Why I don’t hate music: Subservient Experiment’s Cory Graves

by Sarah Crisman

I am a fool for a good music blog. These are clever people after my own heart, and they bring new music to me every week. One of my favorite local blogs is Subservient Experiment -- they've got a great set of ears over there, so I asked SubEx's Cory Graves what music he turns to when he's not scouring for his site.

"I'm adding music to my iPod almost on a daily basis. These are the things that are usually/always in heavy rotation, no matter how much stuff I've added recently."

A.C. Newman - Get Guilty

The Paper Chase – Someday This Could All Be Yours, vol. 1. "One of the best albums to come out this year, no matter how many times I hear it I still can’t get enough."

Danny Balis – Too Much Living

The Dead Weather (or basically anything Jack White touches): "Alison Mosshart’s two stops through town this year were probably the two best live performances I was fortunate enough to witness in 2009."

of Montreal: "Everything they’ve put out from Satanic Panic in the Attic and on is completely brilliant."

Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West

The Smiths – “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”

Little Joy – Little Joy

Nurses – Apple’s Acre

Passion Pit - Manners

St Vincent - Actor

Weezer: "OK, so they may have jumped the shark a long time ago, but somehow I still just don’t know how to quit them."

Ben Kweller: "I’ve been a big fan of Kweller since back in his Radish days, and I’d still have to say his solo debut Sha Sha is one of my favorite albums of all time."

Neil Diamond: "It’s hard to come up with a live album much better than Hot August Night, in fact, I love the man’s albums so much I named my cat after him."

Keep up with Subservient Experiment on Twitter (@subexblog), they're a hoot and a half.