Favorite Albums of 2011

• Bon Iver - Bon Iver
• The Head & the Heart - The Head & the Heart
• We Are Rising - Son Lux
• Comrade Plymouth - Conrad Plymouth
• 21 - Adele

Favorite Songs of 2011

I’m listing a lot more songs than albums, because that’s how this radioactive brain operates. 

• “Holocene” - Bon Iver
• “Rivers & Roads” - The Head & the Heart
• “Rolling in the Deep” - Adele
• “All the Right Things” - Son Lux
• “Helplessness Blues” - Fleet Foxes
• “Don’t Move” - Phantogram
• “Lonely Boy” - The Black Keys
• “Midnight City” - M83
• “Somebody That I Used to Know” - Gotye
• “I Stand Alone” - Theophilus London
• “Ten-Twenty-Ten” - Generationals
• “High for This” - The Weeknd
• “No Strings” - Mayer Hawthorne
• “Stuck in my ID” - Reptar
• “Take Me Over” - Cut Copy
• “Bats in the Attic” - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
• “Ritual Union” - Little Dragon
• “I Can’t Make You Love Me (cover)” - Justin Vernon
• “You’re the One I Want (cover)” - Angus & Julia Stone
• “Higher Love (cover)” - James Vincent McMorrow

Favorite Concerts of 2011

I might as well list every concert I had the joy of attending this year, because the truth is, live music is my favorite thing. Live music is my best thing of 2011. I’m so happy and grateful that I had the opportunity to hear so many artists I adore, in the cities I love, with people I enjoy the company of. Here are some highlights.

• Bon Iver | Riverside Theater
• The Avett Brothers | Riverside Theater
• Cedarwell, Conrad Plymouth | Club G
• Chromeo,  Mayer Hawthorne | Turner Hall
• Punch Brothers | High Noon
• The Head & the Heart | Turner Hall
• The Black Keys, Florence & the Machine | Summerfest
• Walk the Moon | The Frequency
• Beirut | Turner Hall

Prairie Dog Artists

• Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
• Efterklang
• Blind Pilot
• Jinja Safari
• Wildlife
• The Deep Dark Woods
• Canon Blue
• The Civil Wars
• Middle Brother