Weekend Showcase 2.49

The Weekend Showcase 2.49 edition is the final one of 2016. It has been an exceptional year for independent music, and this final mega-playlist epitomizes everything we love about the songs we heard. Mind-altering rockers, psychedelia, and shoegaze. Thoughtful and socially conscious numbers. Hip-shaking indie pop. Masterful mosaics of sound that could not categorized. In short, there are 42 songs on this slightly condensed Weekend Showcase. The 10 countries represented are: Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States.

Beginning Monday, we will unveil our Favorite 50 Albums of the Year and our concert photographs to end 2016. The new year will commence with our expectations and anticipations for the next 365 days.

The playlist and tracklisting, as usual, follows the list of articles from the past week.

Thank you to the nearly 2500 artists we profiled this year for sharing your music. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year everyone.

SINGLES:

The Matinee December 12 – dark Dark, Loose Buttons, MAINLAND, RCKB, Sylvan Esso, Young Summer

The Matinee December 13 – Aurora Blue, bed., Blondfire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Mosa Wild, Noa May, Rainbrother, Tripnaha

Melodic Tonic ’16, vol. 47 – Austra, BROS, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Saintsenaca, Yellow House

The Matinee December 15 – Blisss, Death In The Afternoon, Kraków Loves Adana, Louie Louie, Midnight Faces, SCARLET, Tye James

The Matinee December 16 – Chicano Batman, Meatbodies, Mister and Mississippi, The Sadies (feat. Kurt Vile), The Sly Persuaders, Tzara, Weird.

Saturday Sampler December 17 – Active Bird Community, The Awful Truth (feat. Esmé Patterson), Communist Daughter, Exam Season, GEMS, Golden Coast, Red Sleeping Beauty, Soviet Soviet

YEAR-END LISTS:

Favorite 30 EPs of 2016

• Part 1 – Bad Family, Benji Tranter and The Well Adjusted Individuals, Black Honey, Chris Bathgate, Chris Watts, Day Wave, Eliza Shaddad, Emily Reo, Eskimeaux, Glen Hansard

• Part 2 – Grapell, Hazel English, Heron Oblivion, Jesse Mac Cormack, La Sera, Lady Lamb, Massive Attack, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Molly Parden, Muteboy

• Part 3 – Naked Giants, Ofelia K, The Perennials, Sade x MF Doom mixed by Seanh, Sheer Mag, Snail Mail, Sundara Karma, Tiny Dinosaurs, The Van T’s, Wolf Parade

Favorite 30 Hidden Gems

• Part 1 – A Festival, A Parade, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Acapulco Lips, Ali Beletic, Amy Klein, Ashley Shadow, Auna Sims, BLAJK, Cuesta Loeb, Dayflower, Few Bits, Future Elevators, Genders, Ghost Wave, Jack Grelle

• Part 2 – Ian Sweet, Lewis Bootle, Lowlight, Lucia Fontaine, Mal Devisa, The Mindoor, Ninet Tayeb, PALM HONEY, Petal, The Regrettes, SGF, VVEELS, Wolfie’s Just Fine, XIXA, Yassassin

Weekend Showcase 2.49 Tracklisting

• Meatbodies – “Creature Feature” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Active Bird Community – “Dead Legs” (New York City, USA)

• Soviet Soviet – “Remember Now” (Pesaro, Italy)

• Mosa Wild – “Smoke” (Ashford, England)

• dark Dark – “Moments” (Los Angeles/Austin, USA)

• Austra – “Future Politics” (Toronto, Canada)

• BROS – “Tell Me” (Toronto, Canada)

• Chicano Batman – “Friendship (Is A Small Boat In A Storm)” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Kraków Loves Adana – “False Alarm” (Hamburg, Germany)

• Mister and Mississippi – “HAL9000” (Utrecht, Netherlands)

• Blondfire – “Monuments” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Hurray For the Riff Raff – “Rican Beach” (New Orleans via Bronx, USA)

• The Sadies – “It’s Easy (Like Walking)” (feat. Kurt Vile) (Toronto, Canada)

• MAINLAND – “Dummy Test” (New York City, USA)

• Sylvan Esso – “Kick Jump Twist” (Raleigh, NC USA)

• Yellow House – “Control” (Cape Town, South Africa)

• Golden Coast – “Make Ya Move” (Los Angeles, USA)

• bed. – “Girl” (Portland, OR USA)

• Louie Louie – “After Me” (Philadelphia, USA)

• Exam Season – “Everything Is Salted Caramel” (Ringwood, England)

• Weird. – “Forever Floating Feels” (Rome, Italy)

• SCARLET – “Alone” (Manchester/Liverpool, England)

• Tye James – “Lies” (New York City, USA)

• Tzara – “Love Is Pain” (Cape Town, South Africa)

• Communist Daughter – “Beach Stalker” (St. Paul, MN, USA)

• The Awful Truth (feat. Esmé Patterson) – “Blissed Out” (Minneapolis, USA)

• Tripnaha – “Water” (Gothenburg, Sweden)

• Young Summer – “Young Chunk of Coal” (Washington, DC, USA)

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Fireproof” (Philadelphia, USA)

• Syd Arthur – “Death Wish” (Canterbury, England)

• Aurora Blue – “Cool Woman” (Orillia, ON, Canada)

• Rainbrother – “Breakout” (Copenhagen, Denmark)

• GEMS – “Blow Out the Light” (Los Angeles via Washington, DC, USA)

• Death In The Afternoon – “Good Enough” (Halmstad, Sweden)

• Loose Buttons – “Milk & Roses” (New York City, USA)

• The Sly Persuaders – “Watch & Learn” (London, England)

• RKCB – “Disorder” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Red Sleeping Beauty – “We Are Magic” (Stockholm, Sweden)

• Noa May – “Hey” (Tel Aviv, Israel)

• Saintseneca – “All the Best” (Columbus, OH, USA)

• Blisss – “Porcelain” (London, England)

• Midnight Faces – “Blue Haze” (Los Angeles, USA)

Supporting labels: ANTI Records, Art Is Hard Records, ATO Records, Better Call Rob, Black Candy Records, Born Losers Records, Carpark Records, Dine Alone Records, Domino Records, Felte, The Homestead Records, In The Red Records, Labrador Records, Lady Sometimes Records, Yep Roc Records

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