Bullet Points - The Strokes, R.E.M., Bob Dylan

British music magazine, NME (New Musical Express), has just released their list of the 100 best albums of the decade with The Stroke's 2001 deubt Is This It topping the list.

The single "Last Nite" broke the band in America and also pissed off Tom Petty who sued the band over plagiarism for the song's similar riff to "American Girl". The lawsuit was later dropped.

I would love to tell you whether or not This Is It made my own list of the 100 best albums, but I guess you'll just have to wait until next year to find out. I guess I'll have to wait too seeing as how I'm still making the list.

The top 10 albums of the decade were:

1. The Strokes - Is This It
2. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
3. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
6. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
9. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows

You can see the entire list here.

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R.E.M. pulled themselves out of their own 10 year debacle in mediocrity with last year's great comeback album Accelerate.

Now Michael Stipe and company have returned to the studio with producer Jacknife Lee, who has also worked with Weezer, U2 and Snow Patrol on a follow up album.

The band recently released two separate videos showing the trio at work in the studio. You can see those videos below.

No album title or release date has been set.

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Bob Dylan recently released his first ever Christmas album titled Christmas In The Heart with all proceeds going to Feeding America - the nation's largest food relief charity.

Dylan just released the video for the song "Must Be Santa". The clip marks the first time in over a decade in which Dylan himself appears in a video.

You can watch it below.