We gathered around all of the interviews we did during 2007. We figured that if you know what’s right for you, you wouldn’t want to miss them.

An interview with Chris Eaton of Rock Plaza Central – this was our first ever music blog interview and we were thrilled to have it with the lead singer of our favorite Canadian band.

An interview with All Girl Summer Fun Band – how could you not love these girls?! Personally, we want to marry them all!

An interview with Morgan Caris A.K.A. Flowers from the Man Who Shot Your Cousin – He seemed to be such a serious man but turned out to be such a sweetheart! Actually, why wouldn’t he be?

An interview with Matt & Kim – Could it BE more fun than that?

An interview with James Vella of A Lily – After releasing such a great, melodic, dreamy and wonderful album, we had to talk to him!

An interview with Bunny Rabbit – Cause she puts the “hood” in “8hands”. Or maybe not. We just love her ghetto ways.

An interview with Suburban Kids with Biblical Names – At some point of the year, we were obsessed with Swedish pop. SKWBN made us blow up!

An interview with The Hot Toddies – We just did this interview and what can we say? We still listen to them and our tiny octopus still adores them.

An interview with Udi Radomski of LOAF Recordings – Cause sometimes we like to take you higher, to the people who run the show.

An interview with The Indelicates – They are smart, witty, and LOVE the net. They were perfect for us!

An interview with Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls – What he said about Bob Dylan made us think that he is just too smart!

This time, Dovi, our Q to da A man, steps out of his bear cage and picks his favorite EP of the year, "The Distant Future" by Flight of the Conchords.

Flight of the Conchords have been around for almost 10 years now, but the first time I heard about them was in June of this year. At first I didn't know that it's a band. I've stumbled upon a banner that advertised the first episode of their HBO series, "Flight of the Conchords". I looked for some information about it and found that it's a combination of comedy and music. "That should be interesting", I thought and watched the complete pilot episode in the HBO site (thanks, HBO!).

It was a real surprise: a half-hour sitcom with songs. I always say that TV shows don't deal with music enough, so that was a real treat for me. I liked the pilot so much that I had to find out everything I could about them, and discovered that they've already released a live album in 2002 and had a successful radio series in the BBC. I've also found countless clips online with songs they perform in their live gigs. It's a very simple live experience: two guys with acoustic guitars. But they're so funny and clever that it's not boring for a second.

Most of the times I don't really care about songs' lyrics, but I couldn't ignore theirs because it's such a big part of their music and style. The other thing that I like about them is the music of course. They have a gift for writing great melodies, and they like to go all over the place for genre inspiration. To name a few: folk, 80s electro, rap, French lounge, and even David Bowie (yeah, it's a genre).

One song that was also featured in the first episode and is rarely performed live, called "I'm Not Crying" is absolutely my favorite song by the Conchords. It was the first time I can think of, that I found myself laughing from the words and in the same time being moved deeply by the same song. The song is featured on their EP "The Distant Future", that was released this year on Sub Pop. There are only 6 songs on this EP, and I say "only" just because I really want to hear a full-length studio album from these guys. They promise it's going to happen real soon, so I'm enjoying the EP in the meantime.

This time, Alice opens up her heart and picks her album of the year, "Help Wanted Nights" by The Good Life.

When music writers publish their top albums lists every December, I guess they take into consideration issues such as innovation, the amount of influence album may have in the future or size of impact any album had on all music lovers out there.

I'm sure that assembling a list of top albums is not exactly an easy task, but somehow, even though there are thousands of album releases each year, and despite the fact that many criterions need to be accounted, still most lists suffer from an unfortunate resemblance to one another.

I bet most people explain it by wrongly assuming that some albums are "better" than others. The way I see it, music is not an exact science and therefore cannot be measured in terms of best or worst album. But hey, I ain't no party pooper, and the purple octopus ordered me to pick the best album this year, so as always, I obeyed.

There were many albums I liked in 2007, but the album of the year has to be the one by The Good Life.

Help Wanted Nights was released on Saddle Creek Records and it contains 10 beautiful songs that share the same lyric theme as they all talk about short term relationships, the kind that is most likely to end before they really evolve. Most songs are telling a story of an unequal relationship where one side is more interested and more caring than the other.

The former Good Life album, 'Album of the Year', was all about breakups and endings, and the current album feels almost like the next episode of the same series. I'd like to think both albums tell the story of the same man, which during 'Album of the Year', had gone through a terrible breakup, and now, on 'Help Wanted Nights', he is trying to find love again. Luckily for us, the guy is going in all wrong directions and there is constantly a sad feeling in the background.

The real story behind the album, as I read somewhere, is that it was actually written as a soundtrack for a screenplay Tim Kasher wrote. You see, this guy, the front man of the band, is so great with words that he can manufacture not only the most beautiful lyrics available but screenplays as well. So far there are no real plans for producing this screenplay, but if it will get produced eventually, I'm sure it'll be a great movie.

In the meantime, I highly recommend you to go out and buy yourself the album that made my year and let yourself get into a world where emotions are expressed in the best possible way.

This time, Dania goes sentimental and picks her special album of the year, "Kala" by M.I.A.

It's strange that what I'm about to say, seems to be controversial. Because to me, there is no doubt as to my album of the year: M.I.A.'s Kala. There is no other album that more succinctly defined 2007. The album was not only groundbreaking from a musical standpoint, giving us a whole new ghetto global sound, but was also the most exciting thing to hit the fashion and music video world this year. This album transcended to capture the zeitgeist of the time like no other.

Kala was an album whose influence I felt from the beginning of the year. Singles started trickling in like Bird Flu and Boyz, and were written about everywhere from Pitchfork to the NY Times. And then we started hearing stories. M.I.A. was denied a visa back to the States where she'd taken residence in Brooklyn. She was traveling around the world – recording with a slew of producers – among them Diplo, Switch, Blackstarr, and Timbaland – and new artists – African Boy, the Wilcannia Mob - wherever she went. A new sound was forming that could have only been made in a post George Bush overly interactive world, for the third world democracy, as she calls it.

The oft written criticism of the album – that's it’s a disjointed hodgepodge – is exactly what is its' genius. It's messy, dirty, all over the place – an album with A.D.D. that lifts a mirror to our shell shocked world, showing us in all our glory, warts and all.

And the look – the look! First her MySpace hit, fully reveling in the trashy-lo-res-nasty-pixel-epileptic-flashy-basic-RGB vibe of it all. Her videos for Bird Flu, and especially Boyz were revolutionary, taking the MySpace style and translating it to the moving image. And the fashion… Yo!! Just like her music and videos, her look showcased the insane late 80s early 90s revival with a dose of Cassette Playa mixed in with trashy metallics, by way of vintage Stussy and Cross Colours.

No other artist in any field came close to M.I.A. And in the year of the fallen female pop star saying no no no to rehab, M.I.A. went the other way, stood up and made it political.

This time, Alon picks his one true album of the year, "It’s A Bit Complicated" by Art Brut.

Let’s face it – this year has produced some great musical moments, but it didn’t show us a lot of really unique, one-of-kind, innovative moments. Most of the good albums that came out just took great music and made it better – Animal Collective, Jens Lekman, LCD Soundsystem, Mendoza Line, Devin the Dude, Tullycraft & Justice – Sure, they all had awesome releases, but you’ve got to admit that none of it was much of a surprise. I mean, we all knew that James Murphy is a brilliant man and Animal Collecitve have been getting hotter and wiser by the minute! Where can we find a new music movement? What is the next big genre? Where are all the shocking findings? They are all probably hiding somewhere in 2008.

But there was one thing that did make me go “wow” and, metaphorically speaking only, take my clothes off, paint myself red and run through the streets yelling out weird animal noises. It was “It’s A Bit Complicated” by Art Brut, a record that just like the ones I mentioned above, is made up of some great music that we have heard before – poppy guitar driven post punk, with a lot of fun making wooo-ahhhh in it. The difference in this album is the lyrics – damn! Eddie Argos, the lead singer, is the poet of the century, and don’t let anyone tell you anything else!

On Art Brut’s first album, “Bang Bang Rock And Roll”, we were all amazed by Argos’ wittiness, but we were still convinced that he is nothing less then a joke-man, the class clown. On this year’s album, Eddie shows new depth to his soul. He is still funny, can still charm with a short line, and there is no doubt that he is the smartest man behind the mic today.

He talks about music, his childhood, his relationships, his friends and popular culture and he does it so well, that he makes all the old fashioned lyricists look nothing less than ridiculous – especially when he gives them all a shout out and sings: “River deep and mountain high / there's some lyrics that'll never apply / 'cause I don't lie awake at night / with thoughts of river depth or mountain height” – In their face Eddie!