Luke Temple

There was so much great music this year that it feels strange to narrow it down to so few albums. Read More

Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi ; We don't spend enough time escaping our normal comfort zone on this site, and as such albums like this normally slip through the cracks, but for whatever reason we took a flyer on Allen Toussaint's first album in a decade and fell in love with the soulful jazz found throughout it. Read More

These past 12 months may have found you dining at Buttermilk Channel, bowling at Brooklyn Bowl, or rocking out at the Knitting Factory, three acclaimed borough establishments that all came to be — or be reborn — in 2009. Read More

The gentlemen in Fanfarlo seem to be quite smart, both from a musical perspective and a business one. Read More

Now in its third installment (check out 2008's list HERE and 2007 HERE ), EF's annual Breakout Bands feature essentially whittles down what every well-intentioned and hyperbolic blog, site, magazine (those still around?) and armchair critic under the sun brashly attempts on a daily basis: to recognize what's HOT now and what's about to become even HOTTER in the immediate future. Read More