Best Music of '08

What was the best show that you played?
Halloween, Grunell University with Yeasayer. We played "Head Over Heels" together with double drums.

What was the best show you went to?
Patrick: Boris at South St. Seaport
Aaron: Ariel Pink at Mohawk in Austin, Texas
Caroline: My Bloody Valentine at Roseland Ballroom in New York

What was the best festival you attended?
After the jump in Williamsburg. There are tons of free shows around Williamsburg.

What was your favorite single or individual song from 2008?
Caroline: "Sensual Seduction," because if you don't know by now, Doggy Dog is a freak.
Aaron: "Shabop Shalom," by Devendra Banhart, because I like Jewish babes.
Patrick: "100 days, 100 nights," by Sharon Jones, because I like black babes.

What was your favorite album from 2008?
Caroline: M83, Saturdays = Youth; a blissful reinterpretation of '80s nostalgia. The beats are perfect.
Aaron: Atlas Sound, because we were listening to this record when we had a car accident on the highway, so now I feel simultaneously dangerous and safe when listening to this album.
Patrick: Sebastian Tellier, Sexuality because it's so sexy.

Your favorite new band or artist that you discovered in 2008?
Aaron: John Maus
Caroline: Lansing-Dreiden
Patrick: Hercules & Love Affair

Best old band/artist that was still going in 2008?
Aaron: My Bloody Valentine
Caroline: Grace Jones
Patrick: AC/DC

What was the best 2008 tour lineup?
Yeasayer and MGMT

What album or song from 2008 did you play so much that now you never want to hear it again?
Aaron: We don't do that. We listen responsibly.

What moment from 2008 (personal or historical) will you always remember?
We played a show in Morgantown, WV on election night. We started as McCain conceded, opened with the National Anthem, and called an intermission to go watch Obama's acceptance speech with everyone at the show.