Best of 2011

Fucked Up named Album of 2011 by SPIN, on 'No Reservations' tonight, playing Brooklyn Friday, releasing Christmas single w/ Sloan & 'Year of the Tiger' single

One could argue (and we did, in our story on the band in the January-February issue!) that Fucked Up’s rock opera was uniquely resonant upon its June release because of the emotional synchronicity between an album that spilled forth with such an appropriately chaotic narrative and a year in which tumultuous disarray became the norm…

Eugene Robinson names his "Top Revenge Themes for 2011", going on tour with Scott Kelly, playing the Knit (dates)

Eugene Robinson at Europa (more by BBG) Scott Kelly (Neurosis) is currently touring the West Coast, but will make his way East for a string of dates with the great Eugene Robinson (Oxbow) that will include a stop at Knitting Factory on March 4th…

Uncut's Top 50 Albums of 2011, video of Tinariwen & Kyp & Tunde on the Colbert Report

UK music magazine Uncut weighs on this year’s best albums. Like Rough Trade, they give Josh T Pearson serious placement. They put Tinariwen, who appeared on The Colbert Report last night (…

Rough Trade's Top 100 albums of 2011

Josh T Pearson @ BV-SXSW 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Check out Rough Trade’s list of the Top 100 Albums of 2011 (yay Josh T Pearson!), below…

Pitchfork lists the best metal of 2011, All Pigs Must Die & Seven Sisters of Sleep schedule a Brooklyn show

Seven Sisters of Sleep at A389 2011 (more by BBG) Seven Sisters of Sleep (mems Tafkata) are two for two with releases in 2011, dropping both their excellent debut and their similarly crushing split with Children of God this year…

Jim DeRogatis lists the 'biggest turkeys of 2011'

Since we’re starting with the lists already, might as well point out this fun one from Chicago’s Jim DeRogatis who writes stuff like:”This is what happens if you cross the insufferably cute Zooey Deschannel with the Natalie Portman of Black Swan,” I wrote in my original review…

Decibel Magazine's Top 40 of 2011

Tombs at BV-Rocks Off Official CMJ Showcase 2011 (more by Jonathan McPhail) Decibel released their list of the best LPs of 2011. The list features a few repeat offenders and not too many surprises…
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