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Top 50 albums

Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Top 100 Songs of 2011

#1

Adele
21

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#2

Dawes
Nothing Is Wrong

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#3

The Decemberists
The King Is Dead

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#4

Amos Lee
Mission Bell

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#5

Foster The People
Torches

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#6

Paul Simon
So Beautiful Or What

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#7

Wilco
The Whole Love

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#8

Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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#9

Coldplay
Mylo Xyloto

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#10

My Morning Jacket
Circuital

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#11

Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues

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#12

Civil Wars
Barton Hallow

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#13

Diego Garcia
Laura

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#14

Tedeschi Trucks Band
Revelator

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#15

Black Keys
El Camino

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#16

Ryan Adams
Ashes And Fire

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#17

Feist
Metals

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#18

The Head And Heart
The Head And Heart

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#19

Death Cab For A Cutie
Codes And Keys

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#20

Tom Waits
Bad As Me

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#21

Florence And the Machine
Ceremonials

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#22

R.E.M.
Collapse Into Now

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#23

Raphael Saadiq
Stone Rollin

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#24

St Vincent
Strange Mercy

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#25

Radiohead
The King Of Limbs

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Listen to Grande Marshall’s Daytrotter session

This tasty new set tripped down the Daytrotter wire today; backed by a DJ and a handy cashe of moody, evocative beats, up-and-coming...Read More

Listen to a new Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros song, “Better Days” (playing XPoNential Music Festival in...

Photo by Joseph Schell Photography https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joseph-Schell-Photography/106691849363906 Edward Sharpe and the...Read More

The Key Studio Sessions: Market East

The guys of Market East clearly have a thing for the warmer months of the year. There was “Marielle,” the rhapsody over...Read More

Watch Philly rapper Taylor Dunn flow in various center city locales in “Water”

Late last year, Philly rapper Taylor Dunn released his latest mixtape, On the Contrary; this week, we got a music video for the single...Read More

Watch DRGN King perform “Holy Ghost” for Out of Town Films (playing the XPoNential Music Festival in...

We’re very excited to have Philadelphia’s DRGN King on the lineup for this year’s XPoNential Music Festival. Their...Read More