Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Wild Nothing, Beach House, Real Estate Song: Tape Runs Out - Friends [download here ] What's so good? Being [...]
When 2013 does eventually expire, under the musical banner of its bulging annals will surely be inscribed the words: ' australia ' ' dream pop ' ' shoegaze '. As is on Bandcamp, there will be no punctuation; little further relevant information, even. But rest assured, those three facets will remain key factors in our appraising of the year that was and will then rest in peace – safeguarded by demise from the vehement squalls of pedalboard manipulation, and so forth. And so it this afternoon comes to pass that we inform of Glaciers , a Melbourne four-piece [...]
The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that. So, every Friday I’ll be posting the best album streams and videos that were sent my way during the week. Take a scroll and find something worth remembering. FULL ALBUM STREAMS Eat Skull - III Matmos - The Marriage Of True Minds Iceage - You're Nothing Holy Wave - [...]

Cecil Mathieu There are musicians out there with a more impressive alt.rock resume than Ken Stringfellow . Starting out as co-frontman of the criminally under-appreciated Bellingham power-pop outfit The Posies , he was part of the final incarnation of the legendary Big Star , he was an unofficial member of R.E.M. both on stage and in the studio for a number of years in the post-Berry era, is part of the massive rotating cast of The Minus 5 , he fronts a Norwegian garage rock band called The Disciplines , and [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Wild Nothing Song: Day Joy - Go To Sleep, Mess [download here ] What's so good? [...]

La última lista compilatoria del año 2012 es aquella que engloba y premia al trabajo musical en su conjunto, a los lanzamientos tomados como un concepto y un esfuerzo global por entregarnos algo nuevo, algo que no hayamos escuchado con anterioridad y que escape a los éxitos solitarios de una canción o un remix: nos referimos al conteo de nuestros 20 discos favoritos del año. Al respecto, el 2012 fue un año que, sumando y restando, estuvo acorde a las expectativas y que fue testigo de grandes nacimientos, de varias consagraciones y de uno que otro fracaso inevitable. [...]

If you were to have come upon me at any point in 2012 and I happened to have my headphones on, I'd say you would hear an obviously too loud song from one of these albums 7 [maybe] 8 out of 11 times. Here they are, in no particular order. I'm sure I missed a bunch but I like these just the same. Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired This album is right around 13 minutes long so you [...]
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. [...]
No podemos recibir este 2013 si es que no despedimos 2012 como se lo merece. Los últimos doce meses fueron excelentes para la música de varios estilos, con buenos regresos y sorprendentes apariciones. Para tratar de que no se nos escape nada, hemos organizado cuatro listas con distintas categorías: discos, remixes, canciones bailables y no bailables, que reflejan el consenso entre quienes hacemos esta página. Hoy vamos a empezar con las canciones no bailables. Quizás la categoría más amplia y más difícil, ya que muchos de nuestros discos favoritos tenían al menos tres o cuatro cada uno. Eso [...]
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If you were wondering where the " Best of " list for Non-Canadian albums of 2012. Here it is. For now I am going to " Best of " list my Top 12 favorite albums that came out in 2012. It might be typical to who will be in the list but at least it will open up a the dialogue on who should or shouldn't be. So check it out! Hope you will agree or disagree 1. Dirty Projectors - Swing [...]

Say goodbye to 2012 with our end of the year mix. It's up for the week and that's it. Thanks for all of the support in 2012. Music to Combat Commuting Doldrums 2012 [ mp3 ] [...]

Clif's top ten list for 2012 with twenty others receiving honorable mention: 10. Cat Meat – Cat Meat We previewed Cat Meat’s self-titled debut as a Friday Free Feature on November 9, and it’s been in constant rotation between my iPod and car stereo. A complex, experimental alt. country/folk album that claims influences such as Wilco, Sparklehorse and Califone; the classic psychedelic experimenalist, Captain Beefheart; and the legendary bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell. When you listen, they’re all there in subtle drips, drabs and dollops. [...]

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 [...]

10. Twin Shadow "Confess" Twin Shadow - Five Seconds.mp3 9. Grizzly Bear "Shields" Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute.mp3 8. Black Marble "A Different Arrangement" Black Marble - A Great Design.mp3 7. Japandroids "Celebration Rock" Japandroids - Fires Highway.mp3 6. Wild Nothing "Nocturne" [...]

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! Andrew Bird at KEXP, 04/09/12 // photo credit: Renata Steiner ( more photos ) rank artist [...]
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: [...]
Na continuação da primeira parte da lista dos álbuns que mais gostei em 2012, altura para publicar, em registo semelhante ao de anos anteriores, a sua continuação com a 2ª parte do Top '12. Segue-se então a 2ª parte desta lista, o TOP 20-11 do ano de 2012. 20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!' 19. Divine Fits, 'A Thing Called Divine Fits' 18. John Talabot, '

We laughed, we cried, we listened to a shit-ton of music this year. Given our varied tastes in music (Norah Jones! Psychedelic electro! Frank Ocean!) it was hard to pin down a definitive Top 5, so we at Death and Taxes composed our personal favorites of the year. Here are our collective 25 favorite records of 2012, in no particular order. Bat for Lashes: “The Haunted Man” Natasha Khan arose from a deep cloud of writer's block to emerge victorious with her [...]
Now it's that time to announce our 20 most played/obsessed about/loved records of the year. And in case you missed it yesterday, check out 13 albums that almost made this list in our Honorable Mentions. Happy #holidaze and thank you for ... Continue reading