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We live in an iTunes nation. It's easy to pull a track down to your pod for under a buck. Bostonist still longs for cover art, liner notes, and that masterwork that is a multi-track collection of songs we call an album. Listed here is our much discussed, unbiased by payola, top 25 albums of 2005. After the jump you'll find where some of us stand individually on the subject of the years best. (Apparently...

Bostonist enjoyed a flawless August evening of free indie rock tunes at the DCR Memorial Hatch Shell last night. At the latest installment of the FNX Radio Summer Concert Series, newcomers Longwave took the stage at 6 p.m. followed by our favored indie darlings, Spoon. Spoon played the crowd a pleasing set with selections from their 2002 release "Kill the Moonlight" and their recent 2005 success "Gimme Fiction." Perhaps the only downer at this completely free concert was the two rows of fencing and nearly 100 ft. separating Longwave and Spoon from their adoring Bostonist. Handsome Spoon frontman Britt Daniel acknowledged the distance, asking, “What’s up with that?” Yet even high security measures couldn’t contain the Boston hipster spirit, as heads bobbed and feet tapped to “The Way We Get By”, “I Turn My Camera On” and “Sister Jack."

Admittedly, Bostonist should tell you about tonight's Kathleen Edwards show at the Paradise. She's a Canadian variation of the venerable Lucinda Williams and she has a knack for writing hard-luck songs--Bostonist's personal favorite, "Westby", is a scathing Lolita track with a snotty chorus: "If you weren't so old I'd probably keep you/ If you weren't so old I'd tell my friends/ But I don't think your wife would like my friends." Catty! She's country,...