My 2012 Album Favorites

So here is my baker's dozen of my favorite albums of 2012, in no particular order. There are lots of other great albums from this year, but these ones set themselves apart in that I love pretty much every tune on them. Here's the MOG playlist for the albums:

2012 Album Favorites playlist on MOG

Area 52 - Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A.

Politico - Mexican Institue Of Sound

Major - Fang Island

An Awesome Wave - alt-J

Blunderbuss - Jack White

A Flash In The Night - Smile

Clay Class - Prinzhorn Dance School

Between The Ditches - The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

The Lion The Beast The Beat - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Feel The Sound - Imperial Teen

Anxiety - Ladyhawke

A Thing Called Divine Fits - Divine Fits

Django Django - Django Django

Streaming Radio

I'm playing with the idea of hosting an Internet streaming radio station and hope you will give it a listen while I figure it out:


Vehement Flame on Loudcity

Jets Overhead

My favorite band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Jets Overhead, has a new album out called Boredom and Joy and it is, as usual, a tasty blend of soft yet powerful indie rock. You can listen to it all on Bandcamp, or here even.

They also have a place where you can submit your own photos for their upcoming video for the song What You Really Want. Check out TellMeWhatYouReallyWant.com and submit your own photo.

Ladyhawke - Blue Eyes (Jacques Renault Remix)

Great remix of a top song from one of my favorite 2012 releases, Ladyhawke's Anxiety:

Tears - Kitsuné Parisien ii ( Compilation )

Tears - Kitsuné Parisien ii ( Compilation )

Top 5 Songs of Last 15 Years

I created a short Storify with the top 5 songs of the last 15 years according to NME.com. The actually list the top 150, to celebrate their 15th anniversary. Here's my story:

Kasabian

The album currently on heavy playing here at Vehement Flame is Kasabian's Velociraptor. A group that's been around a long time that I've never heard of before! I listened to some of their earlier work and while their debut album is pretty good, Velociraptor is a rock 'n' roll treasure from first to last. I put together a Storify post on the album and here it is below: