Added on December 11, 2012
Scott Creney
A.R. Kane , best of 2012 , Can , clams casino , Cleaners From Venus , Clinic , Cloud Nothings , coasting , Deerhoof , Dirty Three , Holly Herndon , Killer Mike , Laurel Halo , Laurie Spiegel , Micachu , Oh-Ok , Scott Creney , Sissy Spacek , Swans , Talk Normal , The Bastards of Fate , The Go-Betweens , The Lines , Willis Earl Beal
This is what it feels like to be alive in 2012 — connected to everything and more isolated than ever.
Added on December 11, 2012
Erika Elizabeth
Banditas , best of 2012 , Burnt Palms , Crooked Bangs , Erika Elizabeth , Evening Meetings , Flying Nun , Outside World , Pop Singles , Scott & Charlene's Wedding , Sightlines , sourpatch , Terry Malts , The Trypes
I have a total soft spot for the Breeders-patented formula of sweet female vocals over crunchy guitars
Added on December 7, 2012
Everett True
Azealia Banks , best of 2012 , Brianna Perry , Chain & The Gang , Dexys , Divorce , Easy Lover , Eleanor Friedberger , Everett True , Fever Fever , Glass Candy , Go Genre Everything , Hissey Miyake , Joey Ramone , Julia Holter & Jib Kidder , Katie Got Bandz , Lady Leshurr , Lee Ranaldo , M. Ward , Manors , Plan B , Planningtorock , Pussy Riot , Savages , Skip Skip Benben , Teen , The Felines , The Pharmacy , The School , The Twerps , Tunabunny
It seems like folk just don’t have the time these days for the full unexpurgated version.
Added on December 6, 2012
Mike Turner
Alabama Shakes , Animal Collective , Ariel Pink , Bats For Lashes , Beach Fossils , Beach House , best of 2012 , Captured Tracks , Clinic , Cold Pumas , Deerhoof , DIIV , Dirty Projectors , Dum Dum Girls , Grimes , Grizzly Bear , Jack White , Japandroids , La La Vasquez , Laetitia Sadier , mac demarco , Micachu and the Shapes , Mike Turner , Minutemen , Mumford & Sons , Naomi Punk , New Order , Of Montreal , Passion Pit , Pixies , Shins , Tame Impala , Tears For Fears , The Bastards of Fate , The School , Twin Shadow , Wild Nothing , Windowspeak , Yo La Tengo
Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.
Added on December 3, 2012
Everett True
best of 2012 , DIY , Everett True , GbV , Street Eaters , The Breeders
2012 is all about the song, as were the previous 10 years before it…
Added on July 15, 2012
Lucy
Beach House , Berangere Maximin , best of 2012 , BoA , Chairlift , Death Grips , Dirty Projectors , Here We Go Magic , Human Don’t Be Angry , Japandroids , Lucy Cage , M.I.A. , metric , Miike Snow (ft Lykke Li) , Plan B , Poliça , Riz MC (ft Plan B & Aruba Red) , Santigold , Shrag , Soko , Spoek Mathambo , The Shins , THEESatisfaction , US Girls
Sparky, desperate, rough-edged, delirium-fuelled, defiant, shouty boy pop. There’s a place for it, you know.
Added on July 13, 2012
Tamsin
AK/DK , best of 2012 , Chain & The Gang , Christeene , Die Antwoord , Dignan Porch , Divorce , DJ Format & Edan , Fugu Gufu , Georgia Anne Muldrow , Homosexual Death Drive , Molly Nilsson , Nazir Ali/Nahid Akhtar/Mehnaz , Paint Fumes , Plan B , Skinny Girl Diet , Slowcoaches , Spacedog , Strawberry Whiplash , TacocaT , Tamsin Chapman , Tyler Holmes , Woollen Kits
You hear people say, “music isn’t as good as it used to be”, but you don’t ever hear them say “books aren’t as good as they used to be”. That’s because to say such a thing would reveal that person as a massive tool.