EDITORS-IN-CHIEFGinger Holmes

&Hayley Ricardo

LAYOUT EDITORKevin Oliveira

ASSISTANT EDITORNicole Wallace

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2012 in reviewBest Albums - Shane Potts

1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city

2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

3. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

4. Jessie Ware - Devotion

5. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

6. TNGHT - TNGHT EP

7. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

8. Cat Power - Sun

9. Passion Pit - Gossamer

10. Tame Impala - Lonerism

Best Albums - Brad McPherson

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism

2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city

3. Grizzly Bear - Shields

4. Mac Demarco - 2

5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

6. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

7. Wild Nothing - Nocturne

8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

9. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

10. The xx - Coexist

Best Singer-Songwriter Albums

1. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

3. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn’t

4. Grimes - Visions

5. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

Hayley Ricardo

Best Soundtracks

1. Various Artists - Django Unchained

2. Benjamin Britten - Moonrise Kingdom

3. Jonny Greenwood - The Master

4. Mychael Danna - Life of Pi

5. Dario Marianelli - Anna Karenina

Hayley Ricardo

Best Pop Albums

1. Jason Mraz - Love Is a Four-Letter Word

2. Taylor Swift - Red

3. Michael Bublé - Christmas

4. Maroon 5 - Overexposed

5. One Direction - Up All Night

6. Carrie Underwood - Blown Away

7. Justin Bieber - Believe

8. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger

9. Demi Lovato - Broken

10. Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire

Ginny Nie

Best Songs - Shane Potts

1. Frank Ocean ft. Andre 3000 - Pink Matter

2. Jessie Ware - Running

3. Dirty Projectors - Dance for You

4. AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It

5. Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees

6. Azealia Banks ft. Lazy J - 212

7. TNGHT - Goooo

8. Baauer - dumdum

9. Cat Power - Ruin

10. Jai Paul - Jasmine

Best Songs - Hayley Ricardo

1. Frank Ocean - Bad Religion

2. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

3. Grimes - Oblivion

4. Azealia Banks - 1991

5. Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton - Freedom

6. Jens Lekman - The World Moves On

7. Fiona Apple - Periphery

8. Milo Greene - 1957

9. Kendrick Lamar - B----, Don’t Kill My Vibe

10. Carly Rae Jepsen - Turn Me Up

Best Hip-Hop Songs

1. OFWGKTA - Oldie

2. Pep Love - Hip Hop My Friend

3. Nas - The Don

4. Big K.R.I.T. - Rich Dad, Poor Dad

5. Del the Funky Homosapien & Parallel Thought - Get to Drillin

6. Large Professor - Light Years

7. Masta Ace & MF Doom - Slow Down

8. The Alchemist ft. Fashawn - Oleg’s Flight

9. Punchline & DJ Soulclap - Cleanin My Sneakers

10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Same Love

Kevin Oliveira

Best Country Albums

1. Dwight Yoakoam - 3 Pears

2. Justin Townes Earle - Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now

3. Iris DeMent - Sing the Delta

4. Carrie Underwood - Blown Away

5. Zachary Brown Band - Atlantic

Ginny Nie

Best Music Videos

1. M.I.A. - Bad Girls

2. Jack White - Sixteen Saltine Crackers

3. Deadmau5 ft. Gerard Way - Professional Griefers

4. Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?

5. Florence + The Machine - Never Let Me Go

Nicole Wallace

Upcoming Concerts

1. 1/30: Freelance Whales at The Space

2. 2/8: Jeff Mangum at Union Station, Hartford

3. 2/11: Aesop Rock at Toad’s Place

4. 2/27: Aaron Carter at Toad’s Place

5. 3/8: Paper Route at The Space

Upcoming Album Releases

1. 1/15: A$AP Rocky - Long. Live. A$AP

2. 1/21: The Joy Formidable - Wolf’s Law

3. 2/11: Foals - Holy Fire

4. 2/12: Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste

5. 2/25: Atoms For Peace - Amok

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