Ballots are listed in ranked order from top to bottom; the number is the total points they received. Ballots submitted unranked were scored at an average 5.5 points for each entry. Peter Blackstock, editor/columnistBasia Bulat, Oh My Darling 10Ben Sollee, […]
The Avett Brothers find themselves in an unusual situation at the dawning of 2009. Much of the country has just been through an extraordinarily difficult year. The music industry is morphing into an entirely different animal, with the value of […]
READERS POLL! By popular demand, we’ve added an ND Readers Poll. The results are here NEW ADDITION! See all the voters’ individual ballots here Turns out that Barack Obama wasn’t the only runaway victor Bruce Springsteen made it his personal […]
If 2008 was the year the masses finally became acquainted with the extraordinary talent of Glen Hansard through his Oscar-winning song with Marketa Irglova under the name Swell Season it’s likely that Hansard would be the first to tell you […]
In his year-end review of Marah’s 2008 album a couple days ago, my colleague Paul Cantin mused about how we tend to look forward to a new year with a sense of hope, optimistic at the promise that a fresh […]
Besides having perhaps the hardest surname to spell in all of indie-rock, Lara Meyerratken is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and singer who has recorded and toured with an impressive array of melodic pop acts. Since rising to the fore as […]
2008: In Review — index:January 2: See the results of our annual year-end critics’ pollDecember 31: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, The Hare’s Corner (by Peter Blackstock)December 30: Como Now: The Voices Of Panola Co., Misissippi (by Grant Alden)December 29: Ersi […]
Earlier this week, longtime ND magazine senior editor Bill Friskics-Warren contributed a Monday guest-column about Midwest Farm Disaster, a 1972 album by the largely forgotten singer-songwriter Bob Martin. As fate would have it, columnist Lloyd Sachs followed on Wednesday with […]
One might assume that an album titled Our Bright Future by one of the foremost African-American singer-songwriters contemporary pop music of the past few decades, released a week after the first African-American president was elected to office, would be a […]
There’s one thing I’ve come to know about Bruce Robison, in a couple decades of watching his gradual rise from an Austin nightclub and dancehall upstart to the likely future dean of Texas songwriters. And that is, despite the significant […]
