Here I am, left to go last once again with my favorite songs of the year. I feel as though I listened to more in 2012 than in any other year, and my musical experience was all the better for it. More music means more candidates, which admittedly makes lists like this one tougher. But [...]

Favorite Albums Of 2012 (Alex) After looking my top albums list over, I realize it's much more moody than years past. I think this might be because the majority of the time I listen to music is when I'm inside, and living in Seattle that means it's probably a little misty or cloudy out. If it's bright, shiny and beautiful out, I'm most likely frolicking in the sun and not listening to music that would fit for that type of weather. Or maybe I just liked [...]

Our countdown is here! The Top 30 albums of 2012. 21. Last Dinosaurs - In A Million Years 22. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar [...]

Now that the year 2012 is coming to a close us here at WKNC look back at our top five albums of the year once again. Although we might not always agree on what is the most amazing, the love of great music not only kept us excited throughout 2012, but we look forward to the amazing music that it will bring as well. Take a gander at what are a few of the albums we loved throughout this year, as chosen by WKNC DJs. See you in 2013! Sarahnade [...]

Las 100 canciones del año en Planeta Pop . La manera de escuchar música ha cambiado definitivamente y como anunciaba el año pasado, ha llegado el momento en este blog de prescindir de la lista de álbumes de cada año y centrarse en las canciones, aunque lógicamente muchas de ellas formen parte de algunos de los mejores trabajos de larga duración publicados en los últimos doce meses. Otras se incluyen en Eps o han sido singles. Pese a que algún artista merecería estar representado con más de una canción, de cada disco sólo se ha elegido una. Una lista de [...]

(photo by cubagallery ) We're quickly approaching the end of 2012 and/or the world depending on your interpretation of Mayan prophecy, and that can only mean it's time to reflect on the best albums of the year. For me, one record stood head and shoulders above the rest in 2012, so album of the year was an easy decision, but there was much deliberation for the other 24 positions (plus, honorable mentions). This was one of the most diverse years of music in recent memory, with pop, guitar-oriented rock, folk music, indie-pop and electronica all being represented [...]
By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It's been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it's because I've whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year. Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts this year and some of them have been in the neighborhood for years. Check out my top 20 albums of 2012, with my thoughts on the Top 10, and some honorable mentions after No. 1: [...]

(photo by cubagallery ) These are 50 tracks that delighted, inspired and fascinated us in 2012 and that we think are worthy of remembering long after the year is over. We present them here in highly unscientific ordered list form, with Matt's songs marked with a "-MG" and my choices with a "-TJ" next to them. To better spread the love, we've stuck with the one song per artist rule. Click here to download all the tracks in a zip and subscribe to our Spotify Playlist to stream them all. Enjoy y'all! [...]

December 17, 2012 The Muso's scribes have been good enough to once again combine forces and continue their yearly undertaking of coming up with the list of albums that they feel have made the most impact in the past 12 months so below you'll find what made it in to the upper reaches of the chart. 20 - First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar Kenny McMurtrie: "Reversing the [...]

ARTIST: The SWAG Report 122 with freebie downloads for mp3s by CrimSane, Beach House, Howler, Japandroids, The Mountain Goats, The Lumineers, Shovels and Rope and more! So much more! DATE: 12-14-12 WRITER: Don Loder Ohwowohwowohwowohwow are youse eva lucky Junky, Ya know what time o' da year it is, right junky? I's supposed ta be da time o' year when i's supposed ta be betta ta give thin receive an' all'at nonsense (who eva bu-leaves dat shit anyway?), but [...]

#50 to #41 // #40 to #31 // #30 to #21 // #20 to #11 // #10 to #1 ------------------------------ ------------ 10. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar With The Lion's Roar , Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg take the jump from relative obscurity to deserved acclaim. Their reputation has grown steadily since their 2008 cover of Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song", which aided the critical recognition of 2010 debut The Big Black & The [...]

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners! Voting ends on Friday, December 21st , so let us know your favorites now , and tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list! Barry Adamson at KEXP, 03/05/2012 photo credit: Christopher Nelson ( more photos ) Stevie Zoom's 2012 Top Ten Albums [...]

I don't know about you, but back in early July I was in a state beyond euphoria as I was informed of the highly anticipated first lineup announcement for the 2012/2013 Falls Music and Arts Festival . Bearing the knowledge that certain bands and artists' presence would be closing 2012 and opening 2013 in a beautiful, natural amphitheater had me ready to buy tickets from the get go. I'm talking The Flaming Lips , Beach House , SBTRKT and Best Coast - just to name a few. [...]

Amanda Marsalis Cognizant, perhaps, of the fact that Other Worlds , her third album as Taken By Trees , comes out the exact same day that her North American tour supporting both it and Jens Lekman begins - that'd be next Tuesday, October 2 - Victoria Bergsman has thoughtfully made the album available to stream in its entirety; you can hear it over at Prefix . It's a record that keeps the wanderlust feel of its predecessor, East Of Eden , as filtered through [...]
Falls Festival is the annual festival that most Victorians and Tasmanians look forward to. Why? Well, mostly because the lineup is incredible and rivals any other lineup available to the citizens of these humble states and other reasons include the good times to be had, the plethora of babes and the fact that it is the only way to bring in the New Year! It is in it's 20th year in Victoria and 10th in Tasmania so this year is going to be massive. The first lineup release got me salivating and the fresh additions [...]

photo via cubagallery We've hit the halfway point for 2012 and that can only mean it's time for our annual mid-year recap of the best albums of the year so far. Looking through my list of favorite albums, I've noticed a surprising dominance of guitar-oriented rock and folk music and a general lack of electronica (with Grimes, Hot Chip and Chromatics being the exceptions) . If you told me at the beginning of the year I'd have so many guitars and so few synths in my mid-year tallies, I may not have believed [...]
Death Cab for Cutie is about to embark on what seems like its annual summer tour. See them at Liberty Hall this time.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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by teepoo Merry Christmas from Ride the Tempo! Here's a giant collection of indie Christmas songs from artists that you may or may not know. It's pretty a big list, hopefully the giantest. Some of these old, some of these new. Some are covers, and some original. Enjoy. Happy Holidays!! Sufjan Stevens- We Three Kings of Orient Are AM Taxi- The Worst Noel Ohbijou- Last Christmas The Aquabats- [...]

You know the adage: Don’t mess with Texas. Never have I realized what this phrase truly meant until this weekend. Somebody must have broken that cardinal rule and dared them to throw one of the biggest music festivals in North America because they did exactly that, yet again. Another phrase I was introduced to was “Keep Austin Weird”, meaning keep the big corporations (McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, etc.) out and let the little guys have a chance. Yet another phrase I was introduced to this weekend was “Alabama Hot Pocket”, but we won’t go into what that means in the interest of [...]