Top 10s for 2005: Magnus Öberg (Chalksounds/Nomethod)
No particular theme, just 10 good things:
01. The Bear Quartet - Saturday Night CD (no comparison, no competition)
02. Birth of Nomethod Records
03. American indie has a great year (Sonic Youth Live @ Accelerator, Deerhoof - Four runners CD, Crooked Fingers - Archers frontman writes songs again!, Greg Dulli - Keep doing his thing solo and with Twilight Singers, Maritime - We the vehicles is a great pop album, Sun Kil Moon - Mark Kozelek still going on, just to name a few.)
04. Swedish indie is blooming! (Convoj, TEWBK, Alarma Man, Ellis the Vacuumchild, QGMR, The Embassy, Seven feet four, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, Asha Ali, The Je Ne Sais Quoi, Twinko) And a lot more bands are making GREAT music.
05. Klubb Modos / Umeå / Scharinska Villan (going better and better, highlight so far this year was the Modos goes Nons night with Isolation Years, Asha Ali and PUFFIN playing live!)
06. Going on my first vacation in January since I was maybe 10 years old, going to Sicily, taking a week off, need it so bad
07. Movies (I enjoyed Crash, Batman Forever, Final Star Wars movie, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride)
08. Magazines (SEX & Hjort fanzine rule)
09. Jan-Ove Waldner hasn't quit yet, I know he can win another big title
10. Norrland.
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Magnus is the big cheese behind Chalksounds Records, a label who just put out their final release: the self-titled debut album from The End Will Be Kicks. Magnus also runs (It's the method of) Nomethod, a new label which will be putting out tons of great new stuff in 2006.
www.chalksounds.com
www.nomethod.se