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The list of showcases I hope to catch the evening of Thursday, March 14th:

7:00pm: Lucy Rose (Hilton Austin Downtown)
8:00pm: Maximum Hedrum (The Main)
9:20pm: Pissed Jeans (1100 Warehouse)
10:00pm: LITE (Esther's Follies)
11:00pm: Paws (Valhalla)
12:00am: Melissa Ferrick (Palm Door)
1:00am: Die! Die! Die (BD Riley's)

My fallbacks are:

8:00pm: Deep Sea Diver (Central Presbyterian Church), Emma Louise (Blackheart), Hunters (Cedar Street Courtyard), Marika Hackman (Latitude 30), Vintage Trouble (Six Lounge)
8:05pm: The Enemy (Austin Music Hall)
8:10pm: BLKHRTS (512)
8:20pm: AroarA (Swan Dive)
8:40pm: FIDLAR (1100 Warehouse)

9:00pm: Lake Street Dive (Creekside at Garden Hilton Inn), luder (Headhunters Patio), Michna (Holy Mountain)
9:15pm: Lianne La Havas (Empire Automotive)
9:20pm: Atlas Genius (The Belmont)
9:30pm: Mavado (Viceland)
9:40pm: Amtrac (Haven)

10:00pm: Henry Wagons (St. David's History Sanctuary)
10:15pm: Robert DeLong (Empire Automotive)
10:45pm: Mykki Blanco (Easy Tiger)
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continuous...

FIDLAR - Fidlar
Yo La Tengo - Fade
Virals - Strange Fruit EP
Wussy - … Popular Favorites
Föllakzoid - II
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
Ex Cops - True Hallucinations
The Night Marchers - Allez Allez
Warm Soda - Someone for You
Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Ready for Boredom
Cyclopean - Weeks EP
Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
Mikal Cronin - Shout It Out single
The History of Apple Pie - Out of View
Blackout Beach - Blues Trip
Psychic Ills - One Track Mind
Eat Skull - III
Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
Campfires - Tomorrow, Tomorrow
The Go- FIESTA
Hookworms - pearl mystic
The KVB - Immaterial Visions
Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving
Cheatahs - Extended Play
Happy Jawbone Family Band - Tastes de Broom
Spray Paint - Spray Paint
The Feeling of Love - Reward Your Grace
Tony Molina - Dissed And Dismissed
Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
Black Pus - All My Relations
Grave Babies - Crusher
Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
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Festive 50:
Continuing a Christmas tradition started by the late BBC broadcaster John Peel in 1976, an assortment of our DJs will be counting down through the best 50 tracks from 2012, as voted for by listeners to Dandelion Radio. Neil Jenkins, Pete Jackson, Mark Whitby, Rocker, Rachael Neiman, Andrew Morrison and take it in turns to reveal the chart in reverse order, with Jeff Grainger announcing this year's winner! The show will broadcast daily (at different times) from Christmas Day until the end of January.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's first show for 2013 features three hours of tracks from the very best releases over the last year - the vast majority of which you won't have heard him play before - including Human Don't Be Angry, The Horn The Hunt, Team Ghost, Breton, Ghost Society, The Twilight Sad, Errors, Stealing Sheep and many more. There's another chance to hear a couple of session tracks recorded exclusively for the show in the last twelve months from Cygnus X-1 and Atomizer, along with Scott's Funky Five Minutes. …

stripping it down this year. no more write ups/reviews, just a score out of 10. i'll try to avoid grade inflation:
10 - Perfect
9(.5) - Excellent
8(.5) - Really Good
7(.5) - Good
6(.5) - Above Average
5(.5) - Average
4(.5) - Below Average
3(.5) - Bad
2(.5) - Really Bad
1(.5) - Awful
0(.5) - Fucking Awful

Albums

This Town Needs Guns - 13.0.0.0.0 7/10

Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai 8/10

The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law 5/10

Yo La Tengo - Fade 6/10

The Bronx - The Bronx (IV) 5/10

Comadre - Comadre 7.5/10

My Bloody Valentine - m b v 8.5/10

Local Natives - Hummingbird 7/10

Pro Era - PEEP: The aPROcalypse 4/10

Darkstar - News From Nowhere 7/10

Funeral for a Friend - Conduit 5.5/10

Autechre - Exai 8.5/10

Iceage - You're Nothing 7/10

Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat 6/10

clipping - midcity 7/10

Atoms for Peace - AMOK 8/10

David Bowie - The Next Day 7/10

Oval - Calidostópia! 3.5/10

Pissed Jeans - Honeys 6.5/10

Buke and Gase - General Dome 7.5/10
…

Another year passed. Who gives a fuck?

TOP 10 LP:

10. Future of the Left: The Plot Against Common Sense
In 2012 it's very hard to create epic music without being ridiculous. One possible method is to mix up epicness with great quantities of "motherfuckerness".

9. Global Goon: Quonk
Monstre compilation of the most bizarre acid songs I've ever heard in my life.

8. pozvakowski.: sevenpeopleleft
Way more noisy and aggressive like their previous works. Full with energy, gives you beautiful pictures of isolation.

7. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist
Inspired, wonderfully psychedelic wall of sounds. Just as good as the artists.

6. Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: Walk, Love, Sleep
Fucked-up jazz monsters, manifesto of serious madness.

5. Moritz von Oswald Trio: Fetch
Long, slow, dark, erotic, surprising - best soundtrack for being alone high and sad.

4. Kid606: Lost in the Game
I really like this new direction of Kid606. …

checked
Shellac, Max Tundra, Ozric Tentacles, Pissed Jeans, Deep Purple, Osjan, Max i Kelner, Miłość, Rootsman, Legendary Pink Dots, Apteka

still waitin'
Lightning Bolt, Dominique Leone, Future Islands, North Sea Radio Orchestra, William D. Drake, Cardiacs, The Jesus Lizard, Devin Townsend, Księżyc, Dj Revolution, Quintron

Part V: Spring 2011

1. Gorgeous. Kanye West. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. 2010.

Still patting myself on the back for being one of the few people to see 808’s & Heartbreak as a quality, innovative step forward for Kanye when the album came out my senior year of college. The haters talked shit about Yeezy losing his touch, but I found myself nonetheless impressed by the singular commitment and visionary approach West utilized on that album. So when I pulled up the Pitchfork homepage during Fall Finals in December of my 2L year and saw that…holy shit…10.0 rating next to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, I could not download the album fast enough.

I was writing a final paper when I first listened to the album, hearing each song for the first time, appropriately, as part of the album in its entirety (an ultra rare occurence for me these days). “Gorgeous” was the album’s second track, and it was the one where that caused me to sit back for a minute and just marvel at the barrage…