Annie Clark

Despite that disparaging fact, 2009 was still a gallery of well-crafted albums. Read More

I'm not going to do a top ten albums of the year list (cause I'm lazy!) because it's pretty much a random shuffle of the albums that comprised my top ten songs depending on what I'm feeling that particular day (and I'm lazy!). Read More

Because it's (quite literally) one louder. Read More

The holiday season will be brighter for patients at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center thanks to Mason High School Student Goverment's annual Kids Count program. Read More

My personal list is a little bit longer but in the interest of time, I'm listing these first five here. 2009 was an amazing year for music, with many new acts releasing near-flawless debuts ( Post-Nothing by Japandroids, Jewellery by Micachu and the Shapes) and some favorites releasing inspired and eloquent new material. Read More

The Parisian rock band Phoenix turns to its schoolbooks for the opening song on "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix," which references the hysteria that greeted Liszt in the 1800s. Read More

Not to get all nostalgic, but 2009 really was a fantastic year in Dallas-Fort Worth music. Read More

My grudge against Jona Bechtolt was put on hold over the summer, thanks entirely to YACHT's "See Mystery Lights". Read More

Stellar live performances in Beijing and Shanghai from the charmingly creepy St. Vincent and the raucously catchy Does It Offend You, Yeah? , not to mention exhibitions, workshops, performances and more from the likes of NeochaEDGE , IDLE BEATS screen-printing studio, graffiti artist Matt Lu, painter Winnie Sidhartha, The Bookworm International Literary Festival , Beijing's Artist Village Gallery and many, many more. Read More

Possibly the most blink-and-you-missed-it year of the decade. Read More