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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Ten Favorites of 2012!
I’m not saying they’re NECESSARILY the best albums of 2012, but they are certainly my favorites! My obsession with female vocalists might be getting out of hand…
DOWNLOAD: Sharp Corners’ Favorites of 2012 Mix CD
Hop Along- Get Disowned– Hot Green Records My favorite album of 2012!
Waxahatchee- American Weekend- Don Giovanni Records The Waxahatchee album is coming out in January I think. Had it come out this month I’m pretty sure ole katie’d take two spots. (She almost did anyway with Great Thunder, look ’em up!)
Kittyhawk- Kittyhawk EP– Skeletal Lighting Records Members of Dowsing and Joie de Virve! (but better, at least the song Older/Wiser is the best song between all three bands)
Joyride!- Split w/ Bitpart– Corn Dog Records I haven’t actually heard the Bitpart half of this Split, but not for not trying! The cassette is coming to me soon thank god. The Joyride! part is amazing tho.
Hold Tight!- Blizzard of ’96– Animal Style Records My favorite emo/pop punk album of 2012 w/ no girlies in the band.
Swearin’- Swearin’– Salinas Records Congrats for becoming mad famous in 2012 and touring with Japandroids! This album r00lz!
Dowsing- It’s Still Pretty Terrible– Count Your Lucky Stars Records Always killin’ it every year.
Teen Suicide- DC Snuff Film- Self-Released Of their many releases that came out in 2012, this is my favorite
Butter the Children- Butter the Children- Self-Released Great new band from Brooklyn with members of Sweet Bulbs and Night Manager.
Speedy Ortiz- Sports EP– Exploding in Sound Records This band is GOING PLACES. Y’all rule! Don’t forget the little ppl in MA when you go platinum.
Additional shouts out to Tay Swift and Lana. Love you girls <3<3<3
Dogbreath
Dogbreath is a pop punk band from Phoenix, AZ. Their first album, the acoustic Chookie, came out over the summer of 2011 and is almost twee. It’s incredibly cute and honest. It’s a little bit nerdy, but they’re not afraid to laugh and themselves.
Over the past year they’ve released one 7″ and a split cassette with Falsetto Boy. Get Out was released last summer and is just as poppy as Chookie, but no longer exclusively acoustic. It’s musically a step forward for the band probably, but I sorta miss the heart. The split Buzz Ballads is better than the 7″, it’s actually great.
You can hear all their songs here and decide for yrselves.
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Teen Suicide (The Band)
Teen Suicide, an emo band from Maryland, is like no other band I can think of. They’re like a lo-fi experimental emo band or something. I feel like that doesn’t do them justice. You should really just listen to them. They’re clearly outta my league review-wise.
Their first release of 2012, DC snuff film, came out in February. I downloaded it from their bandcamp around that time and have loved it ever since. BUT I went to their bandcamp again today and realized they might be superheros or robots because in the past year they’ve put out three more releases. That’s two LP’s and two EP’s over the course of ten months. Their second LP i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body I am now discovering is even better than DC snuff.
If you read this and don’t click one of the above links you will for real break my heart.
Do you think it’s too late to buy these albums for everyone I know for Christmas?
WHRB and Count Your Lucky Stars Records
From the Count Your lucky Stars webpage:
We couldn’t be more excited to announce this! WHRB 95.3 FM/Harvard Radio is running a 14 1/2 HOUR CYLS MARATHON! They’ve dubbed it the “CYLS ORGY”. It starts tomorrow at 10pm-5am Friday night/Saturday morning and 9:30pm-5am Saturday night/Sunday morning. During that time, they will also be hosting a contest where they give away a bunch of cool CYLS releases. Some of the prizes will be call-in, some will be on Twitter, etc. You can stream it all online. For more details, go to http://www.whrb.org/
Don’t miss it! Starts tonight at 10pm EST
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