David Safar, Music Director

  • tUnE-yArDs — w h o k i l l
  • M83 — Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
  • St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
  • Battles — Gloss Drop
  • J Mascis — Several Shades Of Why
  • My Morning Jacket — Circuital
  • Tom Waits — Bad As Me
  • Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring For My Halo
  • Twin Sister — In Heaven
  • Yuck — Yuck

Other Must-Haves from 2011

  • Adele — 21
  • Anna Calvi — Anna Calvi
  • Atlas Sound — Parallax
  • Bon Iver — Bon Iver
  • Cults — Cults
  • Cut Copy — Zonoscope
  • Fed Up — David Comes Alive
  • Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
  • Foster the People — Torches
  • Iceage — New Brigade
  • Iron and Wine — Kiss Each Other Clean
  • James Blake — James Blake
  • Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
  • Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
  • PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
  • Real Estate — Days
  • The Kills — Blood Pressures
  • The Strokes — Angles
  • TV On The Radio — Nine Types Of Light

Favorite Local Albums from 2011

  • Brute Heart — Lonely Hunter
  • Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps — Little Wind
  • Doomtree — No Kings
  • Haley Bonar — Golder
  • Halloween, Alaska — All Night The Calls Came In
  • Howler — This One's Different EP
  • Low — C'mon
  • Mason Jennings — Minnesota
  • Peter Wolf Crier — Garden of Arms
  • Sims — Bad Time Zoo
  • Spyder Baybie Raw Dog and 2 Percent Muck — Grimeworld
  • Tapes 'n Tapes — Outside
  • The Blind Shake — Seriousness
  • The Cloak Ox — Prisen EP
  • The Jayhawks — Mockingbird Time


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