thanks to my friend Jackie for this cool “city” landscape picture.   I want to get in shape. I want to breath better.  I want to sleep better. I want to work harder.  I want to contribute more.  I want to listen better.  I want to share more.  I want to donate more.  I [...]

This was tough because there was two albums that really took up the bulk of my listening time this year. I tried to not be biased about the one, as I knew it would be great and as for the other, well the band toured with friends of mine so bias laid there as well. [...]

By Charissa Lock @charissalock     I have been a fan of The Kooks since hearing “Naïve” on the radio 5 years ago off of their Inside In/Inside Out album.  They were upbeat, fun, and though they could be classified as “pop,” I put them in 1960s pop category instead of comparing them to 21st [...]

Crushing on this lately. Big Black Delta – “BETAMAX” This is of their debut LP “BBDLP1” which came out in September of this year.  You can learn more about them here: Twitter: @BigBlackDelta Facebook: facebook.com/bigblackdelta Web: bigblackdelta.com matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

   Album sales are up over 1% compared in 2011 comapred to 2010 which had a ~12% decline. (year over year 2009 to 2010) Top Performers: (to the date of this writing) m=million k=thousands ALBUM SALES Adele “21” – 5.2m Lady Gaga “Born This Way” – 2m Michael Buble “Christmas” – 1.9m Lil Wayne “Tha [...]

Sibling Rivalry (aka Justin and Alina) cover the Kings of Leon’ “Use Somebody” last night in Red Bank, NJ.  We’re proud to be helping them through The Project Matters (@tpmnj). Can only imagine what will come of this brother sister duo. You can see what they’re up to here: Twitter: @JustinandAlina Facebook: www.facebook.com/justinandalina Website: www.justinandalina.com [...]

Tyler T Williams (Director, Producer) and Trevor Powers (Youth Lagoon) teamed up to bring the most powerful video, in our opinion, of 2011.  The combination of music and passion in this treatment blows anything away we’ve seen all year. 1. Youth Lagoon – Montana Best usage of Buffalos.  (None were hurt in the filming of [...]

By Charissa Lock @charissalock        The second I started listening to Bombay Bicycle Club’s (BBC) newest album A Different Kind of Fix, I was thrown off guard.  I think I may have even double checked to see if I had purchased the correct item and not a John Mayer cover band.   When [...]

vs.  This was a tough pick.  Back in November I would of unequivocally told you that the Breaking Dawn soundtrack was the best soundtrack of the year.  This album is littered with amazing tracks from Aqualung, Iron & Wine, Bruno Mars, Christina Perri, The Joy Formidable and Sleeping at Last just to name a few. [...]

Spend a week with a young and talented musician and he’ll be sure to show you a band or two about a band or two right? right! Cloud Nothings “Attack on Memory” due out January 24th, 2012 on Carpark records.  Two songs already available off this upcoming release are: “No Future, No Past” http://youtu.be/6X1URP5eg6I “Stay Useless” [...]

Going back to NYC for Christmas.  Should be fantastic! Exciting Christmas week! matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

       This list was compiled of music found and listened to (a lot) by me in 2011.  Although the majority was, not every song was technically released in 2011, they were just consumed by various mediums such as iTunes, Amazon, Turntable.fm, Rdio, Spotify, Google Music Beta, my iPod (R.I.P.), Earbits and discovered through [...]