The Audacity of Updating Your FaceBook Through Non-Verbal Expression: The Calcium- MIme Factor

Cracking open an Ommegang ( a small Belgium style brewery in Cooperstown NY that boasted a strain of yeast dating back many centuries, and an uncanny sense of pairing beer and chocolate), there namesake brew after 5 years of cellard in bottle fermintation. It's robustness bled to a bitterness that mirrored the taste that occured from the closing of the Grant St. studio. After this night the musings of the Grant St. illiteratti shall occur from a place that shall not inhabit the ghost of the sweet influence of Maba Davis. I thank her for all she has given me. As this was soddly enough the most active year for posts, I look forward to seeing what a change of atmoshpere will yield to the Press overall. I beleive "Change" is the catchphrase these dats.

Best Releases of 2008:

Honorable Mention: Gary Higgins: Red Hash Origanaly released in 1973 (though reintroduced recently through Drag City Records,) this alt-folk masterpeice deserves a new ear. A layered complexity that belies it's years.

5. King Crimson: Park West, Chicago: August 7th, 2008 Though re;eased only as a download through Discipline Gobal Mobile, Jesus himself would have to had a picked up a guitar for there to be a more important live album this year.

4. Sun Kill Moon: April A bit more aggressive, or assertive in the delivery, Mark Kozelek delivers the goods. Get the disc with the bonus EP.

3. Calexico: Carried to Dust A whirlwind of Americana with a nuance of Chinese or gypsy rythym section. Great listening!

2. TV on the Radio: Dear, Science If this is art-rock, welcome to your color theory class.

1. Modeski Martin amd Wood: Radiolarians 1 This was the album that turned our collective ear on it's end. If the world needed proof that satisfaction cometh not from i-tunes, this may be the savior of the album.