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Yay! Best of 2008 Lists! Ok, so I found out Hail Mega Boys was released in '07, but I'm leaving it on the list anyway.

1. Annuals - Such Fun (Red Ink)
2. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (Earthology / Rebel Group)
3. J. Roddy Walston & The Business - Hail Mega Boys (Morphius)
4. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
5. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
6. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
7. Slow Runner - SHIV!
8. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale (Chocolate Industries)
9. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E (Universal / Spaceman)
10. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals (Illegal Art)

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (Beggars/XL/4AD)

We've just released our collective Top 50 at Paste, and there's been the usual response both on our site and others' about what you think we missed, what we got wrong and what the list really should have looked like. Since this was a collaborative effort with votes from staff and some of our regular critics, everyone would have made this list a little differently, including me. Here's my personal top 10 (i.e. the actual 10 best albums this year).

1. Bon Iver—For Emma, Forever Ago
Some albums stampede their way into your brain, others creep in during the middle of the night and lay claim to some hidden corner forever. Justin Vernon's debut is one of the sneakiest albums since Sam Beam whispered his way into my cerebral cortex in 2002.

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Photos taken at Terminal 5 by Sarah Hajjar

In 1839, an American writer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens was sent to Central America to serve as Special Ambassador. He traveled around the continent during his time there, and, after happening upon Mayan ruins at Copán, visited almost 50 other such sites, gathering material for a travelogue that has long been credited with enlivening modern interest in Mayan culture.

If there was a Girl Talk School of Album Release Technique, The Walkmen would be at the top of the class. Their latest offer, You & Me, will be available on the cheap three weeks early, via the interwebs. But the group has perhaps one-upped Prof. Gillis by adding a new and quite refreshing twist to the lesson: They will be pairing up with Amie Street, an online indie music marketplace, to donate all the proceeds of the $5 album to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

If you're alive, under 50 and capable of aural stimulation, then you've likely wondered how Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk, does it—how he knows Jay-Z's rap was always meant to be heard over the sweet sounds of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android," why he employs beats from Ace of Base's "All That She Wants" to encase Lil Scrappy's "Money in the Bank."

Ever since 2006's Night Ripper thrust Greg Gillis and his musical project Girl Talk into the national limelight, he has been one of the most polarizing figures in popular music. Many feel Gillis is cheating the system, stacking the musical tape deck if you will. Sort of like how the Yankees can afford Rodriguez and Jeter in the infield (not that Young Berg and Tony Basil are exactly Jeter and A-Rod, but you get the idea), it just doesn't quite seem right.

To hear Matt Mason tell it, if you want to change the world your best bet is not realpolitik, but innovative piracy.

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Girl Talk is coming to town*.  Armed with a laptop and the ability to get a crowd pulsing to pretty much any genre of music, mash-up mastermind Gregg Gillis is headed on a North American tour in support of his latest, Feed The Animals.

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After the profile-raising success of his last album, Night Ripper, the fact that mash-up wizard Greg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) is still weaving intricate tapestries from uncleared samples of mainstream pop, rock and rap makes him seem either incredibly ballsy or kind of nuts. His latest musical highlight reel is dense with rib-nudging gags and indelible moments: Gillis imagines a world where Avril Lavigne rubs shoulders with Jay-Z; The Band with Yung Joc; The Jackson 5 with the Beastie Boys—in other words, he doesn’t imagine anything, because this multivalent stew is precisely the world in which we live. Gillis simply digests it into a crunky, continuous mix. There are no contradictions here; it’s just like scanning across several radio stations simultaneously, while everything magically synchs up. The real fun of Feed the Animals is the act of recognition, so I won’t say much more, except this—Lil Mama’s “Lip Gloss” over the riff from Metallica’s “One?” Damn!

You are a tiger. A crazy, starved tiger. At least that’s essentially what Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis said of the title of his new album when Paste caught up with him in May. However, he also said he'd soon have something to nourish you. And it’s available for download now.

Beloved by club kids, despised by music industry lawyers and acknowledged by many as a mash-up master, Girl Talk's Greg Gillis recently announced that he is ready to release a new set of sweat-soaked anthems.

Paste caught up with Greg Gillis (better known as pop-collage artist and plunderphonics extraordinaire Girl Talk) via phone in mid-April as he was in the middle of a sunny drive to see his family in New York. Amongst other things, he discussed helping people party, paying artists royalties and the changing trends in celebrity. His forthcoming record, Wild Peace IV: Feed the Animals, Raise the Dead, currently has no official release date.

Girl Talk (AKA: Gregg Gillis) has announced plans for his fourth album, and it has one mouthful of a name. Wild Peace IV: Feed the Animals, Raise the Dead, is scheduled to come out on Illegal Art Records late this spring or early this summer.

After two years of testing out new material on his audiences all over the world, Gillis said this album is still sample-heavy, but also gives his own groove a bit more room to move. No doubt you’ll be doing the same when you hear it.

However, if you just can’t wait for new material, you can catch one of the upcoming Girl Talk performances. They’re all on Fridays, so no “It’s a school night” excuses allowed.

Dates:

March
28 - Athens, Ga. @ Georgia Theatre

April
4 - Morgantown, W.Va. @ 123 Pleasant Street
25 - New Haven, Conn. @ Toads Place

May
2 - Richmond, Va. @ Toads Place / Richmond
9 - Millvale, Pa. @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
23 - Chillicothe, Ill. @ Summer Camp

August
8 - Jersey City, N.J. @ All Points West Festival

Related links:
IllegalArtRecords.net
Girl Talk on MySpace
Paste: News: Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals set for this Spring

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Update: Read our review of Girl Talk's Feed the Animals here.

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Here at Paste, we’re about more than bringing you the latest news. We also value thorough, in-depth analysis, so that you can be a truly informed devourer of music, film and culture. However, there are times when a bit of information goes a long way.

With that in mind, we pass along a small but tantalizing tidbit from our friends at AbsolutePunk.net. Girl Talk, otherwise known as Greg Gillis, is releasing an album with a tentative (and timely) title: Feed the Animals. Animals is due this spring on Illegal Art, and will be the followup to Night Ripper, Paste’s #92 album of 2006.

Check out the Tiny Mix Tapes interview with Gillis, where he shares some thoughts about the new record. And if you see him at one of the tour stops listed below, ask him for more details and then send said details to the e-mail address below.

Girl Talk on tour:

January
26 - Chicago, Ill. @ Metro
29 - Tallahassee, Fla. @ Club Downunder
30 - Gainesville, Fla. @ Common Grounds
31 - Orlando, Ill. @ The Club at Firestone

February
1 - Tampa, Fla. @ Czar Bar
2 - Miami, Fla. @ Studio A

Related links:
Girl-Talk.net
Girl Talk on MySpace
IllegalArt.net

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