man On Earth- Shallow Graves
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Lie Down In the Light
Excepter- Debt Dept
Mates of State- Re-Arrange Us
My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
The Cool Kids- The Bake Sale
Mount Eerie- Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP
Get Well Soon- Rest Now, Weary Head, You Will Get Well Soon
Sigur Rós- með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Birchville Cat Motel- Gunpowder Temple of Heaven
The Twilight Sad- Here, It Never Snowed. Afterward, It Did.
Kurt Weisman- Spiritual Sci-Fi
We Made God- As We Sleep
Air France- No Way Down EP
Pyramids- Pyramids
Free Kitten- Inherit
65daysofstatic- The Distant And Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Air Dance Parties EP
Crystal Antlers- Crystal Antlers EP
Fleet Foxes- Sun Giant EP
Matmos- Supreme Balloon
Tickley Feather- Tickley Feather
Sheerwater- Rook
Birchville Cat Motel- Four Freckle Constellation
Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Organ Fight
Meneguar- The In Hour
The Radio Dept.- Freddie & The Trojan Horse EP
Ponytail- Ice Cream Spiritual
Apples In Stereo- Electronic Projects for Musicians
The Fall- Imperial Wax Solvent
Okkervil River- The Stand-Ins
Be Your Own Pet- Get Awkward
Black Moth Super Rainbow- Bonus Drippers EP
Lackthereof- Your Anchor
Vapnet- Döda Fallet
PAS/CAL- I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Laura
Wire- Object 47
Lair of the Minotaur- War Metal Battle Master
The Pillows- Pied Piper
Shiina Ringo- Watashi to Houden
Miley Cyrus- Breakout
Merzbow- Here
Merzbow- Eucalypse
Dananananaykroyd- Sissy Hits EP
Kikuri (Keiji Haino/ Masami Akita)- Pulverized Purple
Black Moth Super Rainbow- Drippers
Woven Hand- Ten Stones
Astro- Mud Wasp
Duchess Says- Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons- Inside the Human Body
Jóhann Jóhannsson- Fordlandia
Friendly Fires- Friendly Fires
Yo La Tengo- They Shoot, We Score!
Fuck, the Retarded Girl- Abuse
The Decemberists- Always the Bridesmaid-A Singles Series
Ólafur Arnalds- Variations Of Static EP
Mogwai- The Hawk Is Howling
Times New Viking- Stay Awake EP
Juana Molina- Un Día
Mercury Rev- Snowflake Midnight
TV On the Radio- Dear Science
Tobacco- Fucked Up Friends
Justice of the Unicorns- Angels with Uzis
Tooth Kink vs. Kenji Siratori- Tooth Kink vs. Kenji Siratori
Animal Machine- Nautilus
Mixturizer + Taiko Oroshi + Kenji Siratori - Collaboration III
Mixturizer + Taiko Oroshi + Kenji Siratori - Collaboration IV
Hair Police- Certainty of Swarms
Ironlung- Chmura
Pablo Frizzi- Macki
Merzbow- Anicca
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead- Festival Thyme EP
Psychic Attack of the Psyduck- Secret Hiding Places
Halves- Haunt Me When I'm Drowsy
Grails- Doomsdayer's Holiday
Dianogah- qhnnnl
Blitzen Trapper- Furr
Crystal Stilts- Alight of Night
Deerhunter- Microcastle
BALZAC- Hatred: Destruction = Construction
Lackthrow- Goddess
Prurient- Arrowhead
Satellite Clouds- Ascension of the Golden Torus
Vivian Girls- Vivian Girls
Her Space Holiday- XOXO Panda & The New Kid Revival
KK Null- Akumu
Mount Eerie- Dawn
Sunn O)))- Dømkirke
iLIKETRAiNS- The Christmas Tree Ship EP
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker- Fantasma Parastasie
of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
The Flashbulb- Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
YMCK and De De Mouse- Down Town
Boris- Smile: Live At Wolf Creek
AxemRangers- A Crack In the Concrete
Ashes and Iron- Demo
No Age and Zach Hill- Flannel Graduates
Wolverine Carcass/ Fuck, the Retarded Girl- Split
Los Campesinos!/ No Age /Times New Viking- Shred Yr Face Tour Split
Los Campesinos!- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Plecto Aliquem Capite - Atrocities
Ladytron- Velocifero
Girl Talk- Feed the Animals
Conor Oberst- Conor Oberst
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Is It the Sea?
This Is Your Captain Speaking- Eternal Return
Moon Prototype- Red EP
Jesu- Why Are We Not Perfect? EP
5ive- Hesperus
Prurient- And Still, Wanting
Portugal. The Man- Censored Colors
Fuck Buttons- Street Horrrsing
Fennesz- Black Sea

[REVIEW] Smashing Pumpkins- G.L.O.W. (radio single, 2008)

The Guitar Hero exclusivity of the pipingly hot and fresh Smashing Pumpkins single G.L.O.W. is old news, but the studio version of the song only just debuted the other day on some radio station.

Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?

This blogger sure does (thwip snort)! I will always sing the praises of the 2007+ incarnation of the Pumpkins and all that they release because it's genuinely good; G.L.O.W. is, expectedtly, no exception. Another inch away from the Billybombast of Zeitgeist, their new tune harkens back to the commercially glorious mid-ninties while retaining the steps BC/JC have gained since then. It's very Mellon Collie, yet, undeniably, a current SP song. Although sonically not quite in tune with Zeitgeist, G.L.O.W. is easily imagined sandwiched between Bring the Light and (Come On) Let's Go! (perhaps on the KB Toys exclusive three disc second anniversary chartreuse edition?)

A masterful balance is struck: while obviously current Smashing Pumpkins, hearing G.L.O.W. is like hearing Jellybelly, Muzzle, or Here Is No Why on the radio. Personally, I love those songs more than a lot of MCIS, so G.L.O.W. recieves mighty high praise.

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Welcome to the Red Abyss.

It's not too deep.