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My favorite albums of 2012

2013/01/14 by Jim 2 Comments

So here we are, a year later, 2 weeks into 2013 and well past time for me to post my Top 20 albums of 2012. A note on process: I choose these albums using a highly unscientific semi-random pseudo-bubblesort method, taking into account my initial impressions, whether they grow or fade on me, how I’m … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music, Podcasts Tagged: …and you will know us by the trail of dead, baroness, best albums of 2012, best of 2012, bob mould, cloudkicker, converge, dinosaur jr., godspeed you! black emperor, high on fire, japandroids, jimmy cliff, local h, panopticon, pig destroyer, propagandhi, spiritualized, swans, the maldives, the men, the protomen, titus andronicus

Jim’s favorite albums of 2009

2010/01/14 by Jim 1 Comment

This is my best of 2009 mix, containing samples from my 20 favorite albums of the last year.  I’m not a professional music critic and I don’t listen to every album ever released by any means, so I’m sure there are plenty of holes, and if you’d like to tell me an album I missed, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Podcasts Tagged: baroness, ben nichols, best of 2009, blut aus nord, bonnie prince billy, converge, crippled black phoenix, immortal, justin townes earle, lucero, mantic ritual, mumford & sons, nahemah, portugal the man, propaghandi, rimfrost, russian circles, scale the summit, skeletonwitch, the mountain goats, the protomen, those darlins

The Road Most Traveled

2009/01/16 by Jim Leave a Comment

Just your basic mix of cover songs. Ska covers! Bluegrass covers! Metal covers! Punk covers! I know, it’s been done, but dammit it’s MY TURN. It was brought to my attention though that on a few of these, the original songs may be less well known, so I’ve created a second mix containing the same … [Read more…]

Posted in: Podcasts Tagged: apocalyptica, bon jovi, boney m, bonnie prince billy, david bowie, dinosaur jr., duran duran, fishbone, five iron frenzy, iron horse, jawbreaker, kiss, lucero, manowar, melvins, metallica, modest mouse, peter paul and mary, ratt, reel big fish, robert tepper, seu jorge, smokey robinson and the miracles, sublime, the clash, the cure, the english beat, the meat purveyors, the protomen, the ramones, the searchers, the slackers, the urge, tom jones, turisas, van canto

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