Happy New Year! The Love Shack tells you where it’s going in 2010

White Blank Page mp3 Mumford and Sons ….. buy it

Well, I didn’t really mean to abandon you for a week there! Ooops! But Happy New Year, darlings.

And for your pressie, I bring you the Contrast Podcast’s final installment of the Festive Fifty, wherein this Tart introduces the #11 song of the year: Mumford & Son’s “White Blank Page” from their very popular album, Sigh No More Go over there and listen to all the great intros!

The choices on the Festive Fifty are pretty amazing. They range from Grizzly Bear to Withered Hand, its very eclectic. Just pop over to Tim’s site and you can download this final podcast and the other two in the series as well. Next week’s podcast will feature New Year’s Resolutions. If you want to be a part of it, there’s instructions there as well. All you need is a computer and a microphone and you’re all set to join the crazy team there.

What has the past year meant to me here at the Shack? Well, you, dear readers, have been so kind as to put up with my ramblings on so many topics and bands and songs and shows. I’ve covered everything from the good old Southern Rock of The Lonely H to the crazy, electronica of Deastro. It’s been a really fun ride and 2010 promises to be even more of a weird and wonderful roadtrip to who-knows-where. I anticipate Puppet Show doing some more album reviews here and there’s loads of great bands coming through Chicago which I hope to cover. So, stick around, this week off has given me plenty of time to reassess just where I want this blog to go. And that direction is pretty much the same forward-looking, wide scope, new-music oriented trajectory that I’ve been on. Thank you for your kind words in the comments. Thank you for reading. Thank you for making 2009 a year worth blogging. And thank you most of all for supporting new music, for buying records, t-shirts, tickets, and showing up to hear unsigned bands play. Go up and shake a musician’s hand and tell him or her how great they sound; they need to hear it. That’s what the Love Shack is all about, ya know. xoxo