"Don't call it a comeback" is usually a phrase uttered self-protectively by musicians who are very much coming back from some degree of obscurity. Dr. Dre wasn't exactly absent during the seven-year stretch between his first and second albums ("California Love," anybody?), but his 1999 sophomore release 2001 is littered with lines like "Ladies pay homage, but haters say Dre fell off/ How, nigga? My last album was The Chronic ." If he ever gets around to releasing Detox , it'll surely be stacked with similar "I never went away" rhetoric (and, undoubtedly, lyrics about headphones.) [...]
The role of the music video is a little unclear in 2012. It's certainly not for television anymore. With parody clips, cat fails, and random viral disasters racking up the pageviews on the Internet, it sometimes seems like wasted effort to put effort into making a creative, time consuming, well-done set of visuals. We're glad that artists are still doing it, though. The year's best music videos are also some of the most creative. Sometimes it was a trippy, mind-blowing type of creativity, and other times it was more subtle. Whatever the approach, each one of these videos is thought [...]
50. Mikky Ekko - Pull Me Down 49. Blondfire - Where the Kids Are 48. Gap Dream - Generator 47. The 1975 - You 46. Fun. - Some Nights [...]
Clif's top ten list for 2012 with twenty others receiving honorable mention: 10. Cat Meat – Cat Meat We previewed Cat Meat’s self-titled debut as a Friday Free Feature on November 9, and it’s been in constant rotation between my iPod and car stereo. A complex, experimental alt. country/folk album that claims influences such as Wilco, Sparklehorse and Califone; the classic psychedelic experimenalist, Captain Beefheart; and the legendary bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell. When you listen, they’re all there in subtle drips, drabs and dollops. [...]
The 15 Best Gigs of 2012 in The World (that I attended)! Primavera Sound at the Forum Barcelona, Spain: Coverage My first experience at Primavera Sound was so amazing that it prompted me to purchase tickets for the following year prior to any lineup announcements. Just a few of the acts I saw were: The Cure, Saint Etienne (as the clock struck 12 on my birthday), Justice, The Xx, Sleigh Bells, Grimes, Friends, The Rapture, Franz Ferdinand, [...]
We happily present to you our second installment of the 'Best of Caveman Sound 20122 series. Everybody likes some bass in their face, so we've got twenty-five tracks with huge drops, vibrating wobbles, and next-level arrangements for you to savor. Here, in no certain order, are our favorite bass, dubstep, and downtempo picks from the past year! 1. Mitis – Endeavors [ DOWNLOAD ] [...]
Et c’est parti pour le classement de mes trente disques préférés de l’année ! Pour chaque album, un lien vers un de mes articles ou celui d’un collègue si je n’en ai pas parlé et un titre en écoute dans le lecteur en bas de page. #30 Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do [...]
Another year comes to an end and with it another great collection of albums and amazing music! Which ones will stand the test of time? We shall see, but here are our picks for favorite albums of 2012!! As for the process, it was pretty simple. I just rounded up all our contributors and had them each send me their fave albums, then I combined them with mine and here's what we came up with in no particular order (except that maybe I tried to get the art works to match up [...]
In our on-going Best of 2012 posts, here are our favorite songs of 2012. The first spot is a tie, but we just couldn't decide which one of those we adored more. Click on the numbers to stream the songs. And oh, number 8 is technically not released in 2012 but whatever - it belongs in this Best of 2012 list. 0 1 Rhye - Open / The Fall (live) 02 Frank Ocean - Thinkin' About You 03 Bat For Lashes - Laura 04 [...]
The Best Albums of 2012, # 10 - 6 Earlier this week the first 5 albums in The Best Albums of 2012 list were posted, which brings us to numbers 10 to 6. Tune in for the top 5 albums on New Year’s Eve, any guesses? Number 10 Artist: The Xx Album: Coexist Label: Young Turks Released: September 5, 2012 Peak on UK Charts: 1 [...]
2012...what a year of music. We got new releases from favorites such as Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear and heard new favorites in Father John Misty, Nude Beach, Tanlines, and more. Last year Earbuddy celebrated one year of existence with the best 50 albums of 2011 . However, we've grown since [...]
Wow! It's been a while AWmusic. To be honest, I'm not as up-to-date as I'd like to be when composing a year-end list, but I tried my best. Here are my picks for Top Music Videos of 2012, in no particular order. Enjoy! Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools good kid, m.A.A.d city - what an album! I'm not one that really enjoys hip-hop, but I knew this was an album that cannot be ignored. Frank Ocean - Pyramids [...]
It's been another year, y'all! So here are my favorite albums from this past year! It's been fun doing reviews for you on the regular, and I plan to continue into 2013. Thanks for liking, commenting, watching, and believing. Here is a YouTube playlist of music from these 50 albums.
With 2012 drawing to a close, the DJs of WQHS give to you their top ten albums of the year. Check out the entire list after the jump. 10. Cat Power - Sun Four years after Jukebox and six years since her last original material on The Greatest, Chan Marshall returns with Cat Power in her long awaited ninth full-length album Sun . In what seems to be her most costly work yet, Marshall [...]
Coming up with the albums you loved in any given year is not an inherently difficult task. But deciding between your love and just how good that record is when compared to everyone else's choices can be downright hard. It's the reason our staff dukes it out over this list every year. Because if we [...]
Win our top 31 albums of 2012 ! (Read the original review ) Fiona Apple , not to be outdone by her own self, has released another record to wear out with repeat listens; to memorize the transitional ins and outs and in-betweens of; her fourth studio album: The Idler Wheel… Apple is an artist you grow with, and The Idler Wheel… is a gift whose songs you adopt like [...]
Pitchfork top 50 albums El portal de música basado en Chicago, Illinois, E.E.U.U., Pitchfork , ha publicado su tradicional lista con los 50 mejores álbumes de 2012. La lista incluye bandas como Crystal Castles , El-P , Dum Dum Girls , DIIV , Hot Chip , Sharon Van Etten y muchos más. A continuación compartimos los primeros 10 lugares de la lista, en la que podemos notar que Frank Ocean fue "derrotado" por Kendrick Lamar , según el reconocido portal. 10. [...]
As I looked over my playlists from the year 2012, I have tried to only add the songs that either charge me up or songs that seem to find a way to my heart and soul. Here are my favorites for 2012. I couldn’t possibly rank them, so they are simply listed in the order that they were released. Editor's Note: The majority of the songs are in a playlist at the bottom of the post page. Cloud Nothings - "Stay Useless" This song reminds me of that awkward wonky [...]
And here it is, the final piece in the all-too-lovable list week: Bears And Bullets Top 50 Songs Of The Year, numbers 25 through one. #25: Mean Jeans - I Miss Outerspace #24: Oneohtrix Point Never - I Only Have Eyes For You #23: The Walkmen - Heaven #22: A$AP Rocky - Goldie [...]
After sorting through the best songs and albums of 2012 (and figuring out who to watch in 2013), take an extended trip down memory lane and enjoy a recap of 2012 in pictures.
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Pigeons and Planes
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The Dadada
Tastes Like Caramel
CAVEMAN SOUND
I Know You've Come To Take My Music Away
::: Off the Radar :::
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Earbuddy
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The Needle Drop
WQHS-The Blog
The Wounded Jukebox
Listen Before You Buy
LifeBoxset.com
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Bears and Bullets
Andrew Clarke - Under The Sun (Cyclist Gospel Remix)
HAERTS: “All The Days”
Tracklistings – Mac Miller’s ‘Watching Movies With The Sound Off’
Watch The Jesus and Mary Chain perform with My Bloody Valentine’s Bilinda Butcher
How to Choose Your DJ Name?
