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The Local Show Top Ten Local Debuts and Staff Picks

January 01, 2012

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On this week's episode of The Local Show, we'll take one last look back at 2011. We'll be spinning the best local music released this year as picked by The Local Show staff including our list of the top ten debuts by new bands. This week's show is a hit parade, featuring all the home town heroes and the music they create right here in our own backyard.

Segments

Mugabe's Blues
Liminal Phase
LP

Cold Foot Boogie
The Cactus Blossoms
The Cactus Blossoms

Omamori
Elite Gymnastics
Ruin I

Weather Machine
Fire in the Northern Firs
Field Guide EP

Gold In Your Eyes
Crimes
Good Hope

Vacuum Cleaner
The Cloak Ox
Prisen EP

You Like White Women, I Like Cigarettes
Howler
This One's Different EP

Hidden Beach
Pink Mink
Pink Mink

Country Queen
Night Moves
Colored Emotions

Dark Star
Polica
Give You The Ghost

Stay Golden
Wizards Are Real
Wizards Are Real

Empire Waist
Halloween, Alaska
All Night The Calls Came In

Money
Haley Bonar
Golder

Burn It Down
Sims
Bad Time Zoo

Lionhearted
4onthefloor
4x4

Tank Top
Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps
Little Wind

Believer
John Maus
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Don't Fool Me
Kasey McKee
Surveil

Electric
Brian Just Band
If You Like To Be Alone Or If You Need To Be With Someone

Well of Love
Mason Jennings
Minnesota

Try To Sleep
Low
C'mon

Little Mercy
Doomtree
No Kings

Found Is A Passion
Little Man
Orbital Amusement EP

Ain't So Bad
Sleeping In the Aviary
You and Me, Ghost

Hostage
Matt Latterell
Life On Land

Suffer
M.anifest
Immigrant Chronicles: Coming to America

Gospel Plow
Charlie Parr
Keep Your Hands on the Plow