This time last week I was a sweaty mess of half wrecked excitement somewhere in the centre of Barcelona. Now I’m sitting with the sniffles alone in my bedroom trying to figure out how to consolidate one of the best festivals of my life into a word count below that of the Oxford English Dictionary.

The ATP Diaries // Weekend 2
Oh ATP, you kill me. I thought it would be fun, I thought it would be fine, but by the time I hit the bends of the A39 I could already feel last weekend’s hangover rising in my stomach.

TLOBF Albums of 2009
It’s what you’ve all been waiting for folks… The year’s best albums according to us, The Line of Best Fit…

Atlas Sound – Cargo, London 15/11/09
Bradford Cox woos the crowds at an intimate gig at London’s Cargo. Ama Chana was there.

Atlas Sound – Logos
Bradford Cox releases ANOTHER amazing selection of songs, this time under the Atlas Sound banner… Adam Nelson reviews Logos.

Atlas Sound return with new album
Bradford Cox takes some time out from Deerhunter, again, for the second Atlas Sound album, due for release in Oct.

Various Artists – Rough Trade Counter Culture 08
The annual staff handpicked compilation of the most exciting, offbeat and plain curious music to have emerged last year, from folk to dubstep to, um, shitgaze.
4AD 2008 Digital Label Sampler [Download]
4AD are celebrating Christmas early and giving everyone a FREE album sampler to download, featuring some of the greatest music of the year! Woo hoo!
TLOBF.COM :: 2008 Readers Choice Album Of The Year
This year, we’re getting YOU, yes, YOU the reader, to vote for the albums YOU think are the best 2008 had to offer. There is a massive prize up for grabs too!
Atlas Sound – Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Ro Cemm reviews the debut solo outing for Deerhunter mainman Bradford Cox, finding him into more dreamy soundscapes that draw comparisons with The Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
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