Music Blog

Last, but not least, we bring you the lists of a few members of the Portland music community, many of which were written in their own blood in the snow during Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon '08.

 

Chris Funk of The Decemberists:

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
Peter Broderick - Home
Point Juncture, WA - Heart to Elk
Red Fang - 11 Songs on Vinyl (The Tour CD)

Dave Allen, writer of Pampelmoose:

5) Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball
4) Suzanna - Flower of Evil
3) Nightmares on Wax - Thought So
2) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus Dig
1) The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are The Very Best

Josh Hodges of Star-f-er:

Deerhunter - Microcastle
Dykeritz - Rearrangerologyistics
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
Why? - Alopecia

Krist Kruger of Southerly:

Watch out for Rockets - Let Me Levitate
Jeff Hanson - Madame Owl
System and Station - A Nation of Actors
Why? - Alopecia
Audrey - The Fierce and the Longing


Adam Shearer of Weinland:

Fleet Foxes - s/t
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Musee Mecanique - Hold This Ghost
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
A Weather - Cove

 

Arya Imig, man about town:

The Walkmen - You & Me
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Shaky Hands - Lunglight
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

 

Andrew Stern of King of Hearts Records, Blue Horns, and one hundred other bands:

Lake - Oh, the Places We'll Go
Point Juncture, WA - Heart to Elk
Dr Dog - Fate
Wallpaper - On the Chewing Gum Ground
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
 

Tagged: Best of 2008