Best Of 2012

Space City Rock: 2012 Retrosplosion

Scott Walker, Bish Bosch

Boston Globe: Album review

Big Dipper, Big Dipper Crashes On The Platinum Planet

Boston Globe: Album review

Phillip Phillips, The World from the Side of the Moon

Boston Globe: Album review

Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra, with Ronald Reagan, The Simple Pleasure and Jherek Bischoff (at the Paradise)

Boston Globe: A full-throttle show from a slightly diminished Palmer

Patty Griffin, with Amy Cook (at Club Passim)

Boston Globe: Patty Griffin shines all by herself at Club Passim

Feature: Martha Wainwright

Boston Globe: Martha Wainwright plays mother, daughter, sister

Kylie Minogue, The Abbey Road Sessions

Boston Globe: Album review

The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

The A.V. Club: Album review

Cee Lo Green, Cee Lo’s Magic Moment

Boston Globe: Album review

Bat For Lashes, The Haunted Man

Boston Globe: Album review

The X Factor and the march of the mournful piano ballad

NPR Monkey See: 'The X Factor' Has A Mournful Piano Ballad Or Ten For You

You Can't Do That On Film and the necessity of performance in a performance documentary

NPR Monkey See: 'You Can't Do That On Film': A Performance Documentary Without Performance Footage

Martha Wainwright, Come Home to Mama

Boston Globe: Album review

Pete Townshend (at Berklee Performance Center)

Boston Globe: Pete Townshend talks, plays to delight of Berklee crowd

Ben Folds Five, with Kate Miller-Heidke (at the House Of Blues)

Boston Globe: Ben Folds Five proves a happy, sound reunion

The critical tyranny of You're Doing It Wrong

NPR Monkey See: The Critical Tyranny Of 'You're Doing It Wrong'

Titanic, James Bond, Homeland and recognizable reality

NPR Monkey See: The Veracity Of 'Titanic,' James Bond and 'Homeland,' And Why Recognizability Matters

The mysterious disappearance of Prince's "Batdance"

NPR Monkey See: Whither Prince's "Batdance"? (Quo Batdancimus?)

Various, Athens, GA: Inside/Out

Boston Globe: Album review