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Category Archives: Best of The Year
A retrospective – January 2012 – Shaun
This is intended to be a new and recurring feature to be presented at the end of each month. A small list of things that I listened to every month, new or old. I have been creating monthly playlists for … Continue reading
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Best albums of 2011 (According to Shaun)
In retrospect this year seemed to be a track kind of a year for me. A year in which I would listen to certain songs from an album, more than I would put an album on straight through, or repeat … Continue reading
Best albums of 2011 (According to Kris)
Bolster Your Holster presents the Best Albums of 2011 (according to Kris)! This year I decided to go with 50 albums instead of the regular 40 and included comments on as many as I was inspired to. Hope you enjoy … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, best albums, best of 2012, bestof2012, bon over, Kris Berezanski, PJ Harvey, the antlers, the weeknd, timber timbre, top 50, top 50 albums, Top albums
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Top 111 Songs of 2011 (according to Shaun)
Once again it is time for the requisite best of lists. As always, I have issues narrowing things down as I tend to like everything. So to start things off, I have the 111 songs that soundtracked 2011 for me. … Continue reading
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Tagged best of, Best of 2011, Shaun Scade, soundtrack of 2011, top of 2011, Top songs, Tops songs of 2011
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Best Songs of 2011 (According to Kris)
As is a tradition here for the first week of January on Bolster Your Holster we’re releasing some lists of our favourite stuff of 2011. Below are my 50 favourite songs of 2011, most of them have comments, but some … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, best of, best of 2012, Best songs, Kris Berezanski, music videos, songs, top 50
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Best of the Year so Far – 2011
Every year I hear it. Someone always says “This was a bad year for music”. I always end up disagreeing. Whether it’s because I like way too many things or I simply like to disagree, I always feel that there … Continue reading
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Tagged Alela Diane, Beirut, Best of 2011, bon iver, Cass McCombs, Cut Copy, elbow, Foster the People, Handsome Furs, James Blake, Joseph Arthur, Lockerbie, noah and the whale, okkervil river, PJ Harvey, radiohead, Thao and Mirah, The Best Westerns, Tune Yards, TV on the Radio, Typhoon
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Summer sun says get out more, I need you, I want to, but I can’t get this feeling off my mind
With last year’s unfortunate passing of Jay Reatard, we were left with a void in our musical hearts. Jay Reatard’s music was raw and passionate and brought me back to the 90’s when raw garage pop was at it’s best. … Continue reading
I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade, Lord have mercy on my Rough and Rowdy ways.
The Head and the Heart, a band featured highly on both my “top 100 songs of 2010” and “Top 60 Albums of 2010” are giving away a free single and B-Side to the wonderful song “Down in the Valley”. “Down … Continue reading
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Shaun’s top 100 Songs of 2010
It always seem to have difficulty selecting my favourite songs/tracks of the year. When there are so many great albums each with multiple great songs on them, plus all of the other albums that were good, and featured great songs, … Continue reading