PRE-HALLOWEEN AMG UPDATE

Here's my latest batch of All Music Guide reviews. In keeping with the Halloween season, there's a bunch of metal, and some people in masks (the Girl in a Coma covers album). Enjoy!

Arson Anthem, Insecurity Notoriety
Autopsy, The Tomb Within
Conducting from the Grave, Revenants
The Crown, Doomsday King
Dimmu Borgir, Abrahadabra
Exploding Star Orchestra, Stars Have Shapes
Firewind, Days of Defiance
Girl in a Coma, Adventures in Coverland
Holy Grail, Crisis in Utopia
Kill the Client, Set for Extinction

PAZZ Y JOP, OTRA VEZ

Well, the 2009 Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll results are out, and they're pretty depressing if you don't like whiteboy indie rock. Good thing I decided to stop giving a fuck.

But just for the record, here's where the ten albums I voted for wound up:

Bebe, Y. - #1384
Graciela Beltran, Reina de la Banda - #1207
Bomba Estereo, Blow Up - #501 (two votes)
Don Omar, iDon - #1387
Girl in a Coma, Trio B.C. - #645 (two votes)
Natalia Lafourcade, Hu Hu Hu - #180 (FOUR votes!)
Paulina Rubio, Gran City Pop - #1093
V/A - Si, Para Usted: The Funky Beats Of Revolutionary Cuba Vol. 2 - #654 (two votes)
Los Tigres del Norte, La Granja - #599 (two votes)
Wisin y Yandel, La Revolución - #616 (two votes)