My 2013 Music Highlights

Songs (links to Rdio)
Get Lucky feat. Pharrell WilliamsRoyals - Lorde - Daft Punk
Stoned and Starving - Parquet Courts

Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys

Walk Us UPTOWN - Elvis Costello And The Roots

Man - Neko Case

Your Life Is a Lie - MGMT

Work B**ch - Britney Spears

Avant Gardener - Courtney Barnett

Albums

Dawes - Stories Don't End
David Bowie - The Next Day
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Arctic Monkeys - FM

Live Shows (no particular order)

• Coachella (esp. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
• Calgary Folk Music Festival (bonus - talked to John Fullbright about his Emmylou and Friends appearance)
• Dawes - Lee's Palace, Toronto (bonus - chat and photo with Craig Finn of the Hold Steady)
• Nick Waterhouse/Lee Fields - The Bowery Ballroom, New York
• Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and friends (Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, the Zac Brown Band, J.D. Souther, Damien Rice, Joan Osborne, Shannon McNally, John Fullbright and Shawn Camp.) - Troubadour, Los Angeles
• Dave Stewart and Friends - Troubadour, Los Angeles
• The Hives - House of Blues, Anaheim
• Palma Violets (opening for Franz Ferdinand) - Pappy and Harriet's
• The International Swingers - The Date Shed, Indio (Clem Burke hammers the drums)