Jake’s Top 15 of 2012

As the year comes to a close, we all sit around a think about what music has been through this past year. 2012 was by no means a mediocre year in music. In fact, in most instances it was brought to bigger and better heights, achievements that would never seem possible were achieved, barriers and limits … Continue reading »

propertyofzack:

• Jack’s Mannequin has been retired by Andrew McMahon.
• Mark Hoppus has begun recording new blink-182 music.
• Algernon Cadwallader called it quits.
• Dance Gavin Dance and A Lot Like Birds will be touring this fall.
• A Day To Remember confirmed their new album title.
• Falling In…

propertyofzack:

• A band followed Warped Tour suffered a fatal accident.
• blink-182 will be touring Australia without Travis Barker.
• Title Fight are releasing their new album in September.
• Frank Turner called out Nicki Minaj for show antics.
• Chiodos announced their first tour since reuniting…

PPRAE mod, T-Dork, just posted up his top 7 AotY! Make sure to contribute YOUR favorites of the year to the survey so we can post ‘em up!

mr-manchester:

After 12 months of thought (or about a week) I’ve narrowed it down to my top 7 albums of this year.  You may ask yourself…”Why 7?”  Well, the answer is that beyond these 7 records, I would have felt like I was just listing a few that I thought I should have liked.  Did I enjoy more than 7 records this year?  Of course.  But only these 7 stood out to me as the best of the year.  So there. 

#7

My faith in pop punk was completely reborn with the emergence of The Wonder Years. I’ve never been a big pop punker, but the realist-punk TWY bring to the table seems to bring the maturity that I felt the genre has always lacked (I personally don’t enjoy fast, humorous songs that exist just for the sake of being fast and trying to be funny). Dear Suburbia… is such a smart record, with references to the town they live in and a lightly binding concept throughout. This is finally the PopPunk record that seems like it was written for a mid twenties kid that hasn’t quite got it all figured out yet.
The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing 

#6

Balance & Composure was a brand new band for me in 2011 also. Separation grew on me the same way The Dangerous Summer did. “Galena” got me hooked and interested in the rest of the album. B&C have this driving, grinding feel that I love so much in so many of their songs. Sometimes the only word I can think to describe parts of their songs is “filthy” (“Fade”, “Quake”, “Patience”). Driving bass kicks with vocal and guitar melodies that flow steadily make this album stand out to me. It seems like those stupid audio visualizers were made to use while listening to this album (you know, where the equalizer makes a line all squiggly and switches between trippy colors…I cant be the only one that has watched that at least once).
Balance and Composure - Separation 

#5

I’ve been a Childish Gambino fanboy for about a year and a half. I knew Donald Glover existed as a hip-hop artist, among his many other ventures, and thought it would be cool of me to like his music. I functioned that way for a while, trying to listen to his mix tapes. Last year’s “EP” made me a true fan (Freaks & Geeks…nuf said) and some remixed singles had me waiting for Camp hardcore. “Bonfire” was released early and the Casey Anthony line made me legit yell and laugh out loud at the same time. The lyrics in Camp are incredible. Coherent as a narrative on first listen, then filled with hilarious and heart wrenching references that take multiple listens to catch. The musicality of this album is amazing as well. Camp isn’t just verses over beats; there are some legit songs and arrangements. The leadoff “Outside” stands out here with its chorale arrangement. With Camp, Childish Gambino went from a novelty act for backpackers and hipsters to a legitimate, intelligent artist.
Childish Gambino - Camp 

#4

The fact that The Dangerous Summer’s War Paint is on this list, let alone as high as it is, is a surprise to even me. After a few listens I liked exactly .5 songs on this album. Not half the songs, not one or two songs, but one half of a song. As I kept listening, the lyrics struck me and I loved the songs more. Like the Transit record, this one is extremely personal to me, even to the point where I don’t like to listen to one of the songs anymore because I’m reminded how terrible I felt at one point. It seems like I discovered a new favorite song on this record every couple of days. The songs vary a great deal in tempo, time signature, and feeling (“In My Room” and “No One’s Gonna Need You More” come to mind). There’s a lot to be said for an album that seems like its brand new every time you listen to it even 4 months after it’s first spin.
The Dangerous Summer - War Paint

#3

Whether it’s in part because of my name or not, I love Manchester Orchestra. I’m sure I was biased even before Simple Math came out. I had the highest of expectations for it, and it definitely lived up to those. This album has a bit of a cleaner sound than METN but still brings more punch than LAVLAC. The video for “Virgin” was shot by a kid in Rochester, NY (where I live) and makes me love it even more. What really set this album apart for me, and signaled more good things to come form the band, were the string arrangements. At times, they overshadow the drums and guitar in the best way possible. They add a melody that adds such a great dimension and brings more feeling to the songs they are in. But all the while, they seem to just exist within and then vanish from your memory of the song as soon as it’s over.
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math

#2

I’m late getting on the Transit wagon but if there was ever an album to win over new fans, it’s Listen & Forgive.  Without being my favorite album from this year, it is my most heavily played.  I don’t believe that this band’s pieces are individually anything spectacular.  They don’t have soaring vocals, shredding guitars, or pounding drums.  What they do have are great songs and a collective sound so solid that I couldn’t help but fall in love.  “Long Lost Friends” and “All Your Heart” are standouts for me.  This is one of two albums this year that felt like it was written about/for me.  We all know that those are the best albums.
Transit - Listen & Forgive  

#1

I bought Moving Mountains’ Forward when it came out on a whim.  I struggled to get into it and to be honest, I still do.  All it took to get me hooked on their 2011 release Waves, was one view of the above video for “Always Only for Me”.  MovMou bring everything to this album.  It’s filled with happiness, sadness, angst, and hope.  Waves seems like an album written by a band that’s matured out of writing 10 minute songs with 8 minutes of instrumentals just to prove that they can.  I love this album because of the vocal melodies that are original to MovMou (“Parts in Different Places”).  The lyrics are cryptic enough to allow the listener to decide what the song means to them.  I loved this album even before some tough times this year and I loved it more during and after them.  It’s a gorgeous album that will be a classic to me forever.  Waves is my Album of the Year for 2011.
Moving Mountains - Waves 

Brand New - “Guernica” 
Deja Entendu 
Triple Crown/Razor & Tie, 2003
Produced by: Steven Haigler 

———

Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo’s Most Played songs last week:

1) Brand New – “Guernica”

2) Joyce Manor – “Constant Headache”

2) Brand New – ”The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows”

3) La Dispute – “King Park”

3) The Wonder Years – “New Years With Carl Weathers”

3) Moving Mountains – “Tired Tiger”

3) The Wonder Years – ”Washington Square Park”

3) The Wonder Years –  ”Came Out Swinging”

3) Brand New –  ”Sudden Death in Carolina”

3) Brand New –  ”Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis”

3) Childish Gambino  – “Bonfire”

3) Pianos Become The Teeth – ”I’ll Get By”

3) The Wonder Years – ”My Last Semester”

4) Box Car Racer – “Letters To God”

4) Balance and Composure – “I Tore You Apart In My Head”

4) I Am the Avalanche – “You’ve Got Spiders”

4) The Wonder Years – “Woke Up Older”

4) The Wonder Years – “I Won’t Say The Lord’s Prayer”

4) Man Overboard – “Decemberism”

4) Brand New – “Seventy Times 7”

4) Brand New – ”Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don’t”

4) Manchester Orchestra – ”The Only One”

4) I Am the Avalanche – “Brooklyn Dodgers”

4) The Story So Far – “High Regard”

4) The Story So Far – “Mt. Diablo  

4) Brand New – ”Last Chance to Lose Your Keys”

These statistics are collected via our last.fm group. To have your plays counted, make sure you join!

All 26 of this songs, along with the weekly top songs for the past two months are located in this handy Spotify playlist!  Subscribe to it to rock out on your own time, and also to automatically receive the weekly updates in the future!

Remember- we’re always spinning in: turntable.fm/pop_punkrockalternativeemo

Follow #BroTT on Twitter! @BestRoomOnTT

Check out who made this week’s top artist list!

(Source: fghtff-yrdmns)

We’re going through the alphabet via Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo song titles!

• Alkaline Trio - “Armageddon” [Zach Dresch]
• Chiodos - ”Baby, You Wouldn’t Last a Minute on the Creek” [DJ Zach Attack]
• Oh, Sleeper - “Chewing The Stitch” [Ghostface Killah]
• The Mansions - “Dig Up The Dead” [Drew!]
• Saves The Day - “E” [Neesh]
• Moving Mountains - “Full Circle” [chewiie]
• Me and Mark - “Glitter Pigs” [Ansith]
• Bowling For Soup - “High School Never Ends” [Gurglemuf]
• Days Away - “Ideas” [ZachV]
• Brand New - “Jesus Christ” [Ghostface Killah]
• New Found Glory - ”King Of Wishful Thinking” [Jonny Jump Up]
• Allister - ”Love Song” [Ansith]
• Paramore - ”My Heart” [THEdickhatch]
• Taking Back Sunday - ”Number Five With A Bullet” [Drew!]
• blink-182 - ”Obvious” [Zach Dresch]
• Ant Mas & Wavis - “Pass the Masochist (Into the Heart of Madness)” [Neesh]
• Lit - “Quicksand” [Gurglemuf]
• The Story So Far - “Roam” [Jonny Jump Up]
• Pianos Become The Teeth - “Such Confidence” [Drew!]
• Wheatus - ”Teenage Dirtbag” [THEdickhatch]
• Thursday - “Understanding In A Car Crash” [Ghostface Killah]
• Relient K - “The Vinyl Countdown [Zach Dresch]
• Pencil in the Portrait - ”Weatherman” [Ansith]
• Close Your Eyes - ”Xchet Steadmanx” [Glenn Unger]
• The Offspring - ”You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” [Gurglemuf]
• Incubus - ”Zee Deveel” by [ZachV]

It’s 1&done so make sure to stop in and spin for a letter!
Best Room on TT - http://turntable.fm/pop_punkrockalternativeemo 

theneesh:

Great article about the great mind behind a great service. It’s all greeeeat! And now you don’t even need a Facebook account to use this incredible service, you can use a twitter account! If you love music… listening to it, discovering it, enjoying it in good company… You need to check out turntable.fm. And stop by my room- which was selected as their Best Room of The Week- Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo.

In PPRAE we have no bots, no queues… Just good ol’ fashioned FFA (Free For All). And just like the good ol’ rock shows, if you fall down… we’ll help you get back up.

By the way, the screenshot in the article is from PPRAE and the song we’re all singing along to is “Tired Tiger” by Moving Mountains. That’s easily one of my favorite songs of the year!

Moving Mountains - Tired Tiger

Experiencing music as a social activity used to mean going to a concert, or maybe a party. And to learn about new music or artists in the days of yore, you had radio, record shops, or the much-fabled mix tape. 

But in the Internet and iPod age, listening to music became a more solitary experience—the earbuds, the personal playlists, the Pandora stations made just for you. 

Turntable.fm founder and CEO Billy Chasen wants to reverse that trend and bring music lovers together again, online. Turntable is one of the first truly social music networks, where people are listening and interacting online with others at the same time….

>Read full article

The Wonder Years - “Local Man Ruins Everything” (music video)
Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
Hopeless / No Sleep, 2011 

———

BroTT’s Top 25 Songs of Last Week:

1. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – ”In Friends We Trust”
2. The Wonder Years – ”Local Man Ruins Everything”
3. The Wonder Years – ”Came Out Swinging”
4. The Wonder Years – ”Don’t Let Me Cave In”
5. blink-182 – ”All The Small Things”
6. La Dispute – ”King Park”
7. Seahaven – ”Understanding”
8. Seahaven – ”PV”
9. Brand New – ”Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis”
10. The Dangerous Summer – ”Work In Progress”
11. Seahaven – ”Goodnight”
12. Rise Against – ”Make It Stop (September’s Children)”
13. Manchester Orchestra – ”Shake It Out”
14. Paramore – ”Renegade”
15. Moving Mountains – ”The Cascade”
16. Moving Mountains – ”Alleviate”
17. The Story So Far – ”Quicksand”
18. The Dangerous Summer – ”Good Things”
19. Man Overboard – ”Love Your Friends, Die Laughing”
20. AFI – ”The Boy Who Destroyed the World”
21. Set Your Goals – ”The Few That Remain”
22. blink-182 – ”Going Away To College”
23. The Story So Far – ”High Regard”
24. Moving Mountains – ”Where Two Bodies Lie”
25. Bright Eyes – “First Day Of My Life”

These charts are compiled from our last.fm group. If you’d like your plays to count, join up!

All these songs (with the exception of Paramore and Seahaven) are conveniently located in this Spotify playlist, along with our past top songs of the week!  

turntable-fm:

If you think that Punk Rock, Emo and Alternative are only for dejected teens, think again. The Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo room is filled with friendly upbeat people ready to rock out and have a great time doing it! If you want to crowd surf with awesome buds, this is the room for you!

jessipedia: hey folks
Tired Tigress: Hi Jess.

jessipedia: So, how did the room get started?

THEdickhatch: Well, when the FBR room died, Jon made this.
Feve10: Jon aka therarecreature
DJ DORFPIMP started playing “For Members Only” by Northstar
jessipedia: FBR?
THEdickhatch: Fueled By Ramen
TheRareCreature: Dorfpimp and I were working together…I made a room for us to DJ in together…was on a pop punk kick but wanted more variety. Dick and Quart were our two first super regulars and then Neesh came along.
DJ DORFPIMP: so we were like we need to make a room for all kinds of awesome music we enjoy and then it grew slowly. like watching a baby grow.
Another Band Girl: Then cool people find each other. The rest is history. Since Jon and Adam spoke to everyone in chat, it became a room of friends with the same music taste.
Tired Tigress: But we later expanded the room’s musical palette to incorporate mostly everything.

Read More

Moving Mountains - “Tired Tiger”
Waves
Triple Crown Records, 2011 

The interview was a success!  Thank you Turntable.FM and Jessipedia for selecting Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo as the Room of the Week!  Also, thank you Moving Mountains for writing such a beautiful song!  Plus congrats are in order- Tired Tigress has hit 8K!

1&done going strong.  Still 30+ folks in the room, so we amended the “wait 3” rule to “wait 5.”  Rock on, lovelies.
<3 Neesh 

(via sinewavess)

Transit - “Long Lost Friends” 
Listen & Forgive 
Rise Records 

TheBestRoomOnTT’s Most Listened To Songs Last Week:

1. Transit – Long Lost Friends
2. Make Do and Mend – Transparent Seas
3. The Dangerous Summer – War Paint
4. La Dispute – King Park
5. La Dispute – The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
6. Moving Mountains – The Cascade
7. Crucial Dudes – Mad Nice
8. Childish Gambino – Bonfire
9. Joyce Manor – Constant Headache
10. American Football – Never Meant
11. Brand New – Archers

The chart above reflects the listening habits of Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo on Turntable.FM over the past week.  The data is gathered from our Last.FM group, so to influence these charts… join up!

If you’re on Spotify: listen to this playlist!

(Source: aaronmorrice)