Posts Tagged ‘ best of 2012 ’

Class of 2012: The Soundtrack

December 15, 2012
2012-Soundtrack

I prefer to listen to albums in their entirety, so it’s always hard to put together a list of ‘best tracks’ at the end of each year.  This year was no exception.  Therefore, what follows is a massive soundtrack to the reality show known as 2012.  To say these songs represent the ‘best of...
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Class of 2012: Children of the Damned

December 5, 2012
PFL

The image above might be slightly deceiving, as it is not a true representation of my favorite extreme albums of 2012.  What it does represent is another impressive run for Profound Lore — the one man operation from Canada that continues to make all other extreme labels look bad by comparison.  The list that...
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Class of 2012: The Overachievers

December 2, 2012
2011-Overacheivers

This could have been a long-winded intro.  I could have explained why I chose the following albums over countless other releases that came out over the past 12 months.  I could have talked about the many artists who have stepped up to stoke an intense flame from the smoldering remains of traditional “indie rock”....
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’2012 is already happening’: The Mid-Year Review

June 16, 2012
’2012 is already happening’: The Mid-Year Review

Around this time last year I found myself hard pressed to seriously recommend 5 albums from the past six months. This year I found it impossible to narrow it down to 10.  The live music scene has been somewhat weak compared to years past,  but to say 2012 has more than made up for...
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