Keeping up with the Joneses. Or, actually, just keeping track of some of the things that moved me in 2012:

Great 2011 Albums First Heard in 2012 (or at least after my 2011 year-end list was compiled):

• Peaking Lights: 936

• Andy Stott: Passed Me By/We Stay Together EPs

• Mina Tindle: Mina Tindle EP

• Seapony: Go With Me

• Sons of Fathers: Sons of Fathers

• Little Hurricane: Homewrecker

• The Kernal Farewellhello

• Ramsay Midwood: Larry Buys A Lighter

Favorite Music of 2012

• Boys & Girls by Alabama Shakes

• The Carpenter by The Avett Brothers

• 151a by Kishi Bashi

• Origins by Bears of Manitou

• Algiers by Calexico

• Toward The Low Sun by Dirty Three

• Oshin by Diiv

• The Question Jar Show by Mike Doughty

• Tempest by Bob Dylan

• Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now by Justin Townes Earle

• Rooms Filled With Light by Fanfarlo

• The Lion's Roar by First Aid Kit

• Wounded Healer by The Followers

• Tucson: A Rock Opera by Giant Giant Sand

• Come Back As Rain by Good Old War

• Release Me by Lyle Lovett

• Women & Work by Lucero

• The Lumineers by The Lumineers

• Milo Greene by Milo Greene

• Babel by Mumford and Sons

• Channel Orange by Frank Ocean

• My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters and Men

• The Great Despiser by Joe Pug

• Alone Together by Karriem Riggins

• Falling by Seapony

• Survival & Resistance by Adrian Sherwood

• Sweet Heart Sweet Light by Spiritualized

• The Fourth Wall by The Vespers

• Big Inner by Matthew E. White

• The Laughing Stalk by Wovenhand

• Departure by Zoo Animal

Concerts

• 01/21/12 - Wilco (with White Denim) at ASU Gammage

• 02/06/12 - Habañero Collective Open Mic House Show featuring Failing Perfection, Steve Deckel, Foreknown Apostolic, Shawn Skinner, American Longspurs and Andrew Levi Hiller

• 02/1712 - Dustin Kensrue with Bears of Manitou and The Cold Desert at The Hard Rock Cafe.

• 03/15/12 - Radiohead with Other Lives at Jobing.com Arena

• 03/19/12 - Lucero with Drowning Men and the Crescent Ballroom.

• 04/14/12 - Mike Doughty at the Cave Creek Coffee Company.

• 04/25/12 - Joe Pug with Baliff and Jared Kolesar & the Locals at the Crescent Ballroom.

• 08/04/12 - David Ramirez with American Longspurs at the Thomas Listening Room

• 09/07/12 - Andy Gullahorn at the Whiten Leaf House

• 11/05/12 - The Vespers with Amber Hunter at the Whiten Leaf House

• 12/13/12 - Justin Townes Earle with Trixie Whitley at the Crescent Ballroom

Books Read in 2012

• Living And Loving Out Loud by Cornel West

• The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

• Sacrilege by Hugh Halter

• The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

• Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

• The Shaping of Things To Come by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost (re-read)

• What is the Gospel by Greg Gilbert

• The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson

• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

• The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty

• 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

• Dandelion Fire by N.D. Wilson

• The Chestnut King by N.D. Wilson

• Gospel-Centered Discipleship by Jonathan Dodson

• Salvation Belongs To Our God by Chris Wright

• The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight

• Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright

• Everyday Church by Steve Timmis/Tim Chester