PUBLIC MARKS with tags music & "best of lists"

"Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2009 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers."

A Flash-based interactive map that uses data from Gracenote's Media Database to show the latest album and artist lookups in states, regions, countries, and continents around the world.

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50 best artists, albums and songs chosen by music bloggers. Listen to full albums.

"Pop ruled 2008. From indie to hip-hop to dance to punk, no genre was immune to pop’s grasp. Even pop got poppier! In no particular order, here are my picks for the must-have albums for teen music collections in 2008."

Each DJ breaks down their top five albums of 2008!

Rate Your Music is a metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles, videos, and bootlegs are rated and reviewed by users. This data is then used to generate music recommendations for users and to create rated lists of music albums. Weighted averages are used to calculate the ordering for these lists; regular members who write reviews and rate more albums have a greater weight applied to their ratings. It is a wiki in the sense that users can add, edit and remove content; however, the majority of new, edited content must be approved by a moderator. [Wikipedia]

"...a list of the albums that I believe embody the spirit of postrock but not, necessarily, the delineated and restrictive genre conventions."