Will's Band of the Week (general)
A weekly podcast featuring indie and alternative rock bands

If you want to listen to the podcast and be surprised, stop reading now.  Otherwise, here are your hosts' top ten lists for 2012:

Will’s Top Ten
1. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch
2. Bob Mould - Silver Age
3. Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold
4. Royal Headache
5. The Raveonettes - Observator
6. Passion Pit - Gossamer
7. The Tallest Man On Earth - There’s No Leaving Now
8. Diiv - Oshin
9. First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar
10. P.S. I Love You - Death Dreams

Chris’s Top Ten
1. The Men - Open Your Heart
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Alleluljah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
3. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
4. Best Coast - The Only Place
5. Mount Carmel - Real Women
6. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
7. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
8. Hospitality
9. Sonny & the Sunsets - Longtime Companion
10. Tennis - Young & Old

Barrett’s Top Ten
1. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
2. Cat Power - Sun
3. Tame Impala - Lonerism
4. Moonface - With Siinai - Hearbreaking Bravery
5. Grizzly Bear - Shields
6. Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Alleluljah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
8. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
9. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
10. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
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Thank you David R. for the link:

http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/

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Will’s Top Ten:
1. Yuck - Yuck
2. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?
3. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
5. The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
6. Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard
7. The Bats - Free All the Monsters
8. TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light
9. Cloud Control - Bliss Release
10. Papercuts - Fading Parade

Chris’s Top Ten:
1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2. Wye Oak - Civilian
3. Wilco - The Whole Love
4. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
5. Real Estate - Days
6. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
8. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch The Throne
9. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
10. Tennis - Cape Dory

Barrett’s Top Ten:
1. Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire
2. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
3. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Wilco - The Whole Love
6. Cass Mc Combs - Wit’s End
7. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?
8. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
9. Real Estate - Days
10. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
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Thurston Moore performs "Circulation" at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, Wisconsin on July 16, 2011.

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra performs "FFunny FFrends" with the lights out at the Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 18, 2011. 

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Yuck performs "Georgia" at the Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 18, 2011.

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Will and Barrett discuss more of the old and the new, with No Joy, the Three O'Clock, and The Soft Moon, plus music news.

Direct download: No_Joy_The_Three_OClock_and_The_Soft_Moon.mp3
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If you don't want to know our selections for the best music of 2010 before listening to the podcast, stop reading now, and get the podcast from iTunes.

iTunes link

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Here are our top ten lists for 2010:

 

Will's Top Ten

1. Avi Buffalo

2. The Soft Pack

3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

4. Best Coast - Crazy For You

5. The National - High Violet

6. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

7. Tokyo Police Club - Champ

8. Laura Veirs - July Flame

9. Clem Snide - The Meat of Life

10. Marnie Stern

 

Chris's Top Ten

1. Wavves - King of the Beach

2. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

3. Heligoats - Goodness Gracious

4. Sleigh Bells - Treats

5. The Soft Pack

6. Jeremy Messersmith - The Reluctant Graveyard

7. Josh Rouse - El Turista

8. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

9. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

10. Peasant - Shady Retreat

 

Barrett's Top Ten

1. The National - High Violet

2. John Grant - Queen of Denmark

3. Best Coast - Crazy For You

4. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today

5. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

6. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

7. Avi Buffalo

8. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

9. The Walkmen - Lisbon

10. Hot Chip - One Life Stand

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Will, Barrett and Chris discuss the new releases by Sonny & the Sunsets and Stornoway, along with some musical surprises.

Direct download: Sonny__the_Sunsets.mp3
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