Without a doubt, 2011 was a year of great music. Wrapping up the year is no easy task, especially with so many new emerging artists hitting the indie scene and settled greats releasing records as good or better than their efforts decades prior. Our picks for the Top 20 Albums of the year cover a lot of ground, ranging from Indie Beard Rock to Spaghetti-Western, Rockabilly to Hip-Hop, and everything in between. Check out our Top 20 Albums of 2011 after the jump …

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Last Sunday may have been the end to a painfully hot weekend but things were burning up again at 6th Street Warehouse downtown. Not only were local LA band, Superhumanoids, starting the night off right but beloved Long Beach-based band, Crystal Antlers also came out to support NYC-based Cults for their first LA show ever. The place which consisted of a skating ramp serving as a stage was not out of the ordinary for warehouse shows but what we had to endure was the heat. However, it turned to be a great way to wrap our weekend up even if we were all feeling uncomfortably sticky in the end.

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