Saturday Night Music: Fifth on the Floor

YouTube Gems: Motopony

From their 2011 self-titled album, here's Motopony with "King of Diamonds." Please don't judge based on their attire. RIYL: Sun Kil Moon, Wilco, The Head and the Heart, Blitzen Trapper.

Favorite Albums of 2012: First Half Report

1. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - There is a Bomb in Gilead

2. Marty Stuart - Nashville, Vol. 1 Tear The Woodpile Down

3. Darrell Scott - Long Ride Home

4. Turnpike Troubadours - Goodbye Normal Street

5. Alan Jackson - Thirty Miles West

6. Jason Eady - AM Country Heaven

7. Shooter Jennings - Family Man

8. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - The Lion The Beast The Beat

9. Kellie Pickler - 100 Proof

10. Wade Bowen - The Given

11. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls

12. Jack White - Blunderbuss

13. Lucero - Women and Work

14. Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur

15. The Deadfields - Dance in the Sun

16. fun. - Some Nights

17. Willie Nelson - Heroes

18. Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream

19. Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Grifter's Hymnal

20. Bob Wayne - Till the Wheels Fall Off

21. Paul Thorn - What the Hell is Going On?

22. The Shins - Port of Morrow

23. Wrinkle Neck Mules - Apprentice to Ghosts

24. Jackson Taylor & The Sinners - Bad Juju

25. The White Buffalo - Once Upon a Time in the West

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