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Maybe it's because people confuse them with Deer Tick and Deerhunter and it's just too much work to sort out all those deer bands.
+7 | 12/21/12 12:31 PM
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Whoops, meant to write "say this every time..." not "saw this..."
+2 | 12/21/12 12:27 PM
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I saw this every time any list is ever released, but... Deerhoof?! C'mon! It's like the indie internet is pretending they don't exist. I saw them live 3 times this year and they're definitely the best thing ever. Crowds go all-out nutso for them. They sound unlike any other band. They're true troopers, been doing this forever. And they have prior experience topping lists. Sufjan even named the Runners Four the best album of last decade, FWIW. Why don't people care about Vs. Evil or Breakup Song?????
+3 | 12/21/12 12:20 PM
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Hank Shteamer is awesome -- he's a jazz and metal guy mainly, staff writer for Time Out New York, a drummer, and he has my favorite jazz blog on the 'net: http://darkforcesswing.blogspot.com/ -- usually writes about the jazz and old-school punk/metal reissues and stuff for p4k.
+5 | 12/21/12 11:54 AM
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For me, Rancid = '90s skate videos. Yesss.
+3 | 12/20/12 2:01 AM
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Welcome, Claire! That's all.
+1 | 12/20/12 1:51 AM
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The one thing I don't get is why can't she play guitar? Is that part of the joke or was she just being lazy on the shoot?
-6 | 12/12/12 11:12 PM
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Great piece, Amrit. Thanks for writing. I was a percussion major in college, which led to me being exposed to lots of Indian music and studying tabla casually for a few years, but I'll be damned if I can remember the last time I sat and listened to some Indian classical music. I think it's about time. There's nothing like it, especially Mr. Shankar.
+7 | 12/12/12 10:19 AM
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Probably the only list that Steregoum will publish that includes Matt Ulery's By a Little Light. A seriously amazing album that fuses together jazz, contemporary classical, Eastern European folk and indie rock influences. Y'all should check it out: http://open.spotify.com/album/5bH3dabqJcse5D5jWaGgi8
+2 | 12/5/12 12:48 PM
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I know, it was a reference to the #6 top-rated comment of 2011 http://bit.ly/UeYgw5 I thought maybe, to make up for this egregious error in last year's list, they'd put it at the top of the 2012 list. But not really.
+5 | 12/5/12 12:30 PM
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For some reason, I've been holding out on checking out Screaming Females; this list finally pushed me into it. Wow, what a freaking great rock band. Other things I like here: Matthew E. White, Jessica Pratt, Converge, Dirty Projectors, Fiona at the top, and Amrit's HM for Vijay Iyer. Shedding a tear for Deerhoof, though. Why hasn't the world's best rock band gotten any love for their last two albums?
+6 | 12/5/12 12:27 PM
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Shabazz Palaces?
+1 | 12/5/12 12:08 PM
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That gorilla knows a good septuagenarian rock song when he hears it.
+1 | 10/11/12 9:33 AM
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Oh also, All We Love... is incredible. Holy whoa.
+1 | 10/10/12 1:19 AM
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I would go see Converge in Chicago next Thursday but I can't because I'll be seeing Vijay Iyer instead, the one jazz musician who ever shows up in any tangential way on the 'gum, probably just 'cause he's friends with Amrit (I think?). None of you probably care about that.
+2 | 10/10/12 1:11 AM
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Promise Ring covering Adele = me ca. 7th grade meets 7th graders ca. 2012.
+1 | 9/19/12 7:10 PM
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Coincidence that this got resolved at the same time as the Chicago teacher's strike?
+1 | 9/19/12 7:08 PM
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According to BV Chicago, Billy Corgan has lived in Highland Park since 2003 http://www.brooklynvegan.com/chicago/2012/09/billy_corgan_op.html My girlfriend lives in the next suburb north of HP, so I've been unknowingly hanging out a few miles away from Mr. Corgan this whole time.
0 | 9/13/12 1:31 AM
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Haven't really kept up with Hydra Head, but Botch was probably my 2nd favorite hardcore band after Converge. Definitely brings back memories of good times. RIP.
+1 | 9/12/12 1:23 AM
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Organix is special to me because it's the only album with founding bassist Josh Abrams, who is now an avant-garde jazz veteran in Chicago. You can probably see him play on average of 3 or 4 nights a week when he's in town. Founding Roots member, right there at the bar, playin' his bass. He's seriously amazing -- he has the absolutely ideal acoustic bass tone and rock-solid time. Check out his allmusic discography; it starts with Organix and then has a million things you've never heard of: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/josh-abrams-mn0000226798/credits
+3 | 8/10/12 1:09 PM
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Whoa
0 | 7/31/12 12:06 AM
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Watching that K-Pop video was the best use of 4 minutes that I can recall recently.
+1 | 7/28/12 12:07 PM
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Me too :(
+1 | 7/20/12 4:41 PM
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Gah, meant to write "turned out to be the BEST late-nite show music performance ever."
0 | 7/19/12 9:51 PM
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I have tickets to see Refused in Chicago in exactly one week. I almost didn't watch this because I didn't want a lackluster TV performance to dampen my excitement for the show. Instead, I watched it and it turned out to be the late-nite show music performance ever. Holy moly I'm excited.
+1 | 7/19/12 9:50 PM
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...And I was much closer for DP. We might be getting to the bottom of something here!
0 | 7/17/12 1:13 PM
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"Dwyer" is John Dwyer, lead singer of Thee Oh Sees! That set was great.
+1 | 7/16/12 12:19 PM
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Japandroids were fun and endearing but nothing compared to Dirty Projectors' exceedingly professional set. They re-produced every single weird sound and harmony from the records flawlessly. When the ladies busted out that resolving chord on "Gun Has No Trigger," it was more powerful than Japandroids' full stacks.
+2 | 7/14/12 6:32 PM
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Got it goin', bossa nova.
+1 | 7/10/12 12:22 PM
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Whoa, I never knew Matt White did anything like this. He leads an awesome avant-jazz group called Fight the Big Bull. All of their albums are awesome, and they even did a full-length collab with David Karsten Daniels, which is just glorious. Also, FTBB features Bon Iver member Reggie Pace on trombone!
+1 | 7/9/12 1:00 PM
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This song is so freaking lovely. I've never really listened to Blur beyond hearing Song 2 on the radio when I was in middle school -- this song piqued my interest and now I'm a coupl'a hours deep into a Blur binge on Spotify.
+7 | 7/6/12 5:26 PM
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This is actually amazing. Saying he "ruins" the song makes for a good headline, but I love it. Also: s/o to Wilson. Haven't seen that guy in a while.
+5 | 7/5/12 12:38 PM
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I'm definitely in the camp that thought everyone liked Bitte. In fact, Bitte is partially responsible for me getting into, ahem, "indie rock." People seem to be getting all autobiographical on here lately, so I'll mention that I'm a jazz musician who grew up in the punk/hardcore scene but ended up in a self-imposed jazz/classical bubble for about 5 years. Bitte Orca, Actor and Veckatimest were the three albums that blew my mind open and made me want to burst out of that bubble. I had absolutely no trouble getting into BO; the appeal was immediate and visceral. After years of listening to Mingus and Ornette (not to mention Schoenberg and Stravinsky), Bitte Orca sounded to my ears as accessible as anything on the Top 40. Also: I am really enjoying SLM on third listen. One of my favorite parts of Bitte was the almost free-jazz-ish drumming, which felt like it could go off the rails at any moment, and I kinda miss that here, but appreciate SLM's polished beats for what they are.
+5 | 7/3/12 12:11 AM
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I don't think there's any comparison between the DIIV and Ty Segall records. What's distinctive or exciting about DIIV? It's pleasant, well-crafted indie rock. This Ty Segall record is amazing.
+2 | 6/27/12 12:03 PM
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"Who needs a guitar when you have three awesome back up singers?" - hopefully more people, now.
+3 | 6/20/12 9:43 AM
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Nice pick, Tom. Hoping maybe this album's attention in the indiesphere might make one or two new people curious about jazz? The Thing (and each of its three members) is prolific, with plenty more where this came from, and Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman are two of the greatest artists in human history. Also: I really like this album. I'll be listening to the Fiona more, but you definitely made the right pick.
+3 | 6/20/12 1:09 AM
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This sounds exactly like what I expected it to sound like. Which is really really great.
0 | 6/15/12 12:14 PM
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Nice tune, but neither this nor Gun Has No Trigger have quite the same freewheeling ballsiness that Bitte Orca had for me. Still really looking forward to the record, though (and to seeing them at P4k Fest!) Scared of people reflexively downvoting after seeing that cover art again.
+1 | 6/15/12 3:04 AM
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Every Single Night for sure. I don't barbecue much.
+3 | 6/14/12 7:04 PM
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This is why people hate millenials. I'm always going to bat for our generation and then these kids have to ruin it for everyone else.
+1 | 6/13/12 3:01 AM
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