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stripping it down this year. no more write ups/reviews, just a score out of 10. i'll try to avoid grade inflation:
10 - Perfect
9(.5) - Excellent
8(.5) - Really Good
7(.5) - Good
6(.5) - Above Average
5(.5) - Average
4(.5) - Below Average
3(.5) - Bad
2(.5) - Really Bad
1(.5) - Awful
0(.5) - Fucking Awful

Albums

This Town Needs Guns - 13.0.0.0.0 7/10

Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai 8/10

The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law 5/10

Yo La Tengo - Fade 6/10

The Bronx - The Bronx (IV) 5/10

Comadre - Comadre 7.5/10

My Bloody Valentine - m b v 8.5/10

Local Natives - Hummingbird 7/10

Pro Era - PEEP: The aPROcalypse 4/10

Darkstar - News From Nowhere 7/10

Funeral for a Friend - Conduit 5.5/10

Autechre - Exai 8.5/10

Iceage - You're Nothing 7/10

Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat 6/10

clipping - midcity 7/10

Atoms for Peace - AMOK 8/10

David Bowie - The Next Day 7/10

Oval - Calidostópia! 3.5/10

Pissed Jeans - Honeys 6.5/10

Buke and Gase - General Dome 7.5/10
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The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook
The Birds Are Spies, They Report to the Trees
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Knowing We'll Never Grow Up
Dear Diary I Seem to Be Dead
Only for the Sake of Aching
Noisy Sins Of the Insects

It's way too much coding to post my entire collection on here,
so here's a better, concise list of my collection, including pictures

http://deadformat.net/tradelist/jonahharper

January 21 - Music Hall Of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
Into It. Over It.
Ace Enders
Chris Conley

January 28 - The Mill at Trinity College - Hartford, CT
Tigers Jaw
End of a Year
Baby Grand
The Guru
New Year's Revolution

February 4 - The Stood - Purchase, NY
Tigers Jaw
Balance and Composure
Hostage Calm
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

February 26 - The Space - Hamden, CT
Pianos Become the Teeth
Xerxes
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
The Saddest Landscape
Wess Meets West

March 11 - The Heirloom Arts Theatre - Danbury, CT
Transit
Into It. Over It.
Suns
Wolves At Bay

March 18 - The Space - Hamden, CT
The Saddest Landscape
Loma Prieta
Birds in Row
My Fictions

April 8 - The Handsome Woman - Willimantic, CT
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
Dads
Spraynard
Timeshares
The Reptilian
Run, Forever
Glocca Morra

April 18 - The Space - Hamden, CT
Into It. Over It.
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At the end of the year 2010 it was clear I wasn't done with the amazing music released that year because it dominated my plays long into 2011, now I'm finally getting around to posting this for the sake of not skipping a year.

Hightide Hotel - Nothing Was Missing, Except Me
Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds
Joie De Vivre - The North End
Make Do and Mend- End Measured Mile
Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere
RVIVR - RVIVR
Stay Ahead Of The Weather - We Better Get Goin' if We're Gonna
Ceremony - Rohnert Park
Dangers - Messy, Isn't It?
Man Overboard- Real Talk
Smoosh - Whitershins
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Castevet - The Echo & The Light
Iron Chic - Not With This
The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
Spraynard - Cut and Paste

EPs:
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Formlessness
Brave Bird - Ready or Not EP
Such Gold - Pedestals EP
Touche Amore / La Dispute - Search For A Pulse / The Worth of the World

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Year In Music: 2011

This year I decided to keep a playlist in iTunes of all the music I added that was released in 2011. By December I had added more than 1300 songs, and I'm sure I forgot to add some music to the list throughout the year. The playlist was part of my attempt to catalog my whole musical experience in 2011, a feat I hope to repeat in subsequent years. I've worked up "Top X" lists for albums, songs, EP's, music videos, and concerts. Basically, I'm writing this more for my amusement and recollection than to actually release a list of what I think was the best music in 2011. I think it's incredibly conceited for any one person to try to catalog every single piece of music in a given year and call it a "Best Of" list. I know there are entire genres of music I dislike, not to mention a decent sized swath of indie music. Therefore, this is simply a list of MY favorite music of 2011. I'll probably end up making some minor adjustments to the list for grammar/forgetting certain things. Enjoy!
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Fri 4 Mar – My Heart To Joy, Transit, Pianos Become The Teeth, The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die, Fugue

view this review at my blog HERE

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5256/5498747139_649d235054_z.jpg

Last night, a massive crowd packed into Lily's Pad upstairs at Toad's Place in New Haven to see the near-legendary Connecticut emotive hardcore band My Heart To Joy play. The sold-out show had been announced months in advance by Manic Productions in collaboration with The Arc Agency, who billed it as the release party for My Heart To Joy's new Reasons to Be 7". But for the dedicated fans at Lily's Pad last night, the show was much more than that.

On February 14th, the band announced on their official blog that they were planning to break up. Accompanying this announcement, they posted only two tour dates -- one on March 4th in New Haven, and a final one on May 14th -- thus making the New Haven show their second to last show ever. …

2007.02.06 DIR EN GREY (openers Fair to Midland, Bleed The Dream) at Theatre of the Living Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
2008.03.14 Taste of Chaos (ムック, D'espairsRay, The Underneath, Idiot Pilot, Striving for Better) at Susquehanna Bank Center (Camden, NJ)
2008.11.11 DIR EN GREY (opener The Human Abstract) at Theatre of the Living Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
2008.11.14 DIR EN GREY (opener The Human Abstract) at Terminal 5 (New York, NY)
2009.04.18 Flight of the Conchords (opener Kristen Schaal) at Tower Theater (early show) (Upper Darby, NJ)
2009.07.11 Vamps at The Fillmore (New York, NY)
2009.09.13 Rasputina (opener The Shondes) at Knitting Factory (Brooklyn, NY)
2009.11.11 DIR EN GREY (opener Goes Cube) at The Gramercy Theatre (New York, NY)
2010.07.10 Rasputina (opener *Larkin Grimm) at Le Poisson Rouge (New York, NY)
2010.08.28 Apocalyptica & DIR EN GREY (opener Evaline) at The Electric Factory (Philadelphia, PA)
2010.10.09 Vamps at Roseland Ballroom (New York, NY)
2011.01.28 *TivaTiva at Kimmel Center (Philadelphia, PA)
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