2012

• Scissor Sisters – Shady Love (Silkie Remix)
• Wiley – Cheer Up, It’s Christmas
• Dillinja – So Hard
• Junior Boys – Like a Child (Carl Craig remix)
• Cookbook feat. Chino XL – Musica Grande
• Toddla T – Badder Man Runs (Agitated by Ross Orton and Pipes)
• Adrian Sherwood – Starship Bahia
• Neotropic – Tall Fences (The Electric Fence remix by Deaflemon)
• Jamie Woon – Spirits
• Joker – On my Mind (Goldie Remix)

• Woods – “Impossible Sky” Beyond Bend (Woodsist)
• Cate Le Bon – “Falcon Eyed” Cyrk (Control Group)
• Diamond Rugs – “Gimme a Beer” (S/T) (Partisan)
• Grass Widow – “Spock On Muni” Internal Logic (HLR)
• Lower Dens – “Brains” Nootropics (Ribbon)
• Kishi Bashi -“It All Began With a Burst” 151A (Joyful Noise)
• Chromatics – “Kill For Love” Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)
• Major Powers and the Low Fi Symphony – “Ode to Russia” We Became Monsters (Amazing Pony)
• Real Estate – “It’s Real” Days (Domino)
• Chairlift – “I Belong in Your Arms” Something (Kanine)
• King Tuff – “Bad Thing” S/T (Subpop)
• Sharon Van Etten – “Serpents” Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
• Ty Segall – “Love Fuzz” Twins (Drag City)
• Bobby Womack – “Jubilee (Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around) The Bravest Man in the Universe (XL)
• Tame Impala – “That’s All For Everyone” Just Tell Me You Want Me – A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (Star Con)
• Lee Fields and The Expressions – “Your the Kind of Girl” Faithful Man (Truth and Soul)
• Howler – “Beach Sluts” America Give Up (Rough Trade)
• The Allah-Las – “Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind)” S/T (Innovative Leisure)
• JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound – “I am Trying to Break Your Heart” Want More (Bloodshot)
• Mac Demarco – “Ode To Viceroy” 2 (Captured Tracks)

1. Liechtenstein – Fast Forward (Fraction)
2. La Sera – Sees The Light (Hardly Art)
3. Orca Team – Restraint (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
4. Grass Widow – Internal Logic (HLR)
5. Allo Darlin’ – Europe (Slumberland)
6. Evans The Death – S/T (Slumberland)
7. Seapony – Falling (Hardly Art)
8. Eternal Summers – Correct Behavior (Kanine)
9. Wild Nothing – Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
10. Deep Time – S/T (Hardly Art)
11. Strawberry Whiplash – Hits In The Car (Matinée)
12. DIIV – Oshin (Captured Tracks)
13. Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze (Sub Pop)
14. Hospitality – S/T (Merge)
15. The Babies – Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
16. The Garlands – S/T (Shelflife)
17. Tender Trap – Ten Songs About Girls (Fortuna Pop)
18. The Sea and Cake – Runner (Thrill Jockey)
19. Sweater Girls – Sweater Girls Were Here (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
20. Tamaryn – Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
21. Tunabunny – Genius Fatigue (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
22. So Many Wizards – Warm Nothing (Jaxart)
23. The Pheromoans – Does This Guy Stack Up? (Upset The Rhythm)
24. Butter The Children – S/T (S/R)
25. Black Tambourine – OneTwoThreeFour (Slumberland)
26. Frankie Rose – Interstellar (Slumberland)
27. Hollows – Vulture (Trouble In Mind)
28. Craft Spells – Gallery (Captured Tracks)
29. Sea Pinks – Freak Waves (CF)
30. Magic Bullets – Much Ado About (Monamie)
31. School Of Seven Bells – Ghostory (Full Time Hobby)
32. Eux Autres – Sun Is Sunk (Bons Mots)
33. Violens – True (Slumberland)
34. Echo Lake – Wild Peace (Slumberland)
35. Royal Baths – Better Luck Next Life (Kanine)
36. Radar Eyes – S/T (HoZac)
37. Terry Malts – Killing Time (Slumberland)
38. Lust For Youth – Growing Seeds (Sacred Bones)
39. The Walkmen – Heaven (Fat Possum)
40. Heavenly Beat – Talent (Captured Tracks)

1. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (Columbia)
2. Jack White – Blunderbuss (Third Man)
3. Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)
4. Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Mute)
5. Quantic & Alice Russell – Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts)
6. Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth (Sunpower)
7. The Coup – Sorry to Bother You (Anti-)
8. Social Studies – Developer (Antenna Farm)
9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat and Bone (Mom and Pop)
10. Kelly Hogan – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (Anti-)
11. Magic Bullets – Much Ado About (Mon Amie)
12. John K. Samson – Provincial (ADA?Epitaph)
13. Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
14. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
15. The New Kinetics – Contact (Aural Gravy)

Best Reissues of 2012

1. Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch)
2. Woody Guthrie – Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
3. The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (Capitol)
4. Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute)
5. The Avengers – S/T (Water)

1. Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE (Def Jam)
2. Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
3. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave (Canvasback)
4. Jack White – Blunderbuss (Third Man)
5. Jake Bugg – S/T (Mercury)
6. Two Gallants – The Bloom & the Blight (ATO)
7. Kendrick Lamar – good kid m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
8. Glen Hansard – Rhythm & Repose (Anti-)
9. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (ATO)
10. The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
11. M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
12. Peace – Delicious EP (Columbia)
13. Lucy Rose – Like I Used To (Columbia)
14. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Double Six)
15. Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp)
16. Joey Bada$$ – 1999 (Cinematic)
17. Spector – Enjoy It While It Lasts (Fiction)
18. Hodgy Beats – Untitled EP (Odd Future)
19. Father John Misty – Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
20. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular)
21. Bahamas – Barchords (Brushfire)
22. Bloc Party – Four (Frenchkiss)
23. The Maccabees – Given to the Wild (Fiction)
24. Sigur Ros – Valtari (XL)
25. The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull (Wichita)

• Squarepusher + Yeah Yeah Yeahs – March 17 @ The Creators Project – Fort Mason
• Nicolas Jarr - March 25 @ The Indpendent
• Mazzy Star – April 11 @ KALX co-announce – Regency Ballrom
• Gang Gang Dance – May 20 @ Symbiosis Festival
• Little Dragon – May 21 @ Symbiosis Festival
• Subatomic Soundsystem – May 28 @ Dub Mission, Elbo Room
• Nosaj Thing – June 2nd @ Low End Theory – 1015 Folsom
• Captain Planet – June 7 @ Afrolicious – Elbo Room
• Chrissy Murderbot – June 17 @ Icon Ultra
• Sergio – July 12 @ Spilt Milk – Milk Bar
• Novalima – July 14 @ The Independent
• DRMS – July 29 @ KALX co-announce – Rickshaw Stop
• Squarepusher – August 2 @ KALX co-announce – Regency Ballroom
• The Pharcyde (performing Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde)- August 3 @ 1015 Folsom
• Twin Shadow + Poolside – August 17 @ Great American Ballroom
• The Funk Ark – August 19 @ The Ashkenaz
• Austra – September 17 @ KALX co-announce – The Indpendent
• The Dodos – September 28 @ KALX 50th Anniversary – Berkeley Art Museum
• Amon Tobin – October 6 @ Greek Theater
• Poolside – October 11  @ Mezzanine
• Peaches – October 20 @ 1015 Folsom
• Flying Lotus – October 25 – Fox Theater
• Mount Kimbie – November 9 @ 1015 Folsom
• The Jazz Mafia – November 18 @ The Fillmore
• Simian Mobile Disco – December 2 @ Mezzanine

Favorite local releases

• Afrolicious – Pleasuretime (ESL)
• Will Magid – Midnight High (S/R)
• Bondi Blaster - Lo Juimo! (Stronghold Sound)
• Undercover Presents: Black Sabbath’s Paranoid (Undercover Presents) 

Fave albums

• Analog Players Society – Hurricane Season In Brooklyn (Studio Brooklyn)
• Bonobo – Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
• Cumbia Cosmonauts – Tribal Amazonico EP (Chusma)
• Nickodemus – Moon People (ESL)
• Peaking Lights – Lucifer (Mexcian Summer)
• Poolside – Pacific Standard Time (Poolside Music)
• Fourt Tet – Pink (Text Records)
• Flying Lotus - Until The Quite Comes (Warp)

Dope compilations

• The Best of Disco Demands  (KAKZ9)
• AOR Disco Presents The Mojo Filter Vintage Edits
• Future Sounds of Buenos Aires (ZZK)