none of these are adele or lady gaga, so this blog can suck my big black dick

I must have embedded them wrong then.

that's okay. I misplaced my big black dick anyway.

I actually thought that Death Grips video was "Born This Way"

Why don't you add something to the conversation and post something instead of flaunting your wang around?

Mitch, there's a big black dick for sale on shirt.woot today. Go check it.

actually, shirt.woot is selling an 8-bit Tuxedo shirt. I guess it's so that you look like you came out of that Great Gatsby video game

white devils

Look a little deeper...

wow! I'd like to meet the man who designed that shirt and support his functioning alcoholism

I'm pretty sure that I already know who designed it.

This guy:

sorry... I think that it might have actually been this dude

I thought that was a small white dick in a big black vagina.

I listened too little this year, but Tuneyards and George & Jonathan were the most fun to listen to.

the performance that got me to listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQknFGy17k

I only know one of those names but I'm really excited to check them out, thank you!

@mike_bautista

I'd never heard of George & Jonathan, but I might have to get some, just based on the sheer intensity of their happiness

@Mya Jamila

That's stuff's all pretty different, but hopefully there's something that you do like on there.

@mike_bautista That George and Jonathan stuff got me thinking about Javelin and their song "Oh Centra"

Then I remembered that they put out another album this year that was a totally different Western affair, but that I also thought was really great.

Javelin - Canyon Candy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxRiqQH1Hg

Angeles by The Strokes [Taken For A Fool] El Camino by The Black Keys [Lonely Boy] 21 by Adele [Rumor Has It] Torches by Foster The People [Helena Beat] W H O K I L L by tUnE-yArDs [My Country] Blonde by Coeur de Pirate [Adieu] In Search Of Elusive Little Comets by Little Comets [Tricolour] Never Trust A Happy Song by Grouplove [Spun] Portamento by The Drums [Money] Relax by Das Racist [Celebration]

Angles by The Strokes [Taken For A Fool] El Camino by The Black Keys [Lonely Boy] 21 by Adele [Rumor Has It] Torches by Foster The People [Helena Beat] W H O K I L L by tUnE-yArDs [My Country] Blonde by Coeur de Pirate [Adieu] In Search Of Elusive Little Comets by Little Comets [Tricolour] Never Trust A Happy Song by Grouplove [Spun] Portamento by The Drums [Money] Relax by Das Racist [Celebration]

I've listened the crap out of Cut Copy's Zonoscope.

And I really enjoyed Torches by Foster the People.

Zonoscope's in my top ten.

Which I posted in this blog.

Niki and the Dove: The Drummer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0zWhk3P7o

Which contains a song from 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuci2LUHPA

I have no idea which albums came out in 2011 - and all the ones I just Googled to check were 2010 or before.

@Bramish

Was there anything standout that you discovered this year that didn't come out in 2011?

I love Bill Callahan!

I think Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes is amazing.

And Midnight City my M83 is epic.

Yeah, that Bill Callahan album is amazing. Try to see him live if you haven't -or even if you have- it was one of the best shows that I've seen this year.

Fleet Foxes are weird to me, because I live in Seattle and I've made coffee for those dudes and seen them so much, it's strange that they got big and matter to people. My girlfriend loves it, so I can still listen to it and enjoy it without taking responsibility for liking it. Admittedly, it is really good though.

As for M83, I haven't gotten a chance to hear much of it, but all that I hear are positive things.

Wow, that's pretty cool about seeing fleet foxes around and stuff. My friends saw Bill Callahan earlier in the year and he said it was one of the best shows he's seen. I'd love to see him. M83 has received a lot more attention because of their single being in a commercial, but I like the album because it actually feels like an album.

@PogoLightning

Well, I've been seeing Robin around since before those guys blew up. So, sometimes it's hard to tell how big someone has actually gotten outside of the bubble. Seeing him on the cover of every magazine put in in perspective. J Tillman apparently got fired from the last place that I was working a long time ago, but they'd still come in there. I've also done a decent amount of artist interviews (the last one I think was with Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance) so I don't really think about that stuff too much. Seattle's weird and small.

I knew that the M83 album was coming out from a friend early on, so I was surprised when I realized that it was actually a huge release this year, but it being in a commercial makes sense. The last M83 show in town was at a decent sized venue (Neumos) and they immediately set up a follow up show later this year at a somewhat comparable, although probably a bit larger, venue in town. Within a week of that first press release announcing the show, I got another stating that it was being moved to another much larger venue to accommodate the audience. It's not even until April

I love that Nurses song. But I hate the video. It's just so... 90's.

I'm glad I fell in love with the song before seeing the video.

Also, I had to make a birthing playlist this year, for when my son was being born. We were going for soothing sounds and things that my girlfriend would like to hear and not hate (ie. no Venetian Snares).

There was a lot of Bonnie Prince Billy, the Fleet Foxes album, a good selection of Bill Callahan/SMOG tracks, some Antony & The Johnsons, Bon Iver (mostly To Emma, Forever Ago), etc.

When Ronin (my baby) actually came out, "Wilhelm Scream" by James Blake was playing, so I have to like it

I really like the name Ronin. I wish my parents were cool enough to have music playing when I was born....I'd love to be born to James Blake! (that sounded weird...but you know what I mean)

@avalanche lily

Yeah, that video is worthless. Have you listened to their last album, Apple's Acre? It was sent to me by Dead Oceans and I ignored it, until one day I listened to it and realized how good they were. This new release is fairly different. I'd been hearing some of the tracks, like "So Sweet" a long time ago; they were even playing them live. The arrangements are quite a bit different on Dracula. They're solid live too and they're still playing really small venues for now. I talked to John Bowers at their last Seattle show and he told me that they just never stopped writing material after recording the last release.

@PogoLightning

Thanks

We just needed something familiar and calming. I didn't even realize what was playing when he was actually coming out, because too much was happening. Then I suddenly noticed it in the background while they were cleaning him and whatnot. The reason that I thought it was funny is because of what the Wilhelm Scream actually is: an over the top stock sound effect that has been used in endless films over the years. So, I kind of wish that he was actually born to an actual Wilhelm scream in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

Also, you could have had it really weird and been born to someone like Matthew McConaughey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5a79nNCyCI

beep

I have not heard any of their albums, I just stumbled across that single and loved it. I am really bad about buying albums these days. I only bought 3 this year and liked one. I find lots of stuff I like but I am always hesitant to commit to an album. My music habit would be too expensive if I bought an album every time I liked a song I heard.

But on your recommendation, I will check them out. That was a long answer. :)

The singer reminds me a bit of The Cave Singers.

If I were you, I would just jump around on youtube to check them out and see what I thought. What I grew to appreciate by doing that, is realizing that, some times, they will perform the same songs with completely different instruments, depending on what they have available.

this video features stuff from the last album and it's one of the first things that I saw from them

http://vimeo.com/5222119

and here's the first actual "music video" that I saw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8SjgkFrZk

NURSES IN RHYTHM from Left | Right Hand on Vimeo.

beep

another good one from this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLEP2riNxxM