The 8th Annual Exchange - Sunday, June 27th, 2010

The 8th annual exchange is going to take place as usual during the SCENE Music Festival in the Market Square again this year. We will have a table likely right near admission that will be clearly marked for drop off of mixes throughout the day of the fest. We will be doing the swap at 8pm. This may be the final year for the exchange to happen, so don’t miss out!

The exchange itself shouldn’t take a terribly long time. We do plan on documenting it (taking pictures, scanning some covers etc), but the process will be quick and painless, so if there’s an act playing at this time you should still be able to catch at least a portion of their set.

Many apologies in advance to the bands…

Here’s a list of the acts that are playing around said time (8pm):

Barracuda Pretty (Inside)
San Sebastian 07:15PM - 07:55PM
The Broken Lyre 08:35PM - 09:15PM

Barracuda Pretty (Outside)
Blind Witness 07:55PM - 08:35PM

City Lights
Orphan Choir 07:25PM - 08:05PM

Eighty1 Degrees
Prince Perry & The Gladtones 07:10PM - 07:50PM
Rap Battle TV 08:10PM - 08:50PM

Level 3 (Downstairs)
Chainsaw Lobotomy 08:20PM - 09:00PM

Level 3 (Upstairs)
Monster Truck 07:40PM - 08:20PM

Market Square Stage
Cute Is What We Aim For 08:00PM - 08:40PM

Merchant Ale House
Still Life Still 07:30PM - 08:10PM

Mikado
Fall In Archaea 07:15PM - 07:55PM
The Merchant 08:15PM - 08:55PM

Patrick Sheehans
Gentlemen Husbands 07:15PM - 07:55PM
The Black Flies 08:15PM - 08:55PM

Red Hot Chilli Pepper (Downstairs)
Daniel Wesley 08:20PM - 09:00PM

Red Hot Chilli Pepper (Upstairs)
Dane Hartsell 07:40PM - 08:20PM

Rockfords (Stage 1)
The Class Assassins 07:40PM - 08:20PM

Rockfords
Use As Directed 08:20PM - 09:00PM

Mansion House
Solitary Sun 08:05PM - 08:45PM

Whitehaut (Inside)
Magneta Lane 07:25PM - 08:05PM

Whitehaut (Outside)
The Treasures 08:05PM - 08:45PM

7th Annual Exchange - June 28, 2009

The exchange itself shouldn’t take a terribly long time. We do plan on
documenting it (taking pics, scanning some covers etc), but the process
will be quick and painless, so if there’s an act playing at this time you
should still be able to catch at least a portion of their set.

Many apologies in advance to the bands…

Here’s a list of the acts that are playing around said time (7pm):

Market Square Stage
07:00PM-07:40PM - Dead and Divine

On 81
07:00PM-07:40PM - Marcio Novelli

Whitehaut (Inside)
07:05PM-07:45PM - Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah

Whitehaut (Outside)
06:25PM-07:05PM - Magneta Lane

The Office
06:25PM-07:15PM - The Boogie Man Jordan Daniel

Level 3 (Upstairs)
07:00PM-07:40PM - The Artist Life

Level 3 (Downstairs) 905 Hip-Hop Stage
06:20PM-07:00PM - Moofeek

Mikado
06:15PM-06:55PM - Odium
07:15PM-07:55PM - Bastard Child Death Cult

Patrick Sheehans
06:15PM-06:55PM - Cavaliers
07:15PM-07:55PM - Run With The Kittens

Merchant Ale House
06:30PM-07:10PM - Touch Me Airborne Plague

Rockfords (Stage 1)
07:20PM-08:00PM - Hometown Beatdown

Rockfords (Stage 2)
06:40PM-07:20PM - Beauti

Whisper Lounge
07:00PM-07:40PM - Duchess

73 St Paul St
07:10PM-07:50PM - I Am Committing A Sin

The Red Hot Chili Pepper (Upstairs)
07:20PM-08:00PM - Carly Manley

The Red Hot Chili Pepper (Downstairs)
06:40PM-07:20PM - The Latency

Mansion House (Inside)
07:05PM-07:45PM - Brighter, Brightest

Mansion House (Outside) Stage
06:15PM-06:55PM - Stereos
07:15PM-07:55PM - The Midway State

Big Bucks
06:20PM-07:00PM - Casey Baker & the Buffalo Sinners
07:20PM-08:00PM - Lifestory Monologue

From last year…the 6th Annual exchange (2008)

From 2007...

GLOSSARY OF PICTURES (from top to bottom):

1. An Indie-rock cowboy holds the official 5th Annual NMU silk screened poster from 2007 (photo taken that year).

2. The winner of the best designed work (there is a mix inside of it).

3, 4, 5. Some of the other submissions from said year.

6th Annual Exchange - June 29, 2008

YEAR in REVIEW (2007)

Disclaimer:
We obviously did not get a chance to listen to every single album that was released last year, so there may be some records out there that slipped through the cracks, and we apologize in advance for not giving you a nod in praise. Collectively we have scoured pretty hard for what is out there both throughout the year and with researching other ‘best of ‘ resources to confidently conclude that these are bar none the cream of the crop. Our focus is to reach outside of hype and all of the other nonsense that goes along with the music industry and critic-fluffing snobbery as a whole.

The Editor and General:
“Remember Skinhead Britney Spears in 2007? aka diverse list genre-wise”

01) Joel Plaskett Emergency – Ashtray Rock (Maple Music)

02) Baby Shambles – Shotter’s Nation (EMI / Parlophone / Astralwerks)

03) Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Rough Trade / Merge)

04) Criminal Damage – No Solution (Feral Ward)

05) Double Negative – The Wonderful World Of Double Negative (No Way)

06) New Pornographers – Challengers (Matador)

07) Attack In Black – The Curve Of The Earth (Dine Alone)

08) King Khan & His Shrines – What is?! (Hazelwood)

09) Feist – The Reminder (Arts & Crafts / Interscope)

10) Grinderman – Self Titled (Anti / Mute)

11) Jay Z – American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam)

12) Mark Sultan – Sultanic Verses (In The Red)

13) Sadies – New Season (Outside)

14) Violent Minds – Eyes Of Death (Parts Unknown)
[I realize that this was shelved for many years, but it still came out in '07]

15) CPC Gangbangs – Mutilation Nation (Swami)

16) Saigon – The Moral Of The Story (Fort Knox / Atlantic)

17) Mayhem – Ordo Ad Chao (Seasons Of Mist)

18) Walls – Self Titled LP (Painkiller)

19) Stars Of The Lid – And Their Refinement Of The Decline (Kranky)

20) Lil’ Wayne – Da Drought 3 (Young Money)

21) Amon Tobin – Foley Room (Ninja Tune)

22) UGK – Underground Kingz (Jive)

23) American Steel – Destroy Their Future (Fat Wreck)

24) Clorox Girls – J’Aime Les Filles (BYO)

25) Beirut – The Flying Club Up (Ba Da Bing!)

26) Ghostface Killah – The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)

27) Tranzmitors – S/T (Deranged)

28) Ken Reaume – Four Horses (Pariah Sounds)

29) Sunn0))) – Oracle (Southern Lord)

30) Homostupids – The Intern (Parts Unknown)

31) Deerhunter – Cryptograms (Kranky)

32) Interpol – Our Love To Admire (Capitol / Parlophone)

33) John Fogerty – Revival (Fantasy)

34) Freeway – Free At Last (Island Def Jam / G-Unit)

35) The Dilettantes – 101 Tambourines (Stranger Touch / Happy Parts)

36) Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (Fat Cat)

37) Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)

38) Goodnight Loving – Crooked Lake (Dusty Medical)

39) Grizzly Bear – Friend (Warp)

40) Carbonas – Self Titled (Goner)

Top 5 songs of the year:

Arcade Fire – Ocean Of Noise

UGK – International Players Anthem (I Choose You)
New Pornographers – Unguided

Fucked Up – The Black Hats
[Click + Search ‘Fucked Up’ here, the song is in their player]

Feist – I Feel It All

Worst album cover of the year (a tie):

DISSAPPOINTMENTS:

There are a number of artists in this list that I really enjoy and personally think are brilliant as a whole – however most of these records are just weak for what they’re capable of, completely forgettable, or just plain shit. This category represents a bar that has been set by the artist in the past (usually) and or the anticipation of these records, and them failing to deliver the goods.

50 Cent – Curtis (Aftermath / G-Unit / Interscope)
[I Get Money is amazing, but the rest is garbage at best]

Baroness – Red Album (Relapse)

Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City (Vice)



Coliseum – No Salvation (Relapse / Level Plane)

The Hives – The Black & White Album (Interscope)

High On Fire – Death Is This Communion (Relapse)

Ladyhawk – Fight For Anarchy (Jagjaguwar / Storyboard)

Pelican – City Of Echos (HydraHead)

Pharoah Monch – Desire (Street / Universal MoTown)
[when you’re a real deal MC what’s the need to get fancy? far too ambitious – more rapping needed]





Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise & Liberation of NiggyTardust! (internet only)
[Neat idea but this album sucks.]

The Stooges – The Weirdness (Virgin) [Not much of a surprise, but this blows]

Turbonegro – Retox (Cooking Vinyl)

Most slept-on records of the year:

Raising The Fawn – Sleight Of Hand (Sonic Unyon)
Throbbing Gristle – Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute/Industrial)
Low - Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
Do Make Say Think – You, You’re A History In Rust (Constellation)
Neurosis – Given To The Rising (Neurot)
C'mon - Bottled Lightning (of an All Time High) - (Saved By Vinyl)
Unsane – Visqueen (Ipepac)
Download – Fixer (Subconscious)
Life Without Buildings – Live at Annandale Hotel (Gargleblast/Absolutely Kosher)

TOP 10: Not worth the HYPE [STILL don’t GET IT]
[Why are critics so hard on the ‘dick’ of these records?]
Klaxons – Mysths Of The Near Future (Polydor)
[most undeserving hype of the year, certainly some label $$ influencing opinions]
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam (Domino)
[not near worth the praise – 6 out of 10 at best]
Battles – Mirrored (Warp)
[the newest Trans Am record was WAY better than this and no one was talking about it]
Burial – Untrue (Hyperdub)
[5 out of 10 at best]
Dirty Projectors – Rise Above (Dead Oceans)
[hipsters pretending to be punk rock and failing hard]
Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala (Service / Secretly Canadian)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (DFA / EMI)
Liars – Liars (Mute)
Magik Markers – Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
[I don’t care if this is on Ecstatic Peace, it blows]
MIA – Kala (XL / Interscope)
[the first album sucked, this is even worse]

Who CARES / STOP making MUSIC:

Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works (Relapse)
Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest Of Times (Born & Bred)
Buck 65 – Situation (Strange Famous)
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero (Interscope)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (internet release / XL)
Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist (Warner Bros)