top of the evening. still trying to push this mount moriah record, cause its fan-fucking-tastic. so here they are playing on kdhx which is out of st. louis. buy it via amazon Mount Moriah: Live at KDHX 2/11/12 by KDHX
Remember when we said we'd share our list of 25 other unmissable records the first week of January? Whoops. Thing is, the first month of this new year, we were still listening to and falling in (and out) of love with records from 2011. Discovering albums we should've shared months ago and finding out what [...]
The stuff that dreams are made of... C'mon, you didn't actually think I'd publish my 2011 lists during the actual year of 2011...did you? Now that I have the undivided attention of eight people: Best Show(s) That I Never Saw Lightning Bolt at Healthy Times Fun Club (RIP) Soundgarden/Queens of the Stone Age/Mastodon etc. at the Gorge Pig Destroyer at [...]
2011 was the year of the record for me. Not a single collection of songs, but rather a physical entity and a format. When 2011 started, my record collection fit in a corner of a bookshelf. As 2011 ends my collection fills three full shelves, three empty boxes of cat food for 45s, organized by [...]
FPT's Top 75 Songs of 2011 (James Brimacombe) 01. Radiohead - Codex 02. Elbow - Lippy Kids 03. WU LYF - Such A Sad Puppy Dog 04. Youth Lagoon - Montana 05. Bon Iver - Holocene 06. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak 07. The Horrors - Endless Blue 08. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 09. French Films - Pretty In Decadence 10. The Vaccines - If You Wanna 11. We Are Augustines - [...]
If I can speak in broad blanket statements for a moment, I believe that San Francisco is putting out the best music of any scene in the country right now. I know, I know, you're reading a Seattle-based blog, and I certainly know, my bias is completely out of control as I wake and live [...]
I've already shared my favorite songs with you and told you a little bit about my personal MVP, but here are a few more of my favorite things from 2011. My Favorite Albums of 2011: 1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 2. Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel 3. Charles Bradley - No [...]
Too lazy to do much in the way of discussion of this list. Besides, you've likely already read about 300 top-whatever lists. So I'll just say a couple of things. First, this list is, of course, entirely subjective, and simply a list of my favorite albums of 2011. Second, if you haven't heard Quiet Company yet, you're missing a band that has put out two of my favorite albums of the last few years. I have no idea how they're not better known at this point (well, lack of touring has something to [...]
Flaming Lips ::: photo by Josh Lovseth See ya later 2011! Thanks to all of you for taking the time for making Sound on the Sound a part of your year and a part of your lives. We've got big things planned for 2012 and we look forward to sharing the new year and the front [...]
Now that we've reached the top of our favorite local records countdown, we wanted to have links to all the reviews in one convenient place. While yes, all these albums were released by either Portland or Seattle bands, we hope you don't get stuck on "local" as the important part of the descriptor. Because no [...]
We've counted down our 10 Favorite Local Records of 2011, see what made the Top 10. – #1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) Since the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album and EP Sun Giant in 2008, the Fleet Foxes have been credited and blamed for a lot in Seattle. The resurrection of a [...]
Doe Bay Fest 2011 ::: photo by Josh Lovseth Hope your New Years Eve is as fun as a slip'n'slide and your kiss as idyllic as the one above appears. A Helping Hand ::: photo by Josh Lovseth
Damien Jurado ::: photo by Josh Lovseth As we impatiently wait for his new record, Damien Jurado showed Seattle a new side of himself in 2011. Damien Jurado the hype man. Damien Jurado the band leader. Damien Jurado the mystic. These are a couple of our favorite photos of those incarnations. Damien Jurado / "Jacket Summer" [...]
Tony Kevin Jr. Practicing ::: photo by Josh Lovseth There's something special about seeing a song being born. To watch it practiced and tested and to then see the final outcome on stage. Seeing songs in their nascent form was one of our favorite parts of Conor Byrne's open mic and this performance with Tony Kevin [...]
2011 was a down-year for rap beef. It was full of these little mini-tiffs that never went anywhere (Yelawolf v. Machine Gun Kelly) and has-beens trying to hang on (Canibus v. Slaughterhouse and J.Cole). Rappers are slacking: CHRIS BROWN has been in more beef than anybody this year. While I'm glad that the absence of conflict means less senseless violence, I couldn't get at least ONE chair-throwing incident at an awards show? Here's a rundown of Beef 2011. And for 2012? OVOXO Drake sending his supposed goons at Matisyahu at his next show. [...]
We're counting down our 10 favorite records released in the Pacific Northwest in 2011, follow along! - #3 Zoe Muth & Her Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel (Signature Sounds) My review earlier this year of Zoe Muth's stirring sophomore album of new classic country classics was about timelessness. About the things that last in this [...]
There were so many good EPs this year that they deserved their own list, although they easily could have competed with my top spots for albums. Bands, especially new bands, blew me away with their three to four flawless songs time and time again. The fact that these songs aren't getting lost in the shuffle of a mediocre 10 song album made a lot of bands shine brighter than more seasoned groups with LPs out this year. Here's what stood out the most for me. 1. [...]
Although we've come to the end of the road, still Adele we can't let you go. We've reached 2011's closing hour and now it is time: b3sci presents it's Top 50 Albums of 2011. No one's even come close to having the year Adele's had. The most albums sold in a single year since 2004, two of the biggest singles of the year, etc, a truly international breakthrough both commercially and critically on a level we haven't seen in a long time. Adele, our girl, the crown is yours. 21 is b3sci's Album of the year. [...]
Pickwick ::: photo by Christopher Nelson We had another incredible year here at Sound on the Sound and it was in large part thanks to the following MVPs and, of course, you guys reading this. These were the artists, albums, labels, festivals and well, your dancing, that inspired and impressed us most and these are the [...]
Captain's Dead
Sound On The Sound
Fake Plastic Tunes
Baby, You Got a Stew Goin'!
mostly junkfood
New Music Collaborative
blahblahblahscience
Childish Gambino
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)![Niki & The Dove - The Fox [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/l2f6UbMnlq4_130.jpg)
Niki & The Dove - The Fox [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Chromatics: “Into The Black”
Download: The Violet Lights - "Sex and Sound"
[Listen/Download] Sean Nicholas Savage- She Was The One
Sunday Means Eight Of The Best
Listen: Burial - Kindred [EP]
