Mar
5
2012
This year’s Free Press Summer Fest has been announced, and, wow, I must say I am impressed. Snoop Dogg, The Avett Brothers, Primus, Big Freedia, Danny Brown, Jeff the Brotherhood, Willie Nelson, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Flaming Lips (performing Dark Side of the Moon ), Wavves, Diplo, Best Coast, Major Lazer, Turquoise Jeep! I’m gonna have a hard time avoiding the miserable Houston heat this summer!
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Dec
22
2011
50. Surfer Blood – Miranda
To whet our appetite in between LPs, Surfer Blood released a rocking little EP featuring this excellent little tune.
49. Starsmith – Lesson One
Another band I know little about, but this played nonstop in my car last spring. A great ode to the unrequited and the ones that got away.
48. Cloud Nothings – Understand At All
Another catchy lo-fi power pop rocker from this group’s self-titled debut. Enjoy it while you can, because the follow-up promises to be darker and more ambitious.
47. Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci
This Internet sensation crept onto FM radio with this undeniable, absolutely fun track. Bonus points for rhyming “over me” with “ovaries.”
46. Born Gold – Decimate Everything
My first introduction to the newly named Born Gold, and I was immediately hooked. There is a remarkable gift here in making the unorganized sound so irresistible.
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Dec
18
2011
Thirty of my favorites from this year, unranked, in alphabetical order.
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Oct
3
2011
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
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Jan
31
2011
1. Fitz And The Tantrums - MoneyGrabber
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2. The Go! Team - Apollo Throwdown (Star Slinger Remix)
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3. Best Coast - Sunny Adventure
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4. Purity Ring - Ungirthed
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5. Yuck - Coconut Bible
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Jan
5
2011
100. 1. Vampire Weekend - White Sky
99. 2. The National - Lemonworld
98. 3. Magic Kids - Superball
97. 4. Drake - Up All Night (feat. Nicki Minaj)
96. 5. Free Energy - Bang Pop
95. 6. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
94. 7. Evan Voytas - Our Thing
93. 8. DOM - Burn Bridges
92. 9. Games - Strawberry Skies
91. 10. Dominique Young Unique - Show My Ass
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Jan
3
2011
200. 1. The Golden Filter - Solid Gold
199. 2. Delorean - Real Love
198. 3. Band of Horses - On My Way Back Home
197. 4. Games - Heartlands
196. 5. Cults - Oh My God
195. 6. El Guincho - Bombay
194. 7. Marnie Stern - Nothing Left
193. 8. Interpol - Barricade
192. 9. Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug
191. 10. Janelle Monae - Make the Bus (feat. of Montreal)
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Dec
15
2010
This year I made the big move from Lubbock to Austin, and the transformation has done wonders for my live music fix. I should have been writing down all the awesome bands I saw this year (and the years before, for that matter) but alas, hindsight, she is 20/20 once again. I think this post covers the highlights more or less, however. There’s plenty of great live music I saw this year that I’m leaving out, but after the jump, in no particular order, are twelve of the best shows I witnessed in 2010, eleven of them right here in the Live Music Capital of the World.
And for the record, I wanted to put the Sleigh Bells show on here, as fun as it was once they finally started playing, but everyone who attended knows Beauty Bar is at fault for that show’s omission. What a disaster.
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100. 1. Vampire Weekend - White Sky
