2012

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)

• Annette Peacock – I’m the One (Light in the Attic)
• Can – Lost Tapes Box Set (Mute)
• Carter Tutti Void – Transverse (Mute)
• Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
• Fire! with Oren Ambarchi – In the Mouth a Hand (Rune Grammofon)
• Josh Berman & His Gang – There Now (Delmark)
• Kourosh Yaghmaei – Back from the Brink (Now Again)
• Lee Hazlewood – The LHI Years (Light in the Attic)
• Melody’s Echo Chamber – S/T (Fat Possum)
• Micachu and the Shapes – Never (Rough Trade)

• Aggi Doom – Bring Me the Head (Soft Power)
• Cozy – Cola Shock Kids (Hozac)
• English Singles – Disaster (Squirmy)
• Fidlar – No Waves (Mom + Pop)
• King Tuff – Wild Desire (Suicide Squeeze)
• Lamps – All Seeing Eye (Sweet Rot)
• Lures – New Boy (Salvaged)
• Protomartyr – Colpi Proibiti (X!)
• Spray Paint – Spock Fingers (S-S)

Favorite LPs of 2012

• Bits of Shit – Cut Sleeves (Homeless)
• Hank Wood & the Hammerheads – Go Home (Toxic State)
• Spacin’ – Deep Thuds (Richie)
• Terry Malts – Killing Time (Slumberland)
• Tyvek – On Triple Beams (In the Red)

• Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth (Interscope)
• Rush – Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
• Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular)
• Donnie & Joe Emerson – Dreamin’ Wild (Light In The Attic)
• Dirty Ghosts – Metal Moon (Last Gang)
• En – Already Gone (Students Of Decay)
• Sam Flax – Age Waves (Burger)
• Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation (B-Music)
• Broncho – Can’t Get Past The Lips (Guestroom)
• Francis Bebey – African Electronic Music 1975-1982 (Born Bad )

• Courtney & the Crushers “In My Bed” – S/T (Self Released)
• Fidlar – Don’t Try EP (Mom + Pop)
• Growlers – Beach Goth (Burger Records)
• Guantanamo Baywatch – Chest Crawl (Burger Records)
• Hunx – “private room”- Hairdresser Blues (Hardly Art)
• King Tuff – S/T (Sub Pop)
• Peach Kelli Pop – “dreamphone” – S/T (Burger Records)
• Terry Malts – Killing Time (Slumberland)
• Weiner Dog Comp – V/A (Burger/Wiener Records)

Best Video of 2012

• Burger TV!!!! (Burger Records)

Best Live Shows of 2012

• Younger Lovers, Wet Spots – 1234 Go!, 12/5/12
• King Tuff, Terry Malts – New Parish, 12/1/12
• Nobunny, Shannon & the Clams – New Parish, 10/26/12 (Total Trash Halloween Bash)
• Okmoniks, Yolks – Knockout, 8/2/12
• Talk Is Poison – 1234 Go!, 7/5/12
• Guantanamo Baywatch, Courtney & the Crushers – White Horse, 6/14/12
• The Go! Go! showcase presented by 1234 Go! Records – New Parish, 5/24-6/1/12