The year isn’t half over yet. We know that. But since everyone starts unveiling their year-end lists in November, we figured we wouldn’t be too far out of pocket if we unveiled our favorites of the 2012 calendar year the week before Memorial Day. Our favorite album of the year (so far) is the one [...]
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In the grand tradition of our month-plus-early list of the year’s best albums so far, here’s a look at the music videos that made us look twice this year. We get bombarded with these things every day, and so many of them seem to be ... Read Post
This year, the three albums at the top of Stereogum’s 50 favorite albums of the year are all, in one way or another, Californian studio-pop singer-songwriter opuses. Admittedly, the makers of two of the three aren’t originally from ... Read Post
Here’s a fun one! Rolling Stone, everyone’s uncle’s favorite magazine, has just unveiled its year-end top-50 albums list, and there’s a lot to pick through here. The magazine named Adele’s 21 as its #1 album of the year, and that ac... Read Post