We’ve just got a few more guestlists to round up our Best of 2011 coverage this week. First off, the guy who released our favourite download of 2011, Milo.
To preface, I’m hardly a worthwhile musician. More of a clumsy dabbler or something of that sort. I don’t listen to much in the way of new releases for whatever reason, so what I do listen to tends to be very calculated. Therefore my list will consist mostly of things you probably could have predicted.
We finally got around to finalising our list of our favourite albums of the last year. There are too many honourable mentions to go through, but the quality of the music over the last 12 months is clear in this very list. Let’s hope it continues throughout the next 12 months. For now though, here’s our top 10 albums of 2011.
We kick off our final week of Best of 2011 coverage with our Top 10 Free Downloads of the Year.
For our next guest list we asked the author of our new column Letters From The Front, Kwes, to tell us his favourite five tracks of the last year.
For the first time we’re going to allow our favourite artists have a say on their favourite artists. So before we finish up with our album of the year list, let’s hear what others thought of the past 12 months in music. First off, Ugly Duckling’s Andy Cooper.
Who could forget 2011? A year filled with, um, well, there was that one time when, uh…darn, I don’t remember anything. after 365 days, it can all become a blur but, somehow, I do recall some really good music so as I groove my way into 2012, I would like to submit my favorite albums of 2011 in no particular order…
Before we move onto our albums and free downloadable of the year (along with a few guestlists), we’ve got the little matter of our top 10 tracks of 2011.
The bar is raised incredibly high in our penultimate entry for the Tracks of 2011.
We continue our countdown of the top 50 tracks of 2011 with those just outside the top 20.
We continue our countdown of the top 50 tracks of 2011 with those just outside the top 30.
This time last year we had to extend our 2010 tracks of the year just to give everyone credit for a great year in music. It turns out, that 2011 was no slouch either and over the next week on the site, we’ll hopefully prove that with more tracks in our recap of 2011 in Cliché-Free Hip-Hop. So with that being said, here’s numbers 50 to 41 in our tracks of the year countdown.
Easily listen to our last twenty tracks. Featuring tracks by Witness, Organic Flow, & Milo Open Mike Eagle
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British success story, Plan B, might not come off as the most eloquent guy but last month he gave his thoughts to an all-ears TEDxObserver crowd on hip-hop and the term ‘chav’, among other topics. It’s definitely well worth a watch whether you’re a fan of his music or not. I found myself agreeing with [...]
Lesson is about progressive & cliché-free hip-hop with intelligent lyrics. Striving for something more than the mainstream perception of hip-hop. This means no misogyny, no glorification of drug-use, no violence and no played out flaunting of personal wealth.