The final post about our favourites of the year, here are numbers fifteen down to top spot of the albums we have most enjoyed in 2012. Don't forget to check back for our 100 Favourite Tunes and the MM contributor's best of lists too. 15 Shearwater - Animal Joy a 14 Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance [...]
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! [...]
Grimes / photo by Morgen Schuler You’ve already seen what the KEXP DJs have picked for their Top 10 Albums of 2012 ( here ), but what about all of the people who support our programming and every element of what makes KEXP mighty? There are many dedicated souls who operate KEXP on a daily basis -- full-time and part-time staff, quarterly interns, DJ assistants and other volunteers -- all brought together by their shared passion for music. Here’s what they chose for their Top 10 Albums of 2012. By the way, you still [...]
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 [...]
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! Macklemore x Ryan Lewis on The Afternoon Show on KEXP, 07/20/11 // photo credit: Jim Bennett ( more photos ) [...]
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 [...]
Frode & Marcus Sweden's Shout Out Louds generated a decent amount of WTF buzz last week with the announcement that they were releasing a limited edition 73 made out of ice. Their label Merge ran a contest to give away one of the ten of these in existence, and while I thought that they were actually giving away the ice single - and after entering I really hoped I wouldn't win because I know that I'd be the one who accidentally left it on the counter to melt or whose cat would [...]
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! Alt-J outside the Cutting Room Studios NYC, 08/07/2012 photo credit: Lauren Slusher ( more photos ) John Richards' 2012 Top Ten Albums [...]
Cat Stevens Lots of interesting news came down the pipe from all around the world yesterday, but tops was this from down under - the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record is coming. It's called Push The Sky Away and will be out on February 19 in North America, though interestingly I can't confirm the label. The last few Bad Seeds releases as well as the two Grinderman records were out here on Anti , but their web presence has been conspicuously silent with regards to this release. [...]
Frank Yang Cambridge, England quartet Alt-J couldn't have known how prescient they were when they named their debut album An Awesome Wave , as that's pretty much what they've been riding through 2012. Released across the pond in May, it only came out over here officially this past Tuesday - timed to coincide with their inaugural North American tour - but in the interim that wave of buzz had quite definitively crossed the Atlantic, ensuring that arrived on these shores more like heroes than an act with something to [...]
As usual with big fests, the headliners are disappointing. But who cares? The undercard is always where the action is. Here's who's playing, with MP3s where I could find them. See you in Chicago, August 3-5, 2012. Afghan Whigs Alabama Shakes (MP3: I Found You ) Aloe Blacc (MP3: You Make Me Smile ) Amadou & Mariam Ambassadors (Soundcloud: Unconsolable ) Anamanaguchi Animal Kingdom (MP3: Tin Man via Magnet ) At The Drive-In Avicii Band of Skulls (MP3: Sweet [...]
So many good things to listen to at Daytrotter right now, I can't keep up. On Buzz Bands a short while ago, I wrote about the extraordinary voices of Swedish folk-pop duo First Aid Kit . Add to that excellent sessions from Aussie psych-rockers Tame Impala , showcasing material from their Innerspeaker album, and British indie rockers Foals , with three tracks from their sophomore set Total Life Forever , and we're in clover. So get on over there and grab 'em all. Ah, go on. [...]
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