2012

Charlotte Viewpoint

Charlotte’s Best Albums of 2011 (2/7/2012)

Take note: 10 rising Charlotte bands you should know (2/28/2012)

Signs of Life: 2012 A Healthy Year for Local Music (12/20/2012)

Creative Loafing

Pop. 1280′s The Horror (2/21/2012)

Run Dan Run’s Normal (3/27/2012)

Estrogen Highs’ Irrelevant Future (5/15/2012)

OFF!’s OFF! (5/31/2012)

Hopscotch Music Festival

Altar of Plagues

The Atlas Moth

Burglar Fucker

Corrosion of Conformity

Dope Body

Frustrations

Grohg

Hacienda

Joint D≠

Nails

Nobunny

Some Army

The Spits

Thee Oh Sees

Whatever Brains

Withered

Young And In The Way

Independent Weekly

White Cascade’s EP2 (1/11/2012)

Corrosion of Conformity’s Corrosion of Conformity (2/22/2012)

Red Collar’s Welcome Home (5/16/2012)

Crust-stuffed: A new wave of crossover, or [d-]beating a dead horse? (6/27/2012)

Grohg’s Culture of Petty Thieves (7/4/2012)

Spider Bags’ Shake My Head (8/8/2012)

Colossus’ And the Sepulcher of the Mirror Warlocks (8/15/2012)

Beloved Binge’s Pockets (9/19/2012)

Waumiss’ Subtle for Flames (10/24/2012)

Spider Bags and The Love Language’s Reatard split 7-inch (11/28/2012)

MAGNET

These United States - These United States (United Interests) (MAGNET No. 88)

Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior (Kanine) (MAGNET No. 89)

Hacienda - Shakedown (Collective Sounds) (MAGNET No. 89)

JEFF the Brotherhood - Hypnotic Knights (Warner Bros.) (MAGNET No. 90)

Junk Culture - Wild Quiet (Illegal Art) (MAGNET No. 90)

Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (In The Red) (MAGNET No. 91)

Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City) (MAGNET No. 92)

Trash Talk - 119 (Odd Future) (MAGNET No. 93)

Best of 2012: Punk/Hardcore (12/3/2012)

The Year In Music — No. 8: Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) (MAGNET No. 94)

The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes (Fat Cat) (MAGNET No. 94)

Mountain XPress

Is Steve Vai really a great guitarist? (8/15/2012)

Paste

Xiu Xiu: Always (3/5/2012)

Sunshone Still: ThewaytheworldDies (3/6/2012)

Hoots & Hellmouth: Salt (5/1/2012) Note: reading this review requires a subscription to Paste‘s mPlayer digital magazine

Carina Round: Tigermending (5/15/2012)

Magic Trick: Ruler of the Night (7/3/2012)

Sonny and the Sunsets: Longtime Companion (7/3/2012)

Hopscotch 2012 Day 1 Recap and Photos (9/7/2012)

Hopscotch 2012 Day 2 Recap and Photos (9/8/2012)

Hopscotch 2012 Day 3 Recap and Photos (9/9/2012)

Scan (Independent Weekly music blog)

First listen: Corrosion of Conformity readies its first self-titled album (1/11/2012)

First Listen: Caltrop’s second album is worth waiting for (1/18/2012)

Live: Corrosion of Conformity apologizes for Asheville, unnecessarily (1/25/2012)

Live: Five bands in a taco shack (1/27/2012)

New Band Alert: Is Infección the Triangle’s new punk supergroup? (3/13/2012)

First Listen: Horseback’s new single offers Half Blood glimpse (3/16/2012)

First Listen: Whatever Brains’ new LP and 7-inch (3/20/2012)

Live: Whatever Brains show their sides (4/27/2012)

Double Negative announce upcoming EP, tour (8/31/12)

Que Viva, indeed: Spider Bags at Kings (9/21/2012)

Who needs a hardcore reunion? OFF! plays Kings tonight (9/30/2012)

Welcome to Storytellers. We’re OFF! (10/1/2012)

Lloyd Pack, featuring Dan Melchior and Letha Rodman-Melchior, announce debut 7-inch (10/11/2012)

Review: COC reissues Eye For An Eye (11/7/2012)

Live: Jeb Bishop and Jorrit Dijkstra weave simplicity, complexity (11/16/2012)

New Kind of Kix: The long-running hair metal band persists, Saturday at Lincoln Theatre (12/7/2012)

Shuffle Magazine

Now Hear This: The dB’s - Falling Off The Sky (Bar/None); Jon Lindsay - Summer Wilderness Program (Bear Hearts Fox); Lilac Shadows - A Shallow Madness (DiggUp Tapes) (Summer 2012)

Now Hear This: Between The Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (Metal Blade); Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming (Candlelight) (Winter 2012)

The Thread (Duke Performances blog)

Live Review: M. Ward & the Lee Ranaldo Band (5/18/2012)