Asheville FM DJ's Top 10 Releases Of 2011!

The highly eventful year of 2011 has come to a close with many wondering what 2012 has in store. Several of our DJ's however have recently taken a look back on the year in order to share ten reasons why 2011 was also a great year in music. Have a look!

Steven Howard (Mental Notes)
D. Charles Speer & The Helix " Leaving The Commonwealth -Thrill Jockey
Kate Bush - "50 Words For Snow" - Anti
The Beach Boys "The Smile Sessions" - Capitol
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers "Teenage and Torture" - Knitting Factory
Glenn Jones " The Wanting" - Thrill Jockey
VA I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces "Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955" - Dust-To-Digital
Bill Callahan "Apocolypse" - Drag City
Staff Benda Bilili "Tres Tres Fort" - Crammed Discs
Savaging Spires "Savaging Spires" - Critical Heights
Tom Waits "Bad As Me" - Anti

Dustin Gingrow (Ashes To Ashes)
1. Alaric - Alaric (20 Buck Spin)
2. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
3. Wye Oak - Citizen (Merge)
4. Boris - Attention Please (Sargent House)
5. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains (Relapse)
6. Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats - Blood Lust (Rise Above)
7. Yob - Atma (Profound Lore)
8. Swordmasters of Ginaz - Battlestar Cackalactica (Self Released)
9. Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones (Profound Lore)
10. Generation Of Vipers - Howl & Filth (Red Witch)

Donnie and Casey (Straight Gaze)
Sorry we went for 15 b/c there's two of us. . .
1. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)
2. Moon Duo - Mazes (Sacred Bones)
3. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time ([PIAS])
4. The Field - Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
6. Belong - Common Era (Kranky)
7. Esben and the Witch - Violet Cries (Matador)
8. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
9. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
10. Tom Waits - Bad as Me (ANTI-)
11. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (4AD)
12. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years (Matador)
13. Kovacs and the Polar Bear - Second Sister (Self Released)
14. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
15. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts (Matador)

Gypsy Flores (Musical Migrations)
1. I Muvrini Live Olympia AGFB 2011 Corsica
2. I Muvrini A Te Corsica AGFB 2011 Corsica
3. Stephane CasaltaFantasia Self-released 2011 Corsica
4. Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal Chamber Music Six Degrees 2011
5. Agapi Mou Across The Sea Self-released 2011 USA (Geek music)
6. Various Artists The Original Sound of Cumbia Soundway 2011 Colombia
7. The Cambodian Space Project 2011: A Space Odyssey Metal Postcard Cambodia
8. A Hawk and a Hacksaw Cervantine Self-released 2011 U.S.A.
(Balkan music)
9. Birelli Lagrene A Tribute to Django Reinhardt Jazzpont REcords 2011 France
10. Telebossa Telebossa Staubgold 2011

Erik Mattox (The UnCola)
1. Norwegian Fords-Somewhere Down the Road You'll Listen (Call Enzo)
2. The Cheeksters-The Golden Birds (Caterina Sounds)
3. Beach Boys-Smile Sessions (Capitol)
4. Geyster-Radio Geyster 1977 (Somekind)
5. Grenades For The Wall -7 (Ubetoo.com)
6. Ole Borud-Keep Movin’ (Connection)
7. Mayer Hawthorne-How Do You Do (Universal)
8. State Cows- Hard Goodbye/Center Of The Sun – 7’’ (Avenue of Allies)
9. Scritti Politti-Absolute (Virgin)
10. Fountains Of Wayne-Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc)

Kim Roney (Reel Talk/AFM News Hour)
1. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (SECRETLY CANADIAN)
2. Los Vigilantes - s/t (SLOVENLY)
3. Lovett - Lovett (LOVER'S LABEL)
4. Group Doueh - Zayna Jumma (SUBLIME FREQUENCIES)
5. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (DRAG CITY)
6. Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose (OH WOW DANG)
7. Madlib - Medicine Show, Vol. 12: Raw Medicine: Madlib Remixes (STONES THROW/MALIB INVASION)
8. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time ((AMERICA/SUNDAY'S BEST)
9. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime (IN THE RED)
10. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the County Gentlemen (MUTE)

Gary Strasberg (Melody In Mayhem)
1. Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
2. Evgeny Masloboew/ Anastasia Masloboeva - Russian Folksongs in the Key of Winter (Leo)
3. Chubby Wolf - Los Que No son Gentos (Dragon’s Eye)
4. Antonymes Meets Slow Dancing Society - We Don’t Look Back for Very Long (Hidden Shoals Recording)
5. Reinhold Friedl - Inside Piano (Zeitkratzer)
6. Pimmon - The Oansome Orbit (Room40)
7. Nate Wooley - The Almond (Pogus)
8. Sanso-Xtro - Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain (Digitalis)
9. Marianne Posseur - Only (Sub Rosa)
10. V/A - Experimedia Album Sampler 2011 (Experimedia)

JD Collette (Crescent Fresh Radio)
1) Electric Wizard - Black Masses (RISE ABOVE)
2) TV Ghost - Mass Dream (IN THE RED)
3) Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion (SLUMBERLAND)
4) Is/Is - This Happening?/Vowel Movement EPs (GUILT RIDDEN POP)
5) Broken Water - Peripheral Star EP (RADIO IS DOWN)
6) Landlord - Beneath the Wheel (RECESS)
7) Acid Baby Jesus - s/t (SLOVENLY)
8) Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread (DRAG CITY)
9) Cruddy - Negative World (12XU)
10) Rabbits - Lower Forms (RELAPSE)

Greg Lyon (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
1. The Field – Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
2. The Skull Defekts – Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey)
3. Cut Hands – Afro Noise 1 (Very Friendly, Susan Lawly)
4. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)
5. The Dirtbombs – Party Store (In the Red)
6. The Psychic Paramount – II (No Quarter)
7. Alvarius B. – Baroque Primitiva (Poon Village)
8. Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolfroy Goes to Town (Drag City)
9. Cruddy – Negative World (12XU)
10. Moon Duo – Mazes (Sacred Bones)