Bob Mould & Peter Buck covering Neil Young and Cheap Trick from a 1990 show in Georgia. Yup, it’s great.

Remember kids, no matter how hard you try, your band will never be as effortlessly cool as The Thermals. But don’t stop trying, second place is totally up for grabs.

Wait, sorry, if you’re looking for that YouTube sensation guy doing all the funny dance moves, go here. If you want to get a glimpse of every dance move really worth doing at the club, a wedding or the break room, press play on these two vids. Not at the same time though, that will confuse you and combining dance moves is physically dangerous. I broke my epiglottis doing the “Pizzamaker/Angel Babies ” combo.

There should be something for everyone here. If there’s not, well, we shouldn’t be friends. Kidding! You’ll love everything. Versus came back strong after a long Superchunk-like hiatus and crafted a beauty. Leatherface created my favorite album of the year, jam packed with gravelly emotion (it brings tears). Bottomless Pit still haunts me. Boston Spaceships, The Soft Pack and We are Scientists produced some insanely catchy pop rock. Audible, Aloha, Tre Orsi and Jeremy Porter set some stellar moods. Defiance, Ohio and Joy Formidable bring some much-needed euphoria and smiles. Double Dagger and The Holy Mess rock the eff out and Roky Erickson just plain kills it! Happy New Year!

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In this age of elaborate and outré concept videos, it’s nice to see a simple live footage/life on the road video that captures the energy and fun the Larry Arms always produce. Enjoy some nice shots of The mighty North Star Bar in Philly too.

When I first started the show I had to play everything the station had regardless of quality, because I didn’t have a library of my own and I wanted to fill the time with holiday cheer. Now I have too much great music to hope to squeeze into the 24 hour window. It sounds like a long time, but it divides down to around 300 songs when all is said and done.

Antony Crook’s short film Thirty Century Man features a remix of the album track “How to Be a Werewolf” from Mogwai’s upcoming 1/18/2011 record, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. Mogwai! subpop.com/​artists/​mogwai

Man, The Go-Betweens certainly were a fun and extremely talented bunch of Aussies, as you can see in this video for “Was There Anything I Could Do?” Their poppy but nowhere near cutesy sound and style bring to mind other 80s bands like Let’s Active, Prefab Sprout, The House of Love and The Mighty Lemon Drops, who were a much-needed contrast to the Descendents, Bad Brains and Naked Raygun that were blaring through my Walkman headphones at the time. Rest in peace, Grant McLennan.

Good to have Rival Schools back after a decade-long break. Their first long-player “United by Fate” is a masterpiece, love love love the song and video for “Used for Glue”. The video tells the the tale of young indie rock love  set to a fairly unromantic song. A welcomed contrast. Speaking of romance, here’s my [...]