BEST OF 2011
Best Albums #20-#11
Best Albums #10-#1
Best Singles
Best Reissues
Primitive Futures' 20 Artifacts
Extremities

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Ron Wadlinger
David Holmes
Matt Slaybaugh
Kevin J. Elliott
Eric Davidson
Michael P. O'Shaughnessy
Dorian S. Ham
Nate Knaebel
Jennifer Farmer
Stephen Slaybaugh
Josie Rubio

FEATURE
Guided By Voices

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Fall, Ersatz GB
The Cure, Bestival Live 2011
Korn, The Path of Totality
The Howling Hex, Wilson Seminconductors
Eddy Current Suppression Ring, So Many Things

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Kathryn Calder and Mark Eitzel Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Boddie Recording Company

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Los Llamarada, Gone Gone Cold

FEATURE
Psandwich

ALBUM REVIEWS
Gorillaz, The Singles Collection: 2001-2011
Wounded Lion, IVXLCDM
Envelope and Jacoti Sommes, This Could Go Either Way
Eccentric Soul: The Nickel and Penny Labels
Wax Idols, No Future

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Ballad of Mott the Hoople

PAST PERFECT
Smashing Pumpkins, Gish and Siamese Dream

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
December Singles Round-Up

FEATURE
The Spits

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Bats, Free All the Monsters
The Duke Spirit, Bruiser
Lateef the Truthspeaker, FireWire
She & Him, A Very She & Him Christmas
Ty Segall, Singles 2007-2010

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

PAST PERFECT
U2, Achtung Baby

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Radio People

EXTREMITIES
Thanksgiving of Metal

FEATURE
Dwarr

ALBUM REVIEWS
Los Campesinos, Hello Sadness
Thee Oh Sees, Carrion Crawler/The Dream
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Pterodactyll, Spills Out and Arnold's Park
Joker, The Vision

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Scratch Acid Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Can, Tago Mago

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Another Wave from the Aussie Underground

FEATURE
Cass McCombs

ALBUM REVIEWS
Atlas Sound, Parallax
David Lynch, Crazy Clown Time
Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
Tycho, Dive
Summer Camp, Welcome to Condale

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Scratch Acid Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Leonard Cohen, The Complete Albums Collection

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Spanish Prisoners

FEATURE
Yuck

ALBUM REVIEWS
Brite Futures, Dark Past
EYE, Center of the Sun
The Juan MacLean, Everybody Get Close
Skinny Puppy, hanDover
Low Roar, Low Roar

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label

PAST PERFECT
The Smiths, Complete

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
November Singles Round-Up

FEATURE
Neon Indian

ALBUM REVIEWS
Tom Waits, Bad As Me
Gauntlet Hair, Gauntlet Hair
Strange Boys, Live Music
Spectrals, Bad Penny
The Beets, Let the Poison Out

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

PAST PERFECT
Void, Sessions 1981-83

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Speculator, Nice

EXTREMITIES
Live Music Round-Up

FEATURE
Human Switchboard

ALBUM REVIEWS
Björk, Biophilia
Ryan Adams, Ashes & Fire
Real Estate, Days
Jane's Addiction, The Great Escape Artist
My Brightest Diamond, All Things Will Unwind

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute

PAST PERFECT
Fac. Dance: Factory Records 12" Mixes & Rarities 1980-1987

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Gross Magic

FEATURE
Rocket from the Tombs

ALBUM REVIEWS
Crooked Fingers, Breaks in the Armor
Zola Jesus, Conatus
High Places, Original Colors
Paley Francis, Paley Francis
Casiokids, Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self-Defense

PAST PERFECT
Gregory Isaacs, The Ruler 1972-1990

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, DOST

FEATURE
Mekons

ALBUM REVIEWS
Feist, Metals
Comet Gain, Howl of the Lonely Crowd
Prince Rama, Trust Now
Loney Dear, Hall Music
VHS or Beta, Diamonds & Death

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Foster the People, Cults, and Reptar Live Review

PAST PERFECT
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Winterland

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Sic Alps, Breadhead and "Battery Townsley"

FEATURE
Bonnie "Prince" Billy

ALBUM REVIEWS
Dum Dum Girls, Only in Dreams
Twin Sister, In Heaven
DJ Shadow, The Less You Know, The Better
Wind Flag, Wild Flag
The Janks, Hands of Time

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Social Climbers

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
King Dude, Tonight's Special Death

FEATURE
Big Troubles

ALBUM REVIEWS
Mikal Cronin, Mikal Cronin
Meg Baird, Seasons on Earth
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Hysterical
WU LYF, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
Ivy, All Hours

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Raincoats Live Review

PAST PERFECT
This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45rpm (1957-1982)

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
September Singles Round-Up

EXTREMITIES
September Slabs

FEATURE
The Raincoats

ALBUM REVIEWS
Ladytron, Gravity the Seducer
Lindsey Buckingham, Seeds We Sow
Blitzen Trapper, American Goldwing
Dan Melchior und das Menace, Catbirds and Cardinals
Lydia Loveless, Indestructivle Machine

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
!!! Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Superchunk, Foolish

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Acid Baby Jesus

FEATURE
Hank3

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Rapture, In the Grace of Your Love
Hella, Tripper
Haunted House, Blue Ghost Blues and Loren Connors, Red Mars
Jack Oblivian, Rat City
Qwazaar & Batsauce, Bat Meets Blaine

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
1991: The Year Punk Broke

PAST PERFECT
The George-Edwards Group, Archives

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Bruit Direct Disques' Summer Soiree

FEATURE
Cymbals Eat Guitars

ALBUM REVIEWS
Glen Campbell, Ghost on the Canvas
CSS, La Liberacion
We Are Augustines, Rise Ye Sunkin Ship
Tommy Stinson, One Man Mutiny
Total Babes, Swimming Through Sunlight

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
September Festival Guide

PAST PERFECT
Scrawl, Velvet Hammer

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Wavepool Abortion

EXTREMITIES
End of Summer Reviews

FEATURE
Her Space Holiday

ALBUM REVIEWS
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Mirror Traffic
Ganglians, Still Living
Hercules & Love Affair, Blue Songs
Active Child, You Are All I See
Chelsea Wolfe, Apokalypsis

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Jesus Lizard, Club

PAST PERFECT
Patti Smith, Outside Society

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Factorymen, Shitman and Yellow Eyes and the Sound of Vomit EP

FEATURE
Sun Araw

ALBUM REVIEWS
Case Studies, The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night
The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Marble Son
Maria Taylor, Overlook
Her Space Holiday, Her Space Holiday

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Retromania

PAST PERFECT
Bobb Trimble, The Crippled Dog Band

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Liquor Store, Yeah Buddy

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Horrors, Skying
Tunnels, The Blackout
Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges
NewVillager, NewVillager
The Duke & the King, The Duke & the King

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Paul McCartney and The Kills Live Reviews

PAST PERFECT
Iggy Pop, Roadkill Rising... The Bootleg Collection 1977-2009

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Bonus Summer Singles Round-Up

FEATURE
Wooden Shjips

ALBUM REVIEWS
Boston Spaceships, Let It Beard
Moonface, Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
Richard Buckner, Our Blood
Ursula 1000, Mondo Beyondo
Buffalo Killers, 3

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Mid-Summer Festival Guide

PAST PERFECT
Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Rimar

EXTREMITIES
August Albums

FEATURE
Fucked Up

ALBUM REVIEWS
Fungi Girls, Some Easy Magic
Wu-Tang, Legendary Weapons
Fruit Bats, Tripper
Machinedrum, Room(s)
Widowspeak, Widowspeak

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Tedeschi Trucks Band Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Culture, Two Sevens Clash

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
August Singles Round-Up

FEATURE
Circuit des Yeux

ALBUM REVIEWS
Sole and the Skyrider Band, Hello Cruel World
They Might Be Giants, Join Us
Tomorrow's Tulips, Eternally Teenage
Metronomy, The English Riviera
Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Wild Nothing and Twin Sister Live Review

PAST PERFECT
The 3Ds, Early Recordings 1989-90

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Imaginary Softwoods, The Path of Spectrolite

FEATURE
Washed Out

ALBUM REVIEWS
Zomby, Dedication
Part Time, What Would You Say
The Fruit Tree Foundation, First Edition
Sons and Daughters, Mirror Mirror
Eleanor Friedberger, Last Summer

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Fungi Girls Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Stone Coal White, Stone Coal White

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Cheater Slicks, Our Food Is Chaos

EXTREMITIES
Summer Metal Jamz

FEATURE
Unknown Mortal Orchestra

ALBUM REVIEWS
Memory Tapes, Player Piano
Brian Eno, Between the Bells
Centro-matic, Candidate Waltz
Crystal Antlers, Two-Way Mirror
Handsome Furs, Sound Kapital

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Bob Mould, See a Little Light

PAST PERFECT
Father's Children, Who's Gonna Save the World

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
An Interview with Purling Hiss

FEATURE
Junior Boys

ALBUM REVIEWS
Rave On Buddy Holly
Maryanne Faithfull, Horses and High Heels
YACHT, Shangri-La
Wax Museums, Eye Times
Weird Al Yankovic, Alpocalypse

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Are We Still Rolling?

PAST PERFECT
Paul McCartney, McCartney and McCartney II

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Hozac Summer 7-inches

FEATURE
Peter Murphy

ALBUM REVIEWS
Ty Segall, Goodbye Bread
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80, From Africa with Fury: Rise
John Paul Keith, The Man That Time Forgot
Cassettes Won't Listen, EVINSPACEY
Jeff the Brotherhood, We Are the Champions

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Northside Festival

PAST PERFECT
Peter Tosh, Legalize It and Equal Rights

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
The Men, Leave Home

EXTREMITIES
Death in June

FEATURE
Black Lips

ALBUM REVIEWS
Elysian Fields, Last Night on Earth
Thee Oh Sees, Castlemania
Antipop Consortium, Knives from Heaven
Oneida, Absolute II
Nigeria 70—Sweet Times

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Indie Rock Poster Book

PAST PERFECT
Sebadoh, Bakesale

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Obnox, I'm Bleeding Now

FEATURE
Pink Reason

ALBUM REVIEWS
Ford & Lopatin, Channel Pressure
Arctic Monkeys, Suck It and See
The Ladybug Transistor, Clutching Stems
City and Colour, Little Hell
Seapony, Go With Me

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Blank City

PAST PERFECT
Love, Black Beauty

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
June Singles Round-Up, Part 2

EXTREMITIES
Maryland Death Fest IX Report

FEATURE
Psychedelic Horseshit

ALBUM REVIEWS
Death Cab for Cutie, Codes and Keys
My Morning Jacket, Circuital
Friendly Fires, Pala
Ear Pwr, Ear Pwr
Blow Your Head V.2: Dave Nada Presents... Moombahton

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Times New Viking Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Reatards, Teenage Hate

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
June Singles Round-Up, Part 1

FEATURE
Gang Gang Dance

ALBUM REVIEWS
Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Gorilla Rose
Urge Overkill, Rock & Roll Submarine
White Denim, D
Zachary Cale, Noise of Welcome
Tara Jane O'Neil and Nikaido Kazumi, Tara Jane O'Neil and Nikaido Kazumi

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson, Danzig, and the Antlers Live Reviews

PAST PERFECT
DOA, Something Better Change and Hardcore 81

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
A Missive from Evil Weevil

FEATURE
Crystal Stilts

ALBUM REVIEWS
Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts
D. Charles Speer & the Helix, Leaving the Commonwealth
Nodzzz, Innings
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, Rome
Bachelorette, Bachelorette

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Feelies Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Simple Minds, Sparkle in the Rain

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Wet Hair, In Vogue Spirit

EXTREMITIES
An Interview with Marduk

FEATURE
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Antlers, Burst Apart
Okkervil River, I Am Very Far
Yael Naim, She Was a Boy
The Cars, Move Like This
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Rise Again

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Surfer Blood Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Mercury Rev, Deserter's Songs

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Three New Singles from Florida's Dying

FEATURE
Iceage

ALBUM REVIEWS
Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committe Part Two
Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
Gruf Rhys, Hotel Shampoo
Cat's Eyes, Cat's Eyes
Explosions in the Sky, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Naked and Famous Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Blank Dogs, Collected By Itself: 2006-2009

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Skeletons, People

EXTREMITIES
May Metal

FEATURE
Blueprint

ALBUM REVIEWS
Times New Viking, Dancer Equired
Steve Earle, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
White Mystery, Blood Venom
Poly Styrene, Generation Indigo
Cass McCombs, Wit's End

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Walkmen and the New Pornographers Live Review

PAST PERFECT
The Kinks, Kinks, Kinda Kinks and The Kink Kontroversy

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
An Interview with the Feeling of Love

FEATURE
Cold Cave

ALBUM REVIEWS
tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
Ponytail, Do Whatever You Want All the Time
David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, Left By Soft
The High Llamas, Talahomi Way
The Black Watch, Led Zeppelin Five

PAST PERFECT
The Zeros, "Main Street Brat" and The Normals, "Almost Ready"

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Tic Tac Totally Singles Round-Up

EXTREMITIES
April Album Shower

FEATURE
Sonny and the Sunsets

ALBUM REVIEWS
Mansions, Dig Up the Dead
Meat Puppets, Lollipop
The Kills, Blood Pressures
Atmosphere, The Family Sign
Yelle, Safari Disco Club

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Indie Cred Test

PAST PERFECT
Pearl Jam, Vs. and Vitalogy

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Silver Shampoo, Higher and Higher

FEATURE
Surf City

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Belong
Mars Classroom, The New Theory of Everything
Hunx and His Punx, Too Young to Be in Love
Fredrik, Flora
Bill Callahan, Apocalypse

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee "Scratch" Perry

PAST PERFECT
Swearing at Motorists, Postcards from a Drinking Town

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
The Alps, Easy Action

EXTREMITIES
An Interview with Burzum

FEATURE
Akron/Family

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Feelies, Here Before
Baby Dee, Regifted Light
Those Darlins, Screws Get Loose
Funeral Party, The Golden Age of Knowhere
Obits, Moody, Standard and Poor

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Papercuts and Mi Ami Live Reviews

PAST PERFECT
Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Ripe on the Vine

FEATURE
The Dirtbombs

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Strokes, Angles
Generationals, Actor Caster
Davila 666, Tan Bajo
Keren Ann, 101
Darlings, Warma EP

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Pere Ubu Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Disco Love 2: More Rare Disco & Soul Uncovered

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Mueran Humanos, Mueran Humanos

FEATURE
The Dodos

ALBUM REVIEWS
J Mascis, Several Shades of Why
New York Dolls, Dancing Backward in High Heels
Rise Against, Endgame
Hype Williams, One Nation
Exene Cervenka, The Excitement of Maybe

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Edwyn Collins Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Nick Lowe, Labour of Lust

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Whatever Brains

SXSW
The Agit Reader at SXSW 2011

FEATURE
Faust

ALBUM REVIEWS
REM, Collapse Into Now
Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring for My Halo
Wye Oak, Civilian
Ancient Astronauts, Into Bass and Time
The Electronic Anthology, The Electronic Anthology

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch

PAST PERFECT
Queens of the Stone Age

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Kleenex Girl Wonder, Secret Thinking

EXTREMITIES
March Metal

FEATURE
Cult of Youth

ALBUM REVIEWS
Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes
Tim Cohen, Magic Trick and Bad Blood EP
Beady Eye, Different Gear, Still Speeding
Acrylics, Lives and Treasure
Cheveu, 1,000

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Paul Collins Beat Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Human Switchboard, Who's Landing in My Hangar?

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Providien, Followed By a Wraith

FEATURE
Puro Instinct

ALBUM REVIEWS
Radiohead, The King of Limbs
Toro y Moi, Underneath the Pine
Yuck, Yuck
Beans, End It All
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Church Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Johnny Cash, From Memphis to Hollywood: Bootleg Vol. 2

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
February Singles Round-Up

FEATURE
Cut Copy

ALBUM REVIEWS
Bright Eyes, The People's Key
DeVotchKa, 100 Lovers
Chain & the Gang, Music's Not for Everyone
Win Win, Win Win
East River Pipe, We Live in Rented Rooms

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Tusk 33⅓

PAST PERFECT
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew Live

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Mike Shiflet, Llanos

FEATURE
Destroyer

ALBUM REVIEWS
Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Cowboy Junkies, Demons
La Sera, La Sera and The Babies, The Babies
The Twilight Singers, Dynamite Steps
Dom, Bronzed Greek Gods EP

PAST PERFECT
The Witches, A Haunted Person's Guide to...

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Ryan Jewell, Eschew Obfuscation/Espouse Elucidation

FEATURE
Herzog

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Go! Team, Rolling Blackouts
John Vanderslice, White Wilderness
Monotonix, Not Yet
Sonny Smith, 100 Records Volume II: I Miss the Jams
Lia Ices, Grown Unknown

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
The Dismemberment Plan Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Fela Kuti, "Power Show" Batch, Part II

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Introducing... Slug Guts

EXTREMITIES
Extreme Metal, Extreme Noise!!!

FEATURE
Games

ALBUM REVIEWS
Gang of Four, Content
Wanda Jackson, The Party Ain't Over
Death, Spiritual • Mental • Physical
Amos Lee, Mission Bell
Sic Alps, Napa Asylum

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Complaints Choir

PAST PERFECT
Fela Kuti, "Power Show" Batch, Part I

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Hype Willams, Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Gettin Reel

FEATURE
Gauntlet Hair

ALBUM REVIEWS
Iron and Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean
Cloud Nothings, Cloud Nothings
Social Distortion, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
White Lies, Ritual
Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Gruff Rhys Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Willie Wright, Telling the Truth

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Big Troubles, Worry

FEATURE
Anika

ALBUM REVIEWS
The Decemberists, The King Is Dead
Ghostface Killah, Apollo Kids
Ducktails, Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
Minks, By the Hedge
Duran Duran, All You Need Is Now

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Todd P Goes to Austin

PAST PERFECT
ESG, Dance to the Best of ESG

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
Sharp Ends, Sharp Ends

FEATURE
The Luyas

ALBUM REVIEWS
Wire, Red Barked Tree
Fresh Millions, Fresh Millions
Arthur's Landing, Arthur's Landing
The Ex, Catch My Shoe
Robert Pollard, Space City Kicks

WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?
Guided By Voices Live Review

PAST PERFECT
Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque

PRIMITIVE FUTURES
The Beets, Stay Home