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The Top 50 Albums of 2012: 30-21
(All week we’re counting down the top 50 albums of 2012) 30. Jessie Ware, Devotion The day will come when Jessie Ware is so famous that an appearance on lists like this will seem trivial. Maybe that...
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The Top 50 Albums of 2012: 20-11
(All week we’re counting down the top 50 albums of 2012) 20. Twin Shadow, Confess George Lewis, Jr. is an anomaly in the current indie world. He is shameless crooner, the unrepentant author of...
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The Top 50 Albums of 2012: 10-1
(All week we’re counting down the top 50 albums of 2012. ) 10. Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan Beloved and respected for their irreverent approach to pop music, Dirty Projectors broke out even...
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The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 50-41
Unlike album countdowns, which tend to display a broad consensus across publications (i.e. everyone likes Frank Ocean), end-of-year song countdowns tend to be a bit more idiosyncratic. Given that...
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The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 40-31
(All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). 40. Spider Bags – “Friday Night” Whenever I listen to this...
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The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 30-21
(All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). 30. Grimes, “Oblivion” The various melodies and synth...
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The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 20-11
(All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). 20. Kendrick Lamar – “Backseat Freestyle” The hardest rap...
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The Top 50 Songs of 2012: 10-1
(All week, we’re counting down our favorite songs of 2012. If you missed any previous entries, you can catch up here. Enjoy the music). 10. Jessie Ware – “Wildest Moments” A song that would top...
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The 10 Best K-Pop Videos of 2012 (Not Gangnam Style)
G Dragon About a month after my mid-year countdown of the best K-Pop videos, “Gangnam Style” exploded onto the American shores. Let me say right now, you will not see “Gangnam Style” in the following...
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Dan Deacon: Quintessential American
Dan Deacon, America Dan Deacon has re-imagined electronic music as a punk, do-it-yourself genre in which audience participation during live performance aids the music’s spirit of individualism. Studio...
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Lady of the Underground: An Interview with Anaïs Mitchell
Anais Mitchell One of the most prolific folk artists of the past decade, Anais Mitchell is finally breaking out from the underground, literally and figuratively. In 2012, she followed up her folk opera...
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Frontier Psychiatrist: The Best of 2012
Happy New Year! Before we raise our glasses to 2013 and sing “Auld Lang Syne” with Andrew Bird or Sufjan Stevens, allow us to reflect on 2012. Whether you’re a regular, occasional, or first time reader...
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Where’s the Bass Drop, Bro?: An Essay on Maximalist Electronic Music
BY JORDAN MAINZER Believe it or not, there’s a world of intermediates in between womp-womp-womp and John Cage. Much to the chagrin of geezers, electronic music is at the forefront of today’s music...
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YOLO Tengo: A Review of Fade
Yo La Tengo’s Fade (2013) BY JORDAN MAINZER It’s better to burn out than to fade away. So goes an aging rocker’s lament, one that has transcended Neil Young’s original lyric and appeared in many a...
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Brush The Dirt Up Off My Psyche: An Interview With Hiro Murai
BY JORDAN MAINZER A true Renaissance man, music video director Hiro Murai has worked with the likes of St. Vincent, Earl Sweatshirt, and David Guetta (yes, David Guetta, making his FP debut). I...
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Nothing Ever Stays the Same: Yo La Tengo @ The Vic Theater
Yo La Tengo plays their acoustic set; photo by Sam Libowsky BY JORDAN MAINZER It was a big day coming. On Friday, February 1st, at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Yo La Tengo treated an eager audience to...
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From Old Men to Ogres: A Review of Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken
Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken BY JORDAN MAINZER “Haaaaa-lle-luuuuuu-jahhhh.” During the first few weeks of my Freshman year of college, a few people hanging out in my friend’s room starting...
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No Need to Be An Asshole: A Review of Foxygen’s We Are the 21st Century...
Foxygen’s We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic BY JORDAN MAINZER Somebody get me a moustache, a Seven and Seven, and an ugly carpet: Indie rock bands in late 2012/early 2013 are...
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Ultra Nostalgia: A Review of Kavinsky, Outrun
Kavinsky, Outrun BY TIFFANY HAIRSTON A car crash merges a teenager with the spirit of his Ferrari Testarossa, reanimating him as a zombie ghostrider visible only to the girl he loves. Despite the...
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The Chilean Connection: Föllakzoid and The Holydrug Couple
Santiago, Chile: The new Brooklyn? BY PETER LILLIS With a limited number of players in select “hip” markets covered by an echo chamber of a blogosphere, the American independent music world can seem...
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