I Hate Your Weekly Playlist

Broken Bells - The High Road

Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend

Alaska in Winter - Berlin

Little Dragon - Never Never

Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance the Way I Feel

Nurses - Technicolor

Beach House - Norway

Barcelona - It's About Time

The Middle East - Blood

The Old Believers - That's All

Annie - Heartbeat

Our "Best of 2009" Lists > Yours.

MATT’S List:

Top Ten Albums

Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca

Fanfarlo, Reservoir

Memory Tapes, Seek Magic

The XX, The XX

Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Deastro, Moondagger

Mew, No More Stories are Told Today…

Little Dragon, Machine Dreams

Honorable Mention:

Fever Ray, Fever Ray

The Boxer Rebellion, Union

The Antlers, Hospice

Freelance Whales, Weathervanes

Miike Snow, Miike Snow

Jonathan Boulet,  Jonathan Boulet

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes,  Up from Below

Bibio, Ambivalence Avenue

Favorite EPs

Beirut, Real People-Holland

Washed Out, Life of Leisure EP

Memory Cassette, Rewind While Sleepy EP

Delorean, Aryton Senna EP

Small Black, Small Black EP

Florence & the Machine- A Lot of Love

NATE’S LIST

Top 10 Albums of 2009:

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz

2. The Dead Weather: Horehound

3. The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love

4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

5. Bat for Lashes: Two Suns

6. The xx: xx

7. Junior Boys: Begone Dull Care

8. Jay Z: The Blueprint III

9. Various Artists: Dark Was The Night

10. Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer

Honorable Mentions:

Japandroids: Post-Nothing

Beirut: March of the Zapotec and Realpeople: Holland

Fever Ray: Fever Ray

Damien Jurado: Caught in the Trees

Metric: Fantasies

A.A. Bondy: When The Devil's Loose

Wye Oak: If Children

St. Vincent: Actor

Manchester Orchestra: Mean Everything to Nothing

Singles of the Year:

Metric: Help I'm Alive

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Young Adult Friction

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll

The Dead Weather: Treat Me Like Your Mother

EP of the Year:

Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP

Remix of the Year:

Florence + The Machine: You've Got Love (The xx Remix)

Overrated Band/Album of the Year:

Animal Collective (by a landslide)

I Hate Your Manifesto

You’ve always stared at kids like us. Pants a touch too tight, a fondness for neon, the ones rocking cardigans, scarves and fingerless gloves, all the better to pluck our air guitar, but still.  We’re the ones that hog the mic at karaoke, um, you’re welcome, and if you’re singing “I’m Every Woman” before your seventh beer, we’re probably gonna pull the plug.  Music is our obsession, it’s not some scene or passing fad, and while we have the ability to appreciate trends, we refuse to be force fed some so-called “it” band just because Spin and Pitchfork need a bib and a spray-down to clean up after  their gushing review of the LP. Yeah, you think you’re supposed to love Animal Collective, but any of us could hold 3 notes on a keyboard for an hour and record a cat’s dying moans. 

We’re not assholes; we’re just as willing to make an ass of ourselves. If you’re trying to find us on the freeway, look for the windows down, the head wildly bobbing and the voice singing at the top of its lungs, and that’s in standstill traffic. We’re the ones that have more fun than everyone else.  And it gets worse…

We’re music snobs that relish putting people in their place; not for the sake of making you feel bad, but because good music matters to us, and we find  it a necessity to educate you.  If you approach at a party and ask us if we’ve heard of this new great band, Passion Pit, we’ll laugh for an hour straight. Yeah, we know Passion Pit. We heard the EP before Michael Angelakos gave it to his fucking girlfriend as a Valentine… and we still hated it. You may think you’re on the cutting edge, but we’re the knife point…

Fed up with us yet?  No? We spend the final 3 weeks before Coachella mapping out scheduling conflicts and agonizing over our final decisions on which bands to see; we might start making a playlist for a crush and stop talking to her by the time we’ve settled on the track order; we search the ITunes new releases at 11:59 on Monday night; buy our concert tickets on pre-sale, and cut to the head of the line at a secret show just to post pics of a band that you probably won’t hear about for another year (if you’re lucky), or never at all.  

We’re prepared for your criticism, we’ve heard it all before….

You’ve said it once and you’ll say it again…

“I hate kids like you.”

Thank you. I’m glad we got that out of the way.  

- Matt & Nate

P.S.  The rest is easy:  follow us, listen to what we say, and you’ll learn an obscure band or two you didn’t know the day before that you can no longer live without.  And whatever happens, don’t be intimidated…we promise, you’ll be hated in your social circle in no time.