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2013

Jan 2 2013, 21h00

My favourites.

***Everything Everything - Arc
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Guards - In Guards We Trust
Local Natives - Hummingbird
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Starfucker - Miracle Mile
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Foals - Holy Fire
Theme Park - Theme Park
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
Gold Fields - Black Sun
Bastille - Bad Blood
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
Rhye - Woman
Peace - In Love
The 1975 - Facedown EP
Kate Boy - Northern Lights EP
Charli XCX - True Romance
Atlas Genius - When It Was Now
The Neighbourhood - I Love You
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
Disclosure - Settle

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Looking forward to:

CHVRCHES - TBA
Empire of the Sun - TBA
Frank + Derol - TBA
HAERTS - TBA
Haim - TBA
MGMT - TBA
Moddi - Set the House on Fire
Mr Fogg - Eleven
The 1975 - TBA
Pacific Air - Stop Talking
Pretty Lights - A Color Map of The Sun
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
St. Lucia - TBA

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2012

Jan 20 2012, 20h28

My favourites. Updated throughout 2012 in chronological order.

*** means top 5.

The Big Pink - Future This
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
FOE - Bad Dream Hotline
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Fun. - Some Nights
Chiddy Bang - Breakfast
Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh
St. Lucia - St. Lucia EP
HAIM - Forever EP
Alex Winston - King Con
Yellow Ostrich - Stange Land
Oberhofer - Time Capsules II
Miike Snow - Happy To You
Sigur Rós - Valtari
Clock Opera - Ways To Forget
Jack White - Blunderbuss
***Reptar - Body Faucet
The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap
The Neighbourhood - I'm Sorry... EP
Foxes - Warrior EP
Citizens! - Here We Are
Stepdad - Wildlife Pop
Gigamesh - All My Life EP
Friends - Manifest!
Kishi Bashi - 151a
The Cast of Cheers - Family
***Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Beat Connection - The Palace Garden
SoKo - I Thought I Was An Alien
Breton - Other People's Problems
***Passion Pit - Gossamer
Noosa - Noosa EP
Family Of The Year - Loma Vista
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Dan Deacon - America
Kyla La Grange - Ashes
The Heavy - The Glorious Dead
Niki & The Dove - Instinct
The Milk - Tales from the Thames Delta
***Django Django - Django Django
Mumford & Sons - Babel
Sun Airway - Soft Fall
Zedd - Clarity
Ellie Goulding - Halcyon
Freelance Whales - Diluvia
MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show
Dada Life - The Rules of Dada
***Little Comets - Life Is Elsewhere
Icona Pop - Iconic
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
Outfit - Another Night's Dreams Reach Earth Again EP
Dog Is Dead - All Our Favourite Stories

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2011

Jan 10 2011, 22h56

My favourite albums from 2011. ***'d are my top 5.

***Starfucker - Reptilians
Little Comets - In Search Of Elusive Little Comets
Funeral Party - Golden Age of Knowhere
Ruby Coast - Whatever This Is
Foster The People - Foster The People EP
Grouplove - Grouplove EP
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
Alex Winston - Sister Wife
Einar Stray - Chiaroscuro
Tune-Yards - w h o k i l l
Noah and The Whale - Last Night On Earth
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Foster The People - Torches
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Braids - Native Speaker
Graham Wright - Shirts vs. Skins
Reptar - Oblangle Fizz Y'all EP
***Givers - In Light
Cults - Cults
Hoorary For Earth - True Loves
Pearl and the Beard - Killing The Darlings
Wye Oak - Civilian
Dananananaykroyd - There Is A Way
Nightbox - Nightbox EP
1,2,3 - New Heaven
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
The Grates- Secret Rituals
NewVillager - New Villager
Library Voices - Summer of Lust
***Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song
***Neon Indian - Era Extraña
The Drums - Portamento
Tom Vek - Leisure Seizure
Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is An Animal
Lights - Siberia
***Team Me - To The Treetops!
Phantogram - Nightlife EP
The Jezabels - Prisoner
Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
Dominant Legs- Invitation
ARMS - Summer Skills

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2010

Fev 18 2010, 0h59

My favourite albums from 2010

*** indicates top albums of the year

***Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
***Yeasayer - Odd Blood
Beach House - Teen Dream
Marina & The Diamonds- The Family Jewels
Ellie Goulding- Lights
Two Door Cinema Club- Tourist History
***MGMT- Congratulations
Fake Drugs- Drake Fugs
Holy Fuck- Latin
Tokyo Police Club- Champ
Jónsi- Go
The Drums- The Drums
Library Voices- Denim On Denim
***Local Natives- Gorilla Manor
Wavves- King Of The Beach
Gorillaz- Plastic Beach
Miniature Tigers- Fortress
***Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Everything Everything- Man Alive
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl- Record Collection
Bear Hands- Burning Bush Supper Club
Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Sun Airway- Nocturne Of Exploded Crystal Chandelier
The Radio Dept.- Clinging to a Scheme
Perfume Genius- Learning
Gold Motel- Summer House
J Roddy Walston and The Business- J Roddy Walston and The Business

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2009

Jul 3 2009, 1h28

Albums

K'naan- Troubadour
Matt & Kim- Grand
Harlem Shakes- Technicolor Health
Passion Pit- Manners
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Starfucker- Jupiter
Dananananaykroyd- Hey Everyone
Miike Snow- Miike Snow
Think About Life- Family
Amazing Baby- Rewild
Dan Deacon- Bromst
Discovery- LP

Bands (because they don't have an album yet)

Yes Giantess
Team Waterpolo
Marina & the Diamonds
Dan Black

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SHOWS

Jun 18 2009, 14h28

I have tickets for:

Passion Pit & Weezer @ Downsview Park, Toronto
Lollapalooza @ Grant Park, Chicago

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This list doesn't include all bands.

Alexisonfire
Alt-J x2
Anamanaguchi
Arcade Fire
Arkells x4
Avicii
Bear Hands
Bear Mountain
Beat Connection
Beck
Best Coast
The Black Keys
Bloc Party x2
Bombay Bicycle Club x2
Born Ruffians
Boy & Bear
Breton
Bright Eyes
CAZZETTE
Citizens!
City and Colour
Coldplay
Cold War Kids
Cults x2
Cut Copy
Dan Deacon x2
Dan Mangan
DD/MM/YYYY x2
Death Cab for Cutie
Delta Spirit
Dillon Francis
Django Django
Dom
Dr. Dog
The Drums x2
Delorean
Dinosaur Bones
Ellie Goulding
Family of the Year
First Aid Kit
Foals x2
Fort Lean
Frank + Derol
Freelance Whales
Foster the People x3
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit x2
fun.
Funeral Party
GIVERS x3
Graham Wright
The Grates
Griz
Grizzly Bear
Gold Fields
Gold Motel
Grouplove x5
Haim
Harlem Shakes
Hey Rosetta!
Hollerado
Holy Fuck
Hundred Waters x2
Icona Pop x2
Jack White
Janelle Monáe
Johnny Foreigner
The Joy Formidable x2
Kanye West
Kaskade
Kate Boy
Kishi Bashi x2
K'naan x2
The Knocks x2
Library Voices x2
Lights
Local Natives x3
Los Campesinos!
Lykke Li
M83
Madeon x2
Magic Man
Manchester Orchestra
Marina & the Diamonds
Matisyahu
Matt & Kim x3
MGMT x3
Miike Snow x2
Milo Greene
Miniature Tigers
MS MR
The Naked and Famous
Nero
Nightbox
Noah & The Whale x2
Oberhofer
Of Monsters and Men
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Paper Diamond
Passion Pit x5
Perfume Genius x2
Phantogram
Phoenix x2
Porter Robinson
PS I Love You
Reptar x4
Rich Aucoin
The Royal Concept
Ruby Coast
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Sigur Rós x3
Sir Sly
Starfucker
St. Lucia x2
Surfer Blood x2
Tegan and Sara
Tokyo Police Club x5
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
tUnE-yArDs
Twin Shadow
Two Door Cinema Club x3
Vampire Weekend
Walk the Moon
Wavves x2
The Willowz
Wolf Gang
Wolfgang Gartner
Wye Oak
Yeasayer
Yellow Ostrich x2
Zedd

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Top individual sets:

1. Sigur Rós @ Echo Beach
2. Arcade Fire @ Olympic Island
3. Phoenix @ Ricoh Coliseum
4. Grouplove @ Le Cabaret Du Mile-End

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Setlists I have:

Phoenix - 10.22.10 - Ricoh Coliseum
Grouplove - 04.03.11 - Lee's Palace
The Rural Alberta Advantage - 04.29.11 - Phoenix Concert Theatre
Reptar - 08.04.11 - Lincoln Hall
Cults - 10.01.11 - Sound Academy
Reptar - 05.08.12 - Cabaret du Mile-End
Fort Lean - 07.25.12 - The Drake Hotel
Bear Hands - 07.25.12 - The Drake Hotel
Yellow Ostrich - 07.31.12 - The Drake Hotel
Givers - 07.31.12 - The Drake Hotel
Breton - 09.09.12 - The Rivoli
Django Django - 09.29.12 - Wrongbar
Perfume Genius - 10.05.12 - 918 Bathurst
The Joy Formidable - 11.26.12 - Mod Club
Freelance Whales - 01.17.13 - Mod Club
Passion Pit - 02.16.13 - Kool Haus
Citizens - 03.07.13 - Wrongbar
MS MR - 05.22.13 - Wrongbar

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