Celebrate the new year at the DECC, Zeitgeist, Fitger's, the Rathskeller, Pier B, Black Water Lounge, the Cotton Mansion, Pizza Luce and the Duluth Children's Museum.
To balance out my choices for the best music released in the last 12 months, I e-mailed a bunch of different people a couple simple questions: What is your favorite local and non-local album of 2009 and why? With the exception of Cars & Tr.