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Friday, December 23, 2011

Memory Lane: Rock and Roll Faces of 2011

Posted by on Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM

While no year-end-recap can top Trent's collection of amazing interview responses, 'tis the season for list making; so I thought I'd take a stab at it. Rather than regurgitating my list of favorite indie jams of ohleven (already submitted to the relevant tallying authorities anyway), trying to decide which were the best shows I saw this year, or pick my favorite photos, I thought I'd instead flip through my archives from a fun year of blogtography to pick out some my favorite rock faces snapped during 2011. After the jump, a few of the better expressions made by people while performing.

tUnE-yArDs
  • Merrill Garbus, tUnE-yArDs

Cage the Elephant
  • Cage the Elephant, crowd surfing at Coachella

Das Racist
  • Das Racist, at the Showbox

Mad Rad
  • Buffalo Madonna, Mad Rad, making Sasquatch party mountain.

the Black Keys
  • Patrick Carney, the Black Keys

Arcade Fire
  • Carrie Brownstein, Wild Flag

Battles
  • Battles, at All Tomorrow's Parties

Wiz Khalifa
  • Wiz Khalifa, Bumbershoot

the Hold Steady
  • the Hold Steady, spitting at the Neptune

Phantogram
  • Phantogram, closing Bumbershoot

Allen Stone
  • Allen Stone, Neumo's

Robyn
  • Robyn, the Paramount

Brite Futures
  • Luke Smith, Brite Futures, Key Arena.

 

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that's wild flag, not arcade fire.

<3 craig finn.
Posted by samsamsam on December 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Grant Brissey 2
Fixed!
Posted by Grant Brissey http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author.html?oid=23414 on December 23, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Josh Bis 3
Thanks! I guess you now know which semi-finalist was cut from the mix.
Posted by Josh Bis http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author.html?oid=3815563 on December 23, 2011 at 12:03 PM

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