The War On Drugs – I Was There

Great live performance of a great track from their lp, “Slave Ambient” (Secretly Canadian 2011).

Other Favorite Albums of 2011

Other favorite records of 2011!

1. Braids, Native Speaker
2. Fucked Up, Queen of Hearts
3. Jamie Jones, Fabric 59
4. Real Estate, Days
5. Bvdub, Resistance is Beautiful
6. The Men, Leave Home
7. Robag Wruhme, Wuppdeckmischmampflow
8. Washed Out, Within and Without
9. Mark E, Stonebreaker
10. Mark McGuire, A Young Person’s Guide
11. Lee Scratch Perry, Rise Again
12. Zodiak Free Arts Club, Floating World
13. Tim Hecker, Ravedeath 1972
14. Weekend, Red
15. Wye Oak, Civilian
16. Thee Oh Sees, Castlemania
17. The Field, Looping State of Mind
18. Atlas Sound, Parallax
19. Panda Bear, Tomboy
20. Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Summvs

Favorite Local Albums of 2011

My favorite local records from 2011!

1. Various Artists, Deep Heaven Now IV Compilation
2. Endless Wave, Notes from the Compound
3. Guillermo Sexo, Secret Wild
4. Prefab Messiahs, Peace Love & Alienation
5. Hands and Knees, Wholesome
6. Plumerai, Your Guilty Prize
7. Reports, Dinamo Cambridge
8. Gabe Goodman, Friendly Fires
9. The Novel Ideas, Summer Demos
10. Kelsey Jarboe, Magical Realism
11. To The Wedding, To The Wedding
12. Bobby, Bobby
13. The Frost Heaves, Frost Heaves 0 Cones 1
14. Carter Tanton, Freeclouds
15. The Hush Now, Memos

Tennis – Tell Her No

Tres tres bien!

Tennis, “Tell Her No”

 

Reports – Dinamo Cambridge

Twelve minutes of pure brilliance from Reports.

“Dinamo Cambridge”

Prefab Messiahs – Peace Love & Alienation

The most successful archeological digs yield not just buried gold, but something more valuable still: the wisdom of the ancients.

Case in point: The Prefab Messiahs’ Peace Love & Alienation. From Worcester MA, circa 1982.

“The 16th Track”

Jeff and Jane Hudson – Flesh

Jeff and Jane Hudson’s 1983 lp “Flesh” was rereleased on cd earlier this year and it’s been on repeat for me ever since.

Below, a great live performance of my favorite track.

“Guatemala”

The Frost Heaves – Frost Heaves 0 Cones 1

The Frost Heaves’ 4-track ep sounds a bit like Fugazi, a bit like early Buffalo Tom, but mainly like a great new chapter in the venerable history of Boston Rock and Roll.

“Cones”

“I Believe in Incans”