the self-hating hipster

You may notice that this list is all over the place.  I could have picked two or three songs off of each album on my Top 12 Albums of 2012, but that would have taken up over half of the list.  So it became my intention to spread the love and highlight as many album peaks as possible.   Continue reading →

Tags: 2, 2012, a-ha, Aaron Pfenning, Action Bronson, Adrian Toubro, Alabama Shakes, Alexis Kraus, Alt-J, Among the Leaves, An Awesome Wave, Andrew in Drag, Andy Stott, Angel Haze, Angels, Animal Collective, Annie Clark, Ariel Pink, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Astro Colombo, Attack On Memory, Backstreet Freestyle, Beach House, Beams, best, Black Tambourine, Bloom, Blue Chips, Bon Iver, Boys & Girls, Breakbot, Breezeblocks, Brian Eno, By Your Side, Caroline Polacheck, Cat Power, Celebration Rock, Centipede Hz, Chairlift, Cheap Girls, Chromatics, Cleopatra, Cloud Nothings, Coexist, Confess, Cooking Up Something Good, Cool Daddio, Copenhagen, Craver, Crush, Daft Punk, Daniel Lopatin, Dave Maclean, David Bowie, David Byrne, Death Grips, Depeche Mode, Destiny, Dinosaur Jr, Django Django, Does You Inspire Your, Dum Dum Girls, Dusty Rhodes, Dylan Baldi, Ekstasis, electropop, Emmylou, End of Daze, Faarooq, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, fIN, Fineshrine, Fiona Apple, Firewater, First Aid Kit, Fleetwood Mac, Flood's New Light, Foo Fighters, Frank Ocean, frotteurism, garage rock, George Lewis, Ghost, Ghostface Killah, Giant Orange, Give Out, Go Away, Goddess Eyes II, Golden Light, Gone All Summer, good kid, Gram Parsons, Grimes, Grizzley Bear, Grunge, Hall & Oates, Headcage, hipster, Honeycomb, I Belong In Your Arms, Iggy Pop, Into the Black, Intrusions, Irfane, Jaill, Janis Joplin, Japandroids, Jeff Buckley, Jessie Ware, Joan Jett, John Dwyer, John Lennon, John Mayer, John Talabot, Johnathan, Johnny Cash, Jukebox, Julia Holter, June Carter, Kathleen Edwards, Kendrick Lamar, Kevin Barnes, Kill For Love, Killer Mike, Lady, lo-fi, Lock Your Doors, Lonerism, Lotus Plaza, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, Love This Giant, Lower, Luxury Problems, m.A.A.d. city, Mac DeMarco, Manhattan, Marc Bolan, Mariah Carey, Mark Kozelek, Martin Luther King, Matthew Dear, Mature Themes, Michael Gira, Michael Jackson, minor key, Mouse on Mars, Neil Young, No Future, NO LOVE DEEP WEB, No Past, NPR, Oblivion, Of Montreal, One Out of Two, Oneohtrix Point Never, Only In My Dreams, Open Your Heart, Paralytic Stalks, Parastrophics, Party Supplies, Paul McCartney, Perfect Ten, Phil Collins, Phil Oakey, Pional, Prince, Purity Ring, Putrifiers, Pyramids, R. Stevie Moore, R.A.P. Music, Reign of Terror, Replicas, Reservation, Robert Fripp, Ron Simmons, Ruth Radelet, Season in Hell, Self-Hating Hipster, Sharon Van Etten, SHH, shoe gaze, Shrines, Slaughterhouse, Sleeping Ute, Sleigh Bells, Soderberg, Software, Something, songs, Spiteful Intervention, Spooky Action at a Distance, St. Vincent, Stefan Burnett, Stephen Merritt, Stephin Merritt, Sun, Sun Kil Moon, Swans, synth, T.I., Take On Me, Talking Heads, Tame Impala, Teachers, Tender Opposites, The Beatles, The Byrds, the dB's, The Greatest, The Hours, The Idler Wheel, The Lion's Roar, The Magnetic Fields, The Men, The Money Store, The Nights of Wine and Roses, The Oh Sees, The Seer Returns, The Vaselines, The xx, They Know Your Name, Tim Hecker, Tim Heidecker, Top 50, Top Tracks, TOPS, tracks, Tramp, Traps, Trent Reznor, Turn Your Love Around, Twin Shadow, Twins, Ty Segall, Ty Segall and White Fence, Ty Segall Band, Ungirthed, Victoria Legrand, Vincent Neff, Visions, Walk On Heads, Wang Chung, Werewolf, Werkin' Girls, Who, Wildest Moments, Would You Be My Love, You Ain't Alone, You're Living All Over Me