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Its been a bit of a return to excitement of new music for me in 2012. Although fatherhood has impeded my ability to write as many reviews, I’ve enjoyed more new music this year. Aside from my experiences with UNSW, here are some of my favorite albums and articles from 2012! Click the album title for a staff review.

1. Band Of Skulls – Sweet Sour

2. Smoke and Jackal – EP No. 1

3. Slightly Stoopid – Top Of The World

4. Japandroids – Celebration Rock

5. The Features – Wilderness

6. Tame Impala – Lonerism

7. Brother Ali – Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color

8. The Gaslight Anthem- Handwritten

9. IamDynamite – Supermegafantastic

10. Coastal – Sunzal

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Easy Star All Stars, El-P, Yellow Ostrich, How to destroy angels, El Perro Del Mar, Air, Crystal Castles, The Shins, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls, Jack White, Aesop Rock, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Ben Gibbard (Teardrop)

Favorite features, interviews or podcasts

You’ve Been Covered
UNSW7
UNSW8
UNSW9
Interview Dead Sara
On The Verge: Lumineers
Sunday’s Best: Animal Collective
UCLA Reggae Festival
FunFunFunFest
Edgefest
Interview Oberhofer
Interview: The Features
Tour Review: Cage The Elephant
Interview: Georgia Anne Muldrow
Interview: Esthero
Tour Review: Jack White
Sunday’s Best: Tool
Tour Review: Walk The Moon
Sunday’s Best: Pink Floyd
Osheaga

Favorite UNSW

1. Fire In The Hamptons

2. Our Friend & The Spiders

3. Beat Circuit

4. Mojo Kick

5. Delorentos

6. BETA

7. That Noise

8. Punch Cabbie

9. Literates

10.Medic