Vote for Punknews' 2011 "Readers Choice"
Hey, you! Yeah, you! Are you tired of reaching "Best of" lists year after year and feeling and endless sea of disapointment? Do you find publication staff and editors to lack the inherent understanding and musical depth that you posses? Well fear not, by flexing your musical know how, you can help choose Punknews' 2011 "Reader's Choice"! As the name implies, this list compiles the best albums of a given year as selected by YOU, our loyal and electic readership.
So, how do you vote? Simple, junior, just log into your Punknews account and go to any of our albums reviews from 2011 (like this one or this one or even this) and simply rate the album with the star system located at the bottom of the review. Albums can be rated from 0.5 up to 5.0 stars!
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A Loss For Words - No Sanctuary
Abolitionist - It Used to Rain
Adelleda - Herkimer Street
Against Me! - Total Clarity
Alan G. Parker and Mick O'Shea - Young Flesh Required: Growing Up With The Sex Pistols
Alesana - A Place Where The Sun Is Silent
Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies
Alkaline Trio - Damnesia
All Teeth - Young Love
Altar of Plagues - Mammal
Amebix - Sonic Mass
American Alchemy - The First Angel You Meet
American Speedway - A Bigger Boat
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candy Cigarettes, Capguns, Issue Problems and Such
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
Andy D - Songs in the Key of Magic
Appleseed Cast - Middle States
Astronautalis - This Is Our Science
Atmosphere - The Family Sign
Austin Lucas - A New Home in the Old World
The Aquabats - Hi-Five Soup!
Balance and Composure - Separation
Bangers - Small Pleasures
Banner Pilot - Heart Beats Pacific
Banquets - Top Button, Bottom Shelf
Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here
Battles - Gloss Drop
Bayside - Killing Time
Beach Party - Beach Party
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Big D and the Kids Table - For the Damned, the Dumb & the Delirious
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
Black Tusk - Set the Dial
Blink 182 - Neighborhoods
Boa Constrictors - Anomic
Bob Mould - See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody [book]
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation
Braid - Closer to Closed
Brett Callwood - The Stooges: Head On, A Journey Through the Michigan Underground [book]
Brick Mower - Under the SInk
Bridge and Tunnel - Rebuilding Year
Broadcaster [NY] - Joyride
Broken Gold - Recovery Journal
Burning Streets - Sit Still
By a Thread - By a Thread
The Babies - The Babies
The Blowouts - Deadweight
The Body Rampant - Transient Years
The Braces - First World Problems
The Builders and the Butchers - Dead Reckoning
The Bullet Kings - Wastelands
Cain Marko - At Sea
Calling Morocco - Outside Providence
Campaign - Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Campfire OK - Strange Like We Are
Capital - Givers Takers
Careers in Science - Whateverwolf
Cave In - White Silence
Caves - Collection
Caves - Homeward Bound
Cerebral Ballzy - Cerebral Ballzy
Ceremony - Covers
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
Changes - Demonstration
Chixdiggit! - Safeways Here We Come
Citizen / The Fragile Season - The Only Place I Know
Citizen Fish - Goods
City and Colour - Little Hell
Cobra Skulls - Bringing the War Home
Cobra Skulls - Agitations
Counterpunch - Dying to Exonerate the World
Cowabunga! - Swing For The Fences
Crazy & the Brains - Snacks [cassette]
Crazy Arm - Tribes / Help for Heroines
Crazy Arm - Union City Breath
Crosses (â â â ) - Crosses
Cults - Cults
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
The Come Down - All Fur & No Knickers EP
The Copyrights - North Sentinel Island
Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room - Hurricane Season
Dan P and the Bricks - Watch Where You Walk
Dan Webb and the Spiders - Much Obliged
Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain II
Dave Hause - Resolutions
David Bazan - Strange Negotations
Daybreak - Daybreak
Daytrader - Last Days of Rome
Dead North - Spot Remover
Dead To Me - Moscow Penny Ante
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Deleted Scenes - Young People's Chuch of the Air
Departures - Without Fear
Diamond - Don't Lose Your Cool
Dirty Filthy Mugs - Up in the Downs
Dntel - Life Is Full of Possibilities [Deluxe Edition]
Doomtree - No Kings
Driveway - Demo
Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style
Drummers - Drummers
Dub Is a Weapon - Vaporized
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
Dynamite Dynamite - Dynamite Dynamite
The Dauntless Elite - More Bloody Bad News
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum [CD version]
The Dear Hunter - Black [EP]
The Decay / Wayfarer - Decayfarer
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
The Disconnects - …Are Healthy [cassette]
The Dissociates - Drown This Town
The Dopamines - Expect the Worst
The Dormers - Impossible Things
The Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Born Again
East Bay Ray and the Killer Smiles - East Bay Ray and the Killer Smiles
Eddie Spaghetti - Sundowner
Ellwood - Lost in Transition
Elway - Passing Days
Elway - Delusions
Exene Cervenka - The Excitement of Maybe
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Fa Fa Fa - What Made Those Holes and Rents
Face to Face - Laugh Now, Laugh Later
Fake Legacy - Streets of Violence and Gore
Falling in Reverse - The Drug in Me Is You
Fantômas - The Director's Cut Live: A New Year's Revolution DVD
Fireworks - Gospel
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Flogging Molly - Speed of Darkness
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
Funeral For A Friend - See You All In Hell
Future of the Left - Polymers Are Forever
The Felix Culpa - Bury the Axe
The Forms - Derealization
The Forty Whacks - The Death Of …
The Frustrators - Griller
Gates - The Sun Will Rise and Lead Me Home
Ghost Heart - The Tunnel
Ghost Robot Ninja Bear - Ghost Robot Ninja Bear
Ghostlimb - Infrastructure
Gladiators Eat Fire - Gladiators Eat Fire
Glassjaw - Coloring Book
Greeley Estates - The Death of Greeley Estates
Grim Luck - Alexandra Volume II: The Dread
Grown Ups - Handholder EP
The Gaslight Anthem - iTunes Session
The Gateway District - Perfect's Gonna Fail
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
HeartPunch - HeartPunch
Heartsounds - Drifter
Hipshot Killer - Hipshot Killer
Hipster Deathmachine - Scared of Ponies
Hold Tight! - Call the Zoo
Holding Onto Sound - The Sea
Hot Water Music - The Fire, The Steel, The Tread / Adds Up to Nothing
How Dare You - The King, The Clown, And the Colonel
Hubris - 2011 Demo [cassette]
Humans - Humans
the heat tape - Raccoon Valley Recordings
The Holy Mess - The Holy Mess
The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
The Horrors - Skying
The Hung Ups - Dawn of the Deadbeats
I Am The Avalanche - Avalanche United
Idol and the Whip - Heavy Sleeper
Integrity - Thee Destroy+ORR
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
Jack's Smirking Revenge - Order/Disorder
JD & the JDCs - Burn This City Down
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - Enhanced Methods of Questioning
Jesu - Ascension
Jet Market - Sparks Against Darkness
Joshua - Choices
Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
JuiceheaD - How to Sail a Sinking Ship
Junior Battles - Idle Ages
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
The Jupiter Sea - Ghosts
Kicking Spit - PsychRockBullshit
Kill Life w/ Mike IX - D.E.A. [Flexi-disc]
Kite Party - Baseball Season
Krum Bums - Cut the Noose
The Kills - Blood Pressures
The Krays - Sangre
La Dispute - Wildlife
La Sera - La Sera
Larry and His Flask - All That We Know
Late Nite Wars - Who's Going to Miss You If You Go?
Latin For Truth - Youth Crew Blues
Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Sit Resist
Lead the Way - And in Vengeance We Strike
Leatherface - Live in Melbourne: Viva La Arthouse
Lee Corey Oswald - Moon Songs
Lemuria - Pebble
Les Demoniaques - Teenage Lust [postcard flexi]
Look Mexico - Real Americans Spear It
Losin' It - Say Something
Louder Than Bombs - This Can't Be Everything
Louise Distras - Heart Strings on a Hand Grenade
The Long Shore Drive - My Life Without You
Maggie Björklund - Coming Home
Mailbox Baseball - Forward in Motion
Male Bonding - Endless Now
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Mansions - Dig Up the Dead
Maritime - Human Hearts
Mastodon - Live at the Aragon [CD/DVD]
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mazes - A Thousand Heys
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Go Down Under
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Sing in Japanese
Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live
Michael Korb - Two of Me
Mischief Brew - The Stone Operation.
Mixtapes - Castle Songs
Mock Orange - Disguised as Ghosts
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Morrow - Morrow
The Misfits - The Devil's Rain
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
Neil Strauss - Everyone Loves You When Youâre Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness [book]
New Found Glory - Radiosurgery
New Pokerface - Swingers
Nick 13 - Nick 13
Night Birds - Fresh Kills Vol. 1
Night Birds - The Other Side of Darkness
No Contest - Static Motion
NOFX - NOFX
Nothington - Borrowed Time
Nous - Never Too Late
The New Rochelles - It's New!
Office of Future Plans - Office of Future Plans
Old Man Markley - Guts N' Teeth
One Win Choice - Conveyor
Only Thieves - Heartless Romantics
Opeth - Heritage
Outdoor Velour - Don't Panic
Over The Top - Community
Owl Paws - Owl Paws
Papercuts - Fading Parade
Patrick Stump - Truant Wave
Patrick Stump - Soul Punk
Pentimento - Wrecked
Peter Tosh - Legalize It / Equal Rights [Legacy Editions]
Pettybone - From Desperate Times Come Radical Minds
Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Plow United - Sleepwalk: A Retrospective
Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride
Police Teeth - Awesomer Than the Devil
Poor Lily - Poor Lily
Prawn - You Can Just Leave It All
Protest the Hero - Scurrilous
Punks Not Dad - Retail Therapy
Puppy Mill - Demo [cassette]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
Radicus - The Bigger Noise
Ramshackle Glory - Live The Dream
Red City Radio - The Dangers of Standing Still
Residuals - Grief
Restless - Demo 2K11
Restless Habs - Cross Your Heart and Swear to Lie
Retox - Ugly Animals
Rin Tin Tiger - Rin Tin Tiger
Rise Against - Endgame
Rival Schools - Pedals
The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
The Reaganomics - Lower the Bar
The Rebel Spell - It's a Beautiful Future
The Republic of Wolves - The Cartographer
The Resignators - See You in Hell
The Ripperz - You Are The Moon
sadplant - The End of Fun
Safety Word Orange - Acceptance
Samiam - Trips
Sassy!!! - Diggin' Deep
Saves the Day - Daybreak
Screeching Weasel - First World Manifesto
Seahaven - Winter Forever
Set Your Goals - Burning at Both Ends
SHARKS - The Joys of Living 2008-2010
Shonen Knife - Osaka Ramones
Shortcuts - Guidance
Shrouded in Veils - Parhelion
Sick Of It All - Nonstop
Sims - Bad Time Zoo
Skies Of December - Perception
Skullians - Pure
Sledding with Tigers - The Arrested Cats
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Unentitled
Slow Gherkin - Death of a Ska Band: Rarities 1994-2002
Slutever - Pretend to be Nice
Small Brown Bike - Fell & Found
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Smoking Popes - This Is Only a Test
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Want If I Wanted
Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Society's Ills [Canada] - Society's Ills
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Tape Club
Sonny Vincent - Bizarro Hymns
Special Agent Set - Year One
Spraynard - Funtitled
Star Fucking Hipsters - From the Dumpster to the Grave
Static Radio NJ - We Are All Beasts
Stickup Kid - The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Strung Out - Top Contenders: The Best of Strung Out
Sublime with Rome - Yours Truly
Sugar Louise - Everything's Better with Sugar
Sum 41 - Screaming Bloody Murder
Summer People - Teamwork
Sundials - Never Settle
Superchunk - Foolish
Surrender - One Day
Surrounded By Thieves - Prophecies of Greed
Swingin' Utters - Here, Under Protest
SWTHRT - Compact Disc
The Saints of Sorrow - Songs for the Forgotten
The Shell Corporation - Force Majeure
The Shiny Darks - Stab at Love
The Slow Death - Born Ugly Got Worse
The Spits - Spits V
The Swellers - Good for Me
Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday
Teen-Rebel Dopefiends - Demo-nstration
Teenage Bottlerocket - Another Way [Deluxe Edition]
They Had Faces Then - 1977
Thieves and Assassins - Patterned Lives
Thomas Giles - Pulse
Thrice - Major/Minor
Thundering Asteroids! - Thudering Asteroids!
Thursday - No Devolución
Tiger Tail - Demo 2011
Tight Nuns - No Jewels
Tin Armor - Life of Abundance
Title Fight - Shed
Toh Kay - Streetlight Lullabies
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Tombs - Path of Totality
Tonight Alive - What Are You So Scared Of?
Tony Sly - Sad Bear
Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
Transit - Listen & Forgive
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
Trapped Under Ice - Big Kiss Goodnight
Trophy Wives - Old Scratch
Troubled Coast - Letters
Turkish Techno - Past Due
Two Hand Fools - House Parts
Twopointeight - Twopointeight II
Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
Up for Nothing - Twelve Stories Down
Visions of Change / The Depraved - Visions of Change / The Depraved
Vivian Girls - Share the Joy
VYGR - Hypersleep
The Warriors - See How You Are
The Wax Museums - Eye Times
The Wild - A Collection
The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
We Took First - For the Good of the State
We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
Who Needs You - Who Needs You
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs
Wire - Red Barked Tree
Wolves and the Radio - Wolves and the Radio
World/Inferno Friendship Society - The Anarchy and the Ecstasy
Wugazi - 13 Chambers
You Me At Six - Sinners Never Sleep
Young Mountain - A Billion Times Around
Young Statues - Young Statues
Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness
Young///Savage - NEW FLESH
Yuck - Yuck