June was an interesting month. Friends graduating college and moving away, a road trip to Colorado, Adele exploding on the scene and doing anything I could to take a chill pill due to a lot of stress. Little did I know what July would bring… dun dun DUNNNNN!

1. Black Sabbath - “Black Sabbath” (Black Sabbath)
2. Devin the Dude - “She Want That Money” (Waitin’ to Inhale)
3. Jakob - “Everything All of the Time” (Solace)
4. Adele - “Crazy For You” (19)
5. N.E.R.D. - “Spaz” (Seeing Sounds)
6. Coldplay - “Violet Hill” (Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends)
7. Sigur Rós - “Gobbledigook” (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust)
8. Of Montreal - “Gronlandic Edit” (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
9. Bob Marley - “No Woman No Cry (Live)” (Legend)
10. The Wombats - “Let’s Dance to Joy Division” (Let’s Dance to Joy Division)
11. Adele - “Daydreamer” (19)
12. Bob Marley - “Stir It Up” (Legend)
13. Dub Trio - “Awakening Dub (Live)” (Exploring the Dangers of)
14. The Snake the Cross the Crown - “Electronic Dream Plant” (Cotton Teeth)
15. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - “Bartender” (Live at Radio City)
16. The Mountain Goats - “Love Love Love” (The Sunset Tree)

Oh hey, it’s April. Time flies when you’re having… a busy month. Or something.

So for those of you that don’t read Buzzgrinder — which, according to my highly-detailed traffic metrics, is 100% of all two of you — it might be worth noting that I didn’t get Radiohead tickets despite staying up all night for that sole reason. Still looking for an outlet for my anger. Someone buy me a punching bag. Or, even better, Radiohead tickets. (Preferably ones where I can actually, you know, see the band without binoculars.)

March was more dub, a few ambient discoveries and rediscoveries (Stars of the Lid and Brian Eno, respectively) and remembering a bunch of stuff was good that I hadn’t listened to in a while. Oh, and sometimes watching TV influences my music listening, oddly enough. That’s where Yael Naïm and José Gonzalez came from.

1. Marilyn Manson - “The Reflecting God” (Antichrist Superstar)
2. Dub Trio - “Awakening Dub” (Exploring the Dangers Of)
3. Envy - “A Will Remains In The Ashes” (A Dead Sinking Story)
4. Brian Eno - “1/1″ (Ambient 1: Music for Airports)
5. Bloc Party - “Banquet” (Silent Alarm)
6. Gorillaz - “Dracula” (Gorillaz)
7. Boys Like Girls - “The Great Escape” (Boys Like Girls)
8. Nickel Creek - “Doubting Thomas” (Why Should the Fire Die?)
9. He Is Legend - “(((louds” (Suck Out the Poison)
10. Public Enemy - “Son of a Bush” (Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran)
11. Bright Eyes - “When the President Talks To God” (Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran)
12. Yael Naïm - “New Soul” (Yael Naïm)
13. Rogue Wave - “California” (Descended Like Vultures)
14. Stars of the Lid - “Even If You’re Never Awake” (and Their Refinement of the Decline)
15. José Gonzalez - “Killing For Love” (In Our Nature)
16. José Gonzalez - “Teardrop” (In Our Nature)