2012

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Keeping up with the Joneses. Or, actually, just keeping track of some of the things that moved me in 2012:

 

Great 2011 Albums First Heard in 2012 (or at least after my 2011 year-end list was compiled):

  • Peaking Lights: 936

  • Andy Stott: Passed Me By/We Stay Together EPs

  • Mina Tindle: Mina Tindle EP

  • Seapony: Go With Me

  • Sons of Fathers: Sons of Fathers

  • Little Hurricane: Homewrecker

  • The Kernal Farewellhello

  • Ramsay Midwood: Larry Buys A Lighter

 

Favorite Music of 2012

  • Boys & Girls by Alabama Shakes

  • The Carpenter by The Avett Brothers

  • 151a by Kishi Bashi

  • Origins by Bears of Manitou

  • Algiers by Calexico

  • Toward The Low Sun by Dirty Three

  • Oshin by Diiv

  • The Question Jar Show by Mike Doughty

  • Tempest by Bob Dylan

  • Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now by Justin Townes Earle

  • Rooms Filled With Light by Fanfarlo

  • The Lion's Roar by First Aid Kit

  • Wounded Healer by The Followers

  • Tucson: A Rock Opera by Giant Giant Sand

  • Come Back As Rain by Good Old War

  • Release Me by Lyle Lovett

  • Women & Work by Lucero

  • The Lumineers by The Lumineers

  • Milo Greene by Milo Greene

  • Babel by Mumford and Sons

  • Channel Orange by Frank Ocean

  • My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters and Men

  • The Great Despiser by Joe Pug

  • Alone Together by Karriem Riggins

  • Falling by Seapony

  • Survival & Resistance by Adrian Sherwood

  • Sweet Heart Sweet Light by Spiritualized

  • The Fourth Wall by The Vespers

  • Big Inner by Matthew E. White

  • The Laughing Stalk by Wovenhand

  • Departure by Zoo Animal

 

Concerts

  • 01/21/12 - Wilco (with White Denim) at ASU Gammage

  • 02/06/12 - Habañero Collective Open Mic House Show featuring Failing Perfection, Steve Deckel, Foreknown Apostolic, Shawn Skinner, American Longspurs and Andrew Levi Hiller

  • 02/1712 - Dustin Kensrue with Bears of Manitou and The Cold Desert at The Hard Rock Cafe.

  • 03/15/12 - Radiohead with Other Lives at Jobing.com Arena

  • 03/19/12 - Lucero with Drowning Men and the Crescent Ballroom.

  • 04/14/12 - Mike Doughty at the Cave Creek Coffee Company.

  • 04/25/12 - Joe Pug with Baliff and Jared Kolesar & the Locals at the Crescent Ballroom.

  • 08/04/12 - David Ramirez with American Longspurs at the Thomas Listening Room

  • 09/07/12 - Andy Gullahorn at the Whiten Leaf House

  • 11/05/12 - The Vespers with Amber Hunter at the Whiten Leaf House

  • 12/13/12 - Justin Townes Earle with Trixie Whitley at the Crescent Ballroom

 

Books Read in 2012

  • Living And Loving Out Loud by Cornel West

  • The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

  • Sacrilege by Hugh Halter

  • The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

  • Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

  • The Shaping of Things To Come by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost (re-read)

  • What is the Gospel by Greg Gilbert

  • The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson

  • Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

  • The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty

  • 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

  • Dandelion Fire by N.D. Wilson

  • The Chestnut King by N.D. Wilson

  • Gospel-Centered Discipleship by Jonathan Dodson

  • Salvation Belongs To Our God by Chris Wright

  • The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight

  • Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright

  • Everyday Church by Steve Timmis/Tim Chester