This was the year of eMusic and 75 downloads a month. There’s a ton of stuff I’ve downloaded but never listened to. But here’s what I actually heard:

1) Grinderman—Grinderman: The show at GAMH was amazing. Love the revolting mustache.

2) Neil Young—Live at Massey Hall 1971: Solo acoustic, stoned Neil: “I dropped my pick…bending over is…not so much fun.”

3)  Sloan—Never Hear the End of It: “My trajectory has me fading into obscurity.”

4) Okkevril River—The Stage Names:  “3 poems presented in place of broken me”

5) Others: Besnard Lakes—The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse, Field Music—Tones of Town, Spoon—Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Nick Lowe—At My Age, Radiohead—In Rainbows