You either love them or hate them...the beloved or dreaded New Year's Resolutions list. Yes, most people fall off the wagon pretty quickly after making them and really, do we need to wait until the new year to make a change? That said, we can't help looking at the new year as a chance to do and learn more...and of course, listen to more music. The holidays wrecked havoc on our blog and the music we try to find and comment on. Time with families and filling your orders had to take priority. So, in light of the upcoming new year, we are back to looking for new and interesting music.

Check out Rolling Stone's list of the top 25 albums of 2009. We were pleased to see that Monsters of Folk made the list after we commented on it in our blog back in November. We still listen to that album at least a couple of times a week.

Somehow, we missed the new U2 album that they listed as the #1 album of the year...gotta add that to the list of albums to check out, as well as Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix...name your album or band something like that and I get sucked into seeing what you are all about pretty quickly!

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31421097/the_25_best_albums_of_2009

You never know where you will encounter your next muscial obsession. For me, it happened when I was looking at the upcoming shows at The National, where I saw a banner for the band Monsters of Folk. With a name like that, I couldn't help but look them up. I mean, really? Were they being sarcastic about folk music in general? Were they really monsters of metal? Did I even care?

As a matter of fact, I did! A mix of folk, indie, and country, I ended up in love with the very first song I downloaded, "The Sandman, the Brakeman, and Me". I actually ended up listening to it over and over again before moving on to the next song. It would actually make a great song for a movie soundtrack.

If you like what you hear and happen to be in Richmond, VA tomorrow night, they will be playing at the Landmark Theater at 8pm. 

Watching the movie Chocolat introduced us to the music of Django Reinhardt. We adored the movie but were blown away by the music. At the time, we were planning our wedding reception and toyed with the idea of trying to hire a jazz guitarist to play. We settled for Limewire and an iPod.

This list comes courtesy of Jennie, and its pretty awesome. A day late but definitely not a dollar short.  Have a listen and let us know if you think there are any songs that should have been on the list.  We're all ears.

This is a story from the local newspaper here in town about Chesterfield Middle School.  They wanted to reach out to students with a music offering that appealed to kids who were not interested in the traditional school music program.  You can read the full article here:

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/education/article/B4-GUIT04_20091003-221007/297318/

One of our goals here on the blog is to post a weekly playlist for your listening pleasure.  These come courtesy of Grooveshark, which is a great on demand music site (and totally free).  So have a listen and please recommend any songs you think would complement this playlist.  We're all ears!

Welcome back friends.  Its been a while since we were last open, we missed it so much we decided to bring it back.  Hopefully everyone likes the look of the new site.  Its much better than the previous site, offering better category management, customer accounts, blog, etc.  We're still planning on bringing you some sweet Basement deals, and have 6 Cedar Creek cases to start off with.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and drop us line if you have any comments or questions.  We'll be adding more stock this week, so please let us know if you can't find what you're looking for.

Thanks!