Because we think at least Johannes Zink would care what we consider top notch of 2012 – we made a little list. Let us know yours too (as a comment or somewhat) cos this is really all we know:
SHOWS ’12
// KIRMES //
Death Grips, Festsaal Kreuzberg
Die Goldenen Zitronen, Weekend Festival
Thee Oh Sees, TEENITUS Festival
Za!, Ivi
Ty Segall, Festsaal Kreuzberg
// GRINNI //
The Spits, Festsaal Kreuzberg
Thee Oh Sees, TEENITUS Festival
Mac DeMarco, Monarch
Dracula Lewis, Westgermany
Felix Kubin Labelnacht, Bei Roy
RECORDS ’12
// KIRMES //
Death Grips – No Love Deep Web
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II
The Gaslamp Killer – The Breakthrough
Captain Murphy – Duality
Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery
// GRINNI //
Mac DeMarco – #2
Mac DeMarco – Rock And Roll Night Club
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II
The Men – Open Your Heart
Extra Life – Dream Seeds
+ Most underrated: HUSH HUSH – Pisces Iscariot
+ Most overrated: GRIMES (what the hell are they about!?)
VIDEO ’12
Mac DeMarco – Exercising With My Demons
Moon Duo – Sleepwalker
Ice Choir – A Vision Of Hell, 1996
BAND ’12
Death Grips
KIRMES’ DISHES ’12
Baked salmon (with parsley, bread crumb coating) with honey pickles and pancakes
Fried honey chicken with rosemary potatoes and lime peanut sauce
Deep fried beans with vegan cheese, baked, with spinach dumplings and pickled zucchini
Homemade cheeseburgers with avocado cream, goat cheese, honey mustard, tomatoes, onions on toasted sesame bread
Garlic casserole with zucchini and mushrooms
GRINNI’S DRINKS ’12
Sexy Legs
East Germany
Grinni & Kirmes de Barcelona
Plus as a pre-Christmas present to my parents I reveal my real name (to them): it’s Christin Stangner. Don’t use it.