Chris ' Top Lists of 2012 This was a good year for music. It usually always is. Mostly, the more one pays attention to new material, the more they think, “This was a good year for music”. It’s safe to say that a lot of the bands I adored back in college took a break this year (save a few, see below), which left a power vacuum in my heart. This year I made a point not to be a jackass in my review, let’s see if it works. [...]
Loud. Hard. Fast. The ingredients for the perfect rock song. Let's go. ♩ Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless [from Attack On Memory ] web // facebook // twitter // soundcloud // shows // iTunes ♩ Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built [from Celebration Rock ] web // facebook // twitter // shows // iTunes [...]
Altura para começar desde já a publicar o Top '12 que inclui, para além das músicas do ano, a lista dos melhores álbuns, EPs, vídeos, concertos, decepções entre outras coisinhas do ano de 2012. 2012, quase tal como no ano anterior, foi um ano de muito boas músicas, entretanto soltas por uma série de álbuns que felizmente mantiveram uma maior coerência por comparação ao ano passado, na
Frank Yang With most club-level festivals, some intense venue-hopping is par for the course and in a city with a downtown as spread out as Toronto, the logistics of getting from point A to point B in the allotted time can be an art form all its own. Unless you do things as I did on the Thursday night of NXNE and basically plant yourself at one intersection and let the bands come to you. This wasn't an arbitrary decision, mind. Dundas-Ossington has gone from borderland outpost to hot spot in the past [...]
Sofia Stolpe NXNE -spotting happens on two levels: there's the micro, where you pore over the year's lineup and try to figure out how you'll spend the four hopefully-warm nights in June club-hopping and seeing bands new and familiar; and there's the macro, where you see how this year's festival as a whole experience measures up against past years and assess how the event is trending as Toronto's flagbearer in a world where cities are increasingly judged by the quality of their music festivals. Or at least, that's how I look at things. I [...]
It is time for the second volume of the Best Downloadables of 2012 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Super Vague (mp3) by Roomrunner Fatherland (mp3) [...]
Draw Us Lines
Concrete Opinions
Kraak FM
Chromewaves
GIMME TINNITUS
MVSCLES- Sweet n Sour
The National
James Blake- A Case of You (Joni Mitchell cover)
Video: Kanye West – Black Skinhead / New Slaves (Live on SNL)
