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2008 in photos, 3

Since we are talking about thousands of images here, we have decided to chop our offerings into bite-sized pieces. Below is the best of our year in photograhy, part three….

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2008 in images, 2

Since we are talking about thousands of images here, we have decided to chop our offerings into bite-sized pieces. Below is the best of our year in photograhy, part two.

[Double Dagger, Edan, big …

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2008 in images, 1

Since we are talking about thousands of images here, we have decided to chop our offerings into bite-sized pieces. Below is the best of our year in photograhy, part one.

[Talibam at Dead …

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The Tossers at the Double Door, Chicago IL

By Will Deitz

With every passing year, the durability of Chicago’s best-known Irish-punk export becomes more and more apparent, and, correspondingly, more and more remarkable. After all, these are the Tossers; they rifle through bottles of Amstel Light, stumbling and spitting, occasionally even wandering out the stage doors mid-sentence. Every other song concerns the pleasures and perils …

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Thu Dec 25, 2008

Best tapes of 2008

The Nevari Butchers, Arms And Everything Else (Hanson)
Mark Mcguire, An Old Hag’s Cackle Pt. II (Cylindrical Habitat Modules)
TwistyCat, Bore Hole (Baked Tapes)
Telecult Powers, Kiss the Viper’s Fang (Obsolete Units)
Cold Turkey, Dirty (Hermitage)
Ducktails/Mudboy, Summer Of Saucers (DNT)
Steve Hauschildt, Rapt for Liquid Minister (Arbor)
Emeralds/Tusco Terror, X-mas 2007 (Tusco Embassy)
Slasher Risk, Vole (Abandon Ship)
Bottomfeeder, Bottomfeeder (Wintage)

List compiled by Jesse DeRosa, …

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Thu Dec 25, 2008

Best electronic releases of 2008

Angel, Kalmukia
Venetian Snares, Detrimentalist
Benga, Diary of an Afro Warrior
Max Tundra, Parallax Error Beheads You
Fennesz, Black Sea
Ital Tek, Cyclical
Clark, Turning Dragon
The Doubtful Guest, Acid Sauna
Chessie, Manifest
DJ Scotch Egg, Drummized

List compiled by Associative Editor Nate Dorr.

Other best of 2008 lists
Best independent rock/pop of 2008
Best independent hip hop releases of 2008
Best African releases of 2008
Best Mexican albums …

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Mon Dec 22, 2008

Best independent rock/pop of 2008

Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls
Ponytail, Ice Cream Spiritual
Grouper, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Atlas Sound, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Beach House, Devotion
Tickley Feather, Tickley Feather
Child Bite, Fantastic Gusts of Blood
Abe Vigoda, Skeleton
Dan Friel, Ghost Town
Extra Life, Secular Works
These Are Powers, Terrific Seasons
Thank You, Terrible Two
High Places, High Places
Women, Women
Gang Gang Dance, …

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Mon Dec 22, 2008

Best independent hip hop releases of 2008

Cool Kids, The Bake Sale EP
C.R.A.C., The Piece Talks
Count Bass D, L7: Mid-Life Crisis
Yah Mos Def, Excuse Me, This Is The Yah Mos Def
Atmosphere, Sad Clown Bad Spring EP
Envelope, Shark Bolt
Cadence Weapon, Afterparty Babies
Elzhi, The Preface

List compiled by Blake Gillespie. Gillespie is an Associative Editor at Impose.

Other best of 2008 lists
Best independent rock/pop of 2008…

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Mon Dec 22, 2008

Best African releases of 2008

Kasai All-Stars, Congotronics 3
Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko, Africa to Appalachia
Femi Kuti, Day by Day
Seun Kuti, Many Things
Toumani Diabate, Mandé Variations
Asa, Asa
Kakande, Dununya
Emmanuel Jal, Warchild
Chiwoniso, Rebel Woman
Orchestra Baobab, Made in Dakar

List compiled by Marc Gabriel Amigone and Tebukozza Olatunji-Babumba. Amigone writes the afrobeat blog and does marketing and publicity for the Manhattan club S.O.B.’s, and Olatunji-Babumba …

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Mon Dec 22, 2008

Best European/UK experimental releases of 2008

Skullflower, Pure Imperial Reform
Ignatz, III
Alistair Crosbie, Sad Faces Of The Moon
The Hunter Gracchus, Sacred Object Of The Yiye People
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Bataille De Battle
Rustie, Zig-Zag
Astral Social Club, Model Town In A Field Of Mud
John Butcher, Resonant Spaces
Shit & Shine, Küss Mich Meine Liebe
Dead Reptile Shrine, Burning Black Infinity

List compiled by Nick Richardson. Richardson …

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Mon Dec 22, 2008

Best Mexican albums of 2008 (and best tacos, ever!)

Mockinpott, Down!
Jessy Bulbo, Taras Bulba
Nos LLamamos, Nos LLamamos
3rd Ear, 3rd Ear
Los Guanabana, Heartbeats
Los Margaritos, rocanrolandia

List compiled by Carlos Icaza. While he will quickly rebuke attempts to frame him at the center of any Mexico City music scene, he is intimate with a circle of musicians who regularly gig there, and he himself performs in about …

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Mon Dec 22, 2008

Best mixtapes of 2008

Rich Boy, Bigger Than the Mayor
Theophilus London, JAM!
DJ Skee and Evidence, The Layover EP
DJ Smallz and The Empire, Southern Smoke 31
DJ Drama and Gucci Mane, The Movie
Da Ryno and Chalie Boy , Texas Relays 2K8
Young Dro, I Am Legend
DJ Benzie and Diplo Present Paper Route Recordz: Fear and Loathing …

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features

Best Performer of 2008: King Khan

We talk to King Khan, the Black Lips, and many others who crossed paths with the six-foot rock survivor from Montreal.

By Blake Gillespie

It’s strange to think that dominating, drug-addled personalities still exist in a society that seems under the strangle hold of composure and puritanical values. Sometimes it …

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