In September 2006, Lifehacker published an article on using wget to grab mp3 files from music blogs. That article was based in turn on Jeffery Veen's article, and that's where I found out about Fingertips Music. Every week, the editor of Fingertips publishes mini-reviews and links to three free-and-legal mp3s of indie bands. The criteria are simple: 1) there has to be at least one free and legal MP3 available from it somewhere online (but not on MySpace!); and 2) he has to like it a lot.
I used my newly-found wget skillz to grab the Top 10 list, and I was hooked. This was music I'd never hear on the radio, and even on Sirius I wouldn't hear more than a few of these.
And now, the editor's posted his top 10 favorites of 2007, his 22 best that he's posted in 2007 (the second-tier top 12 is up there too).
Given that my alternative on a Saturday night was to work, I thought that I might review the Fingertips music I downloaded, and generate the same kind of list. Mine, however, is a more-expansive Top 24, although the order is more of chronological posting on Fingertips than best-to-worst. Basically, I went through my playlists, and grabbed the ones that I'd listened to at the expense of others on the list. So, without further adieu:
- Parables - Rebekah Higgs
- To the Dogs or Whoever - Josh Ritter
- Belgian Beer and Catholic Girls - Siberian
- Nothing Burns Like Bridges - Penny Century
- Adrenaline - Emma Pollock
- Intelligentactile 101 - Jesca Hoop
- Throwin' Shapes - Minus the Bear
- For Science Fiction - Maritime
- Flesh and Spirits - the Gena Rowlands Band
- Take Me to the Ballroom - Moonbabies
- Dear Confessor - Immaculate Machine
- Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe - Okkervil River
- My Rights Versus Yours - the New Pornographers
- We Are Waves - Dirk Darmstaedter
- Perdu - Watoo Watoo
- Gimme Shelter - Patti Smith
- Going Numb - Tin Cup Prophette
- Los Cruzados - Elk City
- Deadringer Deadringer - the Book of Daniel
- Eye for an Eye - Telograph
- Every One of Us - Goldrush
- 23 - Blonde Redhead
- Hard Line - Jill Barber
- You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos!
And I leave you with the first posted picture taken with my new D40, of the Beaghmore stone circles outside of Cookstown, NI.
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