I killed about 4 hours the other day catching up on good stuff I've missed this year via Spin Magazine's 30 Best Albums of 2009 So Far. It's a hot list, with albums like Two Suns from Bat For Lashes, this decade's answer to Kate Bush, and much much more. It's a damn fine primer to get current with.

My one complaint: is spin.com so desperate for pageviews that they had to do these one sentence blurbs on thirty separate pages? C'mon guys. We're all web professionals these days and can see right through that trick.