Music in the year 2007

2007 wasn't super eventful for me, music-wise, but some cool shit still went down.

• I got kind of psychotic about Bump of Chicken.
• Discovered the Weakerthans.
• My buddies in Over/Under put out an album.
• Discovered Wolf Parade.
• Beirut's "Elephant Gun." Best song I'll hear all year.
• Rediscovered Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," and KD Lang's cover of same.
• I get shot in the back with a paintball (black-light only variety) outside the Triple Rock at a Fort Wilson Riot show.
• Saw The Books live.
• Gay Witch Abortion pull up to the curb outside the Hexagon bar, open the van doors, and play a bitchin' show for all the smokers.
• spinooti introduces me to the wonder of Sondre Lerche.
• Art Brut turns out to be really good, although I can only handle about 4 of their songs in a row.
• shaneface and band roll through my hometown on tour.
• Amazon.com's MP3 store is pretty awesome.
• Months after nightswatch tips us off about Vienna Teng being the shit, everyone on my friendslist seems to discover her simultaneously. How's life in the cultural vanguard, Ryan?
• The new TMBG album is their best one in years, to great surprise. (I enjoy any given album of theirs, but they haven't been "growers" lately. The Else looks like a return to the parts of Flood and John Henry that have aged most gracefully.)
• Discovered the Tokyo Police Club.

That's right, I am going to change tense with impunity. I won't apologize.

Anyway, what went through your MP3 player this year? Anything the rest of us should know about?

(no subject)

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.

Gawd, I am SO busted.