Best of 2012

Top 25 Albums of 2012

1. Ty Segall - Twins
2. Father John Misty - Fear Fun

3. Metz - Metz

4. Bahamas - Barchords

5. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance

6. DIIV - Oshin

7. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

8. Grizzly Bear - Shields

9. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

10. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse

11. Xiu Xiu - Always
12. Twin Shadow - Confess
13. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
14. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
15. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
16. Cat Power - Sun
17. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
18. Beach House - Bloom
19. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
20. King Tuff - King Tuff
21. Tame Impala - Lonerism
22. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
23. Purity Ring - Shrines
24. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
25. The Babies - Our House on the Hill

Honourable Mention

Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits

Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair

Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting

Top 25 Songs of 2012

1. Ty Segall Band - Tell What's Inside Your Heart

2. Damien Jurado - Working Titles

3. Lotus Plaza - Remember Our Days

4. Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings

5. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

6. Ty Segall - They Told Me Too

7. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

8. Danny Brown - Grown Up

9. Bahamas - Your Sweet Touch

10. Why? - Paper Hearts

11. Hot Chip - Flutes

12. Thee Oh Sees - So Nice

13. Islands - Hallways

14. Metz - Get Off

15. King Tuff - Alone & Stoned

16. Leonard Cohen - Going Home

17. Cat Power - Ruin

18. The Babies - Wandering

19. Twin Shadow - Five Seconds

20. Ty Segall & White Fence - Tongues

21. Divine Fits - Shivers

22. Purity Ring - Finshrine

23. Tame Impala - Why Won't They Talk to Me?

24. Xiu Xiu - Joey's Song

25. Andrew Bird - Hole in the Ocean Floor

Top 10 Live Shows of 2012

1. Ty Segall - Horseshoe Tavern - May 12, 2012

2. Father John Misty - Lee's Palace - October 27, 2012

3. Refused - Sound Academy - July 22, 2012

4. Divine Fits - Lee's Palace - September 5, 2012

5. DIIV - Phoenix Concert Theatre - December 11, 2012

6. Mount Eerie - The Great Hall - September 10, 2012

7. Lotus Plaza - The Garrison - April 15, 2012

8. Islands - The Music Gallery - February 28, 2012

9. King Tuff - The Garrison - October 12, 2012

10. Atlas Sound - Lee's Palace - March 6, 2012

It's 12 Inches!

So I bought this bad ass Greedo the other day at the
Silver Snail in Toronto.

It was $1.99... and at 12 inches.... that's just pennies an inch!

TMNT!

Sometimes your Mom saves the greatest things from your childhood... and I have no idea what persuaded my mother to keep these Bebop and Rocksteady masks? 

Back in 1989 I somehow convinced my Mom to buy me both of these... when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were at the height of their popularity with the cartoon... the follow year the first movie was released and TMNT was everywhere... I came up blank in a google search... I was wondering how many Bebop and Rock Steady latex masks were out there? All I could find was the plastic version... these masks say... ©1989 Playmates Toys Inc. on the back.

Record Cover Win.

New Daniel Romano record coming soon.

And potentially the best cover of 2012.

That was 34 years ago...

New BBQ

Damien Jurado Maraqopa Sessions

 I hate it when I can't find artwork for my ipod... and the new Damien Jurado Maraqopa Sessions are one of those releases... it did come out today however... all three came with a download code... which I'm not going to post... you should however buy his new album direct from Secretly Canadian and I'll supply the artwork for free!

Blue 7"

Wyoming Songbirds/Ghost of David (The Return)

Red 7"

Clouds Beyond/Let Us All In

Yellow 7"

Diamond Sea/Pentagrams