08.21.2010  ·  Looking forward to upcoming releases from Fields of Fur, Foxfire, Rattail (full length), Rituals, Sebastien Grainger, The Two Koreas, Weekend, Quest for Fire and more. Here's my Spring/Summer '10 Recommended Music List that's on repeat play around here:


2010 SPRING/SUMMER FAVORITES:

Albums
Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Magic Lantern - Platoon
Naomi Punk - Naomi Punk
Slow Animal - Slow Animal
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
Ty Segall - Melted
White Fence - White Fence
Wild Nothings - Gemini

Singles
Cloud Nothings - Even If It Worked Out
His Clancyness - Summer Majestic
No Joy - No Summer
Royal Baths - Needle & Thread
The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire
Soft Powers - Mary Never Sings Our Songs
Super Wild Horses - Carlonia
Tamaryn - Mild Confusion
Twin Shadow - Slow
Weekend - End Times
Yuck - Georgia

Videos
Babe Rainbow - Combed
Coma Cinema - Flower Pills
Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful
Emeralds - Genetic part 1 & part 2
His Clancyness - Summer Majestic
Lemonade - Lifted
Moon Duo - Killing Time
Rainbow Bridge - Big Wave Rider
The Soft Moon - Parallels
Veronica Falls - Beachy Head

Artwork
Huckleberry Friends - 2010 10" EP
Micah P. Hinson - And The Pioneer Saboteurs
No Age - Losing Feeling
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
UNKLE - Where Did the Night Fall
Wild Nothings - Cloudbusting 7"
Woven Bones - In & Out & Back Again





12.11.2009  ·  Great music in 2009 from Hand Drawn Dracula related artists and friends... Black Mold, Evening Hymns, Great Lake Swimmers, Handsome Furs, Josh Reichmann, Ohbijou, The Wooden Sky and a lot more put out great records. HDD also had some great videos made by Drew Lightfoot, Hector Herrara & Scott Cudmore. Below is a list of some of my favorite albums, songs and videos of 2009.


2009 FAVORITES:

Albums
Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Darlings - Yeah I Know
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Julianna Barwick - Florine
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo
Perfume Genius - The Perfume Genius Demos
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Zola Jesus - The Spoils

Singles
The Babies - Meet Me In The City
Beach Fossils - Daydream
Best Coast - When I'm With You 7" & Best Coast 7"
Fergus & Geronimo - Tell It In My Ear 7"
Mazes - Bowie Knives
Salem - Frost
Sic Alps - L Mansion
Sonny & The Sunsets - Death Cream
Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl 7"
Wooden Veil - Red Sky
Woods - Darkness/Sunlit 7"
Woven Bones - Yr Sorcery

Videos
Apse - 3.1
Black Mold - Metal Spiderwebs
Blank Dogs - Setting Fire to Your House
Broadcast - Witch Cults
Cate Le Bon - Hollow Trees House
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Health - Die Slow
Small Black - Despicable Dogs
Timber Timbre - We'll Find Out
We Are Wolves - Coconut Night





01.03.2009  ·  Some of my favorite music of 2008 was released by Hand Drawn Dracula related artists and friends... Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco, Shugo Tokumaru, Wolf Parade, Chad VanGaalen, Land of Talk, Quest for Fire, Teenanger, Songs From a Room and a lot more put out great records.

Members of Contrived and Wintersleep listed some of their favorite 2008 moments and music at exclaim.com and venuszine.com. I've also noted some of my favorite albums and tracks below and on the HDD facebook page. - James Mejia's list below:


2008 FAVORITES:

Albums
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Zombie Zombie - A Land For Renegades
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik - self-titled
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
The Muslims (aka The Soft Pack) - self-titled
Experimental Aircraft - 3rd Transmission
Harvey Milk - Life... Best Game In Town
Magic Lantern - High Beams
Loop - Fade Out (reissue)
Sun Araw - Beach Head

Singles
Cold Cave - Trees Grew Emotions & Died
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Kurt Cobain's Cardigan
Byetone - Plastic Star
South Central - Aeon
Lau Nau - Painovoima, Valoa
Jacuzzi Boys - Island Avenue
Ty Segall - The Drag
Valet - Kehaar
Underground Railroad - One More Hit