CMJ’s 2012 Year-End Charts

CMJ’s year end charts are officially out! Take a look at how Distiller artists fared in 2012.For more info check out our site, and scope the full list at CMJ!

Top 200 of 2012:
25.  First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
60.  Heartless Bastards - Arrow (Partisan)
67.  Yellow Ostrich - Strange Land (Barsuk)
71.  Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil (8 Ft.)
77.  Menomena - Moms (Barsuk)
85.  Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs (Partisan)
87.  Antibalas - Antibalas (Daptone)
107.  Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Mute)
109.  Mynabirds - Generals (Saddle Creek)
115.  Laura Gibson - La Grande (Barsuk)
133.  Delicate Steve - Positive Force (Luaka Bop)
136.  Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional (Astralwerks)
140.  Night Moves - Colored Emotions (Domino)
152.  Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (PIAS)
186.  Tilly And The Wall - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
196.  Gemma Ray - Island Fire (Bronze Rat)


RPM of 2012:
5.  Bassnectar - Vava Voom (Amorphous)
10.  Boys Noize - Out Of The Black (Boysnoize)
13.  Balkan Beat Box - Give (Nat Geo)
23.  Kraak And Smaak - Mixed Feelings (Jalapeno)
26.  Nickodemus - Moon People (ESL)
49.  Second Sky - The Art Of Influence Remixed (Rhythm and Culture)


New World of 2012:
1.  Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 (Red-ATO)
2.  Antibalas - Antibalas (Daptone)
3.  Novalima - Karimba (ESL)
5.  Ceu - Caravana Sereia Bloom (Six Degreees)
6.  Chicha Libre - Canibalismo (Barbes)
8.  TIm Maia - World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia (Luaka Bop)
12.  Balkan Beat Box - Give (Nat Geo)
13.  Spy From Cairo - Arabadub (Wonderwheel)
16.  Lijadu Sisters - Mother Africa (KFR)
17.  Janka Nabay And The Bubu Gang - En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop)
18.  Baloji - Kinshasa Succersale (Crammed Discs)
19.  Chieftains - Voice Of Ages (Hear-Concord)
21.  Rupa And The April Fishes - Build (Electric Gumbo Radio Music)
22.  Bombay Royale - You Me Bullets Love (Hope Street)
23.  Various Artists - Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics (Nublu)
24.  Tribecastan - New Deli (Evergreene)
25.  Brownout - Dozy (Nat Geo)
26.  Bibi Tanga and The Selenites - 40 Degrees Of Sunshine (Nat Geo)
27.  Staff Benda Bilili - Bouger Le Monde! (Crammed Discs)
29.  Niyaz - Sumud (Six Degrees)
30.  Lijadu Sisters - Danger (KFR)
31.  Funk Ark - High Noon (ESL)
33.  Curumin - Arrocha (Six Degrees)
34.  Egyptian Project - Ya Amar (Six Degrees)
35.  Mati Zundel - Amazonico Gravitante (ZZK-Waxploitation)
38.  La Chiva Gantiva - Pelao (Crammed Discs)
39.  Calibro 35 - Any Resemblence To Real Persons Or Actual Facts Is PUrely Coincidental (Nublu)
40.  Black Seeds - Dust and Dirt (Easy Star)
41.  Ba Cissoko - Nimissa (Cristal)
42.  Archives - The Archives (ESL)
43.  Jovanotti - Italia 1988-2012 (ATO)
48.  El Rego - El Rego (Daptone)


AAA of 2012:
9.  Heartless Bastards - Arrow (Partisan)
21.  First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
48.  Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs (Partisan)


Jazz of 2012:
1.  Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society (Head’s Up International)
26.  Sugarman 3 - What The World Needs Now (Daptone)

Ah, Fun Fun Fun Fest, doing right by us with Diamond Rings, Love Inks, The Black Angels, Diamond Rugs, Yellow Ostrich, and more! Check it out.

Ah, Fun Fun Fun Fest, doing right by us with Diamond Rings, Love Inks, The Black Angels, Diamond Rugs, Yellow Ostrich, and more! Check it out.

RCRDLBL’s 2012 Halftime Report includes First Aid Kit and Yellow Ostrich!

RCRDLBL’s 2012 Halftime Report includes First Aid Kit and Yellow Ostrich!

Yellow Ostrich recently took the KDHX studio into new territory, with “wild melodies, spiky rhythms, and tightly-wound musical puzzles.” Click through to listen and read on.

Yellow Ostrich recently took the KDHX studio into new territory, with “wild melodies, spiky rhythms, and tightly-wound musical puzzles.” Click through to listen and read on.

Check out Pitchfork’s review of Strange Land by Yellow Ostrich here!
Yellow Ostrich at Mercury Lounge in NYC!!

Yellow Ostrich at Mercury Lounge in NYC!!

Yellow Ostrich live on KEXP in about 25 minutes (9:30 PST/12:30 EST). Listen online at http://kexp.org !

Review of Yellow Ostrich’s Strange Land plus a free download of lead single “Marathon Runner” from CMJ! Get it here, WOO!
Yellow Ostrich stopped by Street Date Radio! Check out the session here, featuring a live interview and tracks from their new record, Strange Land, out now on Barsuk!
Get ready for SXSW with NPR’s The Austin 100 mix, featuring Texas bound Distiller artists Apparat, Bright Moments, Heartless Bastards, Laura Gibson, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Seun Kuti, and Yellow Ostrich!

Going for ADDS on 2.21: Yellow Ostrich - ‘Strange Land’ (Barsuk)

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Yellow Ostrich at Music Hall of Williamsburg!

Yellow Ostrich at Music Hall of Williamsburg!

Check out the video for Yellow Ostrich’s “Mary (Alternate)” from their debut album The Mistress out on Barsuk Records NOW!

Radiation City blogged about their CMJ experience for WFUV’s The Alternate Side.  Check out their thoughts on Distiller Promo’s day party at the Knitting Factory featuring Superhuman Happiness, FIDLAR, Lightouts, PUJOL, The R’s, WATERS and Yellow Ostrich!
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