I’m fairly certain I attended my final show of 2012 last night. It was a year of over 200 acts at over 50 shows and 5 festivals in 3 countries and 6 states — and it all comes down to these 15 most memorable moments. * Alabama Shakes 02.04.12 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO Brittany...
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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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Leslie Feist took the stage at Red Rocks with nothing more than a guitar, but halfway through the Metals highlight “Comfort Me”, an 8-piece band came out to back her up, making good on the promise that she was “not going to mess around, just going to break your heart”. Along with a horn...
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ILSUDH2 still prefers to listen to albums in their entirety, which makes it very 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 2011. To say these songs represent the...
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There were countless releases in 2011 and ILSUDH2 got through over 600 of them. Although it was very hard to decide what would make the list in this uneven year of music, these are the albums that defined 2011 for this blog. In order to give a clear picture of the past year, this...
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Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar, 2011) Over three years has past since Justin Vernon devastated everyone with For Emma, Forever Ago, cementing Emma‘s page in the history books as ‘worst girlfriend ever!’ Since then there have been girls in and out of the lives around me that give her a run for her...
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Peter Gabriel is releasing a new album on Feb. 15th. The album is called Scratch My Back and will feature Gabriel covering 12 songs from musicians in the indie and classic rock genres…including, but not limited to, Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, The Magnetic Fields and Bon Iver. This cover of Flume, from...
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