Here are the results of our staff polls:
2012 BEST
BEST NEW SONG
“comfortable, happy, satisfied” by Body Parts
Code Orange Kids- “Flowermouth (The Leech)”
Belispeak – Purity Ring
Female Doctor by Miniature Tigers
Murder by Death – “Lost River”
good food by Ruddyp
feels like we’re only going backwards- tame impala
BEST NEW ALBUM
“Our House on the Hill” by the Babies
Swing Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors
Gone by Vacationer
Tennis – Young and Old
Flume by Flume
The Crossing-Mehanan Street Band
BEST KSPC-PRESENTED SHOW
Plagues/Tiny Lungs/Dudes Night/Death’rection @ the SCC
Grass Widow/Cool Moms/Dunes
The Babies
BEST SHOW ELSEWHERE
FAUST @ Red Cat
PEC (on campus) The Babies show 😉
Shannon and the Clams and Hunx and His Punks, the Glasshouse
Beach House w/Wild Nothing at the El Rey
BEST IN-STUDIO
No Paws – on Pep Rally with Ali
Ben Lear
L.A. Witch on Lost @ Sea
BEST NEW ARTIST
Cold Showers
Body Parts
Mac Demarco
Cerce (female-fronted feminist hardcore from Massachusetts)
King Tuff
Dana Falconberry
Electric Guest
ESTABLISHED ARTIST WHO JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER
DIRTY PROJECTORS
St Vincent
Fiona Apple
Flying Lotus
Emily Wells
Screaming Females
Starfucker
Night Control
FAVORITE MAINSTREAM HIT
1991 – Azealia Banks
Die Young by Ke$ha
Losing You by Solange
B***h Don’t Kill My Vibe- Kendrick Lemar
BEST BAND THAT’S ABOUT TO BLOW UP
SO MANY WIZARDS
The Babies
Lemolo
Twin Shadow
Kishi Bashi
Empire! Empire!
Joyce Manor
MUSIC BUZZWORD OF THE YEAR
grow-fi
“Ambient”
Seapunk
Gagnam Style
Neo-Soul
MISCELLANEOUS/WRITE-INS
Best Foreign-Language Album
Shintaro Sakamoto – How to Live with a Phantom
CREEPS!
best actor-inspired ep – bill murray- sweatshop union