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It is that time of the year when I announce my Top Albums of the previous year and altho every single one of us has an opinion and even tho every single one of us ingests music differently, I still think it’s fun to find out what other people think was the best music of the year. It is with that fun attitude that I publish annually my list of fave albums. Some of the albums below may be on your top lists as well … maybe not. Some of them may be liked more than others … maybe not. But these are the albums that I loved most in 2011. Altho they are ranked from 10 – 1, I loved each of these albums immensely all year long. Check out my list below.

So yesterday was our first full day here in San Francisco, CA. After I finished work, I met up with David and his siblings for a bit of shopping and eating. Last night, we parted ways with the sibs and met up with our friends Molly and Kjell at the Herbst Theater to see Ryan Adams live in concert. It was a pretty damn fun Friday, if I do say so myself :D

About a week ago, Ryan Adams announced that he would be playing a tiny show at the Masonic Lodge inside the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … and last night, David and I got to attend the show. Without question, last night’s performance was THE best Ryan Adams show I have ever seen … and I’ve been to quite a few shows. Not only was the special venue a treat but we got to enjoy just Ryan, his guitar and piano … and that’s it. It was an AMAZING show.

Ryan Adams will be releasing a new album this October and to promote the disc he made an in-studio appearance on BBC Radio 2 earlier this week and performed an acoustic cover of the Iron Maiden song Wasted Years. Those of you familiar with Ryan‘s style should know by now that he deffo make the song his own. It’s unknown if the song will appear on his new album but take a listen below and see what you think.

Last April we got to watch video of Ryan Adams and wife Mandy Moore performing a song together during a soundcheck at one of his performances. Today we get to hear the couple singing together properly on a new single. Ryan is currently touring in Europe and at his shows he is selling a 7″ single called Empty Room and, wouldn’t you know it … Mandy sings backing vocals on the track. Take a listen below.

Ryan Adams performed at a benefit concert for 826LA (which is a non-profit writing and tutoring center here in LA) recently and last weekend he did a bit of rehearsing with a new band … that included his wife Mandy Moore on vocals. As luck would have it, an industrious person in the auditorium where the rehearsal took place managed to record Ryan and Mandy performing his song Oh My Sweet Carolina together on stage:

I’m not sure if Mandy performed with Ryan during the actual performance but they sounded pretty fantastic together in this rehearsal video. As far as I know, Ryan and Mandy have never performed live together before … so this video is quite a treat. Check it out in full, after the jump …

Ever since the pair got hitched in a secret wedding ceremony in Savannah, GA last month, Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams have been lying as low as possible. When the newlyweds made their first arrival in SoCal as a married couple, Mandy did her best to try and hide the wedding ring on her finger … thinking, apparently, if we can’t see the ring then we wouldn’t know about the secret wedding her rep confirmed weeks ago. Today we get to see a couple new pics of happily married (we hope) R-Andy M-Adams out and about together here in SoCal yesterday … keeping as much distance from one another as possible:

Um, guys … we know, you’re married, the secret’s out. While I think they made a really cute couple, I think they’d look even cuter if they pretended that they were actually together. Nonetheless, I’m very happy that they’ve found love with one another :) These two have to be my fave new married couple of the year … even if they pretend they don’t know one another.

[Photo credit: X17]

Mandy Moore and new hubby Ryan Adams, who were wed a couple of weeks ago in a secret ceremony in Savannah, GA, made their way to SoCal this past weekend for the first time as Mr. and Mrs. R-Andy M-Adams. Upon arrival at LAX Airport, Mandy quickly shoved her left hand into her jeans pocket in order to try hide her wedding ring but, invariably, ended up letting the ring show anyway:

I’m not entirely sure why she felt the need to try and hide her ring. Her spokesperson confirmed the news that she and Ryan got married so it’s not really a secret. She really shouldn’t be scared by the rock that she’s got … she should proudly show that thing off! I’m still having a bit of a difficult time accepting that Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams actually got married … especially considering the long list of women that Ryan has been attached to over the years (Parker Posey, Leona Naess, Winona Ryder and on and on). But finally it was sweet little Mandy (who has a substantial list of exes of her own — Andy Roddick, Wilmer Valderrama, Zach Braff, DJ AM) who ended up winning his heart, tamed the savage beast and got him to say I Do. They do make a cute couple (tho, I’ve always been pulling for Ryan and Leona Naess to end up together … they both seems so perfectly jaded together). I really hope they’ll be making beautiful music together for many, many years to come.

[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin, Splash News]

It would seem that congratulations are in order for Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams … according to a good friend of mine (and a fine Southern gentleman), the couple got hitched yesterday in Savannah, GA!

As you may recall, we heard last month that the couple were planning to be wed but … I’m not sure anyone expected it to happen so soon. Honestly, tho, I can’t say that I’m surprised that R-Andy M-Adams went ahead and did the deed on the sly. Now, this news of the the couple’s nuptials is still unconfirmed but something tells me that this might be the real deal. In anticipation of a confirmation of their marriage, I’d like to send out much love and congrats to the happy couple!

UPDATE: Reps for Mandy and Ryan confirm the wedding. Woot!!

[thanks CB]

Life & Style magazine is reporting that Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams, who dated for part of 2008 and then broke up after media scrutiny about the pair intensified once word of their relationship got out, are now engaged to be wed. The magazine cites “a close friend of Mandy’s” with spilling the news. If the magazine is correct, then it looks like R-Andy M-Adams are not only together again — but they are gettin’ hitched!

Mandy Moore and her singer-songwriter boyfriend, Ryan Adams, are engaged, a close friend of Mandy’s tells Life & Style. Mandy, 24, and Ryan, 34, who have been on and off since last March, were spotted grocery shopping in LA yesterday — and Mandy was sporting a ring on her engagement finger! “She is so excited about their engagement but admits it’s been a whirlwind. She’s really happy,” the friend tells Life & Style. Mandy was most recently linked to ex-boyfriend DJ AM after running to be with him following the plane crash he endured with Travis Barker in September. Mandy and AM called it quits in December. Shortly after, Mandy returned to her now-fiancé, Ryan. A rep for Mandy declined to comment.

While I don’t necessarily believe these sorts of reports right off the bat … the fact that Mandy‘s rep declined to comment seems fishy. Generally when reports like this are not true, the reps say so. HMMM. Oh, and for the record, the above photo is from last summer when the pair started going out together in public. I would not be surprised at all if Mandy and Ryan decided to get hitched. Firstly, it was widely believed that Ryan nicknamed Mandy “bug” and used that name when he talked about her or to her on his now defunct blog … then, he dedicated his book of poetry Infinity Blues to “bug”. Mandy has started blogging on her official site and there are pictures of Ryan interspersed in her personal pics … Ryan, too, has started blogging again on the Cardinals official website and, lo and behold, Mandy shows up in various photos there as well. At the very least, we know they’re hanging out together again … is it really so hard to think they might be gettin’ hitched?

UPDATE: Woot! It’s official! Mandy‘s rep is now confirming that YES she and Ryan Adams are engaged to be wed. Congrats!! I can’t wait to see those wedding photos.

[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]