Best Albums of the 2000s

This decade has provided for some pretty outstanding new music (although a far cry from the magic made in the 90s), here is a handful of albums I have in mind for the list, ranking them will be hard:

In no particular order----------------------------------------------

My formative jam banding years are evidenced by my picks:

Outkast- Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below (2003)
My Morning Jacket- Z (2005)
Dr. Dog- Fate (2008)
Sound Tribe Sector Nine- Artifact (2004)
moe.- Wormwood (2003)
Phish- Farmhouse (2000)
Kings of Leon- Because of the Times (2007)
Wilco- Sky Blue Sky (2007)
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes & Sun Giant EP (2008)
Yeasayer- All Hour Cymbals (2007)
The Raconteurs- Consolers of the Lonely (2008)
Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III (2008)
Delta Spirit- Ode to Sunshine (2008)
Radiohead- In Rainbows (2007)
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular (2007)
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (2007)
Arcade Fire- Funeral (2004)
Band of Horses- Everything All the Time (2006)
The Whigs- Mission Control (2007)
Ratatat- Classics (2006)
Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere (2006)
Cold War Kids- Robbers and Cowards (2006)
Franz Ferninand- (2005)
Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley- Welcome to Jamrock (2005)
Brazilian Girls- Brazilian Girls (2005)
Beck- Guero (2005)
Widespread Panic- Uber Cobra (Live-2004)
My Morning Jacket- Okonokos (Live-2006)
The Secret Machines- Now Here Is Nowhere (2004)
Particle- Launchpad (2004)
My Morning Jacket- It Still Moves (2003)
Medeski, Martin and Wood- End of the World Party (Just In Case) (2004)
Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004)
Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way (2002)
My Morning Jacket- At Dawn (2001)
Keller Williams- Laugh (2002)
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
Passion Pit- Manners (2009)
M. Ward- Hold Time (2009)
Beck- Sea Change (2002)
The String Cheese Incident- Outside Inside (2001)
Daft Punk- Discovery (2001)
Warren Zevon- Life'll Kill Ya (2000)
Radiohead- Kid A (2000)
Gorillaz- Demon Days (2005)
Modest Mouse- Good News for People who Love Bad News (2004)
Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise (2005)
Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
Radiohead- Hail to the Thief (2003)
tool- lateralus (2001)
Santogold- Santogold (2008)
The Roots- Phrenology (2002)
Sigur Ros- () (2002)
Outkast- Stankonia (2000)
Jay-Z- The Blueprint (2001)
Thievery Corporation- The Mirror Conspiracy (2000)
Outkast- Stankonia (2000) *Released on Halloween
Blitzen Trapper- Furr (2008)
Ryan Adams- Cold Roses (2005)
The Black Keys- thickfreakness (2003)
Peter Bjorn & John- Writer's Block (2006)
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)

Obviously I have forgotten some classics, let me know if you see any glaring omissions.

Lollapalooza 2009 Rundown and Videos

Here's a video of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" from last Friday headlining the Chicago 2016 Stage at Lollapalooza in Grant Park Chicago:

Fleet Foxes doing "Mykonos" on Friday afternoon on the Playstation Stage.
^Like this one so much I posted it twice.

Tool doing "Forty-Six & 2" on Saturday night headlining the Chicago 2016 Stage

And about 20 more can be found on my YouTube channel

Lollapalooza Best of:

10. Seeing a DJ instruct a young MC (about 8 years old) at the "Hip Hop Academy" in Kidzapalooza. DJ was telling Young Schwilly to say "I'm getting crazy/don't know where my parents are at/this is how I rhyme yadda yadda yadda. You had to be there, wish I had video

9. Snoop Dogg doing his thing in front at least 50-60,000 people. Barely rapped at all, people just liked being in his presence.

8. Arctic Monkeys Saturday main stage performance.

7. Santigold- Unstoppable

6. Chairlift and Passion Pit at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store. High School Musical 14 was being filmed there I think.

5. Alberta Cross for Sunday Brunch. 11:45 Sunday set, made it there just in time. Got to interview the band following the set, cool guys, great musicians. Debut album out September 22nd. Gonna be a big one.

4. Fleet Foxes playing "He Doesn't Know Why", "Mykonos" and "Blue Ridge Mountains" to close a stunning set of music...and the rain finally stopped.

3. Delta Spirit from the side stage. This band just keeps getting better and better.

2. Depeche Mode/tool: Too different to rank one or the other. Both put on amazing shows musically and theatrically. Equally powerful in their own very different way.

1. Kaiser Chiefs rock-and-roll show. Wowie Zowie Batman.

You can read my full review for JamBase.com by clicking here

Lollapalooza Day 1

Fleet Foxes play Mykonos yesterday at Lollapalooza on the Playstation Stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSsNY584-M

Fleet Foxes, along with Depeche Mode were the highlights of the first day of my first trip to Lollapalooza. Full review to come next week on JamBase.com