Category: BEST OF 2012

MAGNET's Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year. 1 Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo Ancestors

MAGNET's Devon Leger picks the best indie-roots releases of the year. 1 Mumford & Sons Daytrotter Stopover Sessions (Daytrotter) 2 Old

Magnet's Bryan Reed picks the best punk/hardcore releases of the year. 1 White Lung Sorry (Deranged) 2 K-Holes Dismania (Hardly

MAGNET's j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year. 1 TriBeCaStan New Deli (Evergreen) 2 Balkan Beat Box

MAGNET's Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year. 1 Penny Royale This Town (Sleepy Hollows Editions) 2

MAGNET's Elliott Sharp picks the best hip-hop releases of the year. 1 Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, m.A.A.d City (Interscope/Aftermath/Top Dawg)