Compiling a list of my favorite albums of the year is always a welcomed exercise, because it forces me to go back through all the albums that moved me, got me dancing, or changed my perspective over the last 12 months.

I know there is no way that this is a perfect list, so please offer suggestions of records that you dug this year, and help a brother out!

1. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and The Harvest 

Don't call it a comeback. After 8…

With all the attention the media is giving to this Saturday's "Judgment Day," I figured I'd take the opportunity to compile a few of my favorite 'songs of Armageddon.' Some of these are more serious than others, but I wanted to include some variety. They are not in any special order (numbers just help keep it tidy). Feel free to leave comments letting me know what your list would include.

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April 5th, 1994 has gone down in history as a turning point in rock and roll.  The day Kurt Cobain decided to stop being a spokesman for his generation.  A groundskeeper found a note Cobain had left in his garage, initially believed to be a suicide note, but was later revealed as, what he called a “dear john letter to the music industry.”  Cobain secretly caught a plane down to Athens, Georgia to hide out at the home of longtime confidant and early influence,…