2012

• 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

• Audacity – “Pink Confusion Formula” from Mellow Cruisers (Burger)
• Bombay Royale – “Monkey Fight Snake” from You Me Bullets Love (Hope Street)
• Jimmy Cliff – “Outsider” from “Rebirth” (Universal)
• Bob Dylan – “Tin Angel” from “Tempest” (Columbia)
• Ecid – “Werewolf Hologram” from Werewolf Hologram (Fill in the Breaks)
• Heartless Bastards – “Low Low Low” from Arrow (Partisan)
• Liminanas – “Salvation” from Crystal Anis (Hozac)
• Mind Spiders – “On the Radio” from Meltdown (Dirtnap)
• Perfume Genius – “Dark Parts” from Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
• Pizazz – “Crafty Maneuvers” from Get Out of My House!!! (Burger)
• Redd Kross – “Stay Away From Downtown” from Researching the Blues (Merge)
• School of Seven Bells – “The Night” from Ghostory (Vagrant)

Favorite Album of 2012

• Cate Le Bon – Cyrk (Control Group)

1. Mexican Institute of Sound – Politico (Nacional)
2. The Coup – Sorry to Bother You (Anti)
3. Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang – En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop)
4. Ali Fuat Aydin and Cenk Güray – Bir (Felmay)
5. Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
6. Moon Hooch – The Moon Hooch Album (Crowd Control)
7. Deerhoof – Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
8. Markus Mehr – On (Hidden Shoal)
9. William Britelle – Loving the Chambered Nautilus (New Amsterdam)
10. Endah Laras and Dedek Gamelan Orchestra – S/T (Felmay)
11. J.D. McPherson – Signs & Signifiers (Rounder)
12. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (Williams Street)
13. Ethel – Heavy (Innova)
14. Alexander Tucker – Third Mouth  (Thrill Jockey) 
15. Taraf de Haïdouks and Kocani Orkestar – Band of Gypsies 2 (Crammed Discs)
16. Mati Zundel – Amazonico Gravitante (Waxploitation)
17. Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group – Signing (Motema)
18. Novalima – Karimba (ESL)
19. Squarepusher – Ufabulam (Warp)
20. Kayhan Kalhor – I Will Not Stand Alone (World Village)