Articles

A Lull
Acid Baby Jesus
Acid Mothers Temple
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Air Waves
Allah-Las
Amen Dunes
Animosity
Approach
Arctic Monkeys
Ashes of Immortality
Atlas Sound
Bassnectar
Ben Miller Band
Benoit Pioulard
Between the Buried and Me
Big Gigantic
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Bring Me the Horizon
Buckwheat Zydeco
Carnal Torpor
Chiodos
Cloud Dog
Coalesce
Cosmopolitics
Cowboy Indian Bear
Daniel Johnston
Datsik
Dawes
Dead Girls
Dead Meadow
Dean Monkey & the Dropouts
Death Cab for Cutie
Deertick
DIIV
Dirtfoot
Discoverer
Dr. Dog
Drakkar Sauna
Dosh
Dumptruck Butterlips
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
El Ten Eleven
Eminem
EOTO
Fourth of July
Fruit Bats
Fucked Up
Galactic
Garotas Suecas
Ghosty
Goodwillies
Greg Enemy
Grizzly Bear
Guantanamo Baywatch
GULL
Head for the Hills
Heavy Times
Hellshovel
Hospital Ships
Iceage
Irv Da Phenom
Jabberjosh
Jeff Beck
JEFF the Brotherhood
Jeffrey Lewis
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10 Jan 2011 - Sons of Hermann Hall - Dallas, TX w/ Aaron A, Aaron B, Evan, Travis M.
No Age
Total Abuse
Rene Hell

30 Jan 2011 - Rubber Gloves - Denton, TX w/ Ian & Vicky
Monotonix
Bad Sports

25 Feb 2011 - Trees - Dallas, TX w/ Ian, Vicky, Mark, Justin, Max, Alex
Blockhead
Emancipator

17 Mar 2011 - The Loft - Dallas, TX
The Appleseed Cast
Muscle Worship
Mansion

20 Mar 2011 - Bro Fest 2011 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX w/ Aaron & Travis
Fang Island
JEFF the Brotherhood
Wild Flag
Dom
Small Black

03 Apr 2011 - The Loft - Dallas, TX w/ Aaron & Travis
Del The Funky Homosapien
Bukue One
The Serendipity Project
Dielex Kemposed

20 Apr 2011 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX w/ Aaron & Travis
Titus Andronicus
Soviet

21 Apr 2011 - The Loft - Dallas, TX w/ Aaron
Acid Mothers Temple
Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers
ST 37

01 May 2011 - The Loft - Dallas, TX
Chuck Ragan
Sharks
The Drowning Men

02 May 2011 - South Side Music Hall - Dallas, TX w/ Aaron & Travis
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The idea is for a journal for every month listing new albums I listen to and what I think so that when I review the year's music in December, I will have a handy reminder. I will add to this as the month goes on. Suggestions welcome.

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January | February | March | April | May

2011 Year-end list contenders


w/c Mon 30 May:

My Morning Jacket - Circuital
The Louisville, KY Southern rock stalwarts are back with the spirit of black metal for their newest album of silo songs. (Spinner)
We7 | Spotify | mflow | MySpace

Cults - Cults
Following the Brooklyn band's self-released 7", Cults follows up with a shimmering set of summer-ready pop. (Spinner)
We7 | Spotify | mflow | MySpace

Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys (3voor12)

Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
We7 |

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1. This is a journal containing bands and albums I have recordings from on my computer. Though I try to support local music as best as I can by attending shows and buying albums, not all of this music I am in direct physical possession of through purchase.
2. Not all of the bands below are directly from the KC/Lawrence area. Other cities and towns I keep in this collection are Topeka, KS, Columbia, MO, Wichita, KS, Warrensburg, MO, Manhattan, KS, and a few other, more rural areas of the region. Essentially, it contains everything east of and including Wichita in Kansas, and everything west of and including Columbia in Missouri.
3. In addition to the previous point, you will notice that not all of the bands here are current residents of the region. Many bands (Mates of State, White Rabbits, etc.) unfortunately decided to move away to a larger metro area. Others (The Appleseed Cast, Namelessnumberheadman), were started in different regions and then relocated here at some point, usually early in their career. …