It's been awhile since i've done one of these. But i've been meaning to get into some new music and best of lists are always a great way to discover new music via the ensuing discussions/complaints and "___ wasn't on your list, wtf man" comments.

So please, bitch, complain, comment, compliment, whatever, i'd love to hear what others think and get some new albums to check out. and here it is:

Top 40 albums

1. Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory
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This album is amazing, i really liked Cloud Nothings' self titled in 2010, which was a fun punk/shoegaze…

So as if last year wasnt already weak compared to the stupidly large lists i did prior, this year is even less, i dont listen to as much new music anymore, i dont know man, lay off ok.

check em out:

LPs

1. Transistor Transistor– Ruined Lives
Ever since thier early splits, I've really enjoyed trantan, and i was expecting some of the same material from them on this new album, but jesus exploding anal fissures christ did this album blow me away, it is just beyond brutal in all ways and alot more than just a dancy fun…

Aight here it is all of you who still care, my year end list, once again none of these numbers are set in stone, but they are still in a general ranking as far as what i liked the most, (aka the difference from #42 to #50 isnt that great, but of course the difference from #1 to #50 is). This is nothing comparison to my 06 list but what can i say, i have a bit more of a life now and dont listen to music as much as i used to, deal with it. I dont even get…

Alrighty, another show in Tucson, this time back in The Living Room, very cool small venue, one of the few up there, Smaller one this time, 3 locals and Daniel Striped Tiger all the way from Massachusetts.

First up is West, a local post-rock outfit, I had heard some demo tracks on their myspace prior to this and they were pretty decent already, but wow did they improve since then or something because this performance was amazing, they really don’t stray from the standard post-rock formula or anything but they were still good and not off-kilter or sloppy at…

So I was looking forward to seeing Gormadre for awhile now, whom originally had been scheduled at the living room, but through whatever turn of events ended up at skrappys paired with rosetta/battlefields, throw in a ton of locals and another tour combo (TABL and inferis I think), and skrappys “Gnarwal Fest” was born. And Damn, what a fest it was.

First up was some locals, Iraqi Blood Machine was the first band, pretty kickass 2-person grindy/pv type stuff, the ‘guitarist’ was actually using a uber-distorted bass so it sounded kinda like if lightning bolt did some lsd and decided…

Yeah, Small list for me, only 30 lps and 5 other, either this year sucks or im not looking hard enough,

anywho, its all ranked, not super specifically, give or take a few places up or down on the lower ranked albums, its not all set in stone, but this is what im liking the most so far.

Artist - Album -

ALBUMS
1. Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
2. Melt-Banana - Bambi’s Dilemma
3. Bongripper - Hippie Killer
4. Clouds - Legendary Demo
5. Enoch Ardon - 12” -
6. Magrudergrind - Rehashed -
7. Architects -…

All Ranked yes, but after i hit past like the top 50 stuff is kinda not SUPER EXACT in the remaining 100 but come on, who cares if something is 5 higher than another when you get that low, all the albums are great to good, somehwat respective to thier placement on the list. i hope you all find something to download/enjoy on this list, i dont just do this to feed an ego or be a dick, last year was so great to us when everyone posted thier lists and we all got a ton of albums out of…

I was lucky I randomly saw this show poster on some kids myspace (cuz he thought the design was cool) cuz I was completely oblivious to it otherwise, and after pulling a few strings and stuffs I had secured a ride there for me and two friends, (one dropped out later for some reason, who knows) so it was just me and Andrew.

we get there and even though they said they’d start at 6:30 it ends up getting fucked up and starting at 7:00, either way it was 10 bucks and at this really cool venue called the living…

Artist - Album - for you idiots out there

Top 75 LPs
1. The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta! -
2. !T.O.O.H.! - Rád a Trest (Order And Punishment) -
3. Profane - The Day We Scorched The Sky -
4. Gory Blister - Skymorphosis -
5. Pyramids - Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Through Phases -
6. Cardinale - 31:13 -
7. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Crooked Life/Straight World -
8. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway -
9. Eyes of Fire - Prisons -
10. Spaceship Landing - Spaceship Landing -
11. Robinson - The Great…

This is an Open Invitation to all fans of Robotic Empire Records (formerly Robodog Records) and Translation Loss Records to join thier respective groups.

http://www.last.fm/group/Robotic%2BEmpire

http://www.last.fm/group/Translation%2BLoss%2BRecords

I Have Recently Made Groups for both of these fine record labels, seeing as how they house some of my favorite bands. however its no fun with just a handful off people, so join up even if your just a fan of a few artists on the label, you'll probably enjoy more from the label that you havent had the time to check out.

and please skip over the group because "there was nothing…