As promised yesterday, here are the top two tiers of ATR music in 2012. SECOND TIERAimee Mann – Charmer: This album and The Mountain Goats’ new album were linked in my mind this year. Both artists have ties to The Best Show on WFMU (Goats drummer Jon Wurster is part of the comedy duo Scharpling… Read More The top 50 (fifty!) albums of 2012 (part 2)

This wound up being a very good year in music. You wouldn’t know it by looking at my paltry updates this year, but if I’d been able to shake free from my writers block/depression/recession/rut at some point in the last year, I would have Recommended many, many more CDs, mixtapes, EPs and singles than I… Read More The top 50 (fifty!) albums of 2012 (part 1)