About 200 of you guys participated in our annual readers poll, and the results were tight. You had the chance to vote for 5 albums, and I gave each album a point value, decreasing with each vote. So first place got 5 points, second place got 4, etc... The race was very close between Frank Ocean & Tame Impala, but in the end, Frank Ocean took home the Orange gold. All in all, the taste of you faithful bunch alligns quite well with mine, minus Mumford & Sons. In total, 252!! albums were voted for, which is insane. [...]
By The Spinning Platters Staff Every website has a Top XX albums of the year list. This one is ours, and there is nothing by The xx on it. I mean, I really like The xx's Coexist. There were just 20 records that came out this year that were better. Maybe you'll find something that [...]
Thanks To Camilo for this great artwork. Looking back at 2012, there were plenty of albums that I loved. Was it the best year of music in recent memory? Maybe not, but it was a damn good year in its own right. There is a lot that we may look back on and remember well into the rest of the decade. This year I listed my Top 40 albums, as well as a few honorable mentions that were as close to making my list as they come. I didn't get to listen [...]
Everyone else is doing it , so I guess that means that we need to do it too. Yes, mom, we would jump off a bridge with everyone else if they were doing it.. because, that's how we roll. So, we've broken down our lists into our favorite "national releases of 20123 and our "Nashville releases of 20123 as a No Country team. We decided to throw our best shows of 2012 into individual lists since we usually try to cover as many different events as possible. To let you have the full opportunity to absorb our gems, we are [...]
Tercera y última entrega de los mejores 50 discos de 2012, según el equipo de indieHearts . 10. El Perrodiablo - El Espíritu El espíritu, tercer disco de El Perrodiablo , es otra muestra del juego de la banda platense: rock sudoroso y barullo garage.en el que volumen no da tregua por un segundo. El disco brilla gracias a la voz desfachatada de Doma , los sencillos y potentes riffs de guitarra y una [...]
We debated, we disagreed, we came up with our collective best 50 albums of 2012.
It's that time at last! Triple J Hottest 100 voting has opened. For those that don't let their musical intelligence be insulted by Triple J, this year promises to be another hard slog at getting those 10 tracks perfectly right, so that you can just tick them off as they come up one by one on the 26th January. Well... at least that's what it used to be like. It's been only 10 years ago now, that Queens of the Stone Age held the number 1 spot with their mental track "No One Knows", and only five years [...]
Diciembre es el mes de la subjetividad, donde todos los medios realizamos listas sobre “lo mejor” del año que termina, recordando toda la música que sirvió como soundtrack de los días que vivimos. Este 10 de Diciembre de 2012, la redacción de RockandRadio ha decidido elegir los 25 discos que más sonaron en esta oficina [...]
Despite our compilations of the week's best videos, it's difficult to remember many of them for long. Each week brings something new to marvel at and yada yada yada your mind totally erases any memory of that Kanye West video you gasped at while eating cereal one Thursday in April. Whereas you can essentially live with a song, most videos are consumed with what amounts to a glance and a nod. Granted, that's not the case for all of them, and, hey, wouldn't you know that's why we're sitting here with 25 of them in December. So, [...]
This past year, I finally put my eyes to the test, armed myself with a semi-expensive camera, and hit the photo pits. Now, I had previously wiggled my way up to the front of the crowds with a point-and-shoot in our early days, but I'd never really attempted to put myself in the shoes of a professional photographer. Within five minutes, I realized how stressful and yet how thrilling the position can be. There's a sense of community that photographers have that writers never really will. While some express lens-envy, and yeah it's really ridiculous and uber-showy, most [...]
Nos acercamos a fin de año y como siempre, empieza a verse las diversas listas de lo mejor que pasó en este lustro. En esta oportunidad la reconocida revista inglesa New Musical Express ya publicó su lista con los 50 discos del 2012. Como suele suceder en esta clase de rankings hay faltantes y sobrantes. Atención que puede haber controversia. Entre el top 10 de este ranking se encuentran Jack White y su debut solista [...]
You hear a lot about famous musicians' pasts, but their college endeavors aren't usually part of the story. Compared to the tales of drug dealing, jail time, drugs, groupies, and rebellion, college backgrounds aren't very exciting. But it is interesting to get a feel for what some of your favorite musicians were up to before they made it in music. Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and college—here are the educational backgrounds you might not have expected from your favorite rappers and rockers. Hit next or click the pictures to read on...
So far this year, we've had some pretty amazing developments in the world of indie music. The meteoric rise of rookies Purity Ring , Alt-J (more so in the UK), and The Neighbourhood , matched equally by the return of Passion Pit , The Shins , fun. , and Hot Chip , have already ensured that 2012 won't be a dud. Below, we've listed in order our top 50 songs so far of this fine year. CLICK HERE FOR OUR TOP 15 [...]
2012 is quickly flying by, and with it, we've received some truly amazing albums. From the debut solo record by Jack White (weird right?) and 151a from Kishi Bashi to the return of The Shins and Fiona Apple , this year has been packed with wildly amazing music. Below, we give you our top 15 album of 2012 (so far). Of course, with today's release by Dirty Projectors and the recent Hot Chip album, this might barely reflect our final best of 2012 lists. Until then, though, [...]
We're about halfway through the year 2012 and we've been provided with some unbelievably great albums thus far. We here at FPT have compiled our own individual lists and came up with a strange amalgam of albums that we each consider to be called "The Best of 2012" Below you will find a format which sets up a separate list for "Best Album of 2012" but dependent on how many of our individual writers included it in their list. Therefore, the more writers who included it on their list, the higher on this aggregate list it is. [...]
How stressful is your work week? How many hours do you put in? When that proverbial clock is punched, isn't there a part of you that feels at ease, as if you just tossed aside a 300-pound weight off your back? Of course, it's a feeling everyone races towards week after week. But, here's something to chew on: What if you couldn't take that weight off? That's essentially the struggle one deals with as a musician, especially in this day and age. With the industry in such a flux, now more than ever, musicians have to keep trending [...]
My favorite albums of 2012 (so far) continue today with some really exciting releases, including the solo debut from the one and only Jack White , the exciting debut from Kishi Bashi , and the beautiful new release from Lost in the Trees — A Church That Fits Our Need . If you haven't already, be sure to check out Part 1 [...]
Como habitual, fica por cá o resumo do que de mais importante se passou na minha página alternativa do Facebook. A semana abriu com o fresquísismo tema dos Lemonade, "Softkiss", seguido de outra maravilha já por cá falada, Twin Shadow e "Five Seconds", desta vez com o vídeo oficial da nova música (ver texto). Yay, viciante. A semana prosseguiu com o hit dos australianos Van She, "Jamaica"
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