January 2011: All Posts

In case you missed anything. Destroyer photo by David Greenwald

Best of 2011: January Essentials
2011’s Most Anticipated Albums

Album reviews:
R. Kelly – Love Letter
Apex Manor – The Year of Magical Drinking
Jim Guthrie – When We Were Boys OST
Carl Hauck – Windjammer
Tennis – Cape Dory
Paul Levinson – Twice Upon a Rhyme
Chalk and Numbers – He Knew EP
MINKS – By The Hedge
Destroyer – Kaputt
Geotic – Mend
James Blake – S/T

Track reviews:
Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
The Go! Team – “Buy Nothing Day”
Brave Irene – “Longest Day,” “No Fun”
Little Scream – “The Heron and the Fox”
Rose Melberg – “This Will Be Our Year” (Zombies cover)

Bootlegs:
The Radio Dept. – KEXP Session

Videos:
PS22 Chorus – “Round and Round”
The Soft Pack – “Answer to Yourself” (Take Away Show)
Lucky Soul – “Upon Hilly Fields”
Iron & Wine – “Tree by the River” (Take Away Show)
The Dismemberment Plan plays “Fallon”
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Back in the Saddle”
The Radio Dept. – “Never Follow Suit”
Destroyer – “Kaputt”

News:
The Radio Dept. recording next project, considering Jens Lekman collab
Coachella 2011 lineup drops
Chad VanGaalen scores, soundtracks Lifetime Collective short film
Fund Jill Andrews’ The Mirror on Kickstarter