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Top 50 albums

Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Top 100 Songs of 2011

#26

TV On The Radio
Nine Types Of Light

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#27

Mayer Hawthorne
How Do You Do

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#28

Gillian Welch
The Harrow And The Harvest

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#29

The War On Drugs
Slave Ambient

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#30

The Jayhawks
Mockingbird Time

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#31

Drive-By Truckers
Go Go Boots

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#32

Middle Brother
Middle Brother

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#33

Cults
Cults

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#34

Ben Folds
The Best Imitation Of Myself

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#35

Iron And Wine
Kiss Each Other Clean

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#36

Laura Marling
A Creature I Dont Know

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#37

Foo Fighters
Wasting Light

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#38

Lucinda Williams
Blessed

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#39

PJ Harvey
Let England Shake

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#40

tUnE-yArDs
Whokill

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#41

Elbow
Build A Rocket Boys

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#42

Beirut
The Rip Tide

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#43

Peter Gabriel
New Blood

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#44

The Strokes
Angles

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#45

Nick Lowe
The Old Magic

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#46

Bright Eyes
The People's Key

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#47

Warren Haynes
Man In Motion

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#48

Gary Clark Jr.
Bright Lights

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#49

Gregg Allman
Low Country Blues

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#50

Peter Bjorn And John
Gimme Some

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Caravan Music Festival announces its 2013 dates / lineup, and it’s massive

The fourth annual Caravan Music Festival will once again bring a boatload of Philadelphia bands to the woods of Maine of a three day...Read More

Where to see (or avoid seeing) Kanye West’s new video projection in Philly tonight

Love Kanye West, hate him or occupy some ever-fluctuating middle ground (that’s me), you’ve got to give the dude credit...Read More

See Big Terrible and Ali Wadsworth celebrate Rotten City the North Star Bar tonight

Philly blues-rock combo Big Terrible is gearing up to usher its third release into the world; the Rotten City EP gets its physical...Read More

Review: Bobby McFerrin peforms this week’s Free at Noon (photos, audio, setlist)

Ten time Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin gave a stellar performance at this afternoon’s Free at Noon concert. McFerrin just...Read More

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

This spring, Portland indie-punk trio The Thermals turned ten and released an album that’s got all the fuzzy scuzzy energy and...Read More