I’ve already shared my favorite songs with you and told you a little bit about my personal MVP, but here are a few more of my favorite things from 2011.

My Favorite Albums of 2011:

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2. Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel
3. Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming
4. Dolorean - The Unfazed
5. Bryan John Appleby - Fire on the Vine
6. Gardens & Villa - s/t
7. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
8. Radiation City - The Hands That Take You
9. Alabama Shakes - s/t EP
10 (tie). Quiet Life - Big Green
10 (tie). Gem Club - Breakers

My Favorite Musical Moments of 2011

1. Mavis Staples Singing “The Weight,” “You Are Not Alone” and “Freedom Highway” back-to-back-to-back at Bumbershoot

Mavis Staples at Bumbershoot ::: photo by Abbey Simmons

2. Kelli Schaefer and Her Mom Singing “Gone in Love” at Cathedrals II

Kelli Schaefer and Mom ::: photo by Abbey Simmons

3. Being Front Row for Charles Bradley at the Aladdin Theater During MFNW

Charles Bradley ::: iphone photo by Abbey Simmons

4. Pickwick Performing (and performing with Pickwick) at our 5th Anniversary Show

5. Slack Fest (all of it)

Whalebones at Slack Fest ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

My Favorite Videos of 2011:

My Favorite Thing I Forgot to Include on the Appropriate Best of List: New Carissa’s Wierd

These new Carissa’s Wierd and the subsequent 7” out on Hardly Art this year, definitely should have been on both my favorite songs and favorite EPs / 7” / cassette of the year list, but absolutely slipped my mind. This is not acceptable.

My Favorite Thing Sound on the Sound did in 2011: Written Here with Bryan John Appleby