Sunday, December 30, 2012

McSquawk's Top 25 songs of 2012

It's the end of another year and that means it's time to bring you the list of my favorite songs of 2012! I spent much of this year catching up on music I had from last year that I hadn't listened to, so I didn't get to listen to as much of this year's new music as I would have liked. However, many of my favorite artists released new albums this year, so this year's list features a lot of new stuff from old favorites, as well as some new artists and a few surprises. I played the top 20 on my show last Sunday, which can be listened to here, but I wanted to expand this list to my top 25 since there was a lot of great stuff that just missed making the top 20.

#25: Cloud Nothings - "Stay Useless"

 
#24: Foals - "Inhaler"


#23: David Byrne & St. Vincent - "Weekend in the Dust"




#22: Silversun Pickups - "Mean Spirits"




#21: Animal Collective - "Applesauce"

#20: DIIV - "Past Lives"


#19: Eternal Summers - "You Kill"

#18: Jonquil - "Mexico"

#17: Yppah - "Never Mess With Sunday"



#16: Mark Foster + A-Trak + Kimbra - "Warrior"



#15: Pinback - "His Phase"

#14: Sun Airway - "Close"

 
#13: Coheed & Cambria - "Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute"



#12: Reptar - "Please Don't Kill Me"



#11: Beach Fossils - "Shallow"


#10: Twin Shadow - "Beg For the Night"



#9: Husky - "History's Door"


#8: Dirty Ghosts - "Shout It In"



#7: Minus the Bear - "Zeros"



#6: Savoir Adore - "Dreamers"

 
#5: Orbital feat. Zola Jesus - "New France"

 
#4: Pepe Deluxe - "A Night and A Day"


#3: Tanlines - "All of Me"




#2: Kitten - "G#"



#1: Wild Nothing - "Nocturne"


And there you have it. Also, click here for 2011's list.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #10: Thanksgiving Break, Part II

Show date: 11/25/12

Hour 1:

Tanlines / "Real Life" / Mixed Emotions
The Very Best / "Moto" (feat. Mo Laudi) / MTMTMK
Delorean / "Simple Graces" / Subiza
El Perro Del Mar / "Hold Off the Dawn" / Pale Fire
Phantogram / "Bloody Palms" / Eyelid Movies
Audiafauna / "Roots" / Grow Down 
The Bamboos / "On the Sly" / 4
Savoir Adore / "Sparrow" / Our Nature 
Radio Citizen / "The Hop" / Berlin Serengeti
Rubblebucket / "Oooh Wa" / Oversaturated
Kaddisfly / "Osmosis in C" / Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn
Circa Survive / "Bird Sounds" / Violent Waves
Damiera / "Slow By Still" / Damiera
Coheed and Cambria / "Goodnight, Fair Lady" / The Afterman: Ascension
Boris / "Flare" / New Album 

Hour 2:

The Casket Lottery / "The Door" / Real Fear
Flogging Molly / "What's Left of the Flag" / Drunken Lullabies
Dowsing / "Gengar! Gengar! Gengar!" / It's Still Pretty Terrible
The Foreign Resort / "Lost My Way" / Offshore
We Need Surgery / "Stranger" / Advance Copy 
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / "The Tenure Itch" / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Pretty & Nice / "Hyena" / Us You All We
They Might Be Giants / "Canajoharie" / Join Us
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / "Only in My Dreams" / Mature Themes
Wild Nothing / "Take Me In" / Golden Haze EP
Foals / "Inhaler" / Inhaler (single)
Kitten / "Cut It Out" / Cut It Out EP
The Submarines / "Submarine Symphonika" / Honeysuckle Weeks
Broken Bells / "Mongel Heart" / Broken Bells

Hour 3:

Fountains of Wayne / "Radio Bar" / Sky Full of Holes
Cheers Elephant / "Party On Darwin" / Like Wind Blows Fire
Smile Smile / "When We Make Love" / Marry a Stranger
Belle & Sebastian / "I Didn't See It Coming" / Write About Love
Ben Folds Five / "The Sound of the Life of the Mind" / The Sound of the Life of the Mind
The Brunettes / "Small Town Crew" / Structure and Cosmetics
Husky / "Forever So" / Forever So
Frank Turner / "My Kingdom For a Horse" / Sleep is For the Week
He's My Brother She's My Sister / "Slow It Down" / Nobody Dances in This Town
Dispatch / "Lightning" / Who Are We Living For?
The Sanderlings / "Love & Cannibalism in the Time of Robots" / Awesome Opossum
The Shins / "Girl Inform Me" / Oh Inverted World
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists / "Bottled in Cork" / Hearts of Oak
Jets Overhead / "Boredom and Joy" / Boredom and Joy
Pinback / "Proceed to Memory" / Information Retrieved 

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #9: Thanksgiving Break, Part I

Show date: 11/18/12

Hour 1:

Wild Nothing / "Counting Days" / Nocturne
Leaving Rouge / "In Your Twilight" / White Houses EP 
Twin Sister / "Lady Daydream" / Color Your Life
Deep Sea Arcade / "Girls" / Outlands 
Real Estate / "It's Real" / Days
El Perro Del Mar / "Walk On By" / Pale Fire
Toro Y Moi / "Still Sound" / Underneath the Pine 
Yeasayer / "No Bones" / Fragrant World 
Purity Ring / "Ungirthed" / Shrines
Savoir Adore / "Regalia" / Our Nature
D. Gookin / "Stealing Sun Chips" / Spiral Style
Twin Shadow / "When The Movie's Over" / Confess
Teeel / "Crystal Lake" / University Heights
Tanlines / "Rain Delay" / Mixed Emotions

Hour 2: 


Kitten / "Kill the Light" / Sunday School
A.C. Newman / "There's Money in New Wave" / Shut Down the Streets
Rogue Wave / "Good Morning (The Future)" / Permalight
The Sanderlings / "Juffo Mumbins" / Awesome Opossum
The Submarines / "Shoelaces" / Love Notes/Letter Bombs
Animal Collective / "Applesauce" / Centipede Hz 
The Birthday Party / "Junkyard" / Live 81-82
Annuals / "Sweet Sister" / Sweet Sister
He's My Brother She's My Sister / "Let It Live Free" / Nobody Dances in This Town
Enter the Haggis / "Follow" / Whitelake
Husky / "History's Door" / Forever So
Blitzen Trapper / "Laughing Lover" / Destroyer of the Void
Frank Turner / "Romantic Fatigue" / Sleep is For the Week
State Radio / "Take Cover" / Rabbit Inn Rebellion 



Hour 3: 

Darlingside / "In the Morning" / EP 1 
Calexico / "Para" / Algiers 
Adrian Roye & the Exiles / "Telephones and Traffic Lights" / Telephones and Traffic Lights 
Smile Smile / "Permanent Bliss" / Marry a Stranger
Lapko / "Summer Nights" / A New Bohemia
Bloc Party / "Truth" / Four
Sleeper Agent / "Shuga Cane" / Celebrasion
Pretty & Nice / "Capsules" / Us You All We
Cloud Nothings / "Stay Useless" / Attack on Memory
The Vaccines / "Teenage Icon" / Live 81-82
Foals / "Inhaler" / Inhaler (single)
Circa Survive / "Blood From a Stone" / Violent Waves
The Casket Lottery / "Pamina" / Real Fear
TKTTSM / "Eyeyeye" / TKTTSM 
The Gaslight Anthem / "The Boxer" / American Slang 

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #8: Synth Rock

Show date: 11/11/12

Hour 1:

The Casket Lottery / "The Moon and the Tide" / Real Fear
Dowsing / "What Did You Ever Do?" / It's Still Pretty Terrible
Circa Survive / "Phantasmagoria" / Violent Waves
Coheed and Cambria / "The Afterman" / The Afterman: Ascension
Ringo Deathstarr / "Fifteen" / Mauve
pacificUV / "Chemical" / E.P.
Ultraista / "Gold Dayzz" / Ultraista
Teeel / "Crystal Lake" / University Heights
We Need Surgery / "Simon Says" / Advance Copy
Jets Overhead / "Boredom and Joy" / Boredom and Joy
The World Palindrome / "We've Got It (All Worked Out)" / Particularly Hello
State Radio / "Desert Queen" / Rabbit Inn Rebellion
The Sanderlings / "I Want You" / Awesome Opossum
Smile Smile / "Broken Buildings" / Marry a Stranger
Manicanparty / "Bow Through My Heart" / Bow Through My Heart (single) 
Blackbird Blackbird / "Happy With You" / Boracay Planet

Hour 2:

The Campaign for Real-Time / "The Game" / The Campaign for Real-Time EP
HEALTH / "Die Slow" (Tobacco Remix) / ::DISCO2
The Firebird Band / "Obsessive Compulsive" / The City at Night
Shy Child / "Angel of Mercy" / Noise Won't Stop
Does It Offend You, Yeah? / "We Are Rockstars" / You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Klaxons / "Atlantis to Interzone" / Myths of the Near Future 
Idiots / "Send My Senses" / Spring Is Here
Enon / "Disposable Parts" / High Society
Professor Murder / "Free Stress Test" / Professor Murder Rides The Subway
Quitzow / "The Cut" / Juice Water
Ming & Ping / "A.I." / mingping.com
Action Action / "Drug Like" / Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion
M83 / "Steve McQueen" / Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Neoismo / "No More" / Atmosfera Nel Cubo 
 

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #7: Psychedelic Dance

Show date: 11/4/12

Hour 1:

State Radio / "Big Man" / Rabbit Inn Rebellion
Coheed and Cambria / "Key Entity Extraction III: Vic the Butcher" / The Afterman: Ascension
TKTTSM / "Porcupine" / TKTTSM 
Pinback / "His Phase" / Information Retrieved
Talk Normal / "Bad Date" / Sunshine
Bogan Via / "Copy and Paste" / Wait Up 
Smile Smile / "Permanent Bliss" / Marry a Stranger
Benjamin Gibbard / "Duncan, Where Have You Gone? / Former Lives
Night Moves / "Headlights" / Colored Emotions 
The Cyrillic Typewriter / "Visions of Daniel" / French Door
State Radio / "The Bridge is Burning" / Rabbit Inn Rebellion
Hammock / "Ten Thousand Years Won't Save Your Life" / Departure Songs
Paul Banks / "The Base" / Banks
Ultraista / "Our Song" / Ultraista   

Hour 2:

Delorean / "Stay Close" / Subiza
WIN WIN / "Releaserpm" (feat Lizzie Bougatsos) / WIN WIN
Blood Diamonds / "Heart" / Heart (single)
Caribou / "Odessa" / Swim
Restless People / "Days of Our Lives" / Restless People
ceo / "Come With Me" / White Magic
Jack Penate / "Tonight's Today" / Everything is New
Gavin Russom / "Night Sky" / Night Sky
Juff Shroom / "Fuji" / Spacescapes
The Knife / "Like a Pen" / Silent Shout
Bjork / "Triumph of a Heart" / Medulla
Gang Gang Dance / "Mindkilla" / Eye Contact
 

Monday, October 29, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #6: Creepy Songs

Show date: 10/28/12

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Hour 1:

Ultraista / "Bad Insect" / Ultraista
Sun Airway / "Close" / Soft Fall
Jason Lytle / "Hangtown" / Dept. of Disappearance
Benjamin Gibbard / "Teardrop Windows" / Former Lives
Calexico / "Epic" / Algiers
A.C. Newman / "You Could Get Lost Out Here" / Shut Down the Streets
Smile Smile / "This Is For Real" / Marry a Stranger
State Radio / "Adelaide" / Rabbit Inn Rebellion
Efterklang / "Apples" / Piramida
Harlan / "Daffodil" / Night Loop
Hello Shark / "Brooklyn Mountains" / HS
Pinback / "Proceed to Memory" / Information Retrieved
Coheed and Cambria / "Key Entity Extraction IV: Evagria the Faithful" / The Afterman: Ascension
TKTTSM / "Plastic Fantastic" / TKTTSM

Hour 2:

Coheed and Cambria / "Second Stage Turbine Blade" / Second Stage Turbine Blade
Fever Ray / "If I Had a Heart" / Fever Ray
Radiohead / "Idioteque" / OK Computer 
Drk Sum / "Invincible"

Crimson Death / "SubMerge" / The Crystalline Imprint
Final Moon / "Reload (Out of Control Mix)"

A Sunny Day in Glasgow / "Violet Mary Haunts Me OR Loss of Forgetfulness on Renfrew Street" / Autumn, Again
Forging Another Empty Life / "Abstract, Insentient, Profiles" / Ad Vertigo
A Whisper in the Noise / "Hell's Half Acre" / As the Bluebird Sings
Stolen Babies / "Lifeless" / There Be Squabbles Ahead
Garmarna / "Vedergällningen" / Vedergällningen
 


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #5: Goth & Industrial

Hour 1:

Smile Smile / "Fatal Flaw" / Marry a Stranger
A.C. Newman / "I'm Not Talking" / Shut Down the Streets
The Mountain Goats / "Harlem Roulette" / Transcendental Youth
Hammock / "(Tonight) We Burn Like Stars That Never Die" / Departure Songs
The Raveonettes / "Curse the Night" / Observator
Tamaryn / "While You're Sleeping, I'm Dreaming" / Tender New Signs
Wild Nothing / "This Chain Won't Break" / Nocturne 
Caspian / "Halls of the Summer" / Waking Season
Coheed and Cambria / "Mothers of Men" / The Afterman: Ascension
El Ten Eleven / "No One Died This Time!" / Transitions
Alt-J / "Breezeblocks" / An Awesome Wave
Freelance Whales / "Winter Seeds" / Diluvia

Hour 2:

Collide / "Monochrome" / Chasing the Ghost
Factory of Dreams / "Back to Sleep" / Melotronical
Abney Park / "The Wrong Side" / The Death of Tragedy
Covenant / "Lightbringer" / Modern Ruin
Gary Numan / "The Fall" / Dead Son Rising
Waiting In Vain / "Awake Again" / Awake Again EP
Dope Stars Inc. / "Riding UFOs" / Ultrawired
Grigori 3 / "The System" / Exile
Lust Murder Box / "Viole(n)t Blue Morning" / Lust Murder Box
The Nine / "Haunted" / Native Anger
Ink Dot Boy / "Unite" / Beautiful Murder
Doug Powell / "Believe" / The Apprentice's Sorcerer
[ cell 7 ] / "Shell" / RE:COGNITION

 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #4: Progressive Rock

Show date: 10/14/12

Hour 1:

Coheed and Cambria / "Goodnight, Fair Lady" / The Afterman: Ascension
Jason Collett / "Pacific Blue" / Reckon
A.C. Newman / "Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns" / Shut Down the Streets
El Ten Eleven / "Thanks Bill" / Transitions
Animal Collective / "Monkey Riches" / Centipede Hz
Caspian / "Halls of the Summer" / Waking Season
Wild Nothing / "Midnight Song" / Nocturne
Freelance Whales / "Spitting Image" / Diluvia
California Wives / "Marianne" / Art History
Sun Airway / "Black Noise" / Soft Fall
The Luyas / "Talking Mountains" / Animator
Woods / "Bend Beyond" / Bend Beyond
Joshua Radin / "Underwater" / Underwater
The Mountain Goats / "Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1" / Transcendental Youth

Hour 2:

The Mars Volta / "Cut That City" / Tremulant EP
Pure Reason Revolution / "Nimos & Tambos" / Dark Third
Lesser Key / "Folding Stairs" / Parallels
Neoismo / "Sulla Spiaggia" / Atmosfera Nel Cubo
3 / "Anyone Human" / Revisions
Catacombe / "Anna-Liisa" / Kinetic
The Gathering / "Shortest Day" / Home
Katatonia / "Onward Into Battle" / Night is the New Day
The Omega Experiment / "Karma" / Karma EP
Coheed and Cambria / "Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute" / The Afterman: Ascension

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #3: Shoegaze Rock

Show date: 10/7/12

Hour 1:

Sun Airway / "Close" / Soft Fall
iamamiwhoami / "Goods" / Kin
The Luyas / "Fifty/Fifty" / Animator
Wild Nothing / "Disappear Always" / Nocturne
Rubblebucket / "Pain From Love" / Oversaturated 
Stars / "The North" / The North
Woods / "Cali in a Cup" / Bend Beyond
Tilly and the Wall / "All Kinds of Guns" / Heavy Mood
California Wives / "Purple" / Art History
The Cast of Cheers / "Family" / Family
Minus the Bear / "Lies and Eyes" / Infinity Overhead
Circa Survive / "Sharp Practice" / Violent Waves
The Union Electric / "Saint Francis of Illinois" / Time Is Gold


Hour 2:

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / "Twins" / Higher Than the Stars EP
Nothing / "Downward Years to Come" / Downward Years to Come
Ringo Deathstarr / "Imagine Hearts" / Colour Trip
Weekend / "Hazel" / Red
Gliss / "Morning Light" / Devotion Implosion
Annabel / "The Forgetting of Names and Faces" / Here We Are Tomorrow
Letting Up Despite Great Faults / "Teenage Tide" / Paper Crush
Film School / "Heart Full of Pentagons" / Fission
Asobi Seksu / "New Years" / Citrus
Beach Fossils / "Shallow" / Shallow 7"
Sandra Black / "Pushin' It" / Sandra Black
Dorian Gray / "Falls to My Sleeve" / Listen With Mother
Regina / "Jos Et Sa Joita" / Soita Mulle
Odio Paris / "Cuando Nadie Pone un Disco" / Odio Paris
The Depreciation Guild / "Butterfly Kisses" / In Her Gentle Jaws

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Fall 2012, Show #2: Dreamtronica

Show date: 9/30/12

Hour 1:

Local H / "Cold Manor" / Hallelujah! I'm a Bum
Bloc Party / "We're Not Good People" / Four
Cuckoo Chaos / "Super Skeleton" / Super Skeleton/Shanghaied
The Raveonettes / "She Owns the Streets" / Observator
Wild Nothing / "Counting Days" / Nocturne
Rubblebucket / "The Flower Man" / Oversaturated  
Django Django / "Default" / Django Django
The xx / "Reunion" / Coexist
Kitten / "Christina" / Cut It Out/Sugar
Smile Smile / "Marry a Stranger" / Marry a Stranger
Darlingside / "Still" / Pilot Machines
Minus the Bear / "Toska" / Infinity Overhead
Stars / "Backlines" / The North
Yeasayer / "Fingers Never Bleed" / Fragrant World

Hour 2:
 
Washed Out / "Amor Fati" / Within and Without
Memory Tapes / "Wait in the Dark" / Player Piano
Tycho / "Hours" / Dive
Elite Gymnastics / "Is This On Me?" / Real Friends EP
Phantogram / "Turn It Off" / Eyelid Movies
Hard Mix / "Now Her" / Defaults
Active Child / "When Your Love is Safe" / Curtis Lane
M83 / "Teen Angst" / Before the Dawn Heals Us
The New Division / "Starfield" / The Rookie
Nyiko Beguin / "Blankets & Sheets" / Colchester
Keep Shelly In Athens / Solar Bears -"Cub" (Keep Shelly In Athens Remix) / Campus Martius E.P.
Miracle Fortress / "Raw Spectacle" / Was I The Wave?
School of Seven Bells / "Bye Bye Bye" / Disconnect From Desire