Best of 2011

Pazz & Jop 2011 results announced (tUnE-yArDs wins)

The Village Voice has changed in 39 years, but Pazz & Jop, their annual music critic survey still remains. Each year, just when you forgot that it was still possible to look at another “Best of the year” list, the Voice comes along and prints their Pazz & Jop issue and we get excited about albums that came out the previous year again, or we at least start debating them again…

Jonathan Wilson released MOJO's #4 album of 2011, playing three NYC shows (and one in Philly)

To say that the second album by North Carolina native Jonathan Wilson feels a bit like getting a free reflexology treatment and a small dose of diazepam combined is, accordingly, no criticism…

it's New Year's Eve; RIP Emo's; BV's favorite albums of 2011

“Seeing Killdozer at Emo’s, thinking the last 20 years didn’t happen. It was all a dream and I still have hair.” – King Coffey It’s New Year’s Eve…

BrooklynVegan's Favorite Albums of 2011

I hate writing year-end lists, as might be obvious to many long-time BrooklynVegan readers. That said, I also like them. They help organize things, which is related to my problem though…

Washed Out played Mohawk w/ Sleep Over (belated pics), listed his (Ernest's) favorite albums of 2011

Unofficially, Ernest Greene probably started that whole weird, kinda-real-kinda-a-joke genre we call chillwave. Ah, who cares? Dude makes great music, period, starting with his debut, the High Times cassette, moving onward to a remarkable Woodsist EP, the Life of Leisure EP in 2009…

The Year in Heavy 2011 according to artists & friends (part 3)

Kevin Baker of All Pigs Must Die @ Power of The Riff (more by Taylor Keahey) Here is our third and final installment in a series where we asked our favorite artists about their highlights of 2011…

Rolling Stone's Top Albums of 2011

We already posted Pitchfork’s and SPIN’s, so… here’s Rolling Stone‘s top 50 albums of 2011. It’s got tons of big sellers and major label players taking high spots like Adele, Jay-Z and Kanye West, Paul Simon, and Lady Gaga, but then something unexpected like tUnE-yArDs places at #13…

The Year in Heavy 2011 according to artists & friends (part 2)

Andy Nelson with Paint it Black at Fun Fun Fun Fest (more by BBG) Mamiffer, Tombs, Locrian, Thou, Fuck The Facts, The Atlas Moth and many more contribute to the second part of our continuing series where we asked some of our favorite artists about their 2011 highlights…

(((unartig)))'s top 10 music discoveries of 2011 (videos he shot included)

Bloodiest @ Saint Vitus in Nov. (more by BBG) When music documentarian (((unartig))) was first asked about a year end contribution, his initial reflex was: “Sausage – Hummus – Hitler…

Trevor de Brauw tells us his favorite albums of 2011, playing The Burlington before 2012

Like Bruce Lamont, Chicago’s own Trevor Shelley-de Brauw of Pelican and Chord (who played with Bruce Lamont at Empty Bottle last week) told us about his favorite albums of 2011…
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