We have moved

Avant-Noise has resurfaced and relocated to tumblr. Thank you to everyone who read this blog in the nearly two years that it operated on blogspot and for all the kind feedback. Hopefully you'll join us over on tumblr.

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P.S.

I think I'll be moving Avant Noise over to Tumblr quite soon. I really like their format a lot better. We'll see. This might be a new era for the blog.

Beach Fossils

I have been absent from this blog for many months, but I have finally found a band worth blogging about. Beach Fossils is my latest discovery. Without a doubt, this New York-based band can be compared to contemporaries such as Real Estate and Dum Dum Girls. There is something quintessentially "beachy" about their lo-fi garage rock sound, and I love it. I've been listening to them all day.

Their self-titled full-length will be released on the 25th of May. You can order it here.

Listen to their music here.

Coachella 2010

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PAVEMENT!
that is all.

2000-2009

In an attempt to assess the mass amounts of music that has been created since the year 2000, I have found myself writing a memoir of my adolescence instead of a simple blog post listing some noteworthy albums. The truth is, there were just too many good albums to choose from. While I just might post my homage to the past decade of music elsewhere-- I'll keep it simple and straightforward for this blog. I wouldn't even call this a "best albums of the decade" list. Each album presented here is quite different. This is more like a "albums I found myself listening to over and over in this decade" list.

I present to you (some of) my favorite albums of the past ten years, in order of the year in which each album was released.

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Radiohead / Kid A (2000)



Wilco / Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)



Sufjan Stevens / Michigan (2003)



Death Cab for Cutie / Transatlanticism (2003)



Arcade Fire / Funeral (2004)



Sufjan Stevens / Illinois (2005)



Bright Eyes / I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)



Margot and the Nuclear So and So's / The Dust of Retreat (2006)



M. Ward / Post-War (2006)



Snowden / Anti-Anti (2006)



Panda Bear / Person Pitch (2007)



Radiohead / In Rainbows (2007)



Berlin Whale / Berlin Whale (2007)



Of Montreal / Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)



That Ghost / Young Fridays (2008)

Salvation is Created

I just found out last night about Bifrost Art's latest Christmas album entitled Salvation is Created, thanks to a friend. The compilation, which is a follow-up to Come O Spirit!, features Sufjan Stevens, J. Tillman, The Welcome Wagon, Damien Jurado, David Bazan, and many other great artists.

To quote from Bifrost Art's site, "Bifrost Arts is a sacred music non-profit that exists to enrich the church and engage the world with beauty and truth."

This sounds rather excellent to me. I hope to be purchasing this soon. For more information about the album and Bifrost Art, click here.

New Arcade Fire album in 2010!

All speculation has finally been confirmed. Yes, that is correct. The Arcade Fire are finally returning with a third studio album in 2010. The projected month of release is in May. According to Billboard.com, "[t]he band is weighing multiple offers for live shows in the spring, and will likely take a top slot at one or more of the major North American summer festivals."

This is information that I, along with many other Arcade Fire fans have been waiting to hear since their 2007 release, Neon Bible. Needless to say, I am very excited about this. Could it mean a headlining spot for the band at Coachella?