Bands You're Seeing This Year (2012)

[FakeLaser]

pieced together from Foursquare and Facebook

Allison Weiss
Mitten
Lightyear
Keepaway
Lakutis
Big Baby Gahndi
Dracula's Dick
Ava Luna
Total Slacker
Caged Animals
Night Manager
Secret Mountains
Phone Home
Rifle Recoil
Candidate
Life Size Maps
Gunfight
Team Genius
Kurt Vile
Jenny Owen Youngs
Rhyton
Thurston Moore
Mirah
Blair
Veronica Falls
Brilliant Colors
Grooms
DIIV
Habibi
So So Glos
Eula
Sparxx
Parquet Courts
Liquor Store
Violent Bullshit
Psychobuildings
Freshkills
The Babies
Indian Jewelry
Acrylics
Nite Jewel
Less Than Jake
Crocodiles
Bleached
Archers of Loaf
Kool Keith
GZA
Violens
Tom Blacklung and the Smokestacks
Frankie Rose
Young Prisms
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
Ducktails
Tanks Amigo
Cool Serbia
Heaven's Gate
Heavenly Beat
Pictureplane
Prince Rama
Mykki Blanco
Jerome LOL
Flying Lotus
Death Grips
Metz
Yvette
Weekend
Eraas
Woodsman
Dinowalrus
Shark?
Lower Dens
Dan Deacon
John Maus
Roomrunner
Japanther
Mux Mool
Unstoppable Death Machines
The Numerators
DJ Dog Dick
Grimes
Bosco Delrey
Major Lazer
James Murphy
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Titus Andronicus
Cursive
Radical Dads
The Suzan
Wild Yaks
Not Blood Paint
Friend Roulette
Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire
The Toothaches
Osekre and the Lucky Bastards
The Denzels
Fan Tan
U Say USA
Hard Nips
Celestial Shore
Born Gold
Supreme Cuts
The Twerps
Home Blitz
What's Next
Laurel Halo
Guardian Alien
Black Pus
Buck Gooster
Lightning Bolt
Atoms For Peace
Holy Other
Tobacco
Com Truise
Selebrities
Avan Lava
The Black Swans
Mutuawa
Dan Friel
Mincemeat or Tenspeed
Island Twins
Weird Rivers
Naam
Black Rainbows
Bleeding Rainbow
Mac Demarco
Teen Daze
Grand Resort
Lingerie
Plastic Flowers
The Young Evils
The Intelligence
Royal Baths
Young Boys
Ex Cops
Beach Day
Eternal Summers
Zambri
Hundred Waters
Cities Aviv
Grupo Fantasma
Caveman
Fort Lean
Computer Magic
TEEN
Duck Sauce
Chromeo
Atmosphere
Santigold
Man On Earth
New Cassettes
The Men
Excepter
Diamond Terrifier
Lucky Dragons
Hiro Kone
Hospitality
Spirit Animal
Ninjasonik
Team Spirit
No Joy
Alan Resnick
Xeno & Oaklander
Black Jeans
Roadside Graves
Dream Affair
Anasazi
Black Marble
Religious To Damn
Lemonade
Jamie XX
Pearson Sound
Tyvek
Wet Hair
Scott & Charlene's Wedding
You.
Graffiti Monsters
Chron Turbine
Love as Laughter
Nu Sensae
Psychic Blood
Splash
Tiny Victories
Neighbors
Ghost Beach
Starlight Girls
1-800 Band
Champagne Sequins
MLKTH
Bizi Gara
Rustie
Sightings
The Dearloves
Conveyor
Buke and Gase
Kitty Pryde
ADVATA
Oberhofer
Astral Locket
The Vandelles
Four Visions
HITS
Daytona
Yellow Dogs
Turnip King

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Originally Posted by FakeLaser Jenny Owen Youngs

I almost repped you for this, but you suck, so I refrained from doing so.


Anyways,

I went to see Converge last night; pretty tasty to see that kind of stuff played live. The crowd was oddly restrained. I expected the place to be one giant most pit of death, but no, people were just happy to let the aggression wash over them in waves.