Best of 2012

Josh from Small Black's top songs of 2012

Small Black at Brooklyn Museum in June (more by Jessica Amaya) Today we’ve posted year-end lists giving us a rundown of 12 singles he loved in 2012…

Andy Bodor from Cake Shop's "21 AMAZING EXPERIENCES" of 2012, plus a year-end mixtape

DOWNLOAD: BLURRY BITTERS – A CAKE SHOP BEST OF 2012 MIXTAPE (MP3) Eddy Current Suppression Ring @ Cake Shop, June 2010 (more by Diana Wong) One of the biggest, most genuine music fans I know is Andy from Ludlow Street indie rock club Cake Shop…

Mark Eitzel's top 10 list of 2012 ++ a video from his NYC show

American Music Club frontman Mark Eitzel released a solo album, Don’t Be A Stranger, earlier this year via Merge and recently finished up a a tour in support of it which hit NYC earlier this month (12/3) at Highline Ballroom…

The Year in Heavy (Fred Pessaro // BBG's favorite metal, punk & other records of 2012)

One Tail One Head at Inferno Festival, April 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) 2012 was a year of considerable personal growth for me, as a person, a photographer and a music fan…

James of Veronica Falls lists his top 10 music & film of 2012

Veronica Falls at South Street Seaport in June (more by Amanda Hatfield) UK indie pop outfit Veronica Falls, who are touring in 2013 with great new band Cheatahs, just spoke to us about their ten favorite things of 2012 music, film, and TV-wise…

Pitchfork's Top 20 Albums of 2012

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…

Questlove lists the best hip hop songs, playing holiday parties; Joey Badass reveals album details

The Roots at ATP NYC 2012 (more by Adela Loconte) Earlier this month, Rolling Stone published their list of the 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time (which was mainly golden era stuff, Eminem, and Jay-Z), which Questlove wrote the intro for, and now Rolling Stone had Quest publish his own list of his top 50 hip-hop songs of all time…

Fake Shore Drive lists the top 100 Chicago rap songs of 2012

Chicago-based hip hop site Fake Shore Drive have listed their picks for the 100 best Chicago rap songs of 2012. King Louie tops the list with his track “Val Venis,” and Lil Durk, Chief Keef, Lil Reese, Chance the Rapper, Giftz, Kanye West, and L…

Gretchen Robinette's favorite Live Music Photos of 2012------------(that she took)

Fools Gold Anniversary at MHoW Gretchen Robinette has contritued her thoughts on favorite photos that she took in 2012, leaving us with shots of Ghostface, Janelle Monae, The Walkmen and more…

Nite Jewel covered Stevie Wonder, picked her top 10 songs of 2012

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…
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