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I came across this pretty awesome list of songs from 2012. New songs, for the most part -- I think I had only heard about 15 or 20 of these bands/songs. Besides the music, the photos are pretty damn cool, too, and you can hit play on #100 and listen all the way through on their player... Mostly Mellopunk® stuff...what would've been called College Rock in the 1980's. I have no idea what it's called these days. How about just "music?"
The site is called RolloGrady.com and it's got a lot of good stuff on it.
http://www.rollogrady.com/100-best-songs-of-2012-recap/

Ohio’s ugliest doomhaulers, Fistula, are now streaming their brand-new Loser EP in its entirety on Brooklyn Vegan. Loser is due out via PATAC Records in September, and features nine sickening tracks of downtrodden, face in the gutter doom. Check the album (as well as a rough cut from their upcoming split with the mighty COFFINWORM) on Brooklyn Vegan: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/06/fistula_releasi.html

The Jesus Lizard played an amazing show the other in San Diego, at the Casbah. This band is one of the best I've ever seen live, they are incredibly tight, incredible musicians and David Yow is just a nutso performer. So great. I'll have more photos up in the band photos section soon enough. If you get a chance to see them on this tour, take it. You won't regret it.

As if you didn't know.

Pretty damn cool that the San Francisco library would have Ruby Ray's photos on display, and add to that a whole slew of related displays and exhibits and it just doesn't seem like that could happen anywhere else in the world... at a public library. Los Angeles is too cool, New York is to busy, London wouldn't hear of it, they're still burying that whole Jubilee-ruining boat ride... and really, there's no place else with the history. If you're in SF, you've got to go see this.