We talked about the year in Boston & New England rock with guests Ashley Willard of Boston Band Crush and Ryan Spaulding of Ryan's Smashing Life - two excellent Boston-based music blogs (links below)...
The following are favorites for various reasons. I'll mark each by whose selection it was. I'll include more info on my year-end selections in a blog to be posted later. There's more to this...stand by.
Anngelle's Favorites in bold
Ad Frank and the Fast Easy Women - Man on Fire from Your Secrets Are Mine Now
The Everyday Visuals - Take It All in Stridefrom The Everyday Visuals
Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assassins - Weekend from Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assassins
The Honors - Parade from Wasted Palaces (one of my favorite songs)
Reverse - Blues In D from Monkey Mind (favorite band to come out of hiatus!)
Hands and Knees - Hot Little Item (Ashley and Ryan's pick)
Antiques - Happy (Ashley's Pick)
Father Abraham - All My Friends Are CFOs (Ashley's pick)
The Beatings - All The Things You've Been Missing from Late Season Kid (a unanimous best of pick)
Ian Adams - Horns of the Devil from Stay Up Late (Anngelle and Ryan pick)
Cassavettes - Lights On frpm Shake Down the Sun (Anngelle and Ryan pick)
Tom Thumb - Olivia from We Never Die (Ryan's Pick)
Mean Creek - Beg and Plead from The Sky and the Underground (a unanimous best of pick)
Will Dailey - How Can I Make You Happy - Torrent 1&2 - Busiest, Nicest Guy of the Year
Me and JOANCOLLINS - Crime of the Century (Ashley and Ryan)
Drug Rug - Hannah, Please - Paint the Fence Invisible (Anngelle and Ashley)
Vulgarrity - Plane in the Water - If You Sing It, They Will Hum (Anngelle's pick for one of year's favorite new bands)
Awesome Chariot - Awesome Chariot (Ashley)
Gene Dante and the Future Starlets - Madness to His Method - The Romantic Lead (Anngelle and Ashley) - in lieu of C-Star with its 11 c*cks, we opted for the song that won't get my show cancelled...
As usual, we ran out of show. There was more to play but two hours goes by fast!
Ryan's Smashing Life - http://rslblog.com
Boston Band Crush - http://www.bostonbandcrush
Boston Emissions - http://www.bostonemissions
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