Top 89 Staff Picks: Peter Valelly, Associate Web Producer
December 03, 2012
Songs
1. Grimes — "Oblivion"
2. Chromatics — "Back from the Grave"
3. The xx — "Chained"
4. Lana Del Rey — "Born to Die"
5. Burial — "Ashtray Wasp"
6. Solange — "Losing You"
7. Alt-J — "Fitzpleasure"
8. Bridget Kelly — "Special Delivery"
9. Miguel — "Do You..."
10. Bat for Lashes — "Laura"
Albums
1. Chromatics — Kill for Love
2. Grimes — Visions
3. The xx — Coexist
4. Kendrick Lamar — good kid; m.A.A.d. city
5. Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel...
6. Mirrorring — Foreign Body
7. Alt-J — An Awesome Wave
8. Burial — Kindred EP
9. Tame Impala — Lonerism
10. Beach House — Bloom
Honorary mentions:
Killer Mike — R.A.P. Music; Lil B — God's Father; Chairlift — Something; Mark Van Hoen — The Revenant Diary; Food Pyramid — Mango Sunrise; Raime — Quarter Turns Over a Living Line; Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti — Mature Themes; Darling Farah — Body; Is/Is — III; Main Attrakionz — Bossalinis & Fooliyones; Polica — Give You The Ghost; Andy Stott — Luxury Problems; Daniel Rossen — Silent Hour/Golden Mile EP; Lana Del Rey — Paradise EP & Born to Die
Polls
Top 89 songs of 2012
Top 89 albums of 2012
Mark Wheat, Host
Mary Lucia, Host
Barb Abney, Host
Steve Seel, Host
Jill Riley, Host
Bill DeVille, Host
Jim McGuinn, Program Director
Jade Tittle, Assistant Producer & Host
David Safar, Music Director
Mac Wilson, Host
Jacquie Fuller, Host
Derrick Stevens, Production Manager
Lindsay Kimball, Assistant Program Director
Jon Schober, Local Music Assistant/Music Assistant
Brett Baldwin, Managing Digital Producer
Leah Garaas, Intern
Nate Ryan, Associate Web Producer, Multimedia
Jake Rudh, Host
Matt Perkins, Marketing Manager
Scott Olstad, Associate Web Producer
Peter Valelly, Associate Web Producer
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