Grateful Gooner

My favorite albums of 2008

// December 31st, 2008 // No Comments » // Adventure and Music

1. Stay Positive – Hold Steady
2. Real Emotional Trash – Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
3. Tell Tale Signs – Bob Dylan
4. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
5. Oracular Spectacular – MGMT
6. The Stand Ins – Okkervil River
7. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
8. Electric Arguments – The Fireman
9. At Mount Zoomer – Wolf Parade
10. We Started Nothing – Ting Tings

Honorable Mention (because it kicks ass) – Live @ Shea Stadium – The Clash

Happy New Year!

// December 31st, 2008 // No Comments » // Adventure

Merry Christmas!!!!

// December 24th, 2008 // No Comments » // Adventure

Happy Festivus!

// December 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Adventure

Ciao, baby

// December 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // Arsenal FC

Today’s draw for the knockout stage of the Champions League saw Arsenal drawn against Roma. This could actually be the easiest of all of the potential opponents, as Barca, Bayern Munich and Panathanaikos were all in the pot as well. The matches will take place February 24 and March 11.

New U2 album on the “Horizon”

// December 18th, 2008 // No Comments » // Music

U2 announced today that their 12th studio album, “No Line on the Horizon” will be released this March; on the 2nd in Europe, and on the 3rd here in the US. According to various reports, the band was in London recently filming the video for the first single, “Get On Your Boots”, so I’d imagine we may see that sometime in late January.

In addition, Pitchfork reports that U2 will also be contributing a track to the new War Child benefit album, Hero, which is set for February release.