Did you wake up this morning and ask yourself, "Gee, I really am quite curious about what Ryan McHale (Night Birds), Scott Vogel (Terror), Todd Friend (H2O), and Nick Johnson (Banner Pilot) favorite releases of 2011 are." We've got your back.
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Continuing with our coverage of everyone and their mother's favorites of the year, today we've got the opinions of the gentlemen in Campaign and the Dopamines. Agree or disagree with their picks? Let us know in the comments.
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Welcome to another delightful edition of, "Things people consider the best things of this year and we post them because they're people we like and you probably care about"….Or (if you're into brevity) the, "Best of 2011" lists. In this edition we feature Luke McNeill of The Copyrights, Brian Przybylski of Shores and Dave Drobach of Grabass Charlestons. Check back often to see the opinions of those who matter spattered across our front page. It's what space Santa would want.
As we prepare to close the books on 2011 and open the books on 2012, we here at Punknews would like to give artists (and other music industry types who pay the toll) a chance to look back on some of their favorite records, books, experiences and all other manner of madness from 2011. Today we're lucky enough to have Tim Browne of Elway, Chris Farren of Fake Problems and Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket.
You thought we were done here? Nonsense! Folks in bands and labels keep sending us lists (although they definitely should have stopped by now) and it is our duty to share them with you. Tonight, we have entries from The Swellers drummer Jonathan Diener, Municipal Waste/No Friends frontman Tony Foresta, and Protagonist vocalist Peter Marullo.
Click Read More to check out the lists, and don't forget to check out the newly posted best-of lists from the Punknews editorial staff. Then on Friday, we'll have the official super-important Punknews.org Best of 2010 List.
The evening is upon us, and as such we'll soon begin winding down our holiday festivities here at the 'Org. But we ain't done yet, as there are more best-of lists to be read! This time around, we have entries from members of Everyone Everywhere and Hellmouth, as well as a list from Chuck Daley of Tiny Engines and Beartrap PR.
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Our freight train of best-of lists keeps a rollin' this Christmas day with entries from Scotty Sandwich of The Sandwiches and Death to False Hope Records, Drew Conte of I Call Fives and The Reveling's Sean Morris.
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I think we can all agree that the commercialization of Christmas is, at best, a mixed blessing. However, our industry best-of lists answer to no one! So, check out another round of them from Transit, Tanner Jones of You Blew It! and Evan Weiss of Into It. Over It. and Stay Ahead of the Weather.
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Our holiday parade of industry best-of lists rolls on this afternoon with entries from Less Than Jake saxamaphone player J.R. Wasilewski, all four members of Make Do and Mend and Tony Godino, head of Philadelphia, PA-based booking/promoting firm Dead Industry.
Have a sip of your eggnog and click below to check out the lists.
The best non-alcoholic Christmas present you'll receive this year rolls on as we have best-of-2010 lists from Keith Yosco of The Holy Mess, O Pioneers!!! mastermind Eric Solomon and It's Alive Records proprietor Adam, whose list surprisingly contains quite a few pop-punk releases.
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There's no better way to commemorate Jesus's birthday than with more best-of lists! This time around, we have entries from Matt Climer and Steve Ciolek of The Sidekicks, bassist extraordinaire Alex Goldfarb of No Friends, Gatorface, VRGNS and New Mexican Disaster Squad, and Dane Erbach, curator of Switchboard Sessions.
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In lieu of regular news posts today, we're going to be sharing a lot more of our industry best-of lists. It's a Christmas miracle!
To kick things off, we've got entries from Strung Out's Jordan Burns, Andy Thomas of Tin Horn Prayer and Elliot Meyer and Seth Duffala of How Dare You. Click below to check them out, and don't forget to scope the rest of our industry lists as well as our staff reviewers' picks. Lists from the editorial staff will be up for your perusal on December 27, to be followed by the most-important list of all: The Punknews.org Best of List on December 31.
Lists, lists, lists. We have a lot of them. Most of you enjoy reading them. Today we have entries from Reaganomics/Ryan's Hope axeman Terry Morrow, Bob Barnett and Bill Orender of Captain, We're Sinking and PJ Bond.
It's time for your nightly dose of industry best-of lists! Tonight we have entries from Less Than Jake drummer/Paper and Plastick proprietor Vinnie Fiorello, Dave Hause of The Loved Ones and Defeater guitarist Jay Maas.
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A special international edition of our industry year-end lists is on tap tonight. Who knew that Canadians (Billy Hamilton of Silverstein), French Canadians (The Sainte Catherines vocalist Hugo Mudie), and the British (Dave House of Pacer and formerly of The Steal) had opinions on music?
Our barrage of year-end lists rolls on! Today, we have entries from The Flatliners' Chris Cresswell, all four members of Unwelcome Guests and Will Miller of Tiny Engines and Beartrap PR.