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It was an incredible year of music. The rankings in this list are borderline arbitrary and I loved all of these albums. This was the year Spotify and a full-time job transformed my ability to discover new music. As always, I would love your suggestions and I'm always looking for new music.

Really, really awesome debut EPs you should check out:
Supermelodic Pulp - Astronauts, etc.
Don't Worry, You'll Be Here Forever - NO

My favorite 31 albums of the year:
1. Lonerism - Tame Impala

This is what I imagine the Beatles would sound like in 2012.

2. An Awesome Wave - Alt-J

Most unique and mesmerizing album I listened to this year.

3. Bloom - Beach House

Another flawless album in the vein of Teen Dream. Excellent live show if you get the chance.

4. Gone - Vacationer

Saw them at their first ever headlined show. Such a happy, catchy album. Nicest dudes ever too, looking forward to seeing their audience grow.

5. Mondo - Electric Guest

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So, yet another issue of the Year End Summary is about to amuse and bewilder you. It was an awesome year for music, and it was also a totally magnificent year for my other passion, cinema, but that's not the place to speak about it. Anyway, for quite some time I've had this thought that this summary business is kinda stupid – suddenly in December you realise how many potentially awesome albums you've missed and then you desperately try to make up for it by listening as much as you can, neglecting your work, studies, family, girlfriend, cat or whatever you've got to care for. Not that I intend to drop doing this or something, I guess I just like doing pointless stuff nobody cares about. Oh well, I start to blabber here. So, let's get ready to rumble!


3/10:
This or the Apocalypse – Dead Years (The Worst Album of the Year and The Disappointment of the Year; it's actually really, really sad how this band managed to stoop so low after two great releases...)
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25. 151a – Kishi Bashi

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/8471/kishibashi.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6g7JfYztE



24. The Heist – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5381/macklemoreandryanlewist.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes



23. Psychedelic Pill – Neil Young & Crazy Horse

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3584/neilyoungpsychpill.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woTG_DaTuw



22. FLY – Lettuce

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7673/lettucefly2012.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGvUkHFzIZ8



21. Big Station – Alejandro Escovedo

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/4397/alejandroescovedobigsta.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jve1SsKYD4



20. Blak and Blu - Gary Clark, Jr.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2128/garyclarkjralbum.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyBem5-Bfpg



19. Meat + Bone - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

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A.C. Newman - I'm Not Talking
Advance Base - Summer Music
Dry the River - Shaker Hymns
Freedom Fry - Summer In The City
Gypsy & The Cat - Bloom
JBM - Winter Ghosts
Laser Background - Pinwheels
Lord Huron - Ends Of The Earth
Marissa Nadler - Apostle
Moonface - Teary Eyes And Bloody Lips
Polly Hi - All My Energy
Seapony - Be Alone
Stars - A Song Is a Weapon
The Fresh & Onlys - Presence Of Mind
The Raveonettes - Observations
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial - What We Loved Was Not Enough
Violens - Every Melting Degree
Young Unknowns - Target Practice
Air - Seven Stars (Feat. Victoria Legrand)
Baffin Island - We Were Meant To Meet
Cate le Bon - Fold The Cloth
Earlimart - 97 Heart Attack
Gold - Losing Your Hair
Hello Handsome - Big Deal: The Single
Jason Collett - Song of the Silver Haired Hippy
King Creosote - Ankle Shackles
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Visions
Masha Qrella - Fishing Buddies
Moostache - EOS
Poor Moon - Waiting For
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Jambalaya - American Cookbook #15
@Indie-go! pub Brod,
Belgrade, Serbia
2012-10-05, 7:00PM-00:??AM

Stanley Brinks and The Kaniks – All In Fun
Stone Jack Jones – State
Samantha Savage Smith – Devilman
Chriss Sutherland – Without Much Time
Crooked Fingers – Here Come The Snakes
Hezekiah Jones – Borrowed Heart
The Middle East – Jesus Came to My Birthday Party
Cam Penner – Throw Your Hands Up
Melaena Cadiz – Clay Pigeons
Shearwater – Animal Life
Mount Moriah – Lament
Sera Cahoone – Naked
Matt Butcher – Four Seasons Hotel
Sean Rowe – Downwind
Harlan T. Bobo – Left Your Door Unlocked
Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward – I'm Never Getting Married
My Morning Jacket – Holdin on to Black Metal
John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives – If I Were You
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band – Easy Come Easy Go
Scott H. Biram – I Want My Mojo Back
13ghosts – I Was Happy
Amanda Shires – Detroit or Buffalo
Lucero – When I Was Young
Heartless Bastards – Skin and Bone
Herman Düne – Lay Your Head On My Chest
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JAN
Brodinski
Gesaffelstein
Destructo


MARCH
The Black Ryder
Young Prisms
Strangers Family Band

APRIL
Heartless Bastards

COACHELLA
Fri:
Kendrick Lamar
Sebastian
Pulp
Mazzy Star
Afrojack
The Black Angels
The Black Keys
The Horrors
Swedish House Mafia

Sat:
Destructo
Destroyer
Dragonette
The Vaccines
The Shins
Flying Lotus
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
SBTRKT
Radiohead

Sunday:
Real Estate
Beats Antique
The Gaslamp Killer
Gotye
The Weeknd
Justice
Beirut
At The Drive In
Snoop Dogg & & Dr. Dre (with appearances by:
Eminem, Wiz Khalifa, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Tony Yayo)
Nero
Modeselektor

MAY
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Blue Angel Lounge

JULY:
Wild Nothing
Beach House
Bonobo(dj set)

AUG
HARD SUMMER:
Alex Metric
Buraka Som Sistema
JIM-E STACK
Light Year
Riton
Surkin
Gesaffelstein
Miike Snow
Bloc Party

DAY TWO
Jason Bentley
Smims & Belle
A-Trak
Squarepusher
Gaslamp Killer
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