The Key’s Year-End Mania: Kyle Costill’s top five Bands in the Backyard videos of 2012

For The Key’s year-in-review, we asked our trusted sources – our writers and photographers, XPN’s on-air staff, fellow bloggers in the Philly scene and even a few musicians – to send us their Top Five Whatevers. Could be the traditional music route – albums, songs, concerts of the year – or it could be only loosely connected. We’ll be sharing these recaps every day through to the end of the year. Today, Kyle Costill of Bands in the Backyard shares the five favorite videos he produced in 2012.

Here are our top videos for BITBY. 2013 is gonna shred.

5. Nothing live Key Studio Session at WXPN – “The Rites of Love and Death”

4. Tanlines at Making Time – “All Of Me” [watch on Vimeo]

3. Heyward Howkins official music video – “Sugar Sand Stitched Lip”

2. Exitmusic live outside Johnny Brenda’s – “White Noise”

1. Nothing official music video – “Downward Years to Come”

Runners up:
13. The Spinto Band at AKA for record store day
12. Snowbird Vintage promo
11. Dirty Beaches at Art in the Age
10. Savoir Adore in Austin, TX
9. Heyward Howkins in the snowy backyard
8. Creepoid official video – “Golden String”
7. Turning Violet Violet in the backyard
6. Metz at Art in the Age – “Art Debt”