Ten For 2012

Here are my picks for 2012 albums of the year. These are in chronological order, each one is very worth checking out.


Django Django- Django Django
1/30/2012
Because Music

OFF!-OFF!
5/8/12
Vice

Japandroids- Celebration Rock

6/5/12

Polyvinyl Record Co.

Metric- Syntheitca
6/12/12
Metric Music International

A Place To Bury Strangers- Worship
6/26/12
Dead Ocean

JEFF the Brotherhood- Hypnotic Nights
7/17/12
Warner Brothers

The xx- Coexist
9/11/12
Young Turks, XL Recordings

Muse- The 2nd Law

9/28/12

Helium 3, Warner

Titus Andronicus- Local Business
10/22/12
XL Recordings

Deftones- Koi No Yokan
11/12/12
Reprise

5 Songs That I'm Into Right Now...

Ramones- Beat on the Brat

Metric- Speed the Collapse

A Place to Bury Strangers- You Are The One

Chapterhouse- Breather

The Vibrators- Nazi Baby

New Video From A Place To Bury Strangers

Video for "You're The One" on the upcoming album (late June). Careful with this one, violence, nudity and other great things as well. (NSFW)

5 Songs I Am Into Right Now

Them Crooked Vultures- Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up


A Place To Bury Strangers- Smile When You Smile


Mission of Burma- 2wice


TRex- Mambo Sun


The Cars- Sad Son0

5 Songs (Noise Edition)

Sleigh Bells- Riot Rhythm


A Place To Bury Strangers- Missing You


My Bloody Valentine- Only Shallow


No Age- Glitter


Death From Above 1979- Romantic Rights

Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights

Shows This Past Week

Metric/Sebastien Grainger
Terminal 5
http://www.myspace.com/metricband
http://www.myspace.com/sebastiengrainger

Its not often that a show bill is exciting enough that you feel the need to get there as early as possible. When one of your all time favorites is headlining and one your new favorites is opening, you have to do just that. Both bands were great. This was actually Metric’s best show I have seen in a few years. Emily and the gang were on, and I mean very on. The performance was great and they were working with the crowd keeping everyone engaged the whole time. The NYC crowd was slow to warm up to Sebastien Grainger but seemed to get into it as the night went on. He finished with his dance track with was probably smart. The only problem with finishing they way he did, was a drunk girl in front of us managed to get so drunk before they finished that she placed a pile of thick red liquid on the floor that resembled a Jamba Juice smoothie. It is very impressive when people throw up before the headlining band even starts. The crowd seemed to make a circle around the honk pile so they didn't step in it butby the time Metric came out to do there thing, people seemed to not care anymore and dozens of people were standing in it...yum.

Non Music Related High Point
The DJ between sets was on point! Playing stuff MSTRKRFT to The Horrors to Silversun Pickups

A Place To Bury Strangers/Secret Machines
Santos Party House
http://www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystragers
http://www.myspace.com/secretmachines

I have seen A Place To Bury Strangers before. This was the smallest room I had seen them in. It was loud. It was really loud. It was really fucking loud. I still really dug it though. It was cool seeing a band that plays such big sounds in as intimate setting as Santos Party House. If you have never seend A Place To Bury Strangers before, it kind of resembles a fight with sound and flashing lights. It is very high energy (considering the guys don't move and neither does most of the crowd). Secret Machines were the headliners but I couldn’t stay as long as I would have liked to. I have seen them before and they are always a good show.

Non Music Related High Point
An old friend of mine is now a member of the Secret Machines so it was good hang with him for a little bit before they went on.

Good Music Videos

A Place To Bury Strangers- I Know I'll See You

5 Songs I am Into Right Now

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- Dragonfly Pie
From the album Real Emotional Trash (2008).
Pavenment's front man shows that he can play some good old fashion classic rock in sludgy Black Sabbath sort of way, but keeps the 90s College Radio vocals alive.

Sonic Youth- Reena
From the album Rather Ripped (2006)
Alternative icon's keep their sound and swagger in an only slightyly updated (not too updated though) version of themselves, playing behind Kim Gordon's vocals.

A Place To Bury Strangers- Missing You
From the album A Place To Bury Strangers (2007)
Brooklyn's loudest band comes through with a song that almost seems to be a slightly harder shout out to My Bloody Valentine.

Lou Reed- Goodnight Ladies
From the album Transformer (1978)
The Godfather of everything glam and indie gives a song that is almost a showtune about a night going home all alone in Manhattan.

Tom Waits- Goin' Out West
From the album Bone Machine (1992)
Great song for drinking whiskey, forgeting your problems, then taking the bottle and smashing it over the guy's head who hasn't shut up all night.