http://www.pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?titleid=768&title=Rock-A-Rolla
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if a magazine that covered the very best in lots of genres could survive. Like no genre is out of bounds. If its top notch it gets covered rather than based on sales/label advertising.
Whiney you could save the music magazine.
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXW64cw5NM
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
also what is aQ?
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://aquariusrecords.org/
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
fastnbulbous have you ever read Zero Tolerance http://v2.ztmag.com/ ? It's for people who think Terrorizer is too mainstreamlol
It does have a really good reviews section though. Something too many magazines dont have these days
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
George it says on the site the new issue has an AMT feature
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I just dug that up; I can get it shipped to the States for 7 pounds
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
ouch
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
ha I'm not sure how much that is!
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
oh so yeah that's $10.75
huh well Kerr you read it first and tell me if its worth it
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
its quite a small sized magazine even though it has plenty of pages. But it seems theres a few more articles i fancy so i just ordered it for £3.75. It wasn't in Smiths today when I picked up The Wire.I think Kerrang's albums of the year issue might be out tomorrow. Last years was surprisingly ok iirc.Terrorizers will be january i think?
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Kerrang Top 101 albums of 2011
101 Black Veil Brides - Set The World On Fire100 Rise To Remain - City Of Vultures99 The Treatment - This Might Hurt98 Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style97 Young Legionnaire - Crisis Works96 RAMESSES - Possessed By The Rise Of Magik95 Loutallica - Lulu94 Cave In - White Silence93 Bastions - Hospital Corners92 All Time Low - Dirty Work91 Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys90 The Subways - Money And Celebrity89 Scale The Summit - The Collective88 Trivium - In Waves87 Iceage - New Brigade86 OPETH - Heritage85 Asking Alexandria - Reckless & Relentless84 Arbouretum - The Gathering83 Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking Say Yes82 This Is Hell - Black Mass81 Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You80 Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will79 Mike Patton - The Solitude Of Prime Numbers78 Kids In Glass Houses - In Gold Blood77 I Am The Avalanche - Avalanche United76 Goes Cube - In Tides And Drifts75 OFF! - First Four EP's74 The Icarus Line - Wildlife73 Rival Sons - Pressure And Time72 Retox - Ugly Animals71 Procession - Destroyers Of The Faith70 My Ruin - A Southern Revelation69 FEN - EPOCH68 Animals As Leaders - Weightless67 ALTAR OF PLAGUES - MAMMAL66 The Blackout - hope65 unearth - Darkness In The Light64 Sucioperro - The Heart String And How To Pull It63 IN SOLITUDE - THE WORLD, THE FLESH, THE DEVIL62 SKELETONWITCH - Forever Abomination61 Chuck Ragan - Covering Ground60 Times Of Grace - Hymn Of A Broken Man59 Black Spiders - Sons Of The North58 Thursday - No Devolucion57 *Shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo56 The Black Keys - El Camino55 We Are The Ocean - Go Now And Live54 Slaves To Gravity - Underwater Outerspace53 PRIMORDIAL - REDEMPTION AT THE PURITANS HAND52 Funeral For A Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon51 EARTH - ANGELS OF DARKNESS, DEMONS OF LIGHT 150 Heights - Dead Ends49 Bury Your Dead - Mosh N' Roll48 Deaf Havana - Fools And Worthless Liars47 BLOOD CEREMONY - LIVING WITH THE ANCIENTS46 The Swellers - Good For Me45 Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes44 The Computers - This Is The Computers43 Hell - Human Remains42 Japanese Voyeurs - Yolk41 The Answer - Revival40 Rival Schools - Pedals39 Blink-182 - Neighborhoods38 Tellison - The Wages Of Fear37 Hyro Da Hero - Birth, School,Work,Death36 Cerebral Ballzy - S/t35 Exit Ten - Give Me Infinity34 Evile - Five Serpent's Teeth33 J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why32 Evanescence - Eveanescence31 Touche Amore - Parting The Sea between Brightness And Me30 Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole29 City And Colour - Little Hell28 WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - CELESTIAL LINEAGE27 Arcane Roots - Left Fire26 Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist25 Fucked Up - David Comes To Life24 Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - D.R.U.G.S.23 La Dispute - Wildlife22 TRAP THEM - DARKER HANDCRAFT21 Taking Back Sunday - S/t20 Twin Atlantic - Free19 New Found Glory - Radiosurgery18 Defeater - Empty Days And Sleepless Nights17 Cage The Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday16 Thrice - Major/Minor15 The King Blues - Punk & Poetry14 Mariachi El Bronx - II13 Korn - The Path Of Totality12 Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones11 Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 210 Will Haven - Voir Dire9 The James Cleaver Quintet - That Was Then, This Is Now8 The Horrible Crowes - Elsie7 The Wonder Years - Suburbia6 You Me At Six - Sinners Never Sleep5 Rise Against - Endgame4 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light3 Machine Head - Unto The Locust2 Letlive - Fake History1 MASTODON - THE HUNTER
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know if we're extending attention to popular blogs, but here's
GORILLA VS. BEAR | Albums of 2011
30 Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise29 Andy Stott | Passed Me By28 The Weeknd | House of Balloons27 Clams Casino | Instrumentals26 Schoolboy Q | Setbacks25 Elite Gymnastics | Ruin 1 + 224 Run DMT | Dreaming23 Burial | Street Halo22 Mina Tindle | Mina Tindle21 Young Galaxy | Shapeshifting20 Toro y Moi | Freaking Out19 Pure X | Pleasure18 Ford & Lopatin | Channel Pressure17 Washed Out | Within and Without16 Darkside | Darkside15 Holy Other | With U14 The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World13 Grouper | A I A12 Sleep ∞ Over | Forever11 The Sandwitches | Mrs. Jones’ Cookies10 Puro Instinct | Headbangers in Ecstasy09 Julianna Barwick | The Magic Place08 Real Estate | Days07 araabMUZIK | Electronic Dream06 Korallreven | An Album By Korallreven05 A$AP Rocky | LIVELOVEA$AP04 White Denim | D03 Panda Bear | Tomboy02 Peaking Lights | 93601 Shabazz Palaces | Black Up
GORILLA vs. BEAR’s SONGS of 201150 John Maus + Molly Nilsson – Hey Moon49 Pure X – Dry Ice48 Joe Goddard – Gabriel feat. Valentina47 Twin Sister – Kimmi in a Ricefield46 Smith Westerns – All Die Young45 Azealia Banks – 21244 Neon Indian – The Blindside Kiss43 Puro Instinct – Vapor Girls42 Big K.R.I.T. – Dreamin41 Bleached – Think of You40 White Denim – No Real Reason39 Kindness – Cyan38 RUN DMT – Dreaming / Romantic37 Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down36 Massive Attack vs. Burial – Paradise Circus35 Gang Gang Dance – Mindkilla34 Tyler, the Creator – Yonkers33 The Sandwitches – Joe Says32 Beyonce – Countdown31 Freddie Gibbs + Madlib – Thuggin’30 Darkside – A129 James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream28 Grouper – Moving Machine27 M83 – Midnight City26 Toro y Moi – How I Know25 Jamie xx – Far Nearer24 Diplo / Busta / Weezy, etc. – Look at Me Now23 Korallreven – As Young As Yesterday22 Jhene Aiko – Stranger21 araabMUZIK – Streetz Tonight20 Clams Casino – I’m God (instrumental)19 Ford & Lopatin – Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me)18 John Maus – Believer17 The Weeknd – House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls16 Grimes – Oblivion15 Cass McCombs – County Line14 Kurt Vile – Baby’s Arms13 Julianna Barwick – Prizewinning12 Real Estate – Green Aisles11 Charli XCX – Stay Away / Nuclear Seasons10 Girls – Vomit09 Glass Candy – Warm in the Winter08 A$AP Rocky – Peso07 Purity Ring – Lofticries06 Girls – Honey Bunny05 Shabazz Palaces – Are you… Can you… Were you? (Felt)04 Peaking Lights – All The Sun That Shines03 Lana Del Rey – Video Games02 White Denim – Street Joy01 Panda Bear – Alsatian Darn
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Kerrang proving they really will put any old shite by metallica in their list.
They probably decided on the jump from the traditional top 20 to 101 just to include Loutallica
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Resident Advisor Albums EOY 2011
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1423
01. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise [Circus Company]02. Machinedrum - Room(s) [Planet Mu]03. Roman Flügel - Fatty Folders [Dial]04. Morphosis - What Have We Learned [Delsin]05. Zomby - Dedication [4AD]06. Omar-S - It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It [FXHE]07. Clams Casino - Instrumentals [Type]08. Kuedo - Severant [Planet Mu]09. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica [Software]10. Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton [Honest Jon's]11. Andy Stott - Passed Me By [Modern Love]12. Moomin - The Story About You [Smallville]13. Steffi - Yours & Mine [Ostgut Ton]14. James Blake - James Blake [Atlas]15. Tiger & Woods - Through the Green [Running Back]16. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons [Self-Released]17. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 [Kranky]18. BNJMN - Black Square [Rush Hour]19. Instra:mental - Resolution 653 [NonPlus+]20. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves [Upset The Rhythm]
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
i really need to check out that machinedrum album. is it along the same lines as his work 3-4 years ago? that's the last time i heard his stuff.
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know his previous stuff, but the lazy comparison for Room(s) is a less murky Burial.
― sean doily, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
I don't see that comparison at all
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Ok maybe I'm completely wrong, but it makes sense in my head (I've only listened to Room(s) twice so it was a snap judgement)...they're coming from different genres obv but the use of vocal samples seems notably similar (though maybe not uniquely so) and the overall ambience of emotive background music is functionally very close.
― sean doily, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just listening to Room(s) now and there are more similarities than i remembered. Machinedrum's music a is a lot busier though. It feels pretty cluttered at times, which isn't something you can say about Burial
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't dig that room(s) album, and i love burial's music.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
i am following some dude's list via twitter and would like to give him props for including the craig wedren album "WAND" which is really good and is not getting a lot of press.
― n/a, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
thanks! i am still rolling out my list but it'll all be here by friday morning:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-top-50-albums-of-2011.html
also my paper did top 10 albums of the year and top 10 local (Baltimore) albums:
http://citypaper.com/special/topten/the-year-in-music-1.1244503http://citypaper.com/special/topten/the-year-in-local-music-1.1244501
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
new machinedrum is definitely way moodier than his early stuff, the burial comparison is not that far off.
― moonbop, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
guess i'll have to give it another listen.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
i mean this sounds like burial to me idk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS02KaxBvg0
― moonbop, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I've just noticed how conspiciously absent the Jamie Woon album is from these lists, I thought that would have fared a lot better.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of surprised at just how much love the Nicolas Jaar album is getting on some of these lists. Maybe I need to revisit, but it didn't seem all that amazing to me.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
AllMusic’s Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Albums of 2011http://blog.allmusic.com/2011/12/14/allmusics-favorite-raphip-hop-albums-of-2011/
Ace Hood – Blood Sweat & TearsBeastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2Danny Brown – XXXChildish Gambino – CampThe Cool Kids – When Fish Ride BicyclesDas Racist – RelaxDJ Quik – The Book of DavidDrake – Take CareJ. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline StoryKiller Mike – PL3DGELil Wayne – Tha Carter IVPharoahe Monch – W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)9th Wonder – The Wonder YearsPhonte – Charity Starts at HomePusha T – Fear of God II: Let Us PrayRandom Axe – Random AxeThe Roots – UndunSaigon – The Greatest Story Never ToldScHoolboy Q – SetbacksShabazz Palaces – Black UpTech N9ne – All 6’s and 7’sTyler, the Creator – GoblinWale – AmbitionJay-Z/Kanye West – Watch the ThroneWiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't feeling the Jaar album much, but I do like a lot of the singles. I think I need to hear the album on a real stereo.
― moonbop, Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
A lot of his singles, I mean. Seems like there's at least an album's worth of nonlp stuff.
― moonbop, Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
AllMusic’s Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Albums of 2011
embarassing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's kind of adorable that someone besides Mountain Dew still remembers that The Cool Kids exist
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
Pitchfork Top 50 Albums of 2011: 50-21
50. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation49. Wild Flag – Wild Flag48. Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine47. Sepalcure – Sepalcure46. Cults – Cults45. Kendrick Lamar – Section.8044. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges43. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes42. SBTRKT – SBTRKT 41. Liturgy – Aesthethica40. AraabMuzik – Electonic Dream39. The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient38. Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces37. Iceage – New Brigade36. Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow35. Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra.34. Katy B – On a Mission33. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life32. Panda Bear – Tomboy31. Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread30. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 197229. DJ Quik – The Book of David28. Cut Copy – Zonoscope27. Beyonce – 426. The Field – Looping State of Mind25. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact24. Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place23. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse22. The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World21. Jay-Z / Kanye West – Watch the Throne
― Dan S, Thursday, 15 December 2011 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
how do you get these up so early?
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 15 December 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
it's on the site already. they usually post these things late at night. it's the same with their reviews
― Dan S, Thursday, 15 December 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
that machinedrum album is hella boring. dj diamond album is way better as things in that vein go.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Thursday, 15 December 2011 07:17 (twelve years ago) link
LWE 30-21
30. EQD, Equalized#005-B29. RNDM, Hideaway (Dub)28. Tin Man, Nonneo (Donato Dozzy Remix)27. Protect-U, World Music26. Roman Flügel, Iron Curtain25. Crystal Maze, Crystal Maze (Chicago Skyway Remix)24. Martyn, Masks23. Burial, Stolen Dog22. The Citizen’s Band, West 42nd21. Machinedrum, Come1
― april wowak, Monday, December 12, 2011
just heard the citizens band track from this - really good, wooozy!
― april wowak, Thursday, 15 December 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting to see Frank Ocean at no.3 in the Guardian. I suspected there'd be an Odd-Future-related one in the top five. I'd imagine Katy B and PJ Harvey would be no.2 and no.1.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
Quite surprised at how badly the Sandwell District album has done - possibly in part due to the small release at the end of 2010, but at least RA clearly considered it, but it didn't get into their top 20.
― toby, Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
i can't put sandwell district on any of my ballots. discogs says very clearly the version i've been loving is a 2010 thing. if i disregard that then i open the floodgates to every other dec 2010 album.
i was surprised at frank ocean on the guardian list. i'm kind of perplexed by frank ocean love in general. he is just not very special and he CAN'T SING!!!!!!!!!! is it that he's "sensitive"? critics : frank ocean :: x factor voters : matt cardle?
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the Sandwell thing of only putting out 300 (?) copies one week before the end of 2010 and then releasing a less good version on CD in 2011 almost seems calculated to avoid appearing on year-end lists. That said, I don't know how many people actually heard it in 2010.
― toby, Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
LWE 10-6
10. Todd Terje, “Snooze 4 Love"09. Ital, “Ital’s Theme”08. Spekter, “Pipe Bomb”07. Gesloten Cirkel, “Yamagic”06. D’Marc Cantu, “Set Free”
― april wowak, Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
re:Pipe Bomb - I know its the way things work but feels like this was a shoe-in only because it was a one sided 12 and on theo's label (and a bit because specter's records were so overlooked in previous years)
― april wowak, Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
i was surprised at frank ocean on the guardian list. i'm kind of perplexed by frank ocean love in general. he is just not very special and he CAN'T SING!!!!!!!!!! is it that he's "sensitive"? critics : frank ocean :: x factor voters : matt cardle?― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:58 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:58 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
Err... You're not gonna like this, but I don't think it's so much to do with his music as the fact his whole angle makes him more saleable to more rock-oriented audiences - i.e. the OFWGKTA association, lyrics about Coachella, how he calls himself a "singer-songwriter" rather than an R'n'B artist (which is what he is, really), sampling Radiohead and the Eagles, the "homegrown" element of the music. It's R'n'B for hipsters, not popheads and sadly that's what gets props on non-specialist lists like the Guardian's.
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of knew that but it's nice to have someone else spell it out so i don't get "lex whingeing about the same things again" thrown back at me
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'm listening to the goapele album and it's just so gorgeous, light and crisp and melodies for days and her voice is, like, right up in the sky. and yet critics prefer to hole up in frank ocean's horrible bedroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRn2DAggPEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C8br28So7U
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
i got sent this the other day. i'll check it out.
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
Frank Ocean easily my favourite album of the year. I am not a hipster, but then again I'm also not really a true r'n'b fan either.
― pandemic, Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link