best of 2011.....

this was another great year for music..... so many good garage, punk, psych, noise and indie rock albums to choose from...... 


i usually do a top 30 of the year and i always think i could post a list of at least hundred lps you need to buy......but thirty seems to a nice number.....these lps never travelled very far from my turntable all year.......


i highly suggest you buy every album on this list...




TINY GROOVES' Best ALBUMS of xx11

1-    Night Beats - s/t (trouble in mind)
2-    Blind Shake - seriousness (learning curve)

3-    Heavy Times - jacker (hozac)
4-    Video - leather leather  (play pinball)

5-    Blasted Canyons - s/t  (castle face)
6-    GG King  - esoteric love (robs house)

7-    Mikal Cronin  - s/t (trouble in mind)

8-    Bad Sports - kings of the weekend (dirtnap)

9-    OBN IIIs - one and only (tic tac totally)

10-  Black Lips  - arabia mountain (vice)


11-  Apache Dropout - s/t (family vineyard)

12-  Cosmonauts - s/t (permanent)
13-  Xray Eyeballs - not nothing (kanine)

14-  The Oh Sees - carrion drawler / the dream (in the red)
15-  Total Control - henge beat  (iron lung)

16-  Nothing People - smells like metal (captcha)

17-  Purling Hiss - lounge lizards (mexican summer)

18-  Ty Segall - goodbye bread (drag city)

19-  Dirtbombs - party store (in the red)

20-  Royal headache - s/t (rip society)


21-  Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - gorilla rose (in the red)

22-  Useless Eaters - daily commute (tic tac totally)

23-  Mind Spiders - s/t (dirtnap)
24-  Disappears - guider (kranky)
25-  Peoples Temple - sons of stone (hozac)
26-  Bass Drum of Death - gb city (fat possum / inflated)
27-  Moon Duo - mazes (sacred bones)

28-  Obits - moody standard and poor (sub pop)

29-  Wooden Shjips - west (thrill jockey)

30-  Cave - neverendless (drag city)




and here's some other highlights from 2011....  

best singles / b-sides collection


the oh sees - singles vol. 1-2


best cover album


ty segall - ty rex


best split ep


the oh sees/total control
 tied
puffy areolas/purling hiss


best reissue


the reatards - teenage hate


best shows of 2011 (too many fun ones to narrow it down)


black lips / night beats @ empty bottle
the oh sees / total control @ empty bottle
bad sports / wax museums @ cals
ty segall / mikal cronin / human eye / heavy times
  @ treasure town
double dagger @ treasure town
dirtbombs / white mystery @ subterranean 
   and last but not least.....
HOZAC BLACKOUT FEST @ velvet perineum 


best 7 inch


x-ray eyeballs - crystal


best cassette only release


cosmonauts - new psychic denim
 tied
purling hiss - dizzy polizzy


best chicago band


heavy times


best collaborative lp


michael yonkers and the blind shake - period


best live album


jesus lizard - club
 tied 
ty segall - live at aisle five