Top 3 albums
- Young Rebel Set – Curse Our Love (Big Flame in the UK; they don’t have a US record deal)
- Noah and the Whale – Last Night on Earth (their UK record label is Mercury, not sure what their US one is)
- Patrick Wolf – Lupercalia (their UK record label is Mercury, not sure what their US one is)
Best show of 2011
- Casiokids at DC9, October 17, 2011 – they turned an otherwise sleepy, cold October Monday night into a crazy dance party.
- White Lies at 9:30 Club, May 20, 2011 (runner-up) – their official return to DC 2 years after their first appearance was confident and awe-inspiring.
Most overrated of 2011
- James Blake. And the return of Radiohead. Zzzzz.
Most anticipated for 2012
Two Door Cinema Club and Delphic’s tricky second albums. I’m not really sure what I’ll do if I hate them because I adored their debut albums last year. But I know both bands are hard at work at new material, so fingers crossed!
Favorite music moment of 2011
Actually three separate moments on the same night, October 21, 2011. Sitting on the Wombats’ tour bus interviewing their bass player Tord Øverland-Knudsen; getting not one but two shoutouts from the Postelles’ lead singer Danny Balk at the 9:30 Club; and dancing up a storm at the Wombats’ DJayed afterparty at DC9.
