1.21 | OWEN PALLETT’S “HEARTLAND” AND SURFER BLOOD’S “ASTRO COAST” GET BEST NEW MUSIC’D!
Check out the stellar Pitchfork Media reviews Here and Here
1.20 | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE’S ‘MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION’ NAMED #1 ALBUM ON THE VILLAGE VOICE 2009 PAZZ AND JOP POLL
The Pazz and Jop poll is contributed to by the top music writers, critics, and editors in the country.
Awards also to Dirty Projectors at #5 and many more Motormouth artists!
Check out the entire list and year end essays Here
1.19 | ADAM GOLDBERG TO APPEAR ON THE LATE SHOW W/ CRAIG FERGUSON ON JAN 20, 2010
Our fave actor/musician and truly funny guy, Adam Goldberg will appear on The Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson to, erm, just shoot the shit. Goldberg’s not really hawking a new project right thisveryverysecond, but we do know he recently complete his second full album and has other yummy things in the works.
1.11 | MOTORMOUTHMEDIA CLIENTS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, DIRTY PROJECTORS, ATLAS SOUND + MORE CLEAN UP ON YEAR-END CRITICS LISTS. AC NAMED #1 OF YEAR AT SPIN, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, MOJO, STEREOGUM, PITCHFORK, ASSOCIATED PRESS, MTV AND TONS MORE
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Animal Collective
Albums 09
Album of the Year – Entertainment Weekly
#1 Album – Associated Press
#1 Album - SPIN Magazine
#1 Album – Mojo Magazine
#1 Album – MTV (Ran on VH1 also)
#1 Album – Pitchfork Media
#1 Album – Tiny Mixtapes
#1 Album – Popmatters
#1 Album – Exclaim!
#1 Album - Stereogum
#1 Album – Free Williamsburg
#1 Album – Faster Times
#1 Album - Filter Magazine
#1 Album – Pretty Much Amazing
#1 Album – Baltimore City Paper
#1 Album – Georgetown Voice
#1 Album – Agit Reader
#1 Album – Red Eye
#1 Album – Baltimore City Paper
#1 Album – Slant Magazine
#1 Album – Lumino Magazine
#1 Album – Stark Magazine
#1 Psych Album – Popmatters
#2 Album – NY Times – Jon Pareles
#2 Album – Under the Radar Magazine
#2 Album – Paste
#2 Listeners Pick Album - NPR
#2 Album – Prefix Readers Poll
#2 Album – Relevant Magazine
#2 Album – The Epoch Times
#2 Album – Stereo Subversion
#2 Album – Metromix (Matt Rodbard)
#2 Album – 7×7 Magazine
#2 Album – The Morning News
#3 Album – Time Out NY – Colin St. John
#3 Album – Washington Post
#3 Album – SF Station – Lynne Angel
#3 Album – Cleveland Scene – Michael Toth
#3 Best Reviewed Album Metacritic
#3 Album - Urban Outfitters
#3 Album – Alive! Magazine (OH)
#3 Album - Onion
#3 Album – Indie Rock Reviews
#3 Rock Artist – URB Readers Poll
#4 Album - Gorilla Vs. Bear
#4 Album – SomaFM
#5 Album – Guardian UK
#5 Album – Long Island Press
#5 Album – American Songwriter – Dustin Allen
#5 Album – Daily Egyptian
#6 Album – Buffalo News
#6 Album – Chicago Sun Time – Jim Derogatis
#6 Album – SU Spectator
#7 Album – Washington Times
#7 Album – Amazon.com Editors
#7 Album – American Songwriter – Matthew Shearon
#8 Album – Huffington Post
#8 Album – San Jose Mercury News
#8 Album – Stark Magazine
#10 Album – Daily Cardinal
#14 Album – Alt Ohio
#14 Album – Rolling Stone
#14 Album – Chicago Tribune – Greg Kot
#17 Artist of the Year - Impose Magazine
#17 Album – New Haven Register
#34 Album – Blurt
Top Albums – Detroit Free Press
Top Album – San Diego City Beat
Top Albums – Flagpole
Top Albums – Idaho Statesman
Top Albums – Connecticut Post
Top Albums – Metropulse
Albums of the Decade
Onion
#22 Album ‘Merriwether Post Pavilion’
Pitchfork –
#14 Album ‘Merriwether Post Pavilion’
#55 album ‘Feels’
#27 album ‘Sung Tongs’
Stereogum –
#15 – Album ‘Feels’
#19 - Album of the Decade ‘Merriwether Post Pavilion’
#43 – Album of Decade ‘Strawberry Jam’
#49 - Album ‘Sung Tongs’
Under the Radar –
#25 Album – ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’
Examiner – Top 50 Albums of the Decade ‘Merriwether Post Pavilion’
Singles
Spin Magazine
#4 Single ‘My Girls’
Pitchfork
#1 Single ‘My Girls’
#11 Single ‘What Would I Want Sky’
#23 Single ‘Brother Sport’
PopMatters –
#21 single ‘Brother Sport’
#1 Single ‘My Girls’
Treblezine
#2 Single – ‘My Girls’
#23 single ‘Brothersport’
#45 Song ‘What Would I Want Sky’
#2 Single ‘My Girls’ - Amazon.com Editors
#3 Single – ‘Brother Sport’ – Times Herald Record
#8 Single ‘My Girls’ – RollingStone.com Readers Poll
#16 Single ‘Summertime Clothes’ NoiseVox
#14 Single ‘Summertime Clothes’ – Philadelphia Inquirer
#21 Single ‘My Girls’ - Spinner
#28 Single ‘My Girls’ - Esquire
#29 Single ‘My Girls’ – Metromix
Musician/Celebrity Lists
No Age (Dean Spunt) Top Albums
OK GO (Dan Kanopka) #1 Album
Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion, Epitaph) - #1 Album
Grizzly Bear (Chris Taylor) - #3 Album
Cotton Jones - #3 Album
Lindstrøm - #4 Album
Saint Vincent (Annie Clark) - #5 Album
Cave Singers - #2 Album
Aziz Ansari - #1 Album
Dennis Cooper - #4 Album
Wild Beasts (Tom Fleming) – Top Albums
Arcade Fire (Jeremy Gara) – Top Albums
Wavves – Top Albums
Wye Oak – Top Albums
Atlas Sound
Albums 09
#4 Album – American Songwriter – Davis Inman
#6 Album – WebInFront
#8 Album – Free Williamsburg
#8 Album – Daily Cardinal
#8 Album – Tiny Mixtapes
#8 Album – The Morning News
#15 Album – Stark Magazine
#18 Album – Pitchfork Media
#19 Album – Stereogum
#20 Album - Gorilla Vs. Bear
#34 Album – Alt Ohio
#43 Album – Prefix Readers Poll
Top Albums – Wall Street Journal
Top Albums – Washington Square News
Top Albums – Sentimentalist
Top Albums – Flagpole
Top Albums – Metropulse
Singles
Best Unheard Music – “An Orchid” – Wired
#9 Single – ‘Walkabout’ Treblezine
#11 Single ‘Walkabout’ Spin Magazine
#12 Single ‘Walkabout’ - Pop Matters
#34 Single ‘Walkabout’ – Pitchfork
#61 Single ‘Quick Canal’ – Pitchfork
Musician/Celebrity Lists
John Vanderslice – Top Albums
Thermals (Kathy Foster) – Top Albums
Flaming Lips - #1 Album
Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff) - #4 Album
Cymbals Eat Guitars - #3 Album
Pains of Being Pure at Heart – #2 Album
Twilight Sad (James Graham) – Top Albums
Grizzly Bear (Chris Taylor) - #5 Album
Wavves – Top Albums
Dirty Projectors
Albums 09
#1 Album – Time Out NY – Sophie Harris
#1 Album – Stereo Subversion
#2 Album –Sasha Frere Jones - New Yorker
#2 Album – Time Magazine
#2 Album - New York Times – Nate Chinen
#2 Album – Pitchfork Media
#2 Album – Tiny Mixtapes
#2 Album – Stark Magazine
#2 Album – Time Out NY – Hank Shteamer
#2 Album – Red Eye
#2 Album – Lumino Magazine
#2 Album – American Songwriter – Davis Inman
#2 Album – Alive! Magazine (OH)
#3 Album – Daily Egyptian
#3 Album - Stereogum
#3 Album – 7×7 Magazine
#3 Album – Stark Magazine
#4 Album – Guardian
#4 Album – Popmatters
#4 Album – SU Spectator
#4 Album – Pretty Much Amazing
#4 Album – Free Williamsburg
#4 Album – SF Station – Lynne Angel
#5 Album – New Haven Register
#5 Album – Bust editor Kelly McClure
#5 Album – Faster Times
#5 Album - Onion
#5 Album – Exclaim!
#6 Album – Rolling Stone
#6 Album – NY Magazine
#6 Album – Magnet
#6 Album – Slant Magazine
#7 Album – Baltimore City Paper
#7 Album – Prefix Readers Poll
#7 Album – American Songwriter Editor’s Pick
#8 Album – Agit Reader
#8 Album – Metromix (Matt Rodbard)
#8 Album – NY Times – Ben Ratliff
#11 Album - Urban Outfitters
#13 Best Reviewed Album - Metacritic
#14 Album – Paste Magazine
#16 Listeners Pick Album - NPR
#16 Album – Mojo Magazine
#31 Album - Spin
#39 Album – Amazon.com Editors
Top Albums – Seattle Times
Top Albums – Boston Globe – Joan Anderman
Top Albums – Flagpole
Top Albums – News Times
Top Albums – Brightest Young Things
Most Fascinating Record – Advertising Age
Albums of the Decade
#43 Album - Onion
# 56 Album - Pitchfork
#105 Album - Under the Radar
Singles
#2 Single ‘Stillness is the Move’ – Pitchfork
#2 Single ‘Stillness is the Move’ – Time Magazine
#2 Single ‘Stillness is the Move’ - Pop Matters
#5 Single – Philadelphia Inquirer (Dan DeLuca)
#18 Single – Consequence of Sound
#33 Single ‘Useful Chamber’ Treblezine
#43 Single ‘Stillness is the Move’ – Metromix
#85 Single of the Decade – Rolling Stone
Musician/Celebrity Lists
Mark Hoppus – Top albums
John Vanderslice – Top Albums
Lindstrøm - #1 Album
Andy Samberg - #1 Album
Michael Showalter - #1 Album – Best New Act
Grizzly Bear (Chris Taylor) - #1 Album
Phoenix (Thomas Mars) - #1 Album
Phoenix (Laurent Brancowitz) #5 Album
St. Vincent (Annie Clark) - #1 Album
Antlers (Peter Silberman)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - #2 Album
Fred Armisen – Best Video ‘Stillness is the Move’
Wild Beasts (Tom Fleming) – Top Albums
Dennis Cooper - #7 Album
Holly Miranda – Top Albums
Wye Oak – Top Albums
Fuck Buttons
Albums 09
#1 Album – SU Spectator
#4 Album – Baltimore City Paper
#4 Album – Redefine Magazine
#6 Album – Time Out NY – Sophie Harris
#11 Album – Pitchfork Media
#12 Album – Prefix Readers Poll
#21 Album – Popmatters
#24 Album – Tiny Mixtapes
#34 Album - Stereogum
Top Albums – Flagpole
Top Albums - Metropulse
Top Albums – Washington City Paper
Singles
#17 Single ‘Surf Solar’ – Pitchfork
Musician/Celebrity Lists
Antlers (Peter Silberman)
Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion, Epitaph) - #1 Album
Twilight Sad (James Graham) – Top Albums
12.21 | PITCHFORK NAMES MOTORMOUTH CLIENTS #1 AND #2 TRACKS AND ALBUMS OF THE YEAR!
Animal Collective have the #1 song and album of 2009 as selected by Pitchfork, with “My Girls” and Merriweather Post Pavilion. Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca was named as #2 album of the year, and “Stillness Is The Move” was named as #2 track of the year. Read their entire album list here, and track selections here.
