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Alt-J at Mercury Lounge in May (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Big day for award nominations. The Oscars announced theirs this morning and the Brit Awards just wrapped up their ceremony for 2013 nominations, with Emeli Sandé grabbing four and Mumford & Sons and Alt-J each getting three. Al…

Doomtree @ Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV) today in Chicago * Riff Raff @ Reggie’s * Matthew Dear @ Spy Bar * The Juan Maclean (DJ set) @ Berlin * The Killers, Tegan & Sara @ UIC Pavilion * Doomtree, Buck 65, Show You Suck @ Metro * The Killer, Weekend Nachos @ Viaduct Theatre * Talib Kweli, Maker, Jon Huang, DJ Intel @ The Mid * Rabble Rabble, Magic Milk, Vamos @ Empty Bottle * Andrew Bird @ Fourth Presbyterian Church (Night 3) Doomtree, Buck 65, and ShowYouSuck play Metro tonight…

Today, we finally get the much anticipated list of Pitchfork‘s Top 20 Albums of 2012. They revealed Nos. 30-50 yesterday and spent the rest of this week posting Honorable Mentions and tracks…

Nite Jewel at LPR in August (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Nite Jewel (aka Ramona Gonazalez) is a bit of a musical shapeshifter, having previously recorded lo-fi experimental pieces, performed with Linda Perhacs (along with Julia Holter), and performed a Kraftwerk album in its entirety, among other things…

Pitchfork just posted their much anticipated list of the top 100 tracks of 2012. The #1 slot went to… Grimes! Whether you thought the whole of her album Visions was good or not, it was hard to deny the charms of “Oblivion…

FACT is still one of the best sources for cutting edge electronic music, and I always look forward to their top 50 albums of the year list, which they’ve just published for 2012…

SPIN have revealed their list of the top 50 albums of 2012. It continues SPIN‘s trend of giving love to crossover punk and metal (which they’ve been pretty consistent with since naming Fucked Up’s David Comes to Life their top album of 2011) with the inclusion of Baroness, Torche, Pallbearer, Cloud Nothings, and Japandroids, but rather surprisingly excludes the SPIN Essential’d Ceremony – Zoo and The Men – Open Your Heart, in favor of popular blowouts by Taylor Swift, fun…

UK music magazine Uncut put out their list of the top 75 albums of 2012. The top ten leans pretty heavy on long-running ’60s/’70s survivors who put out new albums this year, but plenty of the list-topping regulars from newer acts are on there too, along with a few interesting surprises (Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras & the Congos…

Q Magazine put out their Top 50 albums of 2012 list, choosing to do so in no particular order this year, making it more a pile than a list…