Music

AUX'S 2012 Naughty and Nice List

by AUX staff

It’s that time again: for the third year running, AUX’s team of (surprisingly judgey) elves has curated a list of music’s biggest brown-nosers and evildoers. Moral absolutists as we are, we’ve left no room for shades of grey—in 2013, we only selected heroes or villains. Give us binaries or give us death, we say.

Not that creating this list was easy—quite the opposite, in fact. 2013 was a year fraught with ambiguity, and we had a tough time determining whether we liked Kickstarter, or if Pussy Riot’s story concluded on a positive note, or  if we loved (or hated) the cultural endurance of EDM.

Click the interactive image below to find out who landed in our good books. How did Chief Keef or Solange fare? How about Psy and Chris Brown? Did we prefer PBR&B or #seapunk? The answers, friends, are below.

This article originally appeared in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of AUX Magazine. Download and subscribe for free in the App Store.