Features tagged with 2011

In the seventh installment of our monthly podcast, the team look back at the year that was and pick their favourite albums of 2011.

As 2011 comes to a close, Forrest Cardamenis examines how the most important records of the year have been made by women, and takes a look back a couple of decades to find out why this might be.

Welcome to The Singles Bar Christmas extravaganza! We've got everything you could wish for in our festive assortment: reality TV show contestants, The Wurzels, cover versions, charity choirs, Radiohead. Wait, Radiohead? At Christmas?

It needs no elaborate introduction, this is the final part of No Ripcord's Top 50 Albums of the Year 2011.

Welcome to our now-traditional look at the best records of the year. We've tallied up votes and compiled our very own Top 50. Herein lies numbers 50-26 with the remaining 25 soon to follow.

The year drawing to a close can only mean one thing for music websites - end of year lists! But before we reveal our top records of the past twelve months, here's a look at what we thought about 2011; the highlights, the lowlights, and everything in between.

The festival season may be drawing to a close, but we've got two articles for you on the final big event of the summer: End Of The Road. Stephen Wragg picks up the baton and recounts his experience...

...and Joe Gastineau provides us with a brief round-up of what was hot and what was most certainly not at the event. It would appear opinions on The Fall differ somewhat between the two writers...

After losing touch in late 2010, David Coleman feels he has rediscovered his passion for new music.