May 2013

• Whole Note: Visionaries
• Review: Rush, Clockwork Angels (album and novel by Kevin J. Anderson based on the album)
• Appreciation: The Blue Nile, A Walk Across the Rooftops

February 2013

• Whole Note: 2013 Grammy Awards
• Books of Note 2011-2012
• Branford Marsalis Quartet, Four MFs Playin’ Tunes
• Best Cover Songs of 2012
• Various Artists, Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac

Listen to The Best Cover Songs of 2012.

January 2013.

• Whole Note: 2012: The Year in Music
• The Best Songs of 2012

The best songs of 2012 are:

01. “The Garden” / RUSH
02. “Roll on John” / BOB DYLAN
03. “Fight” / SAINT SAVIOUR
04. “Seven Minute Mind” / THE BAD PLUS
05. “Bay of Skaill” / THE MAGNETIC NORTH
06. “Coda” / FRAMES
07. “Green Chimneys” / ERIC REED
08. “Animal Life” / SHEARWATER
09. “Beautiful Friction” / THE FIXX
10. “Song of the Lonely Mountain” / NEIL FINN
11. “Flying (In Crimson Skies)” / MARCONI UNION
12. “State of Grace” / TAYLOR SWIFT
13. “Blew Out the Walls” / ANIMAL LIBERATION ORCHESTRA
14. “Airegin” / BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
15. “Teo” / BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET
16. “Seek It” / RICHARD HAWLEY
17. “In the Beginning” / TODD SNIDER

Listen to the best songs of 2012.

December 2012

• Whole Note: 1982
• The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (museum exhibit and accompanying book)
• Appreciation: The Fixx, Shuttered Room