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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Featured Artist :: Over the Rhine

This year, MMB is going to feature 3 songs from an already somewhat established artist...but should definitely be heard by music lovers due to the greatness of their work. The first band highlighted is Over the Rhine. The Cincinnati based band's latest cd Trumpet Child is one of the best cds from 2007. OTR has put out strong cd after strong cd for years on end; never settling into one sound or genre and always reinventing their sound. Led by Linford Detweiller and Karen Bergquist, OTR is one band I always lay down the money for whatever they come up with next. Incredible lyrics and soaring melodies signify an Over the Rhine song. Their discs are usually strong from first note to end note. So, if you haven't listened to them in the past, start with 1992's Patience and work forward from there. They never disappoint.

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MMB's Top 2008 Singles...So Far

MGMT :: Time To Pretend
Sons & Daughters :: Gilt Complex
Missy Higgins :: Where I Stood
OneRepublic :: Stop and Stare
Rotary Downs :: Sing Like the Sun
Bell X1 :: Rocky Took A Lover
Cat Power :: New York
Magnetic Fields :: All My Little Words
Sia :: Academia
Marketa Irglova :: The Hill
Great Northern :: Low is a Height
Moldy Peaches :: Anyone Else But You
Matt Costa :: Mr. Pitiful
Augie March :: One Crowded Hour
The Weakerthans :: Civil Twilight
Soulsavers :: Kingdom of Rain
Pelle Carlberg :: I Love You, You Imbecile

MMB's Top 2007 CDs

Iron and Wine "The Shepherd's Dog"
"Once" Soundtrack
Feist "The Reminder"
Over The Rhine "The Trumpet Child"
Nicole Atkins "Neptune City"
Ani DiFranco "Canon"
Chris and Thomas "Land of Sea"
A Fine Frenzy "One Cell in the Sea"
Explosions in the Sky "All of the Sudden I Miss Everyone"
Amandine "Solace in Sore Hands"
St. Vincent "Marry Me"
Josh Ritter "The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter"
Band of Horses "Cease to Begin"
Amy Winehouse "Back to Black"
Darren Hanlon "Fingertips and Mountaintops"
Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold"
Regina Spektor "Begin To Hope"
The Shins "Wincing the Night Away"
The National "Boxer"
The White Stripes "Icky Thump"
Eleni Mandell "The Miracle of Five"
Immaculate Machine "Immaculate Machine's Fables"
Fall Out Boy "Infinity On High"
Let's Go Sailing "The Chaos in Order"
Keren Ann "Keren Ann"
William Elliott Whitmore "Song of the Blackbird"
Bjork "Volta"
Bruce Springsteen "Magic"
Radiohead "In Rainbows"
Bright Eyes "Cassadaga"
Peter Bjorn & John "Writer's Block"
Blonde Redhead "23"
Kate Nash "Made of Bricks"
LCD Soundsystem "Sound of Silver"
Fields "Everthing Last Winter"
Of Montreal "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"
Fionn Regan "The End of History"
The Hush Sound "Like Vines"
Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"
Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
Joseph Arthur "Let's Just Be"
Avett Brothers "Emotionalism"
Derek Webb "The Ringing Bell"
Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
The Snake The Cross The Crown "Cotton Teeth"
Walter the Orange Ocean "Restless or Sleeping"
Stars "In Our Bedroom After the War"
A Fine Frenzy "One Cell in the Sea"