Seeing as how you seem to have a problem with my writers, perhaps I may suggest you volunteer to write something? If that is the case, my email is thecampus.ac@gmail.com. I would be more than happy to have more writers so please feel free to send in any pieces you think are worthy of an Arts and Culture section.

For the record, Jesse was asked to compose a list that was non-biased, this is not a reflection necessarily of what HIS list would have been. This is a list compiled based on certain criteria.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
Teresa
Arts and Culture Editor

And what Jesse provided isn’t so much a list of personal favorites as it is a compendium of the bands that, either through sheer luck (Modest Mouse, with the hit single “Float On”) or by virtue of operating within an environment conducive to critical hype (The Arcade Fire, who formed and were subsequently nurtured in Canada’s capital of hipsters), came to define the everyman’s idea of what “indie rock” is. (Despite that, I just realized that the two Arcade Fire releases are the only ones which were released by an independent label.)

Essentially, Jesse has produced a lean version of the “Best of the Decade” lists found in last month’s pages of NME, Rolling Stone, and Spin. For shame that The Campus’ critical voice is too afraid to come up with a list of his own.

Here is my list of important musical offerings from the past decade:

01. Fugazi – The Argument
02. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
03. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
04. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
05. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Tyranny of Distance
06. Mission of Burma – The Obliterati
07. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
08. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
09. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
10. The Constantines – Shine a Light
11. The Briefs – Sex Objects
12. Tom Waits – Blood Money
13. Paint It Black – New Lexicon
14. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
15. Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
16. Elliott Brood – Mountain Meadows
17. Dillinger Four – Situationist Comedy
18. The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic
19. The National – Boxer
20. The Marked Men – Fix My Brain
21. Akimbo – Forging Steel and Laying Stone
22. The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
23. Mock Orange – Captain Love
24. Attack in Black – Marriage
25. Colossal – Welcome the Problems