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After a whirlwind 2008, marked by the critically acclaimed release of his sophomore album Afterparty Babies, over 100 shows across North America and Europe - including stops at Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, V-Fest and Roskilde, Cadence Weapon aka Roland Pemberton aka Rollie the youngster Producer/Songwriter/Performer from Edmonton is back to spread the electro-hype across Canada.

Since the release of Afterparty Babies in March through Upper Class Recordings (Canada), Epitaph Records/Anti- (USA) and Big Dada Recordings/Ninja Tune (Europe), Cadence Weapon has yet to rest - he's been touring non-stop, sharing stages with the likes of Public Enemy, Santogold, Roots Manuva, and Crystal Castles, playing major music festivals such as Glastonbury and Lollapalooza, legendary clubs like London UK's Fabric and Barcelona's Razzmatazz, and he's still found time to continue blasting out the freshest music around.

Cadence's recent collaboration with fellow Canadian and Kanye West DJ A-Trak and UK electro-king…

I'm going to write shittons of CD/gig reviews, musings, and things that matter more than daily life bollocks on here. Yes I am. IamIamIamIam I AM!

To start off, here are a few release dates I'm eagerly pencilling into my diary at this early stage:

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? - 14/01/08

Black Mountain - In the Future - 21/01/08

This Will Destroy You - s/t - 28/01/08
**rocksound album of the month for Jan..good start :-)**

36 Crazyfists - The Tide & Its Takers - 28/04/07

EDIT: Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies - 04/03/08 in US.....only 4 months since Breaking Kayfabe was released in UK and a newie already.....BONUS!

EDIT: In Flames - A Sense of Purpose - 04/04/08

Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings - 25/03/08

And to soundtrack a revitalised attitude towards all this malarkey, Rage have just helped me out with a nugget from Guerilla Radio:

It has to start somewhere, it has to start some time,
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2007.....another superb year for music, to my ears. Very eclectic too, which is what has distinguished it from 06 in my listening habits.

So many good releases that I can get a top 50 out, where as I think it was a top 30 last year.....maybe cheapo emusic downloads have helped!

50Taint - Secrets & Lovers
49Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
48Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
47Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
46Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
45Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Weak
44Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
43Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
42Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
411997 - ...A Better View Of The Rising Moon
40Martiden - Martriden
39As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
38Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
37Chuck Ragan - Feast or Famine
36Turisas - The Varangian Way
35Nile - Ithyphallic
34Hacride - Amoeba
33The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts
32Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
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My head is in 07 list mode, slightly prematurely, so this is my get it all down in writing post...ready for the Christmas hols when I actually find time to randomly babble on music.

If anyone reads this and has suggestions, now is the time to shout up :) December's always quiet gig and release wise, of course, so my emusic download allocation and Christmas gifts will go towards filling in anything I've missed. Here we go again.....!

ALBUMS

Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
Murder by Death - In Bocca Al Lupo
Comeback Kid - Broadcasting
Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America (Jan UK release)
The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
MxPx - Secret Weapon
The Ghost of a Thousand - This Is Where The Fight Begins
Cadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
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Usually, by this time of year, I would have long-since come up with a list of my favourite albums of the year. Distilling a year's worth of listening into a top 10 (or, like last year, a top eleven is usually easy for any music geek, but even weeks after everybody else has compiled theirs, I'm finding it tough to come up with more than a handful of 2006 releases that really burrowed their way into my life this year. Hopefully it's just because I spent most of the last twelve months rediscovering Pavement, Built to Spill and Daniel Johnston (music more fit to appear on a list from 1996), and not because I'm getting old, or out of touch.
Nonetheless, here's my incomplete list of annual favourites, in no particular order.

Albums

World Container - The Hip were my gateway drug. They were the first band that compelled me to obsessively track down foreign singles, or to travel great distances to see live. After 2004's lackluster In Between Evolution, I lost interest in following them. …