Top 10s for 2004: Robert Samsonowitz (Deleted Art/rbrt.org/The New Mess/Satanic Surfers)
01. Big moments in Gothenburg #1: Lightning Bolt tear shit up at their one-only gig in Sweden! Amazing show by an outstanding band. Probably the hardest band I've seen since Slayer in Stockholm 1990.
02. Big moments in Gothenburg #2: meeting Blonde Redhead. Their show was truly amazing. I am still in love.
03. Satanic Surfers summer/fall tour. Never a dull moment.
04. Bistro (R.I.P.). The best hang-out for punks in Malmö.
05. The Office DVD box. David Brent for president!
06. Napoleon Dynamite. One of the best movies this year!
07. Great album releases this year: "Boredom and Terror" (The Intelligence), "RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta" (Dead Prez), "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" (Modest Mouse), "Zulu" (Wrangler Brutes), "Milk Man" (Deerhoof), "Samhällets Fiende Nummer Ett" (Dödsdömd), "Audit in Progress" (Hot Snakes), "The New Human is Illegal" (Man's Best Friend/Sole), "The Forcefield Kids" (Passage), "Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle Cures" (Sixtoo), "Uh Huh Her" (PJ Harvey), "Sonic Nurse" (Sonic Youth), "Misery is a Butterfly" (Blonde Redhead), "Das Oath" (Das Oath), "We Make Beginnings" (The Je Ne Sais Quoi), "Arclight" (Silverbullit).
08. Party songs this year: "The Rat" (The Walkmen), "Assassin" (Lightning Bolt), "Turn off the Radio" (Dead Prez), "1-10" (Japanther), "Melody Lee" (The Damned), "Enemyline" (kaitO), "The Sweat Descends" (Les Savy Fav), "I Hate My Fucking Job" (MOTO), "Who The Fuck" (PJ Harvey), "Crazy Love" (Colder), "Eight Miles High" (Hüsker Dü), "Win/Win" (Year Future), "Vårdad Klädsel" (Kriminella Gitarrer), "We Make Beginnings" (The Je Ne Sais Quoi), "Float On" (Modest Mouse).
09. Making evil genius plans for Deleted Art. 2005 is ours.
10. Making new friends.
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Jeez, where do I start? Robert works as a freelance graphic designer under the name rbrt.org and has probably designed quite a few of the websites you look at regularly, along with a number of album covers in your collection. He helps run the record label Deleted Art, whose catalogue includes releases from Hawnay Troof, Japanther, C.Aarmé, Threeminutepopsongs and his own band The New Mess. Besides that, he can also sometimes be found behind the drumkit with Satanic Surfers, too. What's he got planned for 2005? Who knows?
www.deletedart.org / rbrt.org / www.deletedart.org/newmess / www.badtasterecords.se/satanic