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 [...]
1. CHROMATICS – KILL FOR LOVE mp3: Chromatics - Into the Black 2. DIIV – OSHIN mp3: Diiv - How Long Have You Known 3. HOW TO DRESS WELL – TOTAL LOSS mp3: How To Dress Well - Ocean Floor For Everything 4. GRIMES – VISIONS mp3: Grimes - Oblivion 5. FIONA APPLE – THE IDLER WHEEL… 6. KENDRICK LAMAR – good kid, m.A.A.d [...]
Podría arrancar esta nota con algún latiguillo aburrido como "Se nos termina un nuevo año y..." . Pero no lo voy a hacer, más que nada porque supongo que todos ya saben que está terminando el año. Y los que no lo saben se están dando cuenta mientras leen estas líneas donde indirectamente -y a mi pesar- lo termino diciendo. La cuestión es que para estas fechas aparecen siempre los balances anuales, esa especie de trampa psicológica que la gente usa para convencerse que las cosas salieron bastante bien y que seguramente el año que viene, si el universo [...]
We've spent this week doing more figurative wrapping up of the year than we have literally wrapping golds, frankincenses and myrrhs, with both our Shows of 2012 and Records of 2012 features now alive and kicking, even if this year itself only has less than a couple weeks left in its legs. Here's hoping you've been able to vicariously experience evenings from the former category through us if you couldn't make them for whatever reason, though it's the latter that we're here centralising our attentions upon. As documentations of a determined time, records are the one [...]
You've doubtless already made up your mind on what were, subjectively (though this may perhaps be mistaken for a narcissistic objectively as is below), the records to have ultimately defined the year that was 2012. Personally, I wouldn't deem it to have been the best of years and though not the worst of years either, the dispersion of opinion on the top ones, twos, and various other fews across the board appears to reflect this. My maths is a little haphazard at the best of times – read on and you'll discover more on that – but the [...]
Above is a muddied amalgam of the artwork to each of our freshly completed Tracks of 2012 rundown , dubiously fangled on a newly acquired and equally dodgy copy of Photoshop, and below is our ongoing attempt to grapple with the finer intricacies of musical technologies. It's the first, and could well be the last Spotify playlist I ever so painstakingly compile, and it features our every entry (or rather the 28 that, at the time of writing, were hooked up to their mainframe, or whatever the correct technical term would be for that). That our topspot is in [...]
The first week in our 2012 Annual Report has come to an end. But what an end it is: our Top 50 Songs of 2012. For this list, we took into consideration the tracks that not only spoke to the year, but each respective act's ability to grow and engage their mind, genre, and sound. That might sound spiritual and what have you, but okay, maybe you're not a fan of dreamcatchers and stuff. Whatever. Feel free to let us know what you think, including some tracks you'll take into 2013 with you. Also, stay tuned [...]
So this was a ridiculously great week for videos - great enough, even, that G-Dragon released yet another perfectly absurd slice of cartoonish awesomeness , one that would've topped the list either of the past two weeks, and I didn't even list it . I can't lie; it hurts a part of my soul that I've listed a Ben Folds Five video while ignoring a G-Dragon video, but that's the world we're living in this week. There are just too many great ways to waste your time while listening to music and staring at computer screens, and we've [...]
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” -Willy Wonka Aimee Mann – “Labrador” (starring Jon Hamm) Jon Hamm, The Mountain Goats' Jon Wurster, and Aimee Mann revisit Til Tuesday with beyond hilarious results. Is there anything Hamm can't do right? Seriously. Ben Folds Five – “Do It Anyway” The Muppets from Fraggle Rock , Rob Corddry, Anna Kendrick, Chris Hardwick, and Ben Folds Five = HEAD EXPLODES. Cat Power – “Cherokee” [...]
The Wounded Jukebox
The Sky Report
Rocktails | Noticias de Música | Rock | Indie
Dots & Dashes
Consequence Of Sound
Stereogum
The Postal Service
Inside "Magna Carta Holy Grail" with JAY Z + Samsung
No Age - C'mon Stimmung (not the video)
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (Official Audio)
CHVRCHES - Gun
Cher’s “Woman’s World” is Now on iTunes, Finally
Thump presents Up Next w/ Zedd, Duke Dumont & TOKiMONSTA @ Pier 84 6.20
Escucha el ruidoso regreso de M.I.A.
Deer Tick – “The Rock”
