Year-end articles always seem rather arbitrary and questionably pointless, but one thing is for certain…this year-end article is late. It’s already the fourth week of January 2013! To make the list even more arbitrary I decided to do the Top 12 of 2012 (I did the Top 11 of 2011 last year) and you can expect the Top 52 Tracks of 2012 soon. I refuse to make honorable mentions as that defeats the purpose. I hope that you deem this article worthy of reading despite its tardy release. Continue reading
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The Feelies at Mass MoCA 11/11/2011
16 NovI discovered The Feelies in the summer after high school. I was screwing around on allmusic.com looking at Pavement’s page when I noticed the “Influenced By” section. At the time (and not much has changed) I was totally obsessed with Pavement. I figured, why not give some of these bands a shot that supposedly influenced them? As it turns out, the list was a gold mine. I recognized some bands, but that list introduced me to Wire, Can, Swell Maps, Half Japanese, Pere Ubu, oh, and The Feelies. I downloaded their 1980 debut (I was a poor-ass college kid…I’ll make up for it later). “Crazy Rhythms” became one of my most listened to albums of that year. Continue reading