my top records of 2012

1) THE SIDEKICKS - AWKWARD BREEDS (REALLY)
2) THE EVENS - THE ODDS (DISCHORD)
3) JOYCE MANOR - OF ALL THINGS I’LL SOON GROW TIRED (ASIAN MAN)
4) THE MENZINGERS - ON THE IMPOSSIBLE PAST (EPITAPH)
5) TITUS ANDRONICUS - LOCAL BUSINESS (XL)
6) JOHN K SAMSON - PROVINCIAL (XL)
7) CLASSICS OF LOVE- CLASSICS OF LOVE (ASIAN MAN)
8) FIONA APPLE - THE IDLER WHEEL... (EPIC)
9) WAXAHATCHEE - AMERICAN WEEKEND (DON GIOVANNI)
10) CONVERGE - ALL WE LOVE WE LEAVE BEHIND (EPITAPH)

HONORABLE MENTIONS
-DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT- LOVE THIS GIANT (4AD)
-JEFF ROSENSTOCK- I LOOK LIKE SHIT (QUOTE UNQUOTE)
-GRIMES - VISIONS (ARBUTUS)

Ted Leo in Brighton, MA

thanks to liz pelly for putting this on 

and supporting 826 literacy and writing center- boston

Laura Stevenson Halloween 2012

halloween pts 1+2 felt so right

supporting andrew jackson jihad @ tt the bears 

Crime In Stereo reunion

Bicycles for Afghanistan 

XXXX (The First Thousand Years of Solitude) 

... But You Are Vast 

Slow Math 

Abre Los Ojos 

Animal Pharm

Drugwolf

Sudan 

For Exes 

Gravity Grace 

Third Atlantic 

Nixon 

Almost Ghostless/Above the Gathering Oceans 

I Am Everything I Am Not 

Small Skeletal 

Dark Island City 

I, Stateside 

Encore:

Everything Changes/Nothing Is Ever Truly Lost 

Not Dead

tigers jaw @ wwta

following their performance at the democracy center 

with maura, save ends and shook ones

tom may from the menzingers replaced adam

v2.0

so i realize that it's been quite some time since this has been updated
so thus i commence phase two of this blog
which begins with some photo archiving,
as well as the second physical volume of this zine
wheels have been turning for quite some time
and I hope to have it compiled very soon
I've already contacted some contributors which will be a huge step forward
so you can hopefully expect that towards the close of fall.
stay tuned, and as always.. if you'd like to contribute,
or would like a physical copy
contact me at colinstevenbriggs@gmail.com