Diario

Hopefully I'll find some time to write some little blurbs about some of the albums. 2011 was a really good year in music which made it tough to rate these. Incubus and Dredg really let me down this year with really poor albums. I was big fans of both bands a couple years ago.

Top 50 Albums of 2011

1.Stateless - Matilda
2.Royal Bangs – Flux Outside
3.The Dodos – No Color
4.MR. DREAM – Mr. Dream
5.gypsyblood – Cold in the Guestway
6.Russian Circles – Empros
7.And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs
8.The Black Keys – El Camino
9.Mastodon – The Hunter
10.Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
11.Mute Math – Odd Soul
12.Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pink Magick
13.Battles – Gloss Drop
14.Bunny’s a Swine – All Day, Alright
15.Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain In the Cloud
16.Love Among The Mannequins – Radial Images
17.The Strokes – Angles
18.dead station – Dead Station
19.Primus – Green Naugahyde
20.Death Grips – Ex Military
21.We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach
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Here's my list of bands, artists, groups, collectives, combos, ensembles, trios, quartets, duos, solos, cameos, DJs, MCs, vocalists, virtuosos, savants, and guest appearances I've seen live. From memory and ticket stubs.

There's more than what's on here, for sure. Later on I'll try to include venue and date, but it's not likely any time soon. Actually, it's probably not likely ever.

311
.38 Special
Alabama Shakes
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Aranka Fabian
Arcade Fire
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Armin van Buuren
Asleep at the Wheel
Asobi Seksu
At the Drive-In
Avicii
Atmosphere
Bassnectar
Beach House
Beck
Béla Fleck
Ben Folds
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Benevento-Russo Duo
Billy Cobham
Black Sabbath
Blackalicious
Blitzen Trapper
Bloc Party
Bon Iver
Born Ruffians
Broken Social Scene (with Leslie Feist and Emily Haines)
Buffalo Killers
Built to Spill
Calvin Harris
Caribou
Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues Band
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*under construction*
Here are some of the small collection of today's great bands/artists. Those who give us hope and keep the flame of "that" rock music burning:

The Answer
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Awesome hard rock from Northern Ireland!
Tonight Video
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The Deans
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Rory Gallagher influenced young talents from Ireland!
LISTEN to them here!
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Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam
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A young blues-rock talent!
Tear Down the Walls Video
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Blackberry Smoke
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Saviours of southern rock!
Prayer for the Little Man Video
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Last.FM Event Page

All Tomorrow’s Parties takes great pleasure in announcing that The Breeders have been chosen as curators ATP Weekend 2 taking place in May 2009. Created by Pixies bassist Kim Deal in 1988, the band have released four stunning and influential albums including 1993’s highly successful Last Splash which spawned the epoch-making single ‘Cannonball’ and most recently the acclaimed Mountain Battles. The Breeders will perform at ATP and will pick a bill of 40+ artists to join them. The event will take place from the 15th-17th May 2009 at Butlins Holiday Camp in Minehead, England.

The line-up also includes the equally legendary Throwing Muses, astounding newcomer Bon Iver and cult Scottish pop-rock group Teenage Fanclub. The full list so far:

The Breeders
Throwing Muses
Bon Iver
Teenage Fanclub
Holy Fuck
Kimya Dawson
Pit Er Pat
Deerhunter
Foals
Shellac
Gang of Four
Zach Hill
The Holloys
The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims)
Styrofoam
CSS
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This is the second instalment in my effort to retrospectively post my annual album picks, originally prepared for Birdman Sound's website...

Some of the great new albums coming to my attention in 2006:

- Acid Mothers Temple – Starless and Bible Black Sabbath [Alien8]
- Bardo Pond -- Ticket Crystals [Atp]
- Buffalo Killers – Buffalo Killers [Alive]
- Comets On Fire -- Avatar [Sub Pop]
- Daniel (A.I.U.) Higgs -- Ancestral Songs [Holy Mountain]
- Espers – Espers II [Drag City]
- The Heads -- Under The Stress Of A Headlong Dive [Invada]
- La Ira De Dios -- Archaeopterix [Nasoni]
- Major Stars -- Syntoptikon [Twisted Village]
- Om -- Conference of the Birds [Holy Mountain]
- Oneida -- Happy New Year [Jagjaguar]
- Orange Sunshine -- Ruler of the universe [motorwolf]
- Plastic Crimewave Sound -- No Wonderland [Eclipse]
- Residual Echoes -- California [Holy Mountain]
- Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice -- Gypsy Freedom [5RC]


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Might as well do this or else I'ma forget completely.

Aaron Dilloway
Abe Vigoda
Adventure
Animal Collective
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Ed Askew
The Avett Brothers(X2)
Beach House
Behavior
Big Digits(X2)
The Black Keys
Blissed Out
Blood Baby
Bowerbirds
Buffalo Killers
Built to Spill
Bummer Sanders
Bill Callahan
Camera Obscura
Neko Case
Cat Power
Tony Conrad
Chick Corea Trio
Chris Pierce and Austin Vaughn Duo
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
CocoRosie
Cowboy Junkies
Dan Deacon(X3)
Daniel Johnston
Das Racist
Dawn of Midi
The Decemberists
Deer Tick(X2)
Deerhunter
Die Antwoord
Dinosaur Jr.
Disappears
Dog Leather
Double Dagger
Ducktails
Dum Dum Girls
Bob Dylan
Eat Cloud
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Elvis Perkins in Dearland(X4)
Emeralds
Tim Eriksen
Fabulous Diamonds
The Feelies
Feist
The Felice Brothers
James Ferraro
Fleet Foxes
Forced Collapse
Frankie Rose and The Outs
Future Islands
Girl Talk
Girls
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Might as well do this or else I'ma forget completely.



mewithoutYou
The White Stripes
Elvis Perkins
Regina Spektor
Dan Deacon
Xiu Xiu
Thao
The Black Keys
Buffalo Killers
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
T Bone Burnett
REM
Modest Mouse
The National
Feist
Juana Molina
Cowboy Junkies
Cat Power
She and Him
Jim James
Gogol Bordello
Grizzly Bear
Radiohead
Dan Deacon
Horny Vampyre
Meat Puppets
Dinosaur Jr.
Built to Spill
Dan Deacon
Lizz King
Blood Baby
Height
Adventure
Double Dagger
Girl Talk
Hive Mind
Net Nerve Noise

Photos from Buffalo Killers at 20th Century Theater last night:

Buffalo Killers, 4.18.2008, 20th Century Theater, Cincinnati, OH
http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/251

Scott