Year In Review

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Top 50 albums

Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Top 100 Songs of 2011

#1

Adele
21

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#2

Dawes
Nothing Is Wrong

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#3

The Decemberists
The King Is Dead

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#4

Amos Lee
Mission Bell

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#5

Foster The People
Torches

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#6

Paul Simon
So Beautiful Or What

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#7

Wilco
The Whole Love

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#8

Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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#9

Coldplay
Mylo Xyloto

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#10

My Morning Jacket
Circuital

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#11

Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues

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#12

Civil Wars
Barton Hallow

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#13

Diego Garcia
Laura

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#14

Tedeschi Trucks Band
Revelator

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#15

Black Keys
El Camino

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#16

Ryan Adams
Ashes And Fire

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#17

Feist
Metals

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#18

The Head And Heart
The Head And Heart

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#19

Death Cab For A Cutie
Codes And Keys

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#20

Tom Waits
Bad As Me

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#21

Florence And the Machine
Ceremonials

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#22

R.E.M.
Collapse Into Now

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#23

Raphael Saadiq
Stone Rollin

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#24

St Vincent
Strange Mercy

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#25

Radiohead
The King Of Limbs

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A conversation with The Thermals’ Kathy Foster about bass, Rocky and their first decade as a band (playing Union Transfer...

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Download Major Lazer’s remix of “Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (playing Roots Picnic on Saturday, June...

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Watch James Blake live in concert via NPR Music (playing Union Transfer in November)

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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Arrah and the Ferns at PhilaMOCA, White Laces at Kung Fu Necktie, Dani Mari at Philadelphia Folk Festival...

Arrah and the Ferns play PhilaMOCA tonight.  The concert will act as both the band’s album release show for Make Your Mind as...Read More