April ´13 Music Box

1. She & Him - I Could´ve Been Your Girl

2. Franco and the Dreadnought - Spanish Harlem

3. Oberhofer - Earplugs

4. Oberhofer - You + Me (Still Together In The Future)



5. Oberhofer -Together/Never



6. The National - Don´t Swallow The Cap



7. Florence + The Machine - Over The Love



8. Noah and the Whale feat. Anna Calvi - Heart Of Nowhere

9. Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu - Q.U.E.E.N.

10. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky



11. Holm. - Day 211 CocoRosie Lemonade Remix

12. Holm. - Day 201 my cloud tower dreams.

13. Holm. - Day 189 It´s Getting Late.

14. Shelf Nunny - I Feel So Good About Myself

15. Kali Ma feat. Christina Klaproth - Girl You Got

16.Polica feat. Justin Vernon - Tiff

Pick of April.

What were your favorite tunes of April?

Top 10 Albums of 2012

I knew it wouldn't be easy to find full albums for you to stream. Legal ones so to speak. But thanks to Bandcamp and musicians' better awareness of music streaming, I'm glad to be able to let you hear these great albums. Though, there are a couple, which you need to stream from fan-made playlists. That's not bad. Bad is when a band uploads all the songs, but don't put them in order.

For me a best album is something, which works as an entity. Not all songs have to be out of this world, but they're linked to each other to comprise a masterpiece. The albums chosen below do just that.


10. Chairlift - Something




9. Crystal Castles - III




8. fun. - Some Nights




7. Team Me - To The Treetops!




6. Reptar - Body Faucet




5. Oberhofer - Time Capsules II

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4. Grimes - Visions




3. Polica - Give You The Ghost




2. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil





1. Baroness - Yellow & Green




What were your favorite albums of 2012?

Friday Feature: Oberhofer

Brooklyn’s  4-piece, Oberhofer, has been spending their time making philosophically- minded, energetic melodies that make people smile. The band is led by Tacoma native Brad Oberhofer, who has a tendency to write songs about how he feels in the moment, which can clearly be heard in their songs. Perhaps this is why they put themselves in the genre of ‘coincidence pop’. 

Oberhofer’s debut album Time Capsules II has been praised to be the best guitar music many have heard in a while, despite the riffs being simple.  But the life we live in today’s society, simple is very welcome.