2012 - The Year of the Dozen(s)

LADIES *

Angel Olsen – Half Way Home  (Bathetic)

Cat Power – Sun  (Matador)

Catherine Irwin – Little Heater  (Thrill Jockey)

Eleni Mandell – I Can See The Future  (Yep Roc)

Jennifer Castle  - Castlemusic  (No Quarter)

Jennifer O’Connor – I Want What You Want  (Kiam)

Kelly Hogan – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain  (Anti)

La Sera – Sees The Light  (Hardly Art)

Laura Gibson – La Grande  (Jealous Butcher)

Megan Reilly – The Well  (Carrot Top)

Rebecca Gates and the Consortium – The Float  (12XU)

Sharon Van Etten  - Tramp  (Jagjaguwar)

Waxahatchee  (Katie Cruthchfield) – American Weekend  (Don Giovanni)

*Allowing myself a baker’s dozen for the ladies.

GENTLEMEN

Bob Dylan – Tempest  (Columbia)

Chuck Prophet – Temple Beautiful  (Yep Roc)

Father John Misty – Fear Fun  (Sub Pop)

Gentleman Jesse – Leaving Atlanta  (Douchmaster)

King Tuff  (Kyle Thomas) – s/t  (Sub Pop)

Lonnie Holley – Just Before Music  (Dust To Digital)

Luke Roberts – The Iron Gates At Throop and Newport  (Thrill Jockey)

M. Ward – A Wastland Companion  (Merge)

Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks  (Yep Roc)

Peter Buck – s/t  (Mississippi)

Simon Joyner – Ghosts  (Sing Eunuchs)

Will Johnson – Scorpion  (Undertow)

LADIES and/or GENTLEMEN - together in GROUPS

Beachwood Sparks – The Tarnished Gold  (Sub Pop)

Best Coast – The Only Place  (Mexican Summer)

Cardinal – Hymns  (Fire)

Gap Dream – s/t  (Burger)

Hiss Golden Messenger – Poor Moon  (Paradise of Bachelors / Tompkins Square)

Hospitality – s/t   (Merge)

Lavender Diamond – Incorruptable Heart  (Paracadute)

Liminanas – Crystal Anis  (Hozac)

Poor Moon – Illusion EP / s/t  (Sub Pop)

Redd Kross – Researching The Blues  (Merge)

Sonny & The Sunsets – Longtime Companion  (PolyVinyl)

Swearin’ – s/t  (Salinas)

SINGLES AND EPS

Blitzen Trapper – Hey Joe / Skirts On Fire 7”  (Sub Pop)

Cuffs – Private View 7”  (Ride The Snake)

Doug Paisly – Golden Embers EP  (No Quarter)

Hospitality – Drift 7”  (Merge)

Jesse Baylin – The Pleasure Center EP  (soundcloud.com/jessiebaylin)

Jonathan Wilson – Pity Trails and Tomorrow’s Child EP  (Bella Union)

Obits – Let Me Dream If I Want To  7”  (Sub Pop)

Retribution Gospel Choir – The Revolution EP  (Sub Pop)

Superchunk – This Summer / Cruel Summer  7” (Merge)

The Paperhead – Pictures of Her Demise 7”  (Trouble In Mind)

The Resonars – Long Long Thoughts EP  (Trouble In Mind)

Wild Woods – Where Did You Go / Paper Cutout  (Suicide Squeeze)

REISSUES

Codeine – When I See The Sun  (Numero)

Cotton Mather – Kontiki  (Star Apple Kingdom)

Donnie and Joe Emerson – Dreamin’ Wild  (LITA)

Eraserhead – Soundtrack  (Sacred Bones)

Mickey Murray – People Are Together  (Secret Stash)

Paul McCartney – RAM Mono Vinyl Edition  (Hear Music)

Sleep – Dopesmoker  (Southern Lord)
Sloan – Twice Removed Deluxe Edition  (Yep Roc / Murder)

The Cleaners From Venus – Vol. 1  (Captured Tracks)

The Hollies – Imperial Mono LPs   (Sundazed)

The Louvin Brothers – Satan Is Real / Tragic Songs of Life  (LITA)

Vis-à-vis – Obi Agye Me Dofo  (Secret Stash)

ARCHIVAL / HISTORICAL *

Alex Chilton – Free Again: The 70’s Sessions  (Omnivore)

Lee Hazlewood – The LHI Years: Singles Nudes & Backsides 1968-71  (LITA)

Lou Ragland – I Travel Alone  (Numero)

Rev. Charlie Jackson –Live Recordings Vol. 1 & 2  (50 Miles of Elbow Room)

The Funkees – Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77  (Soundway)

Tim Maia – Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maiua  (Luaka Bop)

Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles & Rarities 1964-65  (LITA)

v/a – Aimer et Perdre:  To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917-34  (Tompkins Square)

v/a – Love Songs For Lamps – Complied by Calvin Johnson  (Believer Magazine - Cassette / Download)

v/a – Omnibus 45 Box Set  (Numero)

v/a – Twin Cities Funk & Soul  (Secret Stash)

v/a – Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-36  (Tompkins Square)

*This list could easily have been comprised of a dozen Mississippi Records releases.  Considering that, I’ve left them off entirely and created the following extra dozen – theirs is a category unto itself.

MISSISSIPPI RELEASES

Boyd Rivers – You Can’t Make Me Doubt

Henry Thomas – Bull Doze Blues

Mahmoud Ahmed – s/t

Pandit Pran Nath – Ragas of Morning and Night

Rev. Louis Overstreet – There’s No Future In Gaining the World and Losing Your Soul

v/a – Bed Of Pain

v/a – Five Minutes To Midnight

v/a – Hasabe

v/a – Sticks Over My Shoulder

v/a – Time Will Make Change

v/a – To What A Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora Vols. 1-3

v/a – What Remains Of Eden: Anatolian & Levantine Music 1928-52

LIVE SHOWS

January 14^{th  -}  Scud Mt. Boys  / John Cunningham  (Brighton Music Hall)

February 25^{th  -}  The Low Anthem  (South Church, Portsmouth, NH)

March 30^{th  -}  Rosie Thomas  (Café 939)

May 12^{th  -}  Daniel Johnston  (Rochester Opera House, NH)

June 15^{th  -}  Laura Marling / Willy Mason  (Berklee Performance Center)

July 10^{th  -}  Chuck Prophet  (Lizard Lounge)

August 14^{th  -}  Sonny and the Sunsets / Magic Trick  (Johnny D’s)

September 24^{th  -}  Will Johnson / Anders Parker  (Living Room Show)

October 11^{th  -}  Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys  (Lizard Lounge)

October 18^{th  -}  Chris Elliott  (Coolidge Corner / Brookline Booksmith)

November 10^{th  -}  Hospitality  (Brandeis)

December 4^{th  -}  Kelly Hogan / Chris Mills  (Johnny D’s)

FILM / TELEVISION

Athens, GA. – Inside / Out  (Ominvore DVD/CD)

Fear and Desire / The Seafarers – directed by Stanley Kubrick  (Kino / Library of Congress Blu-Ray)

Heaven’s Gate – directed by Michael Cimino  (Criterion Collection Blu-Ray)

Louie – Season 3  (FX)

One Nation Under Dog: Stories of Fear, Loss and Betrayal  (HBO)

On The Bowery - The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Vol. 1  (Milestone Blu-Ray)

Paradise Lost 3:  Purgatory  (HBO)

The Daily Show / The Colbert Report  (Comedy Central)

The Master – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson  (70mm presentation at Coolidge Corner)

The Prowler – directed by Joseph Losey  (VCI / UCLA DVD)

Veep – Season 1 (HBO)

Weekend - directed by Jean Luc Godard  (Criteiron Collection Blu-Ray)

PRINT *

Bob Mould – See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody  (Little Brown)

Brock Clarke – Exley / An Arsonist’s Guide To Writers’ Homes In New England  (Algonquin)

Chris Elliott - The Guy Under the Sheets: The Unauthorized Autobiography  (Blue Rider Press)

Chris Ware - Building Stories  (Pantheon)

Dave Eggers – Zeitoun / A Hologram for the King  (McSweeney’s)

E.L. Doctorow – Homer & Langley  (Random House)

Frederick Exley – A Fan’s Notes  (Vintage)

Jason Brown - Why The Devil Chose New England For His Work: Stories  (Open City)

John D’Agata & Jim Fingal – The Lifespan of a Fact  (WW Norton)

Kelly Link – Magic For Beginners / Pretty Monsters / Stranger Things Happen  (Small Beer / Viking)

Lee Friedlander – Mannequin  (Fraenkel Gallery)

Ossian Brown – Haunted Air  (Random House UK)

*More of a reading list than a list of 2012 titles.