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End Of Year Awards

Worst song of the year:



Runner up:



Any song by Pitbull would have fit the description.
** Viewer recommendations - Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5, Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO, and Cheers (Drink To That) by Rihanna **

Worst Song/Video Combo:




Most overrated album of the year:
Father, Son, Holy Ghost by Girls - "This is one of the best-sounding rock records in years" plus #5 album of the year from Pitchfork, #1 from Stereogum, #26 from NME, #30 from MOJO, #41 from Q

Runner up:
Skying by The Horrors - #3 from NME, #2 from MOJO, #11 from Q, #6 from Uncut, #16 from The Guardian UK, #32 from FACT magazine

Skying by the Horrors garnered a higher rating overall and could possibly be an alright album if the band didn't take a huge step backwards in creativity, but the quote from Pitchfork about Father, Son, Holy Ghost by Girls being the best rock record helped boost the album over the top.


And the moment you've all been waiting for...




Total Tinky Song of the Year!:



Runner Up:

The Cast Of Cheers

Family is the name of the new single. New album sometime in 2012. **EDIT - Official video below**

Ingvild Østgård

You will never know by ingvild østgård

Red Fang

Pulled Apart By Horses

Album Tough Love is released January 23rd 2012

Dr. Dog

New album, Be The Void, out February 7th 2012
New song That Old Black Hole


Old song The Ark

Dr. Dog "The Ark" from Adam kurland on Vimeo.

J. Charles and The Trainrobbers

"Debut full length coming soon"

J. Charles and The Trainrobbers - Something Wrong by End Sounds

Plants and Animals

New album The End of That is out February 28th, 2012.

Watch a live video for the single, Lightshow, HERE
Plants and Animals - Lightshow by SecretCityRecords

The Features

Tweak Bird

Listen to the whole album HERE

Dinosaur Bones

Band of Skulls

Ava Luna

Le Butcherettes

Full album Here

Henry don't got love from heribertoacosta on Vimeo.

The Vics

The Vics - Chatroom from PABLO & JOSH on Vimeo.

We Are The City

Christmas

Tom Vek

New album Leisure Seizure out now




More songs here

Plants and Animals

Here is a new song called Lightshow from the upcoming album


Check out our previous Plants and Animals post

Morning Teleportation

Listen to the whole album HERE.

A little crazier now

The Parlor Mob

Listen to the album Dogs HERE

Rival Sons

New album Pressure & Time was released back in June

Buffalo Killers, Left Lane Cruiser, and Radio Moscow

New album by Buffalo Killers is called 3
Buffalo Killers - Time Was Shaping by alivenaturalsound

Junkyard Speed Ball is the newest album from Left Lane Cruiser
Left Lane Cruiser - Giving Tree by alivenaturalsound

Album The Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz by Radio Moscow will be released on October 11. Listen to album HERE
Radio Moscow - No Time by alivenaturalsound

YOB and Oh, Sleeper

"Oh, Sleeper have really stepped up their game with this release"

Kid Creole & The Coconuts

The last Kid Creole album was released in 1997. New album I Wake Up Screaming is out next week.
Wacky

Run River

Sunhawk

Listen to more songs Here

100th Not Top 40 Post

Perfect timing since Hello Electric and Trips and Falls have new music coming out soon. Celebration released Hello Paradise back in February. (These three bands were mentioned in the blog's first post)

Hello Electric


New Trips and Falls
This is All Going to End Badly by trips and falls

Celebration

LaFaro

Two new songs from upcoming album Easy Meat (October 3rd). The next two are older songs.
*UPDATE* Listen to entire new album Now
Full Tilt by Smalltown America

Meat Wagon by Smalltown America

All Of These Things by Smalltown America

The Hi-Tones

Ume and She Keeps Bees

Check out Ume's new album Phantoms here.

Kamchatka

Listen to new album, Bury Your Roots, HERE

Mr. Dream

6 songs. Most (except new single Moneybags) can be found on the band's debut album.

Otis Heat

Howling Bells

The Steepwater Band

New album Clava is out next week. Album release party is tomorrow Aug. 12th in Chicago.

The Weeks

RACES, Gauntlet Hair, Tame Impala, and Hunters

Gauntlet Hair "Top Bunk" by DOJAGSC

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter

Need a vacation back to the late 60s? Listen to this.
I recommend checking out the other KEXP songs if you like this one.

The Drones

The Drones - Nail It Down by All Tomorrows Parties

The People's Temple

Peoples Temple 'Sons of Stone' by HOZAC RECORDS

Grooms, Summer People, and RIBS

For anyone wondering where The Muggabears went to, here you go.

Portugal The Man

New Album, In The Mountain In The Cloud, just released
Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud by ATL REC

David Vandervelde

Mister Heavenly

About a month 'til new album Out Of Love is out.
**UPDATE** Stream the whole album here NOW

The Parlor Mob

Songs are from the upcoming album Dogs.
Release date: October 11, 2011
Latest tracks by The Parlor Mob

Seasick Steve

See live videos here

Holy Moly from Exploding In Sound

J Roddy Walston and The Business

One of the lesser known acts performing at Lollapalooza this year.

The Parlor Mob

In the studio - part 3

The Parlor Mob In-Studio Episode 3 from The Parlor Mob on Vimeo.

Bridge Farmers and Only Living Boy

Man Man

New album "Life Fantastic" out May 10th
*STREAM ENTIRE ALBUM HERE*

Man Man - Life Fantastic by antirecords

Man Man - Knuckle Down by antirecords

New Music from The Parlor Mob and Portugal. The Man

In the studio with The Parlor Mob

The Parlor Mob In Studio Ep 1 from The Parlor Mob on Vimeo.

*NEW* Part 2

Parlor Mob In-Studio Episode 2 from The Parlor Mob on Vimeo.

One of Portugal. The Man's classic new song teasers


*NEW*

Young Widows

New album In & Out Of Youth & Lightness out Now

Young Widows "Future Heart" Official Music Video from Jeremy Johnstone on Vimeo.

Graveyard

New album Hisingen Blues is pretty fantastic. Hit number 1 in the Swedish album sales charts already?.. Hisingen Blues has been out since March 28


Check out more tunes here

Funeral Party

Their debut album was released a few days ago

SXSW

If you have time to check out 473 artists, then I have just the place for you...
http://bandcamp.com/sxsw

Yes ma'am

We can all learn a thing or two from the elderly

Felix Cartal - World Class Driver (dir. Josh Forbes) from More Media on Vimeo.

Braids

The Cast Of Cheers, Shark?, Tidal Arms, and Tera Melos

Thanks bandcamp!

Therapies Son

The Parlor Mob

They're in the studio working on their second album. They also have a tumblr blog which allows fans to ask the band for three wishes!

Tracking 0.1 from The Parlor Mob on Vimeo.

Maps & Atlases

Maps & Atlases "Living Decorations" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

The Black Keys

This is their video for Howlin' For You
?
:)
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi695638553