Tagged: year in review

now that two-thousand ten has come and gone all of us at still life would like thanks everyone who made this year so enjoyable and wish you all a safe & happy new year! we had a lot of fun in the store with everyone, and always enjoyed popping out to shows around town and running into all our still life friends & extended family. we saw some incredible acts at rifflandia 3 (dear ariel pink, are you o.k.?) and both the national and the arcade fire shows in vancouver were amazzzing. though we didn't catch the alexisonfire show, miriam made fast friends with dallas green here at the store (helping him into a pair of nudie tube kellys) and enjoyed a variety of post-show drinks over at smiths pub. and we can't forget the simply spectacular local boy aaron bergunder and his dreamboat cd release party at sugar last month for his new album buddies (available at ditch records).

speaking of our dear friends at ditch records - we'll be sad to lose them as a johnson street neighbour, but thrilled to help them ring in the new year with a relocation to a beautiful new (bigger) space on fort street. read the blurb in the times colonist here if you're still somehow unaware of their new space. now while we couldn't possibly keep up with the year in music the way the guys & girls at ditch can, we've compiled a quick list of some of our favorite records of 2010 that you probably heard playing at still life throughout the year:

kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, dreamboat - buddies, beach house - teen dream, vampire weekend - contra, ariel pink's haunted graffiti - before today, arcade fire - the suburbs, m.i.a. - maya, hot chip - one life stand, four tet - there is love in you, ray lamontagne & the pariah dogs - god willin' and the creek don't rise, the national - high violet, the tallest man on earth - the wild hunt, best coast - crazy for you, belle & sebastian - write about love

again, thank you so much to all of our close friends & still life family. you're all fantastic, made 2010 incredible, and we'll see you soon in 2011!

we have a healthy record collection here at still life, and we love when our favorite musicians come by victoria. this year we were lucky enough to catch shows by the friendly and talented cass mccombs and band of horses at the royal theatre (then at smiths & at ferris'!), flying lotus workshopped and lit up element and we kicked off rifflandia 2009 at the alix goolden hall at the hauntingly beautiful timber timbre show and were blown away by the always terrific beach house. and great shows from great acts in our fine city usually result in vinyl record purchases up the road at ditch records.

earlier this month our friends at ditch compiled their annual year end list with a number of our personal favorites finishing with top spots. as the year wraps up we invite everyone to come by the store and let us know what we slept on this year so we can be sure to listen to it hard during the long winter months ahead. bring in some vinyl for us to testdrive or hook your fully loaded ipod up to a pair of wesc headphones and help us discover some new music for the new decade.

some of our most played albums at still life in 2009: edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros, phoenix wolfgang amadeus phoenix, neon indian psychic chasms, dirty projectors bitte orca, camera obscura my maudlin career, julian casablacas phrazes for the young, pink mountaintops outside love, the xx xx, karen o & the kids - where the wild things are, jay z the blueprint 3, patrick watson wooden arms, timber timbre timber timbre, monsters of folk monsters of folk, iron & wine around the well, jj n° 2.

thanks to everyone for an amazing 2009, have a safe and happy new year and we'll see you in 2010!