Best of the Month: March

It's a Hofmann Rearrangement. Oh yeah...

A new feature at CSV: Best of the Month.
This will feature links to what I think were the highlight posts of the month. So for those of you who missed those great artists or for those new readers out there, this is for you.

March was a month that saw a 5,000 visit milestone for CSV, not to mention the fact that our traffic has steadily been increasing. Keep it up!
Let's take a look at some of the best posts of March:

1) Mika, Life in Cartoon Motion-This intelligent pop songwriter (real name: Mica Penniman) is as witty as he is flashy. His sugar coated pop ditties are sure to please and conjure up the voices of Freddie Mercury or Elton John.

2) Willy Mason, If the Ocean Gets Rough-One of my new favorite singer-songwriters in the same vain as Nick Drake and/or Mark Knopfler, Willy Mason has released a sophomore masterpiece. He may not make it to the airwaves, but he made it here. Don't be surprised if this album shows up in a certain Best of list at the end of this year.

3) Air, Pocket Symphony-Well, if the name "Air" isn't enough to get your neurons firing, then I don't know what will. A pocket symphony indeed, the album is another extension of that classic Air sound.

4) Arcade Fire, Neon Bible-Although I cannot seem to understand their popularity, Patrick does. So please take Patrick's word for it and check this album out. It only reached #2 on the Billboard 200. Good for them.

5) Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha-Everything I could have written about this album, I have already written in this post. My favorite album of the year thus far.