Folks from your favorite bands and labels keep sending us Best of 2009 lists, and in an extreme display of benevolence we’re going to continue sharing them with you. Today we’ve got lists from 3/4 of Small Brown Bike, Johnny B of Side One Dummy Records and Sean Morris of Runner Up Records.

Check out Best of 2009 lists from members of Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Rehasher and more here: Best Of 2009 Lists. Also, don’t forget to check out our staff reviewers’ lists, and be sure to come back on Tuesday (that’s tomorrow) for lists from the Punknews.org editors.
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Our stream today comes from San Francisco, CA-based Mutoid Men. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Mutoid World. The band is a new project from former Shorebirds and Latterman frontman Matt Canino along with former Shorebirds bandmate and Jawbreaker bassist Chris Bauermeister. The project is described by Canino as “wild scientific rock with moog keyboards. Like AC/DC on acid.”

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Exene Cervenka of X recently spoke with the Sacramento Press about the possibility of a new record from the veteran band. The group recently recorded a pair of Christmas standards at guitarist Billy Zoom’s studio but haven’t released a proper full length since 1993’s Hey Zeus!. She commented:

I think the only hang-up is that John and I just haven’t made time to stay at each other’s house for a week and write songs together, or go spend the day in downtown Los Angeles, hanging out… I would love to [make a record with X] at this late stage in the game because it would prove something to me that I’ve always wanted to prove. I’ve always wanted to prove a lot of things to myself, but one of those things is that artists don’t always suck as they get older.

Exene Cervenka was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis earlier this year and also released her new solo record Somewhere Gone on Bloodshot Records. X frontman John Doe recently released his Country Club collaboration with Toronto’s Sadies. The band performed at Coachella in April, England’s All Tomorrow’s Parties in May, and on an all-requests tour earlier this year. They’re in the midst of wrapping up some holiday shows.
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HORSE the Band have released a feature length DVD covering their stay in Ukraine during their EARTH TOUR 2008. The DVD serves as an introduction to the EARTH TOUR 2008 box set, which is a fifteen hour set that covers their forty-five country tour over three months. The project was helmed by Gary LaChance and HORSE the Band keyboardist Erik Engstrom, and you can see a trailer of the video here.
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