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Best of 2012 (So Far) Menu

This week choice selections of the best music that’s come out so far this year that we’ve featured here on this program. Please note that this is not all of the great music that’s emerged in 2012, but since we’re only broadcasting once a week, that limits the amount of servings we can present. I would like to know what your top 3 or top 5 choices are from this week’s program. Leave a comment or tell me on FB or Twitter. Some of what will be heard was released in late 2011 and not featured here until 2012, so make note of that as well. Once again, two hours of great music. *Note, some of these songs were released prior to 2012 but were not featured on our program until this year.*

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Enjoy!

Song / Artist / Album

Hour 1

Go Back / Marketa Irglova / Anar
House On Fire / The Gaddabouts / Look Out Now!

Make It Rain (FCC Edit) / Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds / Pound Of Dirt
Present For The End Of The World /Good Old War / Come Back As Rain
Bloodless / The Rocketboys / Build Anyway

(1 minute break) Sad Blues / Jesse Harris / Sub Rosa

Neither Do I Need a Witness / Joe Pug / The Great Despiser
Sky’s Still Blue / Andrew Belle / The Daylight EP

New Coat Of Paint /Joe Bonamassa / Driving Towards The Daylight
I Believe It / Flatfoot 56 /Toil 2012

Not a mistake / Lindsay Katt / Happy Fits Of Rage

(1 minute break) Sad Blues / Jesse Harris / Sub Rosa

If I / Mindy Smith / Mindy Smith
Busy Hands, Empty Hearts / Harper Blynn / Busy Hands

Cant Save Her/Chantal Claret/The One, The Only…

Ride This Feeling / Kate Miller-Heidke / Nightflight

Mary / Sparkadia /TOYOTA ANTICS Sampler 4

Hour 2

Yellow Moon / Barnaby Bright / The Artist Sampler – Mishara & More
Concrete Wall (RAC Remix) / Zee Avi / Brushfire’s Greatest Hits of 2012

New York / Snow Patrol / Fallen Empires

Serpents / Sharon Van Etten / Serpents – Indie Spotlight Free Download on iTunes

Death to My Hometown / Bruce Springsteen / Wrecking Ball

(1 minute break) Bright Day Coming / Marc Scibilia / Marc Scibilia EP

Strange Mercy / St. Vincent / Strange Mercy
Weights & Measures / Dry The River / Weights & Measures

Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll / Cage The Elephant / Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International [Disc 3]
Doorstep / tUnE-yArDs / W H O K I L L

(1 minute break) Bright Day Coming / Marc Scibilia / Marc Scibilia EP

Endlessly / Green River Ordinance / Out Of My Hands

The Plane / The Natural Shocks / Complete With Comfortable Lighting

Two Years Ago / The Lighthouse and the Whaler / The Lighthouse and the Whaler
I Believe In Love / Matisyahu / Spark Seeker
Live Like A Warrior / Matisyahu / Spark Seeker

Best So Far

As you may know, I’ve been doing a lot of updating and working to put our Program Archive online so that you can enjoy any of our previous 460+ programs anytime you want. In the process of assembling all that audio content, I’ve been re-listening to a lot of stuff that we’ve heard this year. It got me thinking about what I feel is some of the best music thus far. So I wanted to just post a few categories and see what you had to say about it. So, comment and let me know what tracks are you favorites at this point in 2012 from what has been featured on the show. And if I’ve missed something that you feel deserves credit, or be included in this list, let me know.

Best Unknown Bands
Other Lives

Clarensau
Fleur Jack & The Jandals
Band Of Heathens
The Young Romans
Young Believers

Best Folk
The Vespers

Mindy Smith
Jenny & Tyler
Jenn Rawlings
Dar Williams
Matthew Perryman Jones
Peter Bradley Adams
Barnaby Bright
Good Old War
Joe Pug

Best Alternative Rock/Punk
Dry The River

The Rocketboys
Kathryn Calder
Face To Face
Princeton
Flatfoot 56
The Natural Shocks
Brad

Best Indie
Chairlift

Adam Cohen
Stuart Davis
The Lighthouse and the Whaler
The Beards
Driftless Pony Club
Trevor Hall
The Lumineers
Chantal Claret
Harper Blynn
Sparkadia
Tune-Yards
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds

Ear-Watering Flavor Menu

I was thinking this week about the play on words that I do here on this show, and how sometimes people have been confused into thinking that The Appetizer is a food-themed radio program because of its title. In a way it is, except that the theme is musical food for our ears instead of culinary food for our mouths. So…..this week’s show is called Ear-Watering Flavor, because after you hear the cuts from the artists on the menu, I know you’ll go looking for more great musical flavor from them. I have new music from indie sensation Eric Hutchinson and Kate Miller-Heidke. Also fresh tastes from Rachael Yamagata and deep cuts from 2 punk rock icons Bad Religion and Green Day. All this and more. And hear this week’s show from our blog right now. Click HERE. Enjoy!

Song/Artist/Album

Two Part Game/Lindsay Katt/Happy Fits Of Rage
Rescue Song (RAC Remix)/Mr. Little Jeans/Rescue Song – Single



Dreamer/Elizaveta/Dreamer – Single
Smart/Girl In a Coma/Exits & All the Rest (Bonus Track Version)

Watching You Watch Him/Eric Hutchinson/Watching You Watch Him – Single

Dealbreaker/Rachael Yamagata/Chesapeake
Ride This Feeling/Kate Miller-Heidke/Nightflight



One Hundred Days Of Rain/Chris Robinson Brotherhood/Big Moon Ritual
Sparrow and the Wolf/James Vincent McMorrow/ Early In the Morning (Bonus Version)

This Lifeboat Is for Gold, Not People/This Old Ghost/ Bands Under the Radar, Vol. 4
The Plane/The Natural Shocks/Complete With Comfortable Lighting
If Nothing Happened/PaperDoll/Ballad Nerd


Whisper in Time/Bad Religion/The New America
Raise Your Voice/Bad Religion/No Substance



Armatage Shanks/Green Day/Insomniac