It’s the party end of the year (well it was when I started this post) and it’s time for the first ever inaugural Stubbadub top 10 albums of the year list!

Even without any significant contributions from Mike Patton this year, which can be directly attributed to a certain reunion tour, there have been many great Stubbadub related releases to tickle our ear drums.

So lets get started. Counting down from 10 to 1:

10.  Zu – Carboniferous (Mike Patton) - Italian metallers Zu released their latest album Carboniferous via Mike Patton‘s label Ipecac Recordings. Mike appears on a couple of tracks (Soulympics and Orc) along with Buzz from the Melvins (Chthonian).

09. Shrinebuilder – Self Titled (Dale Crover) - Featuring Dale Crover of The Melvins fame on drums and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly on Guitar, Shrinebuilder released their stoner fueled debut album in October.

08. MadLove – White with Foam (Trevor Dunn) – Trevor Dunn’s Rock Album. Nuff said. Go get it.

07. Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine – The Audacity of Hype (Billy Gould) – The latest installment from outspoken ex-Dead Kennedys’ vocalist, Eric Reed Boucher aka Jello Biafra is a kick in the sack from start to finish. The album features Billy Gould on bass and one has to assume that he would have toured with the band if he hadn’t been side tracked by the recent reformation of Faith No More. Hopefully he can make the next tour (and they bring it to Australia )

06. Chuck Mosley and the VUA – Will Rap over Hard Rock for Food (Chuck Mosley) – It’s been a while since Chuck released anything of significance, but it was worth the wait. A good album over all and the rework of Faith No More‘s We Care a Lot (Featuring special guest Mr Roddy Bottum on keys) is very interesting and worth grabbing the album for alone.

05. Umlaut – Self Titled (Bar McKinnon) – Bar’s first release since becoming an Aussie. Recently toured with Les Claypool. A very tidy album all round with some very nice Bungle-esque/Secret Chiefs 3 moments.

04. Isis – Wavering Radiant (Ipecac Recordings) – The latest installment from rockers Isis as usual does not disappoint.

03. Secret Chiefs 3 – Traditionalists : Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini (Trey Spruance) – The newest SC3 album took everyone by surprise as Trey bucked his usual trend of announcing an album release and then missing that date by large margins. A great release by sub band “Traditionalists”, but leaves you hanging for the next book release.

02. The Fantastic Terrific Munkle – Music to Dance To (Danny Heifetz) – It is very difficult to keep up with what Danny is working on nowdays as he does not have any established online presence, but the best thing he is involved with at the moment is the Munkle band. Check this album out

01. John Zorn – O’o (Trevor Dunn) – The latest in Zorn’s “Romance” series and the follow up to 2008′s “The Dreamers”, this is an amazing record and by far my album of the year.

Honourable Mentions:

• SUNN O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions (Timb Harris, Eyvind Kang)

• Crank: High Voltage Soundtrack (Mike Patton)

Hopefully next year we will see the highly anticipated release of Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane, possibly Crudo and fingers crossed another Fantomas would be most welcome.

Also March 23rd sees the release of the Dillinger Escape Plan‘s latest album, Option Paralysis, and from the new song making the rounds (Farewell Mona Lisa), it’s gonna be kickarse.

Feel free to post your thoughts on albums in this list, or your own top 10 lists in the comments or in the forum.

Happy New Year Stubbers!

Over the years I have made some stubb related ring tones and I thought I would up ‘em and share them. They are MP3′s but it’s pretty easy to convert them to iPhone format if need be (hint: add them to itunes, right click in itunes and create aac version).

They are:

• SC3 – The 4
• SC3 – The End Times
• FNM Spanish Evidence
• SC3 – Zulfiqar 3

Anyway enjoy: http://bit.ly/3Ial1

If anyone has any of their own please post links in comments

And the winner is!!!!!!!

Number 14: @fun9us.

Thanks all who entered. Better luck next time

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To celebrate anything and everything and the fact that I’m in a ridiculously happy mood lately due to some recent good news, or more specifically the recent releases of Suit of Lights (Bacteria), The Fantastic Terrific Munkle (Music to Dance To) and the Kids of Widney High comic book along with the fact that Dillinger Escape Plan are working on a new album (titled Option Paralysis), Stubbadub have a whole bundle of stuff to give away to one lucky stubber! The prize pack consists of:

1. Suit of Lights – Bacteria, featuring Trevor Dunn on Bass
2. The Fantastic Terrific Munkle – Music to Dance To, featuring Danny Heifetz on drums (fully signed by the band!)
   
3. 3 x The Kids of Widney High comic books (Issue 1)
   
4. 2 x Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works posters

To enter simply follow us on twitter (@stubbadub) and tweet:

Follow @stubbadub and retweet to enter the stubbadub Epic Give-A-Way Competition Thingy. More Info: http://bit.ly/1Cz1CH

Once you have tweeted the above I will send you a number. You may only enter once but feel free to retweet as many times as you want . After a little while I will close the comp, generate a random number via random.org and announce the winner.

Any questions hit me up here

So I have been trying to work out how I can continue to build the stubbadub community and I have always felt that comments can be difficult to have a good in depth conversation with others members. One idea I had was to add a mini forum system to try and make it easier for people to come back and continue the conversation.

So I have just opened the stubbadub forums up to you guys to play with and hopefully interact, get to know, have in-depth discussions/arguments/flame-wars with each other.

At the end of each new post from now on I will be linking to the forum topic of the same name. You will still be able to comment on the actual post, this is just an additional, more in depth way of discussing the post. Hopefully everyone can jump in and enjoy.

You will have to be a registered stubbadub user to post. If anyone has any problems please comment here or submit an enquiry.

If you use twitter and feel inclined to, please follow stubbadub at twitter.com/stubbadub, thanks

Heyas,

I installed a nested comments plugin which failed and apparently people haven’t been able to comment. (cheers to feelingkettle for the heads up).

I have removed the plugin and we are back to the working (albeit crappier) comments system

sorry for the hassles.

Josh