December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Songs for Next Year 2011 (pt. 2)
And now the pulse-pounding conclusion to my favorite songs of the year. (Here’s nos. 20-11.) I’ve put together a Rdio playlist of all of these songs, plus another 26 that I really enjoyed. (I very nearly [and should have] expanded this list to 21 if only to re-sing the praises of the Joy Formidable’s “The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade.”) I was also going to put...
Dec 29th
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Songs for Next Year 2011 (pt. 1)
Each year I listen to music with a single goal: discovering the handful of songs I will cherish for the rest of my music-listening life. My year-end list is not a tribute to the past but rather a bet on the future, informed speculation on what I hope will still sound great years from now. Tomorrow I’ll publish my top 10, along with Rdio and Spotify playlists on the off chance you...
Dec 29th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 18th
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With friends like these
Selected lines from Pitchfork’s guide to their favorite albums of the year. At first, you feel kind of embarrassed for Trevor Powers. It’s not hard to see why detractors might have underestimated Cults. Volume has long been Ty Segall’s thing, but craftsmanship? Eh, not so much. In the last two years, detractors have been all over Liturgy founder and frontman Hunter...
Dec 17th
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Dec 15th
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Conclusive proof Wilco is adult contemporary →
The band makes the American Association of Retired Persons’ list of 2011’s Top 10 Albums for Grown-Ups: “This album strikes the perfect balance of experimentalism (Wilco sometimes goes too far in this department) and easy charm that make Wilco one of the best American bands we’ve had since — well — The Band,” say the AARPists. In what passes for a...
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Blue Lines Revisited: A MUSIC WEBSITE HAS CHOSEN... →
tomewing: It’s OK, don’t worry. I know it seems difficult to understand right now, but the first thing you need to realise is that what you’re feeling right now is normal. A lot of people are going through the same process you are. What’s more, a lot of people have gone through it before and come out OK…. Tom Ewing has been the best for so long that it can be easy to take him for...
Dec 14th
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24B’s Favorite Cover Songs of 2011 →
twentyfourbit: It was tough to whittle down the list, but finally a roundup of streams/video with brief thoughts on my favorite covers of the year is here. An excellent list from Peter, full of fun things I’d neglected when they first emerged or never saw in the first place.
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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