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Last.FM Milestones1st track: (13 Aug 2006)
Queens of the Stone Age - In My Head
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Megadeth - Mechanix
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/3538311.jpg2000th track: (01 Oct 2006)
Fear Factory - Scapegoat
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/36158701.jpg3000th track: (26 Oct 2006)
Aphex Twin - Milkman
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Butthole Surfers & Moby - Tiny Rubberband5000th track: (13 Dec 2006)
VNV Nation - Fearless
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Tayla - Dimensions
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/21834891.jpg7000th track: (18 Feb 2007)
PJ Harvey - My Beautiful Leah
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/2320317.jpg8000th track: (08 Apr 2007)
Groove Armada - The Things That We Could Share
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/152603.jpg9000th track: (07 Oct 2007)
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Have seen:
TV on the Radio (Sept. '11)
Broken Social Scene (opener for TV on the Radio) (Sept. '11)
Sondre Lerche (nov. '11)
Here, in arms (opener for Sondre Lerche) (nov. '11)
Jonathan Coulton (opener for They Might be Giants) (Feb. '12)
They Might Be Giants (Fe. '12)
Los Campesinos! (Fe '12)
Parenthetical Girls (opener for Los Campesinos!) (Feb. '12)

Will be seeing:
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (Feb. '12)
Nurses (opener for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks) (Feb. '12)
Girls (March '12)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (opener for Girls) (March '12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ

1. Cursed - Two
2. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
3. Kanye West - Late Registration
4. The Lawrence Arms - Cocktails & Dreams
5. City and Colour - Sometimes
6. Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap: Vol. 2
7. Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again
8. Cruiserweight - Sweet Weaponry
9. M.I.A. - Arular
10. Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zdNdqyGTPE

11. Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
12. Unter Null - The Failure Epiphany
13. Common - Be
14. Daft Punk - Human After All
15. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
16. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
17. Modern Life Is War - Witness
18. A Wilhelm Scream - Ruiner
19. Jessica Vale - The Sex Album
20. The Kills - No Wow

These were also extremely good:

Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
Alice In Videoland - Outrageous
The Banner - Each Breath Haunted
Bleach 03 - Bleach 03
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Chariot - Unsung EP
Combichrist - Everybody Hates You
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBEKd2ef_Hg

1. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
2. The Lawrence Arms - Apathy and Exhaustion
3. Neko Case - Blacklisted
4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
5. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
6. El-P - Fantastic Damage
7. The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
8. Anti-Flag - Mobilize / Split with Bouncing Souls
9. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
10. DJ Shadow - Private Press

11. Norma Jean - Bless The Martyr & Kiss The Child
12. Clipse - Lord Willin
13. Hatebreed - Perseverance
14. Venetian Snares - Winter in the Belly of a Snake
15. Tsunami Bomb - The Ultimate Escape
16. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
17. Rasputina - Cabin Fever!
18. Ellen Allien - Weiss Mix
19. MRI- All That Glitters
20. Paul Wall & Chamillionaire - Get Ya Mind Correct

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3I4qaEXuU

These are also extremely good:

Aesop Rock - Daylight
Akufen - My Way
Benjamin Wild- With Compliments
The Birthday Massacre - Nothing and Nowhere
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Last.FM Milestones1000th track: (30 May 2010)
Method Man & Redman - Dangerous MCees2000th track: (03 Jul 2010)
Kid Loco - Sister Curare
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Korn - Pop a Pill
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/32578399.jpg4000th track: (16 Sep 2010)
Lynne Arriale Trio - Come Together
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/6316441.jpg5000th track: (05 Oct 2010)
Bennie Maupin - Past Is Past
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/35911777.jpg6000th track: (28 Oct 2010)
Artur Dutkiewicz - Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/58298805.jpg7000th track: (19 Nov 2010)
Tricky - Together Now
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/2204742.jpg8000th track: (11 Dec 2010)
The Doors - Light My Fire
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/318615.jpg9000th track: (09 Jan 2011)
Tricky - Call Me
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/2204742.jpg10000th track: (06 Feb 2011)
MF Grimm - Vultures
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Musikalisch eher ein mittelmäßiges Jahr, mit vielen mittelmäßigen Alben, vielen Enttäuschungen, einigen Überraschungen. Was als fader Nachgeschmack immer noch hängengeblieben ist, ist die steigende Tendenz hin zum "Synthie-Pop" oder einfach nur zum Poppigen von Bands, von denen man das so nicht gedacht hätte. Bestes Beispiel: die neue Dredg. Auch etwas seltsam: die lang erwartete neue Mastodon entpuppt sich als Schritt in Richtung lustiger Power-Metal, weg vom progressiven, düsteren und harten, das diese Band bisher ausgezeichnet hatte. Andererorts "wagt" man den Schritt zurück, Bands wie Graveyard läuteten ein Revival des guten alten 70s-Prog a la Led Zeppelin ein, das sich hoffentlich auch im kommenden Jahr weiter durch die Musikwelt ziehen wird. Radiohead hingegen zeigen, dass man auch im Jahre 2011 immer noch experimentierfreudig sein darf. "The King of Limbs" prescht noch weiter in die elektronische Sparte als schon die Vorgängeralben, verliert dabei aber trotzdem nichts an wohliger Wärme. …

Top Albums Released in 2011

Panic! At the Disco
Vices & Virtues
(767 plays)
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Oh Land
Oh Land
(481 plays)
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Patrick Wolf
Lupercalia
(350 plays)
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Handsome Furs
Sound Kapital
(161 plays)
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We Were Promised Jetpacks
In The Pit Of The Stomach
(110 plays)
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Top Albums Overall of 2011

Sufjan Stevens
Michigan
(996 plays)
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Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
(780 plays)
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Panic! At the Disco
Vices & Virtues
(767 plays)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51weObOEZkL._AA115_.jpg

Radical Face
Ghost
(699 plays)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Sv-%2BdimJL._AA115_.jpg
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