Another year nearly gone, time to remember our favorite albums from the past 12 months.

Top 10 of 2011 from Scott:

1. The Features - Wilderness
2. John Fratelli - Psycho Jukebox
3. Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
4. The Black Keys  - El Camino
5. Givers - In Light
6. Regurgitator - Super Happy Fun Times Friends
7. Peter Bjorn & John - Gimme Some
8. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
9. Thrice - Major/Minor
10. Blink-182 - Neighborhoods

Top 10 of 2011 from Robbie:

1. Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness [Amazon]
   
2. Rival Schools - Pedals [Amazon]
   
3. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math [Amazon]
4. James Blake - James Blake [Amazon]
5. Textures - Dualism [Amazon]
6. Thrice - Major/Minor [Amazon]
7. Elbow - build a rocket boys! [Amazon]
8. Stemage - Zero Over Zero [Bandcamp]
9. Plaid - Scintilli [Bleep]
10. Battles - Gloss Drop [Bleep]

Stream #10-#2 on Spotify (oddly enough, Young Widows' newest isn't available on Spotify)

The Silent Uproar crew juggles a lot of individual endeavors as it is, but add newborns into that mix and everything goes out the window. Both of the major Silent Uproar contributors will have new additions to their respective families in the near future (one of those additions is already here). Accordingly, daily news and general sites updates are going to continue to be sparse and infrequent. Family always comes first, so please bear with us as we get adjusted. We hope to resume our regular schedule in late October.

That said, we are keeping the weekly Streams page updated. We think it’s an invaluable resource for previewing new music each week. You’ll find a link to stream most albums coming out in the current or subsequent week before you have to spend your hard-earned money.

See you on the other side.

We recently hosted an exclusive stream of a new song from House of Fools, a rock band from Greensboro, NC. They will release a new album, Versus the Beast, this summer, after a long legal battle with their former record label. “Time” is a great track and their brand of rock music is lacking these days, so we recommend you check it out.

In related news, the team behind Silent Uproar has been hard at work on a new service that facilitates digital promo for bands, labels and PR companies called Novelope. The House of Fools stream is the beginning of some new services we plan to roll into Novelope over the coming months.

Silent Uproar Records released a new EP, She’s In Season, from Charlotte, North Carolina collective Push Pals late last year. You can stream and purchase it on Bandcamp. We’d be remiss if we didn’t recommend you check it out. The band calls its sound crunk-punk, but it’s just some good, dirty DIY rock ‘n’ roll.

Since you’re here, you might as well stream it:

Here are the Top 10 Albums of 2010 from Scott (simple) and Robbie (heyrevolver) embedded from MyTopList.is.

Speaking of MyTopList.is, if you haven’t checked it out, we recommend signing up and creating a few lists. It’s the nicest execution of creating top music lists we’ve seen yet.

We’ve been slack about interviews over the past few years, but we’ve been getting back into the swing of things lately. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming conversations with:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Mini Mansions
• Oceansize
• Paranoid Social Club
• The Russian Futurists

PS: We may be relocating this blog to Posterous in the not too distant future. This Tumblr account will more than likely be taken over by another Silent Uproar experiment.

In celebration of our new logo and 10 years of covering music news, we’ve launched a new Silent Uproar website. Clay at With helped us again with the website design. There’s more in the works, but we hope you enjoy what’s there now.

We decided to retire our old logo after 10 years of service. We worked with designer and art director Clay Johnson at With to create our new mark. Here’s to another decade of Silent Uproar!

We’ve been posting music news daily for over 10 years now, but somehow managed to never have our own blog. Silent Uproar, unlike other music-related blogs and websites, isn’t really about injecting a lot of commentary into the writing. We attempt to curate the barrage of music news strewn across the internet each day and, to the best of our abilities, distill the essence of selected stories into one or two sentences. You could say what makes it into the feed reveals some of our own personal tastes, but it’s still missing personal asides, opinion and conversational quips.

We hope to use this blog to publish some of that informal commentary and keep everyone updated on the continual developments with Silent Uproar and Silent Uproar Records. We’re always working on something, but it’s not always easy to tell. This blog should shed a little light behind the metaphorical curtain.