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Best Music Of 2011 By Genre

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Girl In A Coma tops off our year-end celebration of the year's best music.

December 7, 2011 There was so much great music this year, it was nearly impossible to fit it all into one show.

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Fiction by the Ebene Quartet was one of our favorite albums this year.

December 8, 2011 From modernism to Mendelssohn and the massive sound of Mahler, a wide-ranging top 10 list.

Artwork from Cormorant's Dwellings.

November 30, 2011 Metallic meditations ruled Lars Gotrich's 2011, but so did knotty death-metal and "The Grain."

Artwork for Nicholas Szczepanik 's Please Stop Loving Me.

November 30, 2011 Synths got out of control in 2011, but Lars Gotrich picks the best, plus drone and abstract guitar.

One of the premier American dubstep DJs, Pretty Lights is renowned for his dazzling light shows.

December 28, 2011 Dubstep beats have pervaded mainstream hip-hop, in a development that's been good for both genres.

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