We’re hard at work in the Smile Politely bunker putting together our end of year music lists, which will include local songs, albums and shows. So please take a moment this week to send a list of the five or so local albums and songs that stood out to you and your favorite live shows to [email protected]. We’ll need your response by Saturday, December 10 in order to get this thing off the ground before we cease publishing for winter break.
If you don’t have a full list of five for each category, please let us know everything you can. If you don’t put your choices in an obvious ranked order, we will count all your picks equally. Your votes will carry the most weight, but we want to mention that the music editors reserve the right to tweak the lists if we feel someone is over represented (especially in the song category) or to publicize an act we think may have been overlooked.
Here’s an 2011 album/EP release list to get you started. Please let us know who we may have missed and we’ll add them:
An Evening with your Mother Trees
Aphid House Rat EP
Avery Strange Avery Strange One
Bad Catman Waxed Moustaches
Bed Time It’s a Bad Time
Ben Campbell Lonely Lights
Comfort Food Demo
Dino Bravo S/T
Dirty Feathers Midnight Snakes
Easter Demonstration
Elsinore Life Inside an Elephant
Evil Tents Night Air on the Midway
Evil Tents empitness is loveliness ep
Grandkids Sister Walls EP
Hank Schrader EP
Horrible Things Demo 4
Isaac Arms In This Economy
Jack Kilroy Two Dead Cities
Kilborn Alley Four
Leonard Hatred Kakapo Kaczynski
Mean Lids Kalyx
Michael Meadows The First Four Billion Years are the Hardest
Midstress Growing Up is Getting Old
New Ruins This Life Is Not Ours to Keep
Panel Van Words
Petunias Day Times EP
Psychic Twin Psychic Twin
Rvins Lungs
Rusalka / Diamond Stretch split
Rvins / Maltross split
Take Care Demo
Teenage Ghosts Dream
That’s No Moon S/T
The Curses Old Magazines
The Palace Flophouse Bad Friends Forever
The Sugar Prophets S/T
Twin Differences S/T EP
Vanattica The King or Me EP
We Must Dismantle All This! What Remains
Zach May and the Maps Vantage Points EP