Tag: 2011

The Rock Show looks back at the music of 2011

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[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/TPCRock_Friday215/tpn_rock_friday_20111130_215.mp3] Mp3 File – Show Notes – RSS Feed One final burst of music, as I take a look back at the music that has influenced The Rock Show podcast this year, and give them a little hurrah to see out 2011. With music from Ezra Furman, Jupiter Sunrise, The Civil Wars, The Jezabels, April Smith, and I Fight Dragons.

The year of Android? It’s really the year of Froyo

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Put aside ice cream sandwiches, gingerbread tablets and other bits of Android candy, it was 2.2 that ruled 2011, reveals The Guardian: The version running most Android handsets in 2011 was “Froyo”, aka version 2.2, which was released in May 2010. And next: the version that looks likely to dominate 2012 is “Gingerbread”, aka version 2.3.x, which has overtaken Froyo. As for “Ice Cream Sandwich”, aka version 4.0, which was released in November/December, who knows when that will dominate. (Honeycomb never had a chance – it was a tablet-only version.) And who’s running all these Froyo devices? The high-end Galaxies and

Agreeing with the Album of the Year critics

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Perhaps I’m just paying a little bit more attention this year, but as I skim through the numerous "Albums of the Year" posts coming up from music critics, stores, and blogs, I’m seeing a lot of albums and bands that I picked up on during the year through recommendations, bumping into them at music festivals, or simply by working the beat and hitting the internet to find the music for the weekly Rock Show podcast. NPR’s list looks incredibly mainstream (and I think it’s fair to say that I’m far from mainstream in my tastes), but there’s The Civil Wars’