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# 2022
## Calendar
### January
- [x] 14: Bonobo - Fragments
- [x] 21: Underwater - Ludovico Einaudi
### February
- [x] 11: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain
- [x] 23: NOBRO - Live Your Truth, Shred Some Gnar
- [x] 24: Gang of Youths – angel in realtime
- [x] 25: Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
### March
- [x] 18: Hot Water Music - Feel the Void
- [x] 25: Camp Cope – Running with the Hurricane
- [x] 25: Kevin Devine – Nothings Real, So Nothing Wrong
- [x] 25: Proper. – The Great American Novel
- [x] 25: Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
- [x] 25: Riverby – Absolution
### April
- [x] 01: PUP – The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND
- [x] 01: Pillow Queens - Leave The Light On
- [x] 08: Kae Tempest – The Line is a Curve
- [x] 15: Spanish Love Songs – brave faces etc
- [x] 15: Sault - Air
### May
- [x] 13: Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale
- [x] 18: M O O N - Come! See!
- [x] 27: Steve Earle - Jerry Jeff
### June
- [x] 24: Mikey Erg - Love at Leeds
- [x] 24: Petrol Girls - Baby
- [x] 24: Nervus - The Evil One
### July
- [x] 1: Fresh - Raise Hell
- [x] 29: Murder by Death - Spell / Bound
### August
- [x] 05: Lee Bains and The Glory Fires - Old - Time Folks
- [x] 19: The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out
- [x] 26: Ezra Furman - All of us Flames
- [x] 30: Cataldo - Dumber EP
- [x] 31 Happy Accidents - Cgwarmth
### September
- [x] 02: The Front Bottoms - Theresa EP
- [x] 16: Gogol Bordello - Solidaritine
- [x] 16: The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
- [x] 23: Lande Hekt - House without a View
- [x] 23: Nils Frahm - Music for Animals
### October
- [x] 07: Alvvays - Blue Rev
- [x] 14: Cory Branan - When I Go I Ghost
- [x] 14: Wild Pink - ILYSM
- [x] 14: Press Club - Endless Motion
- [x] 21: Bedouin Soundclash - We will meet in a hurricane
- [x] 21: Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
- [x] 21: Tegan and Sara - Crybaby
- [x] 28: Martha - Please Don't Take Me Back
- [x] 28 Dan Mangan - Being Somewhere
- [x] 28: Single Mothers - Everything You Need
- [x] 28: Tigers Jaw - Old Clothes EP
### November
- [x] 04: First Aid Kit - Palamino
- [x] 04: The Menzingers - On the Possible Past
- [x] 11: Bruce Springsteen - Only the Strong Survive
### December
- [x] 02: White Lung - Premonition
### Recommendations
- [x] Splendour and Misery - clipping.
- [x] Nostrum Grocers - S/T
- [x] Dinner Part: Desert - Terrace Martin
- [x] HMTLD - West is Dead {Rec: Emma}
- [x] Field Medic - Grow Your Hair…
- [x] Pass Away - The Hell I've Always Seen
- [x] Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset
- [x] Half Man, Half Biscuit - No One Cares about your creative hub
- [x] Stella Donnelly - Flood
- [x] Lies – Lies
x ~~Walt Disco - Unlearning {Rec: Emma}~~
## Outstanding Rare Items
- ! Trim - 1800 dinosaur presents
- ! SAULT - Nine
- ! Skee Mask - Pool
- ! UNKNOWN ME - Bishintai
## Best of 2022
### Across Many
- [x] Angel Olsen - Big Time
- [x] Revelators Sound System - Revelators
- [x] Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph
- [x] Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes
- [x] Cass McCombs - Heartmind
- [x] Fontaines DC — Skinty Fia
- [x] Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord
- [x] MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
- [x] Lambchop - The Bible
- [x] Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
- [x] Makaya McCraven - In These Times
- [x] Yard Act - The Overload
- [x] Wilco - Cruel Country
- [x] Julia Jacklin - PRE PLEASURE
- [x] Leikeli47 - Shape Up
- [x] Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti
- [x] Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
- [x] Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker
- [x] Titus Andronicus – The Will To Live
- [x] Chat Pile - God's Country
- [x] Mitski - Laurel Hell
- [x] 700 Bliss - Nothing to Declare
- [x] Billy Woods - Aethiopes
- [x] Beach House - Once Twice Melody
- [x] Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
- [x] Rosalía - Motomami
- [x] Florist - Florist
- [x] Earl Sweatshirt - Sick!
- [x] Freddie Gibbs - Soul Sold Separately
- [x] Rico Nasty - Las Ruinas
- [x] tomberlin - i don't know who needs to hear this
- [x] Witch Fever - Congregation
- [x] ~~Viagra Boys – Cave World~~
- [x] ~~~~Pusha T - It's Almost Dry~~~~
- [x] ~~Ethel Cain - Preachers Daughter~~
x ~~Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There~~
x ~~Beth Orton - Weather Alive~~
x ~~Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE~~
x ~~Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B~~
x ~~The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention~~
x ~~Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott~~
x ~~~Special Interest - Endure~~~~
x ~~Aldous Harding - Warm Chris~~
x ~~Static Dress - Rouge Carpet Disaster~~
x ~~Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance~~
x ~~Charlotte Adigéry / Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer~~
x ~~Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future~~
x ~~The Linda Lindas - Growing Up~~
#### Sources:
Uproxx / Upset / Punknews / Paste / Pitchfork / Stereogum
### Loud & Quiet
- [x] Claire Rousay - Everything Perfect Is Already Here
- [x] Oliver Sim - Hideous Bastard
- [x] Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth*
- [x] Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - King Cobra
- [x] Caroline - Caroline*
- [x] ~~Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism~~
x ~~Hinako Omori - a journey…~~
x ~~Naima Bock - Giant Palm~~
x ~~Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl~~
### Glide
- [x] Carson McHone – Still Life
- [x] S. G. Goodman – Teeth Marks
x ~~Boulevards - Electric Cowboy: Born In Carolina Mud~~
x ~~Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – Crooked Tree~~
x ~~North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail~~
x ~~Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms~~
x ~~Thee Sacred Souls – Thee Sacred Souls~~
### Paste
- [x] Plains — I Walked With You A Ways
### Crack Magazine
- [x] Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia
- [x] ~~Quelle Chris - DEATHFAME~~
x ~~Rainy Miller - Desquamation (Fire, Burn. Nobody)~~
x ~~Issy Wood - My Body Your Choice~~
x ~~HiTech - HiTech~~
### Pitchfork
- [x] Jeff Parker - Forfolks
- [x] Grace Ives - Janky Star
- [x] Oren Ambarchi - Shebang
x ~~Huerco S. - Plonk~~
x ~~Daphni - Cherry~~
x ~~Marina Herlop - Pripyat~~
x ~~Arca - KicK iii~~
x ~~Jenny Hval - Classic Objects~~
### The Line of Best Fit
- [x] Christian Lee Hutson - Quitters
- [x] Jeshi - Universal Credit
- [x] MUNA - MUNA
x ~~Regards to the End - Emily Wells~~
### Stereogum
x ~~High Vis - Blending (Dais)~~
x ~~Anxious - Little Green House (Run For Cover)~~
### Brooklyn Vegan
- [x] Persona - Free Your Mind
- [x] LustSickPuppy - As Hard As You Can
- [x] Prison Affair - Demo 3
- [x] PeZ - Consumer World
- [x] Ka - Languishing Arts/Woeful Studies
- [x] Ghais Guevara - There Will Be No Super-Slave
- [x] Armani Caesar - The Liz II
- [x] ~~Fatboi Sharif - Preaching in Havana~~
- [x] ~~Warthog - Warthog 2022 ~~
- [x] ~~~~King of Heck - Kingo~~~~
x ~~Hannah Jadagu - "Say It Now"~~
x ~~E L U C I D - I Told Bessie~~
x ~~Their / They're / There - Their / They're / Three~~
x ~~SRSQ - Ever Crashing~~
### Punknews
- [x] Cluttered - Transgender Dystopia Blues
- [x] Otoboke Beaver - Super Champon
- [x] Froggy - Harmburger "
- [x] Plosivs - S/T
- [x] Christian Blunda - Funky Punks in Space
- [x] No Trigger - Dr. Album
- [x] ! Unsanitary Napkin - All Billionaires Are Bastards
- [x] ! Endless Possibility - A Tribute to Jack Terricloth
- [x] x ~~~JER - Bothered / Unbothered~~~
- [x] x ~~Career Day - Where We've Always Been~~
x ~~Try The Pie - A Widening Burst of Forever~~
x ~~Ithaca - They Fear Us~~
x ~~Tits Up - Greatest Tits EP "~~
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# 2021
## Calendar
### January
- [x] 4: Steve Earle - JT
- [x] 15: Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
- [x] 22: Lande Hekt - Going to Hell
- [x] 29: Crazy Arm - Dark Hands, Thunderbolts
- [x] 29: Lucero - When You Found Me
### February
- [x] 19: Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights
- [x] 19: The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
- [x] 26: Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember
- [x] 26: Mikey Erg
### March ###
- [x] 5: Adult Mom - Driver
- [x] 12: Dollar Signs - Hearts of Gold
- [x] 26: Early Riser - Vocations
### April ###
- [x] 2: Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
- [x] 9: Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylors Version)
- [x] 23: Remember SportsLike a Stone
- [x] 30: Fresh - The Summer I Got Good at Guitar
- [x] 30: Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme
- [x] 30 Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
### May
- [x] 21: Mannequin Pussy - Perfect EP
- [x] 28: Neighborhood Brats - Confines of Life
### June
- [x] 11: Pronoun - OMG I MADE IT - EP
- [x] 18: Me Rex - Megabear
- [x] 25: Lucy Dacus - Home Video
- [x] 25: The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here
### July
- [x] 2: Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems
- [x] 30 Partial Traces - Wild Surf/Quiet Blues
### August
- [x] 6: Kississippi - Mood Ring
- [x] 6: Laura Stevenson - S/T
- [x] 27: Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Thinks Its Gonna Be
### September
- [x] 3: Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
- [x] 10: Slothrust - Parallel Timeline
- [x] 10: Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
- [x] 10: Sincere Engineer - Bless My Psyche
### October
- [x] 1: Illuminati Hotties - Let me do one more
- [x] 8: Destroy Boys - Open Mouth, Open Heart
- [x] 15: Will Varley - The Hole around My Head
- [x] 22: Dave Hause - Blood Harmony
- [x] 22: Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
- [x] 29: The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
### November
- [x] 5: Brian Fallon - Night Devine
- [x] 12: Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
- [x] 12: Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy
- [x] 12: Taylor Swift - Red Taylors Version
### Expected This Year
- Jamie XX
## Recommendations
- [x] Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki
- [x] Christian Lee Hudson - Beginners
- [x] parquet courts - human performance
- [x] Incisions - Incisions
- [x] Moor Mother, Billy Woods - Brass
- [x] sacred paws - run around the sun
- [x] Westside Gun - flygod
- [x] Aesop Rock - The Impossible kid
- [x] Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Haram
- [x] Low - HEY WHAT
- [x] slowthai - TYRON
- [x] For Those I Love - For Those I Love*
- [x] dangers - messy, isn't it?
- [x] injury reserve - self-titled
- ~~Market -not good at spending time alone~~
- ~~Ryuichi Sakamoto~~
- ~~Kid cudi ~~
- ~~Suzie true - Saddest Girl at the Party~~
### Best of 2021
Tracks I have gathered from reading end of year *best of* lists.
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x =
**Listened & Added**
**To Listen**
- [x] Indigo De Souza — Any Shape You Take
- [x] Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee
- [x] Kacey Musgraves — Star-Crossed
- [x] Rico Nasty — Nightmare Vacation
- [x] Turnstile — Glow On
- [x] Madlib — Sound Ancestors
- [x] Ratboys – Happy Birthday, Ratboy
- [x] Boldy James and The Alchemist – Bo Jackson
- [x] Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
- [x] Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Haram
- [x] Low - HEY WHAT
- [x] slowthai - TYRON
- [x] For Those I Love - For Those I Love*
- [x] Idles - CRAWLER
- [x] Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
- [x] PinkPantheress - To Hell With It
- [x] Bachelor - Doomin' Sun
- [x] Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
- [x] The Bug - Fire*
- [x] Burial - Shock Power of Love EP
- [x] Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena EP*
- [x] Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
- [x] Water From Your Eyes - Structure
- [x] Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
- [x] Eris Drew - Quivering In Time *
- [x] Method Of Doubt - Staring At Patterns
- [x] Casper Skulls - Knows No Kindness
- [x] We Are The Union - Ordinary Life
- [x] Colleen Green - Cool
- [x] Marissa Paternoster - Peace Meter
- [x] Ship Thieves - Irruption
- [x] Pass Away - Thirty Nine
- [x] Bootlicker - Bootlicker
- [x] The Muslims - Fuck These Fuckin' Fascists
- [x] M(h)aol - Gender Studies
- [x] Fiddlehead - Between The Richness
- ! SAULT - Nine
- ! Skee Mask - Pool
- ! UNKNOWN ME - Bishintai
**Not Added**
- ~~Faye Webster — I Know I'm Funny haha~~
- ~~Sega Bodega — Romeo~~
- ~~Tyler The Creator — Call Me When You Get Lost~~
- ~~Girl In Red — If I Could Make It Go Quiet~~
- ~~Porter Robinson: Nurture~~
- ~~Cassandra Jenkins: An Overview on Phenomenal Nature~~
- ~~The Armed: ULTRAPOP~~
- ~~The Weather Station: Ignorance~~
- ~~Villagers - Fever Dreams~~
- ~~Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE~~
- ~~Squid: Bright Green Field~~
- ~~Isaiah Rashad, 'The House Is Burning'~~
- ~~Jayda G: All I Need~~
- ~~Purelink - Maintain the Bliss~~
- ~~Space Afrika - Honest Labour~~
- ~~Loraine James - Reflection~~
- ~~Ada Lea - _one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
- ~~Ka - A Martyr's Reward~~
- ~~serpentwithfeet - Deacon~~
- ~~Snail Mail - Valentine~~
- ~~Perila - How Much Time It Is Between You And Me~~
- ~~Liam Kazar - Due North~~
- ~~Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment~~
- ~~Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus~~
- ~~L'Rain – Fatigue~~
- ~~Cadence Weapon - Parallel World~~
- ~~Scowl - How Flowers Grow~~
- ~~Jail Socks - Coming Down~~
- ~~Pinkshift - Saccharine EP~~
- ~~One Step Closer - This Place You Know~~
- ~~C0ncerrn - dariacore~~
- ~~Fucked Up - Year of the Horse~~
- ~~Drones - Our Hell Is Right Here~~
- ~~Thirdface - Do It With A Smile~~
- ~~Heart & Lung - Twistin' The Knife Away~~
- ~~Neckscars - Don't Panic~~
- ~~[x] Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti~~
- [x] ~~Black Country, New Road - For the first time~~
- [x] ~~Home Is Where - I Became Birds~~
- [x] ~~Tirzah - Colourgrade~~
- [x] ~~Equiknoxx - Basic Tools~~
- [x] ~~Aya - im hole ~~
- [x] ~~Mustafa - When Smoke Rises~~
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## Best of List Sources
### Uproxx
- [x] Indigo De Souza — Any Shape You Take
- [x] Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee
- [x] Kacey Musgraves — Star-Crossed
- [x] Rico Nasty — Nightmare Vacation
- [x] Turnstile — Glow On
- ~~Faye Webster — I Know I'm Funny haha~~
- ~~Sega Bodega — Romeo~~
- ~~Tyler The Creator — Call Me When You Get Lost~~
### AV Club
- [x] Madlib, Sound Ancestors
- [x] Ratboys, Happy Birthday, Ratboy
- ~~Girl In Red — If I Could Make It Go Quiet~~
- ~~Pom Pom Squad, Death Of A Cheerleader ~~
### Paste
- ! SAULT: Nin
- [x] Boldy James and The Alchemist: Bo Jackson
- [x] Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future
- [x] Armand Hammer & The Alchemist: Haram
- [x] Low: HEY WHAT
- ~~Porter Robinson: Nurture~~
- ~~Cassandra Jenkins: An Overview on Phenomenal Nature~~
- ~~The Armed: ULTRAPOP~~
- ~~The Weather Station: Ignorance~~
- [x] ~~Mach-Hommy: Pray for Haiti~~
### Rough Trade
- [x] slowthai - TYRON
- [x] For Those I Love - For Those I Love
- [x] Idles - CRAWLER
- [x] Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
- ! Skee Mask - Pool
- ~~Villagers - Fever Dreams~~
- ~~Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE~~
- ~~Squid: Bright Green Field~~
- [x] ~~Black Country, New Road - For the first time~~
### Billboard
- [x] PinkPantheress, 'To Hell With It'
- ~~Isaiah Rashad, 'The House Is Burning'~~
### Pitchfork
- [x] Bachelor - Doomin' Sun
- [x] Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
- [x] The Bug - Fire
- [x] Burial - Shock Power of Love EP
- [x] Sofia Kourtesis Fresia Magdalena EP
- ~~Purelink: Maintain the Bliss~~
- ~~Space Afrika - Honest Labour~~
- ~~Jayda G: All I Need~~
- [x] ~~Home Is Where - I Became Birds~~
- [x] ~~Tirzah - Colourgrade~~
- [x] ~~Equiknoxx - Basic Tools~~
### Stereogum
- [x] Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days
- [x] Water From Your Eyes - Structure
- [x] Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
- [x] Eris Drew - Quivering In Time
- [x] Method Of Doubt - Staring At Patterns
- ! UNKNOWN ME - Bishintai
- ~~Loraine James - Reflection~~
- ~~Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden~~
- ~~Ka - A Martyr's Reward ~~
- ~~serpentwithfeet - Deacon~~
- ~~Snail Mail - Valentine~~
- ~~Perila - How Much Time It Is Between You And Me~~
- ~~Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment~~
- [x] ~~Aya - im hole ~~
### Pup
- [x] Casper Skulls - Knows No Kindness
- ~~Liam Kazar - Due North~~
- ~~Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus~~
- ~~Cadence Weapon - Parallel World~~
- [x] ~~Mustafa - When Smoke Rises~~
### Brooklyn Vegan
- [x] We Are The Union - Ordinary Life
- ~~Scowl - How Flowers Grow~~
- ~~L'Rain – Fatigue~~
- ~~Jail Socks - Coming Down~~
- ~~Pinkshift - Saccharine EP~~
- ~~One Step Closer - This Place You Know~~
### The Fader
- ~~leroy - dariacore~~
### Punknews
- [x] Colleen Green - Cool
- [x] Marissa Paternoster - Peace Meter
- [x] Ship Thieves - Irruption
- [x] Pass Away - Thirty Nine
- [x] Bootlicker - Bootlicker
- [x] The Muslims - Fuck These Fuckin' Fascists
- [x] M(h)aol - Gender Studies EP
- [x] Fiddlehead - Between The Richness
- ~~Fucked Up - Year of the Horse~~
- ~~Drones - Our Hell Is Right Here~~
- ~~Thirdface - Do It With A Smile~~
- ~~Heart & Lung - Twistin' The Knife Away~~
- ~~Neckscars - Don't Panic~~
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# Best of Decade
## Pitchfork
/ Frankie Cosmos - zentropy
/ Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
/ Jenny hval - Apocalypse, girl
/ Frank Ocean - Blonde
x Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
x Death Grips - The Money Store
x Richard Dawson - nothing important
x Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
## Brooklyn Vegan
/! Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - Stay Home
/ Comadre - Comadre
/ Screaming Females - Ugly
/ Wavves - Afraid of Heights
/ Mitski - Bury me at makeout creek
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# 2020
## January
- [x] 17: Algiers - There Is No Year
- [x] 17: AJJ - Good Luck Everybody
- [x] 17: The World/Inferno Friendship Society - All Borders Are Porous To Cats
- [x] 31: Frances Quinlan - Likewise
- [x] 31: Slotface - sorry for the late reply
## February
- [x] 7: Green Day - Father of all…
- [x] 7: Spanish Love songs - Brave Faces Everyone
- [x] 7: Cheerbleederz - Lobotany
- [x] 28: Gladie - Safe Sins
- [x] 28: Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
## March
- [x] 6: Worriers - You or Someone You Know
- [x] 27: Brian Fallon - Local Honey
- [x] 27: Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
- [x] 27: Roddy Woomble - Everyday Sun EP
## May
- [x] 1: Mikey Erg - Bon Voyage
- [x] 1: Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
- [x] 1: Crywank - Fist me til your hand comes out my mouth
- [x] 15: Retirement Party - Runaway Dog
- [x] 15: Sleaford Mods - All That Glue
- [x] 22: Steve Earle & The Dukes - Ghosts of West Virginia
- [x] 29: Happy Accidents - Sprawling
- [x] 29: Joyce Manor - Songs from Northern Torrance
## June
- [x] 5: Lithics - Tower of Age
- [x] 5: Run The Jewels - RTJ 4
- [x] 19: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
- [x] 26: Nana Grizol - South Somewhere Else
- [x] 26: Bad Moves - Untenable
## July
- [x] 3: The Winter Passing - New Ways of Living
- [x] 10: The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers
- [x] 17: The Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast
## August
- [x] 21: Bright Eyes - Down in the weeds
- [x] 21: The Front Bottoms - In Sickness and in Flames
## September
- [x] 4: Honey Joy - II
- [x] 18: Emma Kupa - It Will Come Easier
- [x] 25: IDLES - Ultra Mono
- [x] 25: Lydia Loveless - Daughter
## October
- [x] 2: Bartees Strange - Live Forever
- [x] 2: Field Medic - Floral Prince
- [x] 23: The Mountain Goats - Getting into Knives
- [x] 23: Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You
- [x] 23: Pup - This place sucks ass
## November
- [x] 6: Soul Glo - Songs to Yeet at the Sun
- [x] 10: Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace
# Recommended to Me
**Added**
- [x] Alice Boman - Dream On
- [x] Nervus - What if the Problem was You EP
- [x] Pillow Queens
- [x] Taylor Swift - Folklore
- [x] Ratboys - Printers Devil
- [x] Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
- [x] Grotbags - S/T
- [x] kojey radical - 23 Winters
- [x] Against All Logic - 2017-2019
- [x] Katie Dey - mydata
- [x] Irreversible Entanglements - who sent you?
- [x] Princess Nokia - Everything is Beatiful/Sucks
- [x] The National - Alligator
**Not Added**
- [x] ~~Erica Freas - Young~~
# Best of 2020 Lists
Tracks I have gathered from reading end of year *best of* lists.
/ = 44
x = 72
**Listened & Added**
- [x] Terrace Martin, denzel curry, kamasi washington - pig feet
- [x] Coriky - Coriky
- [x] Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals
- [x] David Dondero - Filter Bubble Blues
- [x] Oceanator - Things I never said
- [x] The OGBMs - The Ends
- [x] HAIM - Women in Music
- [x] NOBRO - Sick Hustle
- [x] Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
- [x] Power Alone - Rather Be Alone
- [x] Bad Cop/Bad Cop - The Ride
- [x] Riverby - Smart Mouth
- [x] Protoje - In Search Of Lost Time
- [x] Jah9 - Note To Self
- [x] Dre Island - Now I Rise (Deluxe Edition)
- [x] Liam Bailey - Ekundayo
- [x] Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
- [x] Moor Mother - Circuit City
- [x] Billy Nomates - Billy Nomates
- [x] Armand Hammer - Shrines
- [x] Boldy James - Manger On McNichols
- [x] Boldy James - The Price of Tea In China
- [x] Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
- [x] Freddie Gibbs - The Alchemist: Alfredo
- [x] Taylor Swift - Evermore
- [x] Special Interest - The Passion Of
- [x] Jay Electronica - Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
- [x] Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
- [x] Drakeo The Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL
- [x] Flo Milli - Ho, why is you here?
- [x] SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
- [x] Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today
- [x] Dominic Fike – What Could Possibly Go Wrong
- [x] Cold Meat – Hot and Flustered
- [x] Dream Nails – Dream Nails
- [x] Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle
- [x] Shamir – Shamir
- [x] Sam Russo – Back to the Party
- [x] Western Addiction: Frail Bray ^b58c38
- [x] Lil Lavedy: Hella Spiders 666 ^53ece7
- [x] Sa-Roc: The Sharecropper's Daughter
- [x] Jeremy Cunningham - The Weather Up There
- [x] Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes
- [x] ! Classics of Love - World of Burning Hate
- [x] ! Drew Thomson - No Idea Head: EP 2
**Not Added**
- [x] ~~Greg Dulli - Random Desire~~
- [x] ~~Gord Downie - Away Is Mine~~
- [x] ~~2nd Grade - Hit to Hit~~
- [x] ~~Disq - collector~~
- [x] ~~Days N Daze - Show me the blueprints~~
- [x] ~~Get Dead - Dancing with the curse~~
- [x] ~~Glacier Veins - The World You Want to See~~
- [x] ~~Owen - The Avalanche~~
- [x] ~~Carpool - erotic nightmare summer~~
- [x] ~~Tricot - 真っ黒~~
- [x] ~~Melkbelly - PITH~~
- [x] ~~Jah9 - Note To Self~~
- [x] ~~Sevana - Be Somebody EP~~
- [x] ~~I Am The Avalanche - DIVE~~
- [x] ~~Nate Dionne - Love Is Always Worth It~~
- [x] ~~Cave People - Looking~~
- [x] ~~X - Alphabetland~~
- [x] ~~Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters~~
- [x] ~~Teenage Halloween - S/T~~
- [x] ~~Beatrice Dillon - Workaround~~~
- [x] ~~Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song~~~
- [x] ~~The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?~~
- [x] ~~Rotting Out - Ronin~~
- ~~Anjimile - Giver Taker~~
- - ~~Lil Baby - My Turn~~
- ~~Chloe x Halle – Ungodly Hour~~
-~~Hot Mulligan – you'll be fine~~
- ~~Polo G – The GOAT~~
- ~~Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall~~
- - ~~Nos Da – S/T~~
- ~~Bruce Peninsula: No Earthly Sound~~
- ~~Wares: Survival~~
- [x] ~~Disheveled Cuss - Disheveled Cuss~~
- [x] ~~Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown~~
- ~~The Garden: Kiss My Super Bowl Ring~~
- ~~Crazy and the Brains: Where the Juice Drips EP~~
- ~~Nova Twins: Who Are The Girls?~~
- ~~Moses Sumney: græ~~
- ~~NNAMDÏ: BRAT~~
- ~~Pink Siifu: NEGRO~~
- ~~Off With Their Heads: Character~~
- [x] ~~Duval Timothy - Help~~
- ~~~~Ganser - Just look at that sky~~
- ~~Gold Key – 'Panic Machine'~~
- ~~Lizzy Farrall – 'Bruise'~~
- [x] ~~Into It. Over It. – Figure~~
___
# Best of List Sources
## Laura Jane Grace
- [x] Coriky - Coriky
- [x] David Dondero - Filter Bubble Blues
- [x] ~~Greg Dulli - Random Desire~~
- [x] ~~Good Downie - Away Is Mine~~
- [x] ~~X - Alphabetland~~
## Jeff Rosenstock
- [x] Terrace Martin, denzel curry, kamasi washington - pig feet
- [x] Oceanator - Things I never said
- [x] ~~2nd Grade - Hit to Hit~~
- [x] ~~Disq - collector~~
## Stefan Babcock
- [x] The OGBMs - The Endspay
- [x] HAIM - Women in Music
- [x] NOBRO - Sick Hustle
## Brooklyn Vegan
- [x] !! Classics of Live - World of Burning Hate
- [x] Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
- [x] Power Alone - Rather Be Alone
- [x] Bad Cop/Bad Cop - The Ride
- [x] Riverby - Smart Mouth
- [x] Protoje - In Search Of Lost Time
- [x] Jah9 - Note To Self
- [x] Dre Island - Now I Rise (Deluxe Edition)
- [x] Liam Bailey - Ekundayo
- [x] Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
- [x] Moor Mother - Circuit City
- [x] Billy Nomates - Billy Nomates
- [x] Armand Hammer - Shrines
- [x] Boldy James - Manger On McNichols
- [x] Boldy James - The Price of Tea In China
- [x] Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
- [x] ~~Days N Daze - Show me the blueprints~~
- [x] ~~Get Dead - Dancing with the curse~~
- [x] ~~Glacier Veins - The World You Want to See~~
- [x] ~~Owen - The Avalanche~~
- [x] ~~Carpool - erotic nightmare summer~~
- [x] ~~Tricot - 真っ黒~~
- [x] ~~Melkbelly - PITH~~
- [x] ~~Sevana - Be Somebody EP~~
- [x] ~~I Am The Avalanche - DIVE~~
- [x] ~~Nate Dionne - Love Is Always Worth It~~
- [x] ~~Cave People - Looking~~
- [x] ~~Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters ~~
- [x] ~~Rotting Out - Ronin~~
- [x] ~~Disheveled Cuss - Disheveled Cuss~~
- [x] ~~Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown~~
## Pitchfork
- [x] Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals
- [x] Freddie Gibbs - The Alchemist: Alfredo
- [x] Special Interest - The Passion Of
- [x] Jay Electronica - Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
- [x] Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
- [x] ~~Teenage Halloween - S/T~~
- [x] ~~Beatrice Dillon - Workaround~~
- [x] ~~Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song~~~
- [x] ~~The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?~~
- [x] ~~Duval Timothy - Help~~
## NPR
- [x] Drakeo The Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL
- [x] Flo Milli - Ho, why is you here?
- [x] SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
- ~~Anjimile - Giver Taker~~
- ~~Lil Baby - My Turn~~
## The Alternative
- ~~Chloe x Halle – Ungodly Hour~~
## Sincere Engineer
- [x] Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today
- [x] Dominic Fike – What Could Possibly Go Wrong
- ~~Hot Mulligan – you'll be fine~~
- ~~Polo G – The GOAT~~
- ~~Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall~~
- ~~Nos Da – S/T~~
- [x] ~~Into It. Over It. – Figure~~
## Punknews
- [x] ! No Idea Head: EP 2
- [x] Cold Meat: Hot and Flustered
- [x] Dream Nails: Dream Nails
- [x] Julianna Barwick: Healing Is A Miracle
- [x] Shamir: Shamir
- [x] Sam Russo: Back to the Party
- [x] Western Addiction: Frail Bray
- [x] Lil Lavedy: Hella Spiders 666
- [x] Sa-Roc: The Sharecropper's Daughter
- ~~The Garden: Kiss My Super Bowl Ring~~
- ~~Crazy and the Brains: Where the Juice Drips EP~~
- ~~Nova Twins: Who Are The Girls?~~
- ~~Moses Sumney: græ~~
- ~~NNAMDÏ: BRAT~~
- ~~Pink Siifu: NEGRO~~
- ~~Off With Their Heads: Character~~
- ~~Bruce Peninsula: No Earthly Sound~~
- ~~Wares: Survival~~
## Noisey
- [x] Jeremy Cunningham - The Weather Up There
- [x] Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes
- ~~Ganser - Just look at that sky~~
### Punktastic
- ~~Gold Key – 'Panic Machine'~~
- ~~Lizzy Farrall – 'Bruise'~~
___
# 2019
## January
/18: The Twilight Sad - it Won/T be like this all the time
/23: Better Oblivion Community Center
/25: FIDLAR - Almost Free
/25: William Tyler - Goes West
/25: Nils Frahm - Encores 2
## February
/1: Beirut - Gallipoli
/22: Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive
/22: Woahnows - Young and Cool
/22: The Gloaming - 3
## March
/1: Pkew Pkew Pkew - Optimal Lifestyles
/1: Wild Pink - 5 Songs EP
/15: Beach Slang - MPLS
/22: American Football - 3
/22: Jenny Lewis - On The Line
/27: Kevin Devine/Front Bottoms
/29: Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze
/29: Steve Earle - Guy
## April
/5: Pup - Morbid Stuff
/5: Martha - Love Keeps Kicking
/5: Idlewild - Interview Music
/5: Big Eyes - Streets of the Lost
/5: Priests - The Seduction of Kansas
/5: Club Night - What Life
/12: Dave Hause - Kick
/12: Bars of Gold - SHELTERS
/26: The Mountain Goats - In League with Dragons
/26: Craig Finn - I Need a New War
/26: PAWS - Your Church on My Bonfire
/26: Kevin Morby - Oh God
## May
/3: Big Thief - UFOF
/10: Radiator Hospital - Music for Daydreaming
/10: Big Nothing - Chris
/17: Alex Lahey - The Best of Luck Club
/17: The National - I Am Easy to Find
/24: Honeyblood - In Plain Sight
/24: Amyl & The Sniffers LP
/24: Petrol Girls - Cut & Stitch
/24: Hot Water Music - Shake Up the Shadows EP
## June
/7: Fresh - Withdraw
/7: Soul Glo - The N** in me is me
/14: Personal Best - What You At
/14: Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
/14: Kate Tempest - The Book of Traps and Lessons
/14: Bad Books - III
## July
/12: Tiny Changes, Tribute to midnight organ fight
/26: Mikey Erg - Waxbuilt Castles
## August
/2: Slaughter Beach, Dog – Safe and Also No Fear
/9: Bon Iver - i,i
/16: Cultdreams - Things that Hurt
/16: The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
/16: Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold
/23: Sheer Mag - A Distant Call
/30: Mean Jeans - Gigantic Sike
/30: Shredders - Great Hits
## September
/6: The Drew Thomson Foundation LP
/27: Tegan & Sara - Hey I’m Just like You
/27: Partial Traces - Low Definition
/27: Cataldo - Literally Main Street
## October
/4: The Menzingers - Hello Exile
/4: Bedouin Soundclash - Mass
/11: Chris Farren - Born Hot
/11: Richard Dawson - 2020
/11: Big Thief - Two Hands
## November
/15: Jenny Owen Youngs - Night Shift
/15: Lande Hekt - Gigantic Disappointment
# Recommendations:
/ = 45
x = 13
/ Kimya Dawson - Remember that I love you
/ Stick in the Wheel - This and the memory of this mixtape
/ Dyke Drama - Hard New Paint
/ Spielbergs - This is not the end
/ Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else (rec: Martha)
/ Cormega - Mega
/ Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
/ Night Witch/Hirs - Love ya like a sister
/ Mykele Deville - Maintain
/ Allison Miller - Glitter Wolf (rec: John Darnielle)
/ The Beths - Warm Blood Ep (rec: Martha)
/ The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (rec: Martha)
/ Stella donnely - beware of the dogs (rec: camp cope)
/ Benjamin Francis Leftwich - A million miles out EP
/ AJJ - live at third man
/ Uranium Club - The Cosmo Cleaners
/ All Girl Arson Club - Dark Fruits EP (rec: delicious clam)
/ Control Top - Covert Contacts (rec: Laura jane Grace)
/ Crywank - wearing beige
/ The Stone Roses
/ Justin Townes Earle - The Saint of Lost Causes
/ Colm Mac Con Iomaire - The River Holds
/ Fucko - Social Climber
/ Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
/ together Pangea - dispassionate EP
/ Sub Dio - Dub Dio EP
/ Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
/ Katie Dey - Solipsisters
/ Miley - She is coming
/ L I P S - LIPS EP
/ Prince Daddy & The Hyena - Cosmic Thrill Seekers
/ Alpha Hopper - Aloha Hopper
/ Pinch Points - Moving Parts (rec: Specialist Subject)
/ Mammoth Penguins - There's no fight we can't both win
/ Two Gallants - we are undone
/ Press Club - Wasted Energy
/ oso oso - basking in the glow
/ Allo DarlinMy Heart is a Drummer
/ Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes
/ Booji Boys - Tube Reducer
/ Little Simz - Grey Area
/ Proper. - I Spent the winter writing songs about getting better
/ Decent Criminal - Bliss
/! Murderer - I did it all for you (rec: Noel Gardner)
/! JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Track seperated version of Blue Highways
x Worry - Confidence EP
x Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
x Low LifeDowner Edn (rec: Noel Gardner)
x Wyldlife - Out on your block (rec: Martha)
x Dusk - Dusk (rec: Martha) (old magnolia)
x Moon King - Voice of Lovers
X Princess Nokia - Metallic Butterfly
X USA Nails - Life Cinema
X Protomatyr - No Passion All technique
x Porridge Radio
x glass beach
x! Wastoid - Mars is Heaven (rec: jeff rosenstock)
X! Matty Pop Chart
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# Best of 2019 Lists
/ = 44
x = 72
/ Soot Sprite - Sharp Tongue
/ Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
/ Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
/ Denzel Curry - Zuu
/ Dry Cleaning - EPs
/ Lankum - The Livelong Day
/ Brittany Howard - Jaime
/ Freddie gibbs & madlib - Bandana
/ Rapsody - Eve
/ Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
/ Jay Som - Anak Ko
/ Floating Points - Crush
/ Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin
/ Rico Nasty / Kenny Beats - Anger Management
/ Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
/ slowthai - Nothing great about britain
/ Aldous Harding - Designer
/ Waax – Big Grief
/ King Princess – Cheap Queen
/ Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury
/ Chai - Punk
/ Snoh Aalegra - Ugh, Those Feels Again
/ billy woods & kenny segal - Hiding Places
/ pronoun - i'll show you stronger
/ caamp - by and by
/ Rosie Tucker - never not never not never not
/ Dave - Psychodrama
/ jenny hval - The Practice of Love
/ Nervus - Tough Crowd
/ Friendship – Dreamin'
/ Field Medic – fade into the dawn
/ The Highwomen – S/T
/ Snapped Ankles - Remote Luxury
/ Fennesz – Agora
/ Georgia Maq - Pleaser
/ Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage - Bad Wiring
/ Stuck Out Here - Until We're Each Someone Else
/ Ramona - Deals, Deals, Deals!
/ She/Her/Hers - Kill the boy band
/ Local News Legend - Darling I'm too scared to sleep alone
/ Gender Roles - PRANG
/ Vagabon - Vagabon
/ Apes Of The State: Pipe Dream
/ Florist - Emily Alone
x 93PUNX – 93PUNX
x Tyler, the creator - IGOR
x Carly rae jepsen - dedicated
x Sharon Van Etten - remind me tomorrow
X Abdu Ali - FIYAH!
x Montaigne – Complex
x Operators – Radiant Dawn
x Orville Peck – Pony
X Strange Ranger - remembering the rockets
x Generationals – Reader As Detective
x Summer Walker - Over It
x Burna Boy - African Giant
x Signals Midwest - Pin
x Slingshot Dakota - Heavy Banding
x Jail Socks - Its not Forever
x Terrible People - Like Clean Air
x Forests - Spending Eternity in a Japanese convenience store
x Queen of Jeans - If you're not afraid
x Future Teens - Breakup Season
x 100 gecs - 1000 gecs
x Origami Angel - Somewhere City
x Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something - Oh Really, Whats that then
x Microwave - death is a warm blanket
x heart attack man - fake blood
x Lakes – Constance
x Raketkanon – RKTKN #3
x Fury – Failed Entertainment
x Puppy – The Goat
x Her Name Is Calla – Animal Choir
x Diva Sweetly – In The Living Room
x Mover Shaker – Another Truck Stop
x Foxy Dads – ICYMI
x Claire Cronin – Big Dread Moon
x Savage Mansion – Revision Ballads
x Joanna Sternberg – Then I Try Some More
x Wand – Laughing Matter
x Greet Death – New Hell
x Jeanines – Jeanines
x Molly Linen - Outside Ep
x Black Belt Eagle Scout – At The Part With My Brown Friends
x Dinosaur Pile Up - Celebrity Mansions
x Cory Wells - The Way We Are
x Vivian Girls - Memory
x Waterweed - diffuse
x Patch Kid - Guts
x Downtown Brown - CaliFlorida
x Radar State - Strays
x Epic Beard Men - This was supposed to be fun
x Sneaks - Highway Hypnosis
x Clyde and the Milltailers - Folklore
x Tommy and June - Tommy and June
x McCafferty: The House with No Doorbell
x Harley Poe: Have a Great Life
X Purple Mountains – Self Titled
x Ceschi: Sad, Fat Luck
x Straight Line Arrival: The Greatest Arsonist
x Desperate Acts: Summer of Panic
x 64 - Seven-Inch EP
x Yeesh - Saw You Up There
X Moodymann - sinner
X clairo - immunity
X macseal - super enthusiast
X Somos - Prison on a hill
X Insignificant Other - i'm so glad i feel this way about you
X Anderson Paak - ventura
X Westkust – Westkust
X Ellen and the Degenerates - Return of the Herb
X Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff
X Julia Jacklin - crushing
X Stop N' Shop: Time Wasted
X Ludlow / Fire Ant Season: Capitalisn't
X men i trust - Oncle Jazz
——————
## Misc
/ Soot Sprite - Sharp Tongue
/ Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
/ Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
/ Denzel Curry - Zuu
/ Dry Cleaning - EPs
x 93PUNX – 93PUNX
x Tyler, the creator - IGOR
x Carly rae jepsen - dedicated
X Abdu Ali - FIYAH!
X Strange Ranger - remembering the rockets
## NPR
/ Lankum - The Livelong Day
/ Brittany Howard - Jaime
/ Freddie gibbs & madlib - Bandana
/ Rapsody - Eve
/ Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
/ Jay Som - Anak Ko
x Sharon Van Etten - remind me tomorrow
## Pitchfork
/ Floating Points - Crush
/ Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin
/ Rico Nasty / Kenny Beats - Anger Management
/ Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
/ slowthai - Nothing great about britain
/ Aldous Harding - Designer
## Laura Jane Grace
/ Waax – Big Grief
/ King Princess – Cheap Queen
/ Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury
x Montaigne – Complex
x Operators – Radiant Dawn
x Orville Peck – Pony
x Generationals – Reader As Detective
X Purple Mountains – Self Titled
## Noisey
/ Chai - Punk
/ Snoh Aalegra - Ugh, Those Feels Again
/ billy woods & kenny segal - Hiding Places
x Summer Walker - Over It
x Burna Boy - African Giant
X Moodymann - sinner
X clairo - immunity
## The Alternative
/ pronoun - i'll show you stronger
/ caamp - by and by
/ Rosie Tuckernever not never not never not
x Signals Midwest - Pin
x Slingshot Dakota - Heavy Banding
x Jail Socks - Its not Forever
x Terrible People - Like Clean Air
x Forests - Spending Eternity in a Japanese convenience store
x Queen of Jeans - If you're not afraid
x Future Teens - Breakup Season
x 100 gecs - 1000 gecs
X macseal - super enthusiast
X Somos - Prison on a hill
X Insignificant Other - i'm so glad i feel this way about you
## The AV Club
/ Dave - Psychodrama
/ jenny hval - The Practice of Love
X Anderson Paak - ventura
# Track 7
/ Nervus - Tough Crowd
/ Friendship – Dreamin'
/ Field Medic – fade into the dawn
/ The Highwomen – S/T
x Origami Angle - Somewhere City
x Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something - Oh Really, Whats that then
x Microwave - death is a warm blanket
x heart attack man - fake blood
x Lakes – Constance
x Raketkanon – RKTKN #3
x Fury – Failed Entertainment
x Puppy – The Goat
x Her Name Is Calla – Animal Choir
x Diva Sweetly – In The Living Room
x Mover Shaker – Another Truck Stop
x Foxy Dads – ICYMI
x Claire Cronin – Big Dread Moon
x Savage Mansion – Revision Ballads
x Joanna Sternberg – Then I Try Some More
x Wand – Laughing Matter
x Greet Death – New Hell
X Westkust – Westkust
## Brooklyn Vegan
/ Snapped Ankles - Remote Luxury
/ Fennesz – Agora
/ Georgia Maq - Pleaser
x Jeanines – Jeanines
## For The Rabbits
/ Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage - Bad Wiring
x Molly Linen - Outside Ep
x Black Belt Eagle Scout – At The Part With My Brown Friends
## Punktastic
x Dinosaur Pile Up - Celebrity Mansions
x Cory Wells - The Way We Are
## Punk News
/ Stuck Out Here - Until We're Each Someone Else
/ Ramona - Deals, Deals, Deals!
/ Local News Legend - Darling I'm too scared to sleep alone
/ She/Her/Hers - Kill the boy band
/ Gender Roles - PRANG
/ Vagabon - Vagabon
/ Apes Of The State: Pipe Dream
x Vivian Girls - Memory
x Waterweed - diffuse
x Patch Kids - Guts
x Downtown Brown - CaliFlorida
x Radar State - Strays
x Epic Beard Men - This was supposed to be fun
x Sneaks - Highway Hypnosis
x Clyde and the Milltailers - Folklore
x Tommy and June - Tommy and June
x McCafferty: The House with No Doorbell
x Harley Poe: Have a Great Life
x Ceschi: Sad, Fat Luck
x Straight Line Arrival: The Greatest Arsonist
x Desperate Acts: Summer of Panic
x 64 - Seven-Inch EP
x Yeesh: Saw You Up There
x FLORE LAURENTIENNE - Volume 1
x Body Meat - Truck Music
x glitterer - looking through the shades
x YBN Cordae — The Lost Boy
X Ellen and the Degenerates - Return of the Herb
X Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff
X Julia Jacklin - crushing
X Stop N' Shop: Time Wasted
X Ludlow / Fire Ant Season: Capitalisn't
(MAYBE)
/ Florist - Emily Alone
x FLORE LAURENTIENNE - Volume 1
x Body Meat - Truck Music
x glitterer - looking through the shades
x YBN Cordae — The Lost Boy
X men i trust - Oncle Jazz
_____
#2018
###January
/1: Jeff Rosenstock - Post
/18: First Aid Kit - Ruins
/26: Spook School - Could it be different?
/26: Stick in the wheel - follow them true
/26: Nils Frahm - All Melody
###February
/2: Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare
/9: Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
/9: Will Varley - Spirit of Minnie
/9: Kendrick Lamar - Black panther soundtrack
/16: Superchunk - What a Time to be alive
/16: Happy Accidents - Everything but the here and now
/16: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
/23: Screaming Females - At Once
###March
/2: Titus Andronicus - A productive Cough
/2: Camp Cope - How to socialise and make friends
/2: Lucy Dacus - historian
/2: The Gloaming - Live at the NCH
/2: Sorority Noise - YNAAYT
/9: Spector - Ex-Directory
/16: Pillow Queens - State of the State EP
/16: Decemberists - I'll be you girl
/23: Pale Kids - Hesitater
/30: Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
/30: The Lawrence Arms - we are the champions of the world
/30: Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
/30: The Garden - Mirror might steal your charm
###April
/6: Hop Along - Bark your head off, dog
/6: Mastersystem - Dance Music
/6: Kississippi - Sunset Blush
/6: I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats Comp
/13: War on Women - Capture the flag
/13: Jeffrey Lewis - Works by Tuli Kupferberg
/27: Elway - For the sake of the bit
###May
/4: Jon Hopkins - Singularity
/4: Kitten Forever - Semi-Permanant
/11: Tiger Cats - Pig City
/11: Dogeyed - Throw The Bones EP
/15: Colour Me Wednesday - Counting Pennies in the Afterlife
/17: Gladie - Everyone is talking but you
/18: Remember Sports - Slow Buzz
/18: Courtney Barnett - Tell me how you really feel
/18: The Front Bottoms - Ann
/18: Beach Slang - Everything Matters
/18: The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
/25: Retirement Party - Somewhat literate
###June
/1: kevin devine/worriers split
/15: Protomartyr - Consolation EP
/15: The Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound Sessions
###July
/13: Dollar Signs - This will haunt me
/20: Wild Pink - Yolk in the fur
/20: Katie Ellen - Still life EP
/27: Thin Lips - Chosen Family
/27: Kevin Devine/David Bazan split
###August
/3: Lucero - Among the Ghosts
/17: Mitski - Be the Cowboy
/24: Olafur Arnalds - re:member
/24: Murder By Death - The Other Shore
/31: Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals
/31: Idles - Joy as an act of Resistance
/31: Fresh - Daytime/Nightime
###September
/7: The Mountain Goats - Hex of Infinite Binding EP
/7: Single Mothers - Through A Wall
/14: Slothrust - The Pact
/14: Sleaford Mods - EP
/14: Petrol Girls - The Future Is Dark
/14: Grace Petrie - Queer As Folk
/21: Bad Moves - Tell No One
/21: Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill me
/28: Restorations - LP 5000
/28: Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
/28: Kevin Devine & Petal Split
###October
/5: Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
/5: Nightmares for a week - Celebrations
/12: Four Fists - 6666
/19: Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
/26: Antarctigo Vespuccilove in the time of email
/26: Super Unison - Stella
/26: Brendan Kelly - Keep Walking Pal
/26: Typesetter - Nothing Blues
/26: boygenius EP
/26: Direct Hit - Crown of Nothing
###November
/1: Dave Hause - September Haze
/9: Laura Jane Grace - Bought to Rot
/16: Neurotic Fiction - Pulp Music
/16: Iron Chic/Toys That Kill split
/30: Kevin Devine & John K Samson Split
###December
/14 Molar - Straniero
# Recommendations:
/ = 59
x = 32
/ Benjamin booker - Witness
/ Lee Bains & The Glory Fires - Youth Detention
/ Johnny Flynn - A Larum
/ Brian Eno - Apollo
/ Ezra Furman (rec: Jonny)
/ Wiley - Godfather II
/ A.A.L - 2012 — 2017
/ Teenage Halloween - Eternal Roast
/ Just Blankets - S/T EP
/ Turnstile - Time & Space (rec: Noel Gardner)
/ Mac McCaughan - Non-Believers
/ Young Guv - 2 Sad 2 Funk
/ Press Club - Late Teens (rec: Smith Street Band)
/ Nervus - Everything Dies
/ Youth Avoiders - Relentless
/ Playboy manbaby - Lobotomobile (rec: Jamie Coletta)
/ Booji Boys - Weekend Rocker LP
/ Thievery Corporation - Treasure from the temple
/ The Hard Aches - Mess
/ Gillian Welch - Soul Journey (rec: Elis/John)
/ The Royal They - S/T
/ Dead to me - moscow penny ante
/ Trevor Sensor - Starved Night of Saturday Stars (rec: Elis/John)
/ Illuminati hotties - Kiss your frenemies
/! Natterers - Toxic Care
/! Me Rex - Wooly Rhino
/! Wurst Nurse - Hot Hot Hot
/ Trust Fund - Bring the backline
/ Radon - More of their lies
/ Laura Veirs - The Lookout
/ Nathaniel Rateliff - Tearing at the seams
/ Crazy and the brains - out in the weeds EP
/ The Hirs Collective - Friends.Lovers.Favorites.
/ T Shirt Weather - Dinner and a show (rec: martha)
/ Childish Gambino - Awaken my love
/ Amyl & The Sniffers - Big attraction (rec: Noel Gardner)
/ Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs (rec: jonny)
/ Gobbinjr - Ocala Wick
/ Dog Party - Hit & Run
/ The big moon - Love in the 4th Dimension (rec: jonny)
/ Ultra Beauty (rec: Spoonboy)
/ John Maus - We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves (rec: Elis/John)
/ Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
/ New Order - Movement
/ Trevor Sensor - Andy Warhols Dream
/ Dream Nails - dare to care (rec: petrol girls)
/ Waxahatchee - Great Thunder EP
/ Dressy bessy - pink hearts yellow moons (Rec: Grace)
/ Natterers - head in threatening attitude
/ Milo - Budding ornithologists
/ The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy
/ Destroy Boys - Make Room
/ Dan Mangan - More or Less
/ Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
/ Christine Fellows - Roses on the Vine
/ Neighborhood Brats - Claw Marks
/ Night Witch - Who's Next
/! Scarecrow - Demo
/! Hank Wood and the Hammerheds - S/T (Rec: Noel Gardener)
x Timeshares - On Life Support EP
x Labradors - The Great Maybe (rec: jeff rosenstock)
x Hookworms - microshift
x Godspeed you! Black emperor - Luciferian Towers
x Rememberables - S/T (Rec: Moving North)
x The Armed - Only Love
x Golden Teacher - No Lucious Life (rec: Superchunk)
x The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
x Kermes - We Choose pretty (rec: happy accidents)
x Princess Nokia - A Girl Cried Red
x Cable Ties
x Kids Table - gender ender (rec: martha)
X Three Man Cannon - Building broken steps (rec: cayetana)
X Caracara - Summer Megalith (rec: Jamie Coletta)
x Colm Mac Con Iomaire - Dare to be wild soundtrack
X Trace Mountains - A Partner to lean on
x Don't worry - Who Cares Anyway
x Mom Jeans - Puppy Love
x Tirzah - Devotion
x! Preening - Greasetrap Frisbee (rec: Noel Gardner)
X Matt and Kim - Almost Everyday
X Steven Julien - Bloodline
x Foxing - Nearer my God
x! Unease - Society's Possessed (Rec: Noel Gardener)
X Superorganism (rec: laura jane grace)
X Snail Mail - Lush (rec: jonny)
x Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
X Night Shop - In The Break (rec: Laura Jane Grace)
X! BB and The Blips - Demo (rec: Noel Gardner)
X! Mary Bell - Histirion
X! NASHO - demo (rec: Noel Gardner)
X! Dark Thoughts - At Work (rec: Dan Ozzi)
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##Best of 2018 Lists
/ = 57
x = 106
/ Shame - Songs of Praise
/ Soccer Mommy - Clean
/ John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
/ Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
/ American Aquarium – Things Change
/ John Hiatt – The Eclipse Sessions
/ Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
/ Noname - Room25
/ Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
/ Club Night - Mute/Trance + EP
/ Lala Lala - The Lamb
/ Tierra Whack – Whack World
/ 700 Bliss - Spa 700
/ The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
/ Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
/ Leikeli47 - Acrylic
/ Low - Double Negative
/ Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
/ Rezzett - Rezzett
/ Erland Cooper - Solan Goose
/ Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
/ Aidan Moffatt & RM Hubbert – Here Lies The Body
/ Grapetooth - grapetooth
/ Marie Davison - Working Class Women
/ DJ Koze - Knock Knock
/ The Drew Thompson Foundation - Stay EP
/ The Field - Infinite Moment
/ Skee Mask - Compro
/ Ross From Friends - Family Portrait
/ Dilly Dally - Heaven
/ Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
/ Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie
/ Liines - Stop Start
/ The Menstrual Cramps - Free Bleedin'
/ Hilary Woods - Colt
/ Armand Hammer - Paraffin
/ Ultra - Alta Montaña
/ Clown Sounds — Preacher Maker
/ Krimewatch — S/T
/ Rata Negra — Justicia Cosmica
/ Lithics — Mating Surfaces
/ Advance Base — Animal Companionship
/ Swearin' — Fall Into The Sun
/ Saintseneca – Pillar of Na
/ awakebutstillinbed – what people call low self-esteem…
/ Pusha T – DAYTONA
/ Loma - Loma
/ Lee Corey Oswald - Darkness, Together
/ Shook Ones - Body Feel
/ The Shell Corporation - Fucked
/ The Coup - Sorry to Bother You
/ Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
/ Active Bird Community – Amends
/ Dogleg (rec: Jamie Coletta)
/ Rico Nasty - Nasty
/! Necia - Prayer: punching nazis
/! Booji Boys - Unknown Pleathers
x Everything is Recorded - S/T
x Pig pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs - King of Cowards
x The Milk Carton Kids – All the Things That I Did
x St. Lenox – Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love
x Adam Faucett – It Took the Shape of a Bird
x Eric Bachmann – No Recover
x Family of the Year – Goodbye Sunshine Hello Nighttime
x Dawes – Passwords
x Neko Case - Hell On
x The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
x Alejandro Escovedo: The Crossing
x Ought - Room Inside the world
x Anna Burch - Quit The Curse
x Moaning - Moaning
x The Groans - Colors
x Erin Rae – Putting On Airs
x Nap Eyes – I'm Bad Now
x Vince Staples – FM!
x Gaika - Basic Volume
x Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle
x Insecure Men - Insecure Men
x Brandi Carlile – By the Way, I Forgive You
x Swingin' Utters – Peace and Love
x Michael Timmons – Bone Coloured
x Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is
x Racetraitor - 2042
x Birds in row - We already lost the world
x Grouper - Grid of points
x Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
x US Girls - A Poem Untitled
x Julia Holter - Aviary
x The Number Ones - Another Side of the Number Ones
x Cool Sounds - cactus Country
x Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind
x Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
x Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
X Austin Lucas – Immortal Americans
x Beach House - 7
x Anna Calvi - Hunter
X Speedy Ortiz – Twerp
x Guttfull - Tits + Nails
x Fightmilk - not with that attitude
X Flasher - Constant Image
x Deafheaven - ordinary corrupt human love
x Vital Idles - Left Hand
x Lets Ear Grandma - I'm All Ears
x Witch Prophet - The Golden Octave
x Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
x Full Bush - Full Bush
x La Luz - Floating Features
x Aisha Devi - DNA Feelings
x No Heart – Can't Get Out
x Geld – Perfect Texture
x The Coltranes — White Hag
x Shopping — The Official Body.
X The Sonder Bombs - Modern Female Rockstar
x Forth Wanderers — S/T
X Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
x Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past
x Dominic Angelella – Road Movie
x With Confidence – 'Love and Loathing'
x Normandie – 'White Flag'
X Balún - Prisma Tropical
x Deaf Havana – 'Rituals'
x Rolo Tomassi – 'Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It'
x Pool Kids - Music to practice safe sex to
x Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
x Candy - Good to Feel
x Nine Eighteen - Twelve Fluid Ounces
x Captain Kaiser - Dog days on deck
x Hot Mulligan - Pilot
x Lost Avenue - Fears
x Boston Manor - Welcome To The Neighbourhood
X Christine And The Queens - Chris
x Jennifer Castle - Angels of Death
x Barely March – Marely Barch
x Long Neck – Will This Do?
x Table Scraps – Autonomy
x Boss Keloid – Melted On the Inch
x Itoldyouiwouldeatyou - Oh Dearism
x Comps - life as a baller
x Manic Street Preachers - Resistance is Futile
X Big Joanie - Sistahs
x! Laura Les - Big Summer Jams 2018
x! Various – Karate Klub Compilation
X Manni Dee - The Residue
x! Alienation - Bitter Reality
X Goat Girl - Goat Girl
X Svalbard - It's Hard to have Hope
X Tim Hecker - Konoyo
X Saba - Care for Me
X Ill - We are Ill
X Gacha Bakradze - Word Color
X Human People - Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears
X Tony Molina — Kill The Lights
X Allvaret — Skam Och Skuld
X Drug Church – 'Cheer'
X Graduating Life – Grad Life
X Beach Rats – Wasted Time EP
X Just friends - nothing but love
X The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking
X Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music
X The Brokedowns - Sick of Space
X Caravela - Ski
X Wolf Girl - Every Now and Then
X Hutch Harris – Only Water
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## Rough Trade
/ Shame - Songs of Praise
/ Soccer Mommy - Clean
/ John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
/ Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
x Everything is Recorded - S/T
x Pig pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs - King of Cowards
## Matt Besser
/ American Aquarium – Things Change
/ John Hiatt – The Eclipse Sessions
x The Milk Carton Kids – All the Things That I Did
x St. Lenox – Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love
x Adam Faucett – It Took the Shape of a Bird
x Eric Bachmann – No Recover
x Family of the Year – Goodbye Sunshine Hello Nighttime
x Dawes – Passwords
X Austin Lucas – Immortal Americans
X Speedy Ortiz – Twerp
## Laura Jane Grace
/ Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Years
x Neko Case - Hell On
x The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
## Paste Magazine
/ Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
/ Noname - Room25
/ Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine (Bon Ivor/National)
x Alejandro Escovedo: The Crossing
x Ought - Room Inside the world
X Flasher - Constant Image
## The Grey Estates
/ Club Night - Mute/Trance + EP
/ Lala Lala - The Lamb
x Anna Burch - Quit The Curse
x Moaning - Moaning
x The Groans - Colors
X The Sonder Bombs - Modern Female Rockstar
## Jake Ewald
/ Tierra Whack – Whack World
x Erin Rae – Putting On Airs
x Nap Eyes – I'm Bad Now
x Vince Staples – FM!
X Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
## NPR
/ 700 Bliss - Spa 700
/ The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
/ Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
/ Leikeli47 - Acrylic
/ Low - Double Negative
/ Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
X Balún - Prisma Tropical
X Christine And The Queens - Chris
## The Quietus
/ Rezzett - Rezzett
/ Erland Cooper - Solan Goose
/ Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
x Gaika - Basic Volume
x Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle
x Insecure Men - Insecure Men
X Big Joanie - Sistahs
X Manni Dee - The Residue
X Goat Girl - Goat Girl
## Fat Wreck Bands
x Brandi Carlile – By the Way, I Forgive You
x Swingin' Utters – Peace and Love
## The Twilight Sad
/ Aidan Moffatt & RM Hubbert – Here Lies The Body
x Michael Timmons – Bone Coloured
x Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is
## Noisey
/ Grapetooth - grapetooth
/ Marie Davison - Working Class Women
/ DJ Koze - Knock Knock
/ The Drew Thompson Foundation - Stay
x Racetraitor - 2042
x Birds in row - We already lost the world
x Grouper - Grid of points
x Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
x US Girls - A Poem Untitled
x Julia Holter - Aviary
x Cool Sounds - cactus Country
x! Laura Les - Big Summer Jams 2018
X Svalbard - It's Hard to have Hope
## AV Club
/ The Field - Infinite Moment
/ Skee Mask - Compro
/ Ross From Friends - Family Portrait
x Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind
x Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
x Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love
x Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
x Beach House - 7
x Anna Calvi - Hunter
X Tim Hecker - Konoyo
X Saba - Care for Me
## UpRoxx
/ Dilly Dally - Heaven
/ Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
/ Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie
## Loud Women
/ Liines - Stop Start
/ The Menstrual Cramps - Free Bleedin'
x Guttfull - Tits + Nails
x Fightmilk - not with that attitude
X Ill - We are Ill
## Pitchfork
X Gacha Bakradze - Word Color
x Deafheaven - ordinary corrupt human love
x Peggy Gou -It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
## Bandcamp
/ Hilary Woods - Colt
/ Armand Hammer - Paraffin
/ Ultra - Alta Montaña
/! Necia - Prayer: punching nazis
x Vital Idles - Left Hand
x Lets Ear Grandma - I'm All Ears
x Witch Prophet - The Golden Octave
x Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
x Full Bush - Full Bush
x La Luz - Floating Features
x Aisha Devi - DNA Feelings
X Human People - Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears
## Noel Quietus
x! Various – Karate Klub Compilation
x No Heart – Can't Get Out
x Geld – Perfect Texture
## Specialist Subject:
/ Clown Sounds — Preacher Maker
/ Krimewatch — S/T
/ Rata Negra — Justicia Cosmica
/ Lithics — Mating Surfaces
/ Advance Base — Animal Companionship
/ Swearin' — Fall Into The Sun
x The Coltranes — White Hag
x Shopping — The Official Body
x Forth Wanderers — S/T
X Tony Molina — Kill The Lights
X Allvaret — Skam Och Skuld
## Hop Along
/ Saintseneca – Pillar of Na
x Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past
x Dominic Angelella – Road Movie
x Half Waif – Lavender
X Hutch Harris – Only Water
## Punktastic
x With Confidence – 'Love and Loathing'
x Normandie – 'White Flag'
x Deaf Havana – 'Rituals'
x Rolo Tomassi – 'Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It'
X Drug Church – 'Cheer'
## The Alternative
/ awakebutstillinbed – what people call low self-esteem…
/ Pusha T – DAYTONA
X Just friends - nothing but love
x Pool Kids - Music to practice safe sex to
x Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
X Graduating Life – Grad Life
## Stereoboard
/ Loma - Loma
X The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking
## Punknews
/ Lee Corey Oswald - Darkness, Together
/ Shook Ones - Body Feel
/ The Shell Corporation - Fucked
/ The Coup - Sorry to Bother You
/ Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
/! Booji Boys - Unknown Pleathers
x Candy - Good to Feel
x Nine Eighteen - Twelve Fluid Ounces
x Captain Kaiser - Dog days on deck
x Hot Mulligan - Pilot
x Lost Avenue - Fears
x Boston Manor - Welcome To The Neighbourhood
x Jennifer Castle - Angels of Death
x! Alienation - Bitter Reality
X Beach Rats – Wasted Time EP
X Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music
X The Brokedowns - Sick of Space
X Caravela - Ski
## Track 7
/ Active Bird Community – Amends
x Barely March – Marely Barch
x Long Neck – Will This Do?
x Table Scraps – Autonomy
x Boss Keloid – Melted On the Inch
## Random
/ Dogleg (rec: Jamie Coletta)
/ Rico Nasty - Nasty
x Itoldyouiwouldeatyou - Oh Dearism
x Comps - life as a baller
x Manic Street Preachers - Resistance is Futile
X Wolf Girl - Every Now and Then
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#2017
## January
/13: The XX - I See You
/13: Run The Jewels - RTJ3
/16: Tough Tits
/20: Cayetana/Camp Cope Split
/20: Modern Baseball / Thin Lips / The Superweaks SPLIT
/27: Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
/27: Japandroids - near to the wild heart of life
## Feb
/3: Menzingers - After The Party
/3: Dave Hause - Bury me in philly
10: Personal best/bruiseing split
/10: Beach Slang - Mixtape 2
/17: Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
/24: Mobina Galore - Feeling Disconnected
## Mar
/3: Sleaford Mods - English Tapes
/3: The Garden - U Want the Scoop EP
/10: Digger Barnes - Near Exit 27
/17: Conor Oberst - Salutations
/17: AHONI - Paradise
/17: Sorority Noise - You’re Not As ____
/24: Great Cynics - POSI
/31: Grand-Pop - Eight Nights
## April
/7: Diet Cig - Swear I’m good at this
/7: Cory Branan - Adios
/7: Smith Street Band - More Scared…
/7: Pale Kids - Holy Mess
/14: Kendrick Lamar
/14: Austeros EP
/21: Gouge Away - Swallow b/w Sweat
/21: The Winter Passing - Double Exposure EP
/22 The War On Drugs - Thinking of a place
/22: Against Me! - Stabitha Christie
/28: Caves - Always Why
/28: Anxiety - Wild Life EP
## May
/2: Crushing S/T
/5: Cayetana - New Kind of Normal
/5: Withered Hand and A singer of songs
/5: M.O.O.N - Clinically Blasé
/12: Girlpool - Powerplant
/19: The Mountain Goats - Goths
/19: Wavves - You’re Welcome
/26: Cende - #1 Hit Single
/26: Swet Shop Boys - Sufi La
/26: Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street
## June
/9: Kamikaze Girls - Seafoam
/9: The Lillingtons - Project 313
/9: Big Thief - Capacity
/16: Lorde - Melodrama
/16: Bad Cop/Bad Cop - Warriors
/16: Single Mothers - Our Pleasure
/16: Early Riser: Currents
/16: Steve Earle - So you wannabe an outlaw
/16: Moor Mother x Jewelry
/30: Ratboys - GN
/30: Honey Joy - S/T
## July
/14: Waxahatchee - Out in the storm
/14: Sheer Mag - Need to feel your love
/14: Slaughter Beach, Dog - motorcycle.jpg
/14: Katie Ellen - Cowgirl Blues
/14: Japanese Breakfast - soft sounds
/28: The Fall - New Facts Emerge
/28: Milk Teeth - Be Nice EP
/28: Juiceboxxx - freaked out american loser
## August
/4: Myelin - Reservoirs EP
/4: Moon King - Hamtramck ’16 EP
/11: Downtown Boys - Cost of Living
/18: Fresh - S/T
/18: Ghostpoet - Dark Days & Canapes
/25: War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
/25: Gogol Bordello - Seekers and Finders
/25: TogetherPangea - bulls and roosters
## September
/1: Roddy Woomble - The Deluder
/1: Jesus and his judgemental father
/8: The National - Sleep Well Beast
/8: Alvvays - Antisocialites
/8: Tim Barry - High On 95
/15: Sløtface - Try not to freak out
/15: Hot Water Music - Light it up
/22: Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the alps
/22: Ganglions - Thirsty EP
/25: Nachthexen - DISCO CREEP
/29: Worriers - Survival Pop
## October
/6: Hard Girls - Floating Now
/6: Alex Lahey - I love you like a brother
/13: Iron Chic - You Can’t Stay here
/13: The Front Bottoms - Going Grey
/13: Bloody Knees - Maybe It’s Easy
/13: Barr Brothers - Queens of the breakers
/13: The Lillingtons - Stella Sapiente
/13: Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile - Lotta see lice
/20: Beach Slang - We were babies EP
/20: Sports - Split
/20: Radiator Hospital - Play the song you like
/20: Bully - Losing
/20: Kevin Devine - We Are Who We’ve Always Been
/27: Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie
## November
/3: Direct Hit!/PEARS - Human Movement
/3: Shredders - Dangerous Jumps
/10: Slothrust - Show me how you want it to be
/10: Taylor Swift - Reputation
/17: ONSIND - We Wilt, We Bloom
/17: Milk Teeth - Go Away EP
/17: Partial Traces - Glass Beach
## December
/15: Lemuria - Recreational Hate
/22: Crywank - Egg on face
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# Recommendations
/ = 72
x = 44
/ Natterers
/ Dyke Drama - Up Against the Bricks
/ M.O.O.N. - Alicia EP
/ Open City
/ neurotic fiction (rec: Martha)
/ Alimony Hustle (rec: Kirsty Diaz)
/ Honey Joy - Various EPs
/ Ganglions - Fetch!
/ Crushing (rec: Martha)
/ Priests - nothing feels natural
/ crywank
/ Bill & Joel Plaskett - Solidarity
/ Meat Wave - The Incessant
/ David Dondero - Inside the cat's eye
/ Valerie June - The order of time
/ Single Mothers - East Van Band Van EP
/ Mercury Girls
/ Robert Sarazin Blake - Rescative
/ The Milk Carton Kids - Monterey (Rec: Molly)
/ Alex Lahey - b grade university (rec: smith street band)
/ Exit Order - Seed of Hysteria
/ White Reaper - The World's Best american band
/ Manalang - Gobbinjr (Rec: Jeff rosenstock)
/ Shannen Moser - Oh, My Heart
/ Will Wagner
/ John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
/ Christine Fellows - Femmes de chez nous
/ Dauðyflin - Ofbeldi
/ Lady Maisery - Cycle
/ hannahband -quitting will improve your health (rec: laura jane grace)
/ Richard Dawson - Peasant
/ Holiday - California Steamin' (rec: Moving North)
/ Big Nothing - 7"
/ emperor x - oversleepers (Rec: Apple Music)
/ Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20's
/ Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
/ Grotbags - Hiya!
/ Baby Ghosts - A Surprise Party
/ Me Rex (rec: Great Gynics)
/ Will Wagner & Friends - Us Boys Run
/ Direct Hit - Brainless God
/ The Popguns - Eugenie (Rec: Lande Hekt)
/ Kevin Morby - City Music
/ Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound
/ Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
/ Great Grandpa - Plastic Cough
/ Ife, iiii+iiii (Rec: NPR)
/ Sylvan Esso - What Now (Rec: NPR)
/ Bonobo - Migration (rec: itv tour de france)
/ Thievery Corporation - The Temple of I & I (rec: Steve Carr)
/ Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
/ Cataldo - Cataldo (rec: jeremy arseblaster)
/ Akala - Visions EP
/ Killer Mike - R.A.P Music
/ Algiers - The Underside of Power
/ Radioactivity - Infected/Sleep
/ White Reaper EP
/ Just blankets - Like velcro EP (rec: onsind)
/ Teenage Halloween - it was weird but it worked EP (rec: Chris Farren)
/ Dump Him - venus in gemini (Rec: Lauren Denitzo)
/ Sports - Sunchokes
/ The Crying Shame - S/T
/ Baby Arms - Sampler
/ Bikini Kill - Reject All American (Rec: Lande Hekt)
/ mutual jerk - 7" (rec: Noel Gardner)
/ Hard Pass (Rec: Lauren Denitzo)
/ Gang of Youths - Go farther in lightness (Rec: No +1's podcast)
/ Jamila Woods – HEAVN
/ protomartyr - relatives in descent
/ Kyle Craft - Girl Crazy
/ Julien Baker - Turn out the lights
/ Paul Robeson
x Bomba Estereo - Ayo
x Runt - Demo (rec: Noel Gardner)
x Loone (Rec: Lauren Denitzo)
x Daddy Issues - Fuck Marry Kill (rec: Chris Farren)
x OBNOXNiggative Approach (rec: Noel Gardner)
x screaming toenail
x Sacred paws - Strike a Match
x Nekra - demo 2017
x Jeffery Lewis - Sun Dance (not same artist)
x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
x Torres - Three Futures
x Mothers - When you walk a long distance you are tired
x Lomelda - thx (Jaime Coletta)
x Timber Timbre, "Sincerely Future Pollution" (rec: NPR)
x Lost Balloons - Hey Summer (rec: Specialist Subject)
x! Kelso - Kelso (Rec: Chris Farren)
x! Girl Power (rec: Noel Gardner)
x! Pinkgrip - demo (rec: Noel Gardner)
x! ISS - Endless Pussyfooting (rec: Noel Gardner)
x Eggstone (rec: slate culture gabfest)
x! The Deadites
x! Crystal Piss (rec: Great Cynics)
x Wax Bottles - EP
x The Weak Days - Tight (rec: Chris Farren)
x Chris Stapleton - From a Room: Vol 1
x XXXTentacion (Rec: NPR)
x Bargou 08, Targ (Rec: NPR)
x Kurt vile - wakin on a pretty daze
x Charly Bliss - Guppy (Rec: NPR)
x the broadways
x Hiccup - Imaginary Enemies
x Nova Twins (rec: Great Cynics)
x Nervus - permanent rainbow (rec: Great Cynics)
x UV-TV - Glass (Rec: spec subject records)
x Wildhoney - Sleep through it
x Bonny Doon - S/T (Rec: spec subject records)
x Perfume Genius (rec: martha? Jeff rosenstock?)
x sara watkins - without a word
x Urochromes - Night Bully EP
x Pissed Jeans
x Creeper - Eternity in your arm
x Midnight Reruns - Spectator Sports
x Pins - Bad thing
x Aye Nako - Silver Haze
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##Best of 2017 Lists
/ = 53
X = 159
/ Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
/ Wiley - Godfather
/ Chronixx - Chronology
/ Jay Z - 4:44
/ Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
/ Manchester Orchestra - a black mile to the surface
/ San Fermin - Belong
/ Craig Finn - We want all the same things
/ The Secret Sisters - You don't own me anymore
/ Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
/ Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
/ Milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!
/ Karen & the sorrows - the narrow place
/ Dave - game over
/ Sweet Spirit – St Mojo
/ Rainer Maria - S/T
/ Sincere Engineer - Rhombitian
/ Piss Test - LP2
/ Western Addiction - Tremulous
/ Homeless Gospel Choir - Normal
/ Adult Mom, Soft Spots
/ Kamasi Washington - Harmony of difference
/ King Krule - The OOZ
/ Throwing Stuff - Fit, Fine & Well
/ Irreversible entanglements - S/T
/ Slowdive - S/T
/ Nervous dater - don't be a stranger
/ The Eradicator - S/T
/ Telethon - The grand spontanean
/ Idles - Brutalism
/ tigers jawspin
/ POS - Chill, dummy
/ Great Wight - The suburbs have ruined my life
/ booji boys - S/T
/ Soccer Mommy - Collection
/ Palehound - A place i'll always go
/ Jelani Sei - LVNDR TWN
/ Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged
/ Fire is motion - Still, I Try
/ Wild Pink - S/T
/ joey bada$ - all ameriKKKan badass
/ Baxter Dury - Prince of Tears
/ los campesinos - sick scenes
/ the Courtney's - II
/ major leagues - good love
/ Nana grizol - ursa minor
/ Lankum - between the earth and sky
/ Antonia and the Lazy Susans: Closure
/! HIRS - How to stop street harrassment
/! Mary bell - S/T
/! The Love-Inns - Split Lip
/! Mykele Deville - Peace, Fam
/! Christian Fitness - Slap Bass Hunks
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-! Vittnademo (cassette)
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x St. Vincent - Masseduction
x Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
x Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
x Residente - S/T
x Jlin - Black Origami
x Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
x Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
x Laura CannellHunter Huntress Hawker
x Harmony Wood - Nothing Special
x Kelela - Take Me Apart
x Sampha - Process
x As it is - okay
x Brutus - burst
x Counterfeit - Together We Are Stronger
x K.flay - Every Where is some where
x David Bazan - care
x The Yawpers - Boy in a well
x The Family Crest - prelude to war
x St. Lenox - Ten Hymns from My American Gothic
x! FNU Clone Inc. – Binary Or Die (Total Punk)
x The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Always Foreign
x Thelma - Thelma
x Blis. - No One Loves You
x (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
x Delicate Steve - This Is Steve
x SZA -CTRL
x Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
x Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soul of a woman
x Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
x Thundercat - Drunk
x Rays - Rays
x Orion - Orion
x Caroline Spence - Spades and Roses
x Propagandhi - victory lap
x Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
x apricot princess - Rex Orange County
x j hus - common sense
x Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
X Jay Som - Everybody Works
x Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten
x Night Shop – Self titled
x Pile - A Hairshirt of Purpose
x Metz - Strange Peace
X SongHoy Blues - Résistance
X Margo Price - All American Made
x Limp Wrist - facades
x Good Shade - Lunch
X Italia 90 – demo
x Impalers - Cellar Dweller
x City of Fear - Flowers of evil
x Cloak/Dagger - I want everything
x Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death mask
X The Bug vs. Earth - Concrete Desert
x dead bars - dream gig
x Parade of Horribles - something for someone
X GNOD - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
x Freya Wilcox & the howl - tooth and nail
X Hurray for the riff raff - The Navigator
x The Mynabirds, Be Here Now
x Laurel Halo - Dust
x Mount Kimbie - Love What survives
x Kelly Lee Owens - S/T
x Ibeyi - Ash
x Cherry - Forever Overhead
x Grand Collapse - Along The Dew
x Ron Miles - I Am a Man
x Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
x THE BIG MOON // LOVE IN THE 4TH DIMENSION
x JESSIE WARE // GLASSHOUSE
x GOV'T MULE // REVOLUTION COME…REVOLUTION G
x so Many Wizards - Heavy Vision
x Omni - multi task
x EMA - Excile in the outer ring
x L'Rain - S/T
x Bear Trade - Silent Unspeakable
x The Run Up - S/T
x Track and Field - Natural Light
x Rina Sawayama - Rina
x Chino Amobi - Paradiso
x The Riptides - Canadian graffiti
x Flatfoot 56 - Odd Boat
x Joan of Arc - He's got the whole this land is your land
x Buildings - you are not one of us
X Noah Gunderson - White Noise
x Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
x The Bombpops - Fear of missing out
x Choir Vandals - Dark Glow
x Choke up - stormy blue
x Canadian Softball - Awkward and Depressed
X The Weather Station - The Weather Station
x Captain we're sinking - The King of no man
x Marika Hackman - I'm not your man
x The Flatliners - inviting lights
x Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare
X Land Of Talk - Life After Youth
x Sciatic Nerve - S/T
x heartsounds - dualistic nihilist
x Florist - If blue could be happiness
x The Regrettes - feel your feelings fool
x Active Bird Community - Stick Around
x The Districts - Popular Manipulation
x Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
x Mo Troper - Exposure and Response
x Walter Etc. - Gloom Cruise
x Washer - All Aboard
x Perspective, a lovely hand to hold - what not to do
x The Obssessives - S/T
x Cool American - Infinite Hiatus
x A Will Away - Here Again
x The Spirit of the beehive - pleasure suck
X Nadia Reid - Preservation
x Two inch astronaut - can you please not help?
x rapsody - lailas wisdom
X Bedouine – Bedouine
x Wyldlife - out on your block
x Hällas - excerpts from a future past
x Pushflowers - Texas
x Time well - cloakroom
x Petal - comfort
x Outta gas - meet me for a drink
x Colin Stetsonall this I do for glory
x Cornelius - mellow waves
x Billy Puntton: Dopamine
x Ghouls: Run
X Melkbelly - Nothing Valley
x! Haram - when you have won, you have lost
x! Ragana - you take nothing
x! Blackie - Remains
X Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
x! Blacklisters - Dart
X Debt Neglector - Atomicland
X Robot Bachelor - the third house boat album
X Atomic Girl - the future is so bright
X The dopamines - tales of interest
X Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me
X Megan Michelle Bird, Sad Songs For Happy People
X Jessica Lea Mayfield - Too Much Terrible
X Mr. Mitch - Devout
X Sneaks - it's a myth
X Zara McFarlane - Arise
X Pardoner - Uncontrollable Salvation
X Heavy Heart - Distance
X deforesters - leonard
X Heart Attack Man - The Manson Family
X Gnarwolves - Outsiders
X Looming - Seed
X Becca Mancari - Good Women
X Tall friend - Safely nobody's
X Strange Ranger - daymoon
X Old Maybe - Piggity Punk
X NNAMDI OGBONNAYA - "Drool"
X sieveheadworthless souls
X Matthew lee cothran - Judas hung himself
X Ailbhe reddy - attach to memory
X Partner - in search of lost time
X Half waif - form/a
X! gSp – gSp (Thrilling Living)
x! Marc-André Hamelin - For Bunita Marcus
X! Mike - May God Bless Your Hustle
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###NME:
/ Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
/ Wiley - Godfather
x St. Vincent - Masseduction
x Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
###Rolling Stone:
/ Chronixx - Chronology
/ Jay Z - 4:44
x Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
x Residente - S/T
x Jlin - Black Origami
x Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soul of a woman
x Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
X Jay Som - Everybody Works
X SongHoy Blues - Résistance
X Margo Price - All American Made
###The Quietus
/ Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
x The Bug vs. Earth - Concrete Desert
x Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
x Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
x Laura CannellHunter Huntress Hawker
X GNOD - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
## The Key
X Hurray for the riff raff - The Navigator
x Sampha - Process
x Harmony Woods - Nothing Special
x Kelela - Take Me Apart
## Upset Magazine
/ Manchester Orchestra - a black mile to the surface
x As it is - okay
x Brutus - burst
x Counterfeit - Together We Are Stronger
## Quietus Noel Gardner
x! FNU Clone Inc. – Binary Or Die (Total Punk)
x Italia 90 – demo
X! gSp – gSp (Thrilling Living)
###Matt Besser
/ San Fermin - Belong
/ Craig Finn - We want all the same things
/ The Secret Sisters - You don't own me anymore
x K.flay - Every Where is some where
x David Bazan - care
x The Yawpers - Boy in a well
x The Family Crest - prelude to war
x St. Lenox - Ten Hymns from My American Gothic
X Noah Gunderson - White Noise
###Uproxx
/ Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
/ His Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
/ Milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!
x The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Always Foreign
x Thelma - Thelma
x Blis. - No One Loves You
x (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
x Delicate Steve - This Is Steve
x SZA -CTRL
x Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
X The Weather Station - The Weather Station
X Land Of Talk - Life After Youth
###Noisey
/ Karen & the sorrows - the narrow place
/ Dave - game over
x Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
x Thundercat - Drunk
x Rays - Rays
x Orion - Orion
x Caroline Spence - Spades and Roses
x Propagandhi - victory lap
x apricot princess - Rex Orange County
x j hus - common sense
X Nadia Reid - Preservation
x! Haram - when you have won, you have lost
x! Ragana - you take nothing
## Kevin Morby
X Bedouine – Bedouine
x Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
## Laura Jane Grace
/ Sweet Spirit – St Mojo
x Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten
x Night Shop – Self titled
## AV Club
/ Rainer Maria - S/T
x Pile - A Hairshirt of Purpose
x Metz - Strange Peace
X Melkbelly - Nothing Valley
###Bryne Yancey
/ Sincere Engineer - Rhombitian
/! Mary bell - S/T
x Limp Wrist - facades
x Good Shade - Lunch
x Impalers - Cellar Dweller
x City of Fear - Flowers of evil
x Cloak/Dagger - I want everything
x Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death mask
X Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
X Debt Neglector - Atomicland
## Brit Strummer
/ Piss Test - LP2
/ Western Addiction - Tremulous
/ Homeless Gospel Choir - Normal
x dead bars - dream gig
x Parade of Horribles - something for someone
x Freya Wilcox & the howl - tooth and nail
x nothington - in the end
X Robot Bachelor - the third house boat album
X Atomic Girl - the future is so bright
X The dopamines - tales of interest
## Kevin Devine
/ Adult Mom, Soft Spots
x The Mynabirds, Be Here Now
X Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me
X Megan Michelle Bird, Sad Songs For Happy People
## Pitchfork
/ Kamasi Washington - Harmony of difference
/ King Krule - The OOZ
x Laurel Halo - Dust
x Mount Kimbie - Love What survives
x Kelly Lee Owens - S/T
x Ibeyi - Ash
## Augusta Koch
X Jessica Lea Mayfield - Too Much Terrible
x Cherry - Forever Overhead
## Moving North
/ Throwing Stuff - Fit, Fine & Well
x Grand Collapse - Along The Dew
x The Baby Seals - S/T
###NPR
X Mr. Mitch - Devout
x Ron Miles - I Am a Man
x Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
x! Marc-André Hamelin - For Bunita Marcus
## Stereoboard
!x THE BIG MOON // LOVE IN THE 4TH DIMENSION
x JESSIE WARE // GLASSHOUSE
x GOV'T MULE // REVOLUTION COME…REVOLUTION G
## Bandcamp
/ Irreversible entanglements - S/T
x so Many Wizards - Heavy Vision
x Omni - multi task
x EMA - Excile in the outer ring
x L'Rain - S/T
X Sneaks - it's a myth
X Zara McFarlane - Arise
X Pardoner - Uncontrollable Salvation
X! Mike - May God Bless Your Hustle
## Punktastic
/ Slowdive - S/T
## Colins Punk Rock World
x Bear Trade - Silent Unspeakable
x The Run Up - S/T
x Track and Field - Natural Light
X Heavy Heart - Distance
## Noisey Overlooked
/! HIRS - How to stop street harrassment
/ Nervous dater - don't be a stranger
x Rina Sawayama - Rina
x Chino Amobi - Paradiso
x! Blackie - Remains
## Punk News
/ The Eradicator - S/T
/ Telethon - The grand spontanean
/ Idles - Brutalism
/ tigers jawspin
/ POS - Chill, dummy
/ Great Wight - The suburbs have ruined my life
/ booji boys - S/T
x The Riptides - Canadian graffiti
x Flatfoot 56 - Odd Boat
x Joan of Arc - He's got the whole this land is your land
x Buildings - you are not one of us
x Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
x The Bombpops - Fear of missing out
x Choir Vandals - Dark Glow
x Choke up - stormy blue
x Canadian Softball - Awkward and Depressed
x Captain we're sinking - The King of no man
x Marika Hackman - I'm not your man
x The Flatliners - inviting lights
x Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare
x Sciatic Nerve - S/T
x heartsounds - dualistic nihilist
X deforesters - leonard
X Heart Attack Man - The Manson Family
X Gnarwolves - Outsiders
## Hooligan Magazine
/ Soccer Mommy - Collection
/ Palehound - A place i'll always go
/! The Love-Inns - Split Lip
/! Mykele Deville - Peace, Fam
x Florist - If blue could be happiness
x The Regrettes - feel your feelings fool
x Active Bird Community - Stick Around
x The Districts - Popular Manipulation
X Looming - Seed
X Becca Mancari - Good Women
X Tall friend - Safely nobody's
## The Alternative
/ Jelani Sei - LVNDR TWN
/ Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged
/ Fire is motion - Still, I Try
/ Wild Pink - S/T
x Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
x Mo Troper - Exposure and Response
x Walter Etc. - Gloom Cruise
x Washer - All Aboard
x Perspective, a lovely hand to hold - what not to do
x The Obssessives - S/T
x Cool American - Infinite Hiatus
x A Will Away - Here Again
x The Spirit of the beehive - pleasure suck
X Strange Ranger - daymoon
## Post-Trash
/! Christian Fitness - Slap Bass Hunks
x Two inch astronaut - can you please not help?
x! Blacklisters - Dart
X Old Maybe - Piggity Punk
X NNAMDI OGBONNAYA - "Drool"
## Brooklyn Vegan
/ joey bada$ - all ameriKKKan badass
/ Baxter Dury - Prince of Tears
x rapsody - lailas wisdom
## Specialist Subject Bands
-! Vittnademo casette
/ los campesinos - sick scenes
/ the Courtney's - II
/ major leagues - good love
/ Nana grizol - ursa minor
/ Lankum - between the earth and sky
x Wyldlife - out on your block
x Hällas - excerpts from a future past
x Pushflowers - Texas
x Time well - cloakroom
x Petal - comfort
x Outta gas - meet me for a drink
x Colin Stetsonall this I do for glory
x Cornelius - mellow waves
X sieveheadworthless souls
X Matthew lee cothran - Judas hung himself
X Ailbhe reddy - attach to memory
X Partner - in search of lost time
X Half waif - form/a
## The Punk Site
/ Antonia and the Lazy Susans: Closure
x Billy Puntton: Dopamine
x Ghouls: Run
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#2016
# Upcoming
## Jan
/29: Ship Thieves - No Anchor
## Feb
/19: Petrol Girls - Some Thing
/26: The Gloaming - 2
/26: Person Up / Mess by Woahnows
## March
/4: Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize
/4: Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Trance Frendz
/11: Brian Fallon - Painkillers
/18: The Falcon - Gather Up The Chaps
## April
/1: Explosions in the Sky: The Wilderness
/1: Tender Defender LP
/8: Frightened Rabbit: Painting of a panic attack
/8: Future of The Left - The Peace and Truce
/15: Sturgill Simpson - A Sailors Guide to Earth
/22: Apologies I Have None Split with Luca Brasi
/22: Camp Cope - Camp Cope
/29: No Ditching/Baby Ghosts 7"
## May
/6: White Lung- Paradise
/13: Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
/20: Day of the dead compilation
/20: Car Seat Headrest - teens of denial
/27: Pup - The Dream is Over
/27: Austeros - Painted Blue
## June
/3: Tegan & Sara - Love You To Death
/10: Globelamp - The Orange Glow
/10: The Gotobeds - Blood//...
/10: Tens - S/T
/10: Asian Man Music For Asian Man People V2
/17: PAWS - No Grace
/24: Oh Pep! - Stadium Cake
/24: Mikey Erg - Tentative Decisions
/24: Riverboat Gamblers - Massive Fraud
## July
/1: Happy Accidents - You Might be Right
/1: Broken Beak - Some Nerve
/1: Molar/Pale Kids Split
/8: Martha - Blisters in the pit of my heart
/15: Fea -Fea
/29: Iji: Bubble
## August
/5: Dogbreth - Second Home
/12: Katie Dey - Flood Network
/19: Bangers - Last Songs
/19: AJJ - The Bible 2
/26: Spook School + Others Split - Continental Drift
/26: Apologies, I Have None - Pharmacie
###September
/2: The Fairweather Band - Meow
/2: Chris Farren - Can't Die
/2: kamikaze Girls - Sad EP
x9: Doe - Some Things Do Last Longer Than You
/9: Grouplove - Big Mess
/9: MIA - Aim
/16: Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me
/23: Beach Slang - A loud bash of teenage feelings
/30: Erica Freas - Patient Ones
/30: Slaughter Beach, Dog - Welcome
###October
/7: Green Day - Revolution Radio
/7: Shovels and Rope - Little Seeds
/14: Super Unison - Auto
/14: Conor Oberst - Ruminations
/14: Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
/21: John K. Samson - Winter Wheat
/21: American Football - 2
/28: Sammus - Pieces in Space
###November
/2: The Ergs - Goddamn Death Dedication
/4: David Dondero - W/ Love
/11: Shit Present - misery + disaster
/18: Petrol Girls - Talk of Violence
###December
/2: Bad Moves - Bad Moves
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# Recommendations
/ = 90
x = 62
/ The Crying Shame - S/T
/! Single Mothers - Meltdown EP
/ kate tempest - everybody down (Rec: Claire Cawte)
/ Bright Eyes - A Christmas Album
/ Honeyblood - babes never die
/ The Julie Ruin - Hit reset (apple music recommendation)
/ Crying - beyond the fleeting gale
/ case/lang/veirs
/ Dog Party - Til You're Mine
/ Kyle Craft - Dolls of Highland (Rec: Laura Jane Grace)
/ Earth Girls - wanderlust
/ Mobina Galore
/ Milk teeth
/ Mitski - Puberty 2
/ Antsy Pants
/ Spanish Love Songs - Giant Sings The Blues
/ Hot Mass - nervous tensions (from Punktastic)
/ Colvin and Earle
/ Tycho - Epoch
/ Bon Iver - 22, A Million
/ Broken Beak
/ Alpha Hopper - Last Chance Power Drive (aug 27/from Downtown boys)
/ Tough Tits
/ The Tuts - update your brain
/ Lucy Dacus - No Burden (Josie Long Recommendation)
/ Songs of Separation
/! Night Witch - Tour Tape 2016
/! Dirty Girl
/! Great Neck - Esoterexorcism
/! Restorations - See/Sea
/ Sass Dragons - True Adventure (from Punktastic)
/ Laura veirs - three beers veirs
/ Arliss Nancy - Greater Divides
/ ANOHNI - Hopelessness
/ Blowout - No Beer, No dad
/ Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
/ Doe - first four
/ Waco - Uprise EP (from Punktastic)
/ Permanent Record - Everyone is happy now
/ Mike Petruccelli
/ Soul Glo - Untitled LP
/ Rapids - Traction EP
/ Dan mangan [from comedy bang bang]
/ Ratboys - AOID
/ Thin Lips
/! Fight Rosa Fight
/! Peeple Watchin' - Somethin' Ta Tell Ya
/! Destroy Boys - Grimester
/! Tens
/ Satellite go - kate EP
/ DAWN OF MIDI DYSNOMIA
/ crying - Get Olde/Second Wind
/ happy Accidents - not yet jaded (from Punktastic)
/ The Exhausts - Eric Cantona
/ Kevin Morby - singing saw
/ fucko - dealing with the weird
/ Sammus - Infusion EP
/ Austeros
/ colour me wednesday (from Grace)
/ Ship Thieves - No Anchor
/ The Barr Brothers - sleeping operator [from Molly]
/ Arliss Nancy - Wild American Runners (from Andy Waterfield)
/ Savages - Adore Life
/ The Tuts
/ neighbourhood brats
/ Petrol Girls - Petrol Girls
/ Armistice
/? Rihanna - Anti
/ halo fauna
/ Emma Kupa
/? The Island of Misfit Toys - I Made You Something
/ Big Eyes - Almost Famous
/ Mixtapes
/ Jasmine Kennedy
/! Bloody Knees - Stitches 12"
/ Camp Cope
/ Dan Adriano
/? The Lippies
/? Creeper - The Stranger EP
/ Northcote - hope is made of steel
/! Jason Kutchma and the Five Fifths: Blue Highways
/! Sheer Mag: II (Also Buy III 7")
/! Cende: Cende [EP]
/! MOLAR - demo
/! Bloody Knees - Stitches 12"
/! Joel Plaskett: The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
/! Gouge Away - , Die
/! Downtown Boys - S/T
/! Youth Avoiders - Spare Parts EP
/! Exit Order
x Bike Tuff - Kamea
x potty mouth
x Lady Pills - Despite
x Culture abuse - peach (from Punktastic)
x deer hoof
x Chilli Banditos - Slam Drunk
x Plow United
x Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
x The Cut Ups (rec: Muncie Girls)
x Pity Sex - white hot moon
x Bike Tuff
x Tim Version/Dead Bars split
x The Lamplighters – Views
x Pinegrove - Cardinal
x katie ellen wild <3 demo
x Leagues apart
x Violent Mae
x pity sex
x wolf girl
x Spring King
x Eric Ayotte
x Skinny Girl Diet
x The Dirty Nil
x Fake Boyfriend - mercy EP
x Losing Sleep
x Radiator Hospital - The Great Thunder Radiator……
x Pale hound - Dry Food
x Rheingens Sisters
x Endless Mike and the Beagle Club - Saint Paul
x Erin Tobey
x Pinkwash
x Guerilla Toss
x Adult Jazz - Gist Is
x California
x Andy Stott - too many voices
x Taco cat
x American television 'better living chemistry'
x Kelly Kemp
x YUM - Ugly and buzzed
x Snarky Puppy - Kulcha Kulcha
x James Blake - Colour…
x Safety - Congratulate me
x! Bloody Knees - MILK002
x Swanning - Drawing Down the Moon
x Bong Mountain
x Steve Gunn - eyes on the lines
x Jarcrew
x Elvis Depressedly - Hobo Pleasures
x Dentist - Ceilings
x Your Loss - midlife crisis tropical vacation
x Hiccup
/x Big Thief - Masterpiece
x Dog & Wolf
x Trust Fund - We have always lived in the harolds
x Clean Shirts - marginal
x Summerhouse - Summerhouse (from Punktastic)
x Jackal Onasis
x Diners
x Incisions - Deep Cuts EP (from Punktastic)
x Little Waist (Lauren Denitzio recommendation)
x Little Fists - No Home
x! El Morgan
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###Deletion
/ Armalite
/ Drag the river
/ Gunmoll
/ Iron & Wine
/ Sweet baby Jesus
/ Zapoteks
x The Tim Version
x Bandits of The Acoustic Revolution
x Chinese Telephones
x Dirty Three
x Everybody Out
x Fifteen
x Glass and ashes
x Grabass Charlestons
x Linda Martini
x Minus The Bear
x No Choice
x Nothington
x Pelican
x Polar Bear Club
x The Riot Before
x Samiam
x Suicide Bid
x Screeching Weasel
x Streetlight Manifesto
x The Steal
x Weapons of brass destruction
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#2016 End of Year Lists
! Beyoncé, 'Lemonade'
/ = 63
x = 187
/ A Tribe Called Quest, 'We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service'
/ Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
/ DYKE DRAMA – Tender Resignation
/ JOYCE MANOR – Cody
/ THE THERMALS – We Disappear
/ Skinny Lister – "The Devil, The Heart & The Fight"
/ Pkew Pkew Pkew – S/T
/ Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, 'Stranger Things, Volume One
/ Wilco, 'Schmilco'
/ Angel Olsen, 'My Woman'
/ Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, 'Skeleton Tree'
/ Leonard Cohen, 'You Want It Darker'
/ Big Thief – "Masterpiece"
/ dead to me - i wanna die in los angeles
/ Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
/ SLØTFACE – "Sponge State"
/ Japanese Breakfast – Psychopomp
/ Katie Ellen - TV Dreams
/ Chris Staples – Golden Age
/ LVL UP – Return to Love
/ Mannequin Pussy – Romantic
/ Noname – Telefone (Self-Released)
/ Kate Tempest - Let the eat chaos
/? Anderson .Paak – Malibu (Empire/OBE/Steel Wool/Art Club)
/ Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion Side B
/ Anxiety – Anxiety
/ Good Throb – Good Throb
/ Saul Williams: MartyrLoserKing
/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
/ Mean Jeans: Tight New Dimension
/ Steven Julien - Fallen
/ Kevin Devine - Instigator
/ Prince Daddy and the Hyena
/ Jherek Bischoff - Cistern
/ Sweet High Rise - Loamlands
/ Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere
/ lambchop - flotus
/ Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
/ Moodyman - DJ Kicks
/ Patsy – Eat It
/ Dauđyflin – Drepa Drepa
/ Mikael Seifu Zelalem
/ William Tyler - Modern Country
/ Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
/ Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
/ The Range – Potential
/ Lizzo - Coconut Oil
/ Bleached – Welcome The Worms
/ Kitten Forever – 7 Hearts
/ Mongo - Abdu Ali
/ Charles Bradley - Changes
/ The Afterglows – S/T
/ Uranium Club : "All Of Them Naturals"
/ Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
/ Slothrust – Everyone Else
/ The Mr. T Experience: King Dork Approximately: The Album
/ Sioux Falls – Rot Forever
/! Will Varley – "Kingsdown Sundown"
/! Cold Meat – Sweet Treats
/ Kyle Dixon & Michael A Stein, 'Stranger Things,Volume Two
/! Jamila Woods – HEAVN
/! Fresh - These things are not that fun
/! la bella - ides
/! Clean Shirts - Marginal
x HONUS HONUS – Use Your Delusion
x HAR MAR SUPERSTAR – Best Summer Ever
x THE MANX – Voyage in Bad Taste
x Arkells – "Morning Report"
x Phantogram – Three
x Daniel Romano – Mosey
x Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
x Solange – A Seat at the Table
x Young Thug, 'Jeffery'
x Margo Price, 'Midwest Farmer's Daughter'
x Maren Morris, 'Hero'
x Drive-By Truckers, 'American Band'
x Mudcrutch, 'Mudcrutch 2′
x Future, 'Evol'
x Iggy Pop, 'Post Pop Depression'
x Dawes, 'We're All Gonna Die'
x Esperanza Spalding, 'Emily's D+Evolution'
x Chance the Rapper, 'Coloring Book'
x The Lemon Twigs – "Do Hollywood"
x Andy Shauf – "The Party"
x Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – "A Man Alive"
x Julia Jacklin – "Don't Let The Kids Win"
x The Avett Brothers – True Sadness
x Bayside – Vacancy
x ISLANDS – Taste
x YOU BLEW IT! – Abendrot
x David Bazan – Blanco
x M83 – Junk (Mute)
x Margaret Glaspy – Emotions And Math (ATO)
x Tim Hecker – Love Streams
x Lydia Loveless – Real
x Esme Patterson – "We Were Wild"
x Kaytranada – 99.9% (XL)
x YG – Still Brazy (Def Jam)
x Death Grips, 'Bottomless Pit'
x Letlive. – 'If I'm The Devil…
x Black Foxxes – 'I'm Not Well'
x Nothing – 'Tired Of Tomorrow'
x Brandy Clark, 'Big Day in a Small Town'
x No Negative – The Good Never Comes
x Kohti Tuhoa – Rutiinin Orja
x The Lowest Form – Personal Space
x Touche Amore: Stage Four
x PEARS: Green Star
x Miserable: Uncontrollable
x The Exquisites: Home
x Personal and the Pizzas: Personal and the Pizzas
x Right Shitty: Bachelor of Arts
x Empty Houses - Day Dream
x Head wound city - a new wave of violence
x heck - instructions
x Y La Bamba – "Ojos Del Sol"
x russian circles - guidance
x whores - gold
x nails - you will never be one of us
x RLYR - delayer
x Blood Orange – "Freetown Sound
x Jank - Versace Summer
x Tyrannamen -Tyrannaman
x The So So Glos – Kamikazee
x Florist - The Birds outside sang
x Superweaks – Better Heavens
x Moon Tooth, Chromaparagon
x James Ferraro, Human Story 3
x Robert Rich, What We Left Behind
x Autechre, Elseq
x Matthewdavid's Mindflight, Trust the Guide and Glide
x NAKED LIGHTS – "NEW CARRION"
x Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
x Foodman Ez Minzoku
x Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth
x Boston Manor - Be Nothing
x The Bennies - Wisdom Machine
x Yeesh - Confirmation Bias
x Planes Mistaken For Stars - Prey
x Ital Tek - Hollowed
x 2814 - Rain Temple
x Marissa Nadler, Strangers
x Wet, Don't You
x Chairlift, Moth
x Greys, Outer Heaven
x Whitney, Light Upon The Lake
x Cass McCombs – Mangy Love (Anti-)
x Julianna Barwick, Will
x Kevin Gates - Islah
x Mom Jeans - Best Buds
x TTNG - Disappointment Island
x Slingshot Dakota - Break
x Peaer—Peaer
x Kamaiyah – A Good Night In The Ghetto (Self-Released)
x ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP (TDE/Interscope)
x Romp—Departure From Venus
x Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked For Death
x Hotelier – Goodness
x Swanning - Drawing Down the Moon
x The Wharves – Electa
x Wolf Girl – We Tried
x Petrol - Anenon
x James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
x Nice as Fuck - Nice as fuck
x Nico Yaryan - What a tease
x Daughter – Not to Disappear
x Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits
x Mind Spiders – Prosthesis
x Clipping – Wriggle
x Sonic Avenues – Disconnector
x The Coathangers – 'Nosebleed Weekend'
x Brickfight : "To What End"
x Big Business : "Command Your Weather"
x Busman's Holiday : "Popular Cycles"
x Fake Limbs : "Matronly"
x The Gunshy – Porterhouse
x Woods – City Sun Eater in the River of Light (Woodsist)
x Aloha – Little Windows Cut Right Through (Polyvinyl)
x Grave School
x Hovvdy – Taster (Sports Day & Merderhaus)
x Flock Of Dimes – If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
x Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale (Bachelors of Paradise)
x Grayling - Everything that burns
x Marching Church – Telling It Like It Is
x The Growlers – City Club
x Band Of Horses – Why Are You Ok?
x Yung - A youthful dream
x Tigercub - Abstract Figures in the dark
x PWR BTTM
x weaves - weaves
x Pinkshinyultrablast – Grandfeathered
x September Girls – Age of Indignation
x The Flexibles – Pink Everything
x Hinds – Leave Me Alone
x Windings – Be Honest and Fear Not
x Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits
x FEAR OF MEN – Fall Forever
x AMBER ARCADES – Fading Lines
x MakeWar: Developing A Theory Of Integrity
x The Matches – Precomposer
x The Repos – Poser
x Savage Realm – Nocturnal Savagery
x Triage – Power Beat
x Surge – Avalanche
x A Tribe Called Red: We Are the Halluci Nation
x Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
x Logan Richardson - Shift
x Let It Die – The Liar And The Saint
x Sarcasm – Total Institution
x Crumbling Wall Golden Age
x Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
x TANCRED — OUT OF THE GARDEN
x David Nance - More Than Enough
x King, We Are King
x Robin Trower, Where Are You Going To
x Chris Forsyth, The Rarity of Experience
x The Pooches – s/t
x A Giant Dog - Pile
x Gøggs - gøggs
x Angel Du$t - Rock the ruck on forever
x Huerco S. For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
x Skepta - Konnichiwa
x Owen – The King of Whys
x Little Bags: Little Bags
x Communist Daughter - The Cracks that built the wall
x minor victories - S/t
x VCR: R.I.P. Sportsboy
x Pure Disgust - S/T
x The Radio Dept – Running Out of Love
x Cool American—You Can Only Win a Few
x Pinkwash - Collective Sigh
x The Cowboys - S/T
x Ty Segall - Emotional Muggermoo
x Beatrice Dillon Rupert Clervaux -Two Changes
x Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
x Witching Waves – Crystal Cafe
x Actual Crimes – Ceramic Cat Traces
x Tink - Winters Diary 4
x Music Band – Wake Up Laughing
x Deux Furieuses – Tracks Of Wire
x NOTS – Cosmetic
x PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
x Vince Staples – Prima Donna
x Two Houses : "I Feel So Good I Can't Stand Myself"
x Shy Layers – Shy Layers (Growing Bin)
x Mi Mye - The Sympathy Sigh
x Chuck - my band is a computer
x Mal Devisa – Kiid (Self-Released)
x Violence Creeps – Soul Narc
x Violence Creeps – The Gift Of Music
x dark thoughts - dark thoughts
_________________________________________
##End of Year Shit
###From Jonah Ray
brooklynvegan.com/new-mst3k-host-jonah-ray-tells-us-his-top-10-mostly-music-favorites-of-2016/?trackback=tsmclip
/ DYKE DRAMA – Tender Resignation
/ JOYCE MANOR – Cody
/ THE THERMALS – We Disappear
x YOU BLEW IT! – Abendrot
x ISLANDS – Taste
x HONUS HONUS – Use Your Delusion
x HAR MAR SUPERSTAR – Best Summer Ever
x THE MANX – Voyage in Bad Taste
###Frank Turner
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/frank-turner-tells-us-his-top-10-albums-of-2016-covered-the-mountain-goats/?trackback=tsmclip
/ Skinny Lister – "The Devil, The Heart & The Fight"
/ Will Varley – "Kingsdown Sundown"
x Arkells – "Morning Report"
x Esme Patterson – "We Were Wild"
## PUP's Top 10 LPs of 2016
/ Pkew Pkew Pkew – S/T
x Phantogram – Three
x Daniel Romano – Mosey
x Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
x Solange – A Seat at the Table
###Rolling Stone – 50 Best Albums of 2016
! Beyoncé, 'Lemonade'
/ A Tribe Called Quest, 'We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service'
/ Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, 'Stranger Things, Volume One and Two'
/ Wilco, 'Schmilco'
/ Angel Olsen, 'My Woman'
/ Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, 'Skeleton Tree'
/ Leonard Cohen, 'You Want It Darker'
x Young Thug, 'Jeffery'
x Margo Price, 'Midwest Farmer's Daughter'
x Maren Morris, 'Hero'
x Drive-By Truckers, 'American Band'
x Mudcrutch, 'Mudcrutch 2′
x Future, 'Evol'
x Iggy Pop, 'Post Pop Depression'
x Dawes, 'We're All Gonna Die'
x Esperanza Spalding, 'Emily's D+Evolution'
x Chance the Rapper, 'Coloring Book'
x Death Grips, 'Bottomless Pit'
x Brandy Clark, 'Big Day in a Small Town'
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/rolling-stones-top-50-albums-of-2016/?trackback=tsmclip
**Lucy Dacus' Top 10 Albums of 2016**
/ Big Thief – "Masterpiece"
x Blood Orange – "Freetown Sound
x Y La Bamba – "Ojos Del Sol"
x The Lemon Twigs – "Do Hollywood"
x Andy Shauf – "The Party"
x Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – "A Man Alive"
x Julia Jacklin – "Don't Let The Kids Win"
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/lucy-dacus-lists-her-top-10-lps-of-2016-touring-with-hamilton-leithauser/?trackback=tsmclip
MODERN BASEBALL'S FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2016
/ Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
/ Japanese Breakfast – Psychopomp
/ Chris Staples – Golden Age
/ LVL UP – Return to Love
/ Mannequin Pussy – Romantic
/ The Afterglows – S/T
x The Pooches – s/t
x The Matches – Precomposer
x Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
x Superweaks – Better Heavens
x The So So Glos – Kamikazee
x The Avett Brothers – True Sadness
x Bayside – Vacancy
x David Bazan – Blanco
Read More: Modern Baseball's favorite LPs of 2016 | http://www.brooklynvegan.com/modern-baseballs-favorite-lps-of-2016/?trackback=tsmclip
**Stereogum**
http://www.stereogum.com/featured/the-50-best-albums-of-2016/
/! Jamila Woods – HEAVN
/ Noname – Telefone (Self-Released)
/? Anderson .Paak – Malibu (Empire/OBE/Steel Wool/Art Club)
x Mal Devisa – Kiid (Self-Released)
x Kamaiyah – A Good Night In The Ghetto (Self-Released)
x ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP (TDE/Interscope)
x Cass McCombs – Mangy Love (Anti-)
x M83 – Junk (Mute)
x Margaret Glaspy – Emotions And Math (ATO)
x Tim Hecker – Love Streams
x Lydia Loveless – Real
x Kaytranada – 99.9% (XL)
x YG – Still Brazy (Def Jam)
##The Skinny Best of
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/opinion/albums-of-the-year/top-50-albums-of-2016
/ Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion Side B
x Daughter – Not to Disappear
**Punktastic**
http://www.punktastic.com/radar/top-25-albums-of-the-year/
x The Coathangers – 'Nosebleed Weekend'
x Letlive. – 'If I'm The Devil…
x Black Foxxes – 'I'm Not Well'
x Nothing – 'Tired Of Tomorrow'
**The Quietus Best HC**
http://thequietus.com/articles/21440-punk-hardcore-2016-anxiety-miss-destiny-surge-no-negative-review
/ Anxiety – Anxiety
/ Good Throb – Good Throb
/ Dauđyflin – Drepa Drepa
/ Patsy – Eat It
/ Cold Meat – Sweet Treats
x Violence Creeps – The Gift Of Music
x Violence Creeps – Soul Narc
x Sarcasm – Total Institution
x Crumbling Wall Golden Age
x Let It Die – The Liar And The Saint
x The Repos – Poser
x Savage Realm – Nocturnal Savagery
x Triage – Power Beat
x Surge – Avalanche
x The Flexibles – Pink Everything
x No Negative – The Good Never Comes
x Kohti Tuhoa – Rutiinin Orja
x The Lowest Form – Personal Space
x Urochromes – Urochromes
Punktastic Ones to watch
http://www.punktastic.com/radar/ones-to-watch-in-2017/
/ Fresh - These things are not that fun
x PWR BTTM
x Grayling - Everything that burns
x Grave School
x Glacier Veins - Clear your head
x Nervus - Permanent Rainbow
x Woes - Woes EP
x WSTR
**Punk News**
/ Mean Jeans: Tight New Dimension
/ Saul Williams: MartyrLoserKing
/ The Mr. T Experience: King Dork Approximately: The Album
x VCR: R.I.P. Sportsboy
x A Tribe Called Red: We Are the Halluci Nation
x MakeWar: Developing A Theory Of Integrity
x Touche Amore: Stage Four
x PEARS: Green Star
x Miserable: Uncontrollable
x The Exquisites: Home
x Personal and the Pizzas: Personal and the Pizzas
x Right Shitty: Bachelor of Arts
x Little Bags: Little Bags
**NPR MUSIC Best albums**
/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
/ Steven Julien - Fallen
x Pure Disgust - S/T
x Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
x Logan Richardson - Shift
x Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
**Misc**
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/12/the-50-best-albums-of-2016
x TANCRED — OUT OF THE GARDEN
**Dan Ozzi**
https://twitter.com/danozzi/status/806517480369913856
/ Kevin Devine - Instigator
/ Prince Daddy and the Hyena
/ dead to me - i wanna die in los angeles
/! la bella - ides
x dark thoughts - dark thoughts
x Empty Houses - Day Dream
x Head wound city - a new wave of violence
x heck - instructions
x russian circles - guidance
x whores - gold
x nails - you will never be one of us
x RLYR - delayer
x Frameworks - smother
**Noisey**
/ Jherek Bischoff - Cistern
/ Loamlands - Sweet High Rise
/ Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere
x The Cowboys - S/T
x David Nance - More Than Enough
x Jank - Versace Summer
x Tyrannamen -Tyrannaman
x Florist - The Birds outside sang
**Guardian**
/ lambchop - flotus
/ Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
**John Darnielle**
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/john-darnielles-top-10-of-2016-more-a-merge-records-holiday-sale/
x Chris Forsyth, The Rarity of Experience
x Robin Trower, Where Are You Going To
x King, We Are King
x Moon Tooth, Chromaparagon
x James Ferraro, Human Story 3
x Robert Rich, What We Left Behind
x Autechre, Elseq
x Matthewdavid's Mindflight, Trust the Guide and Glide
**Consequence of sound**
/ SLØTFACE – "Sponge State"
x NAKED LIGHTS – "NEW CARRION"
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/12/top-10-punk-songs-of-2016/full-post/
**Bryne Yancey**
https://twitter.com/howtobepunk/status/807293174167273472
x Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
x A Giant Dog - Pile
x Gøggs - gøggs
x Angel Du$t - Rock the ruck on forever
**Pitchfork**
/ Moodyman - DJ Kicks
/ Mikael Seifu Zelalem
/ Skepta - Konnichiwa
/ William Tyler - Modern Country
/ Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
x Owen – The King of Whys
x Huerco S. For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
x Foodman Ez Minzoku
x Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth
x Beatrice Dillon Rupert Clervaux -Two Changes
x Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
**Moving North**
http://movingnorth.co.uk/2016-2/
/! Clean Shirts - Marginal
x Boston Manor - Be Nothing
x The Bennies - Wisdom Machine
**The AV Club**
/ Katie Ellen - TV Dreams
x minor victories - S/t
x Communist Daughter - The Cracks that built the wall
x Yeesh - Confirmation Bias
x Planes Mistaken For Stars - Prey
x Ital Tek - Hollowed
x 2814 - Rain Temple
x Marissa Nadler, Strangers
x Wet, Don't You
x Chairlift, Moth
x Greys, Outer Heaven
x Whitney, Light Upon The Lake
x Julianna Barwick, Will
**Spin**
http://www.spin.com/featured/the-50-best-albums-of-2016/
/ Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
x Kevin Gates - Islah
**Brooklyn Vegan**
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/brooklynvegans-top-albums-of-2016/
/ Kate Tempest - Let them eat chaos
/ The Range – Potential
x The Radio Dept – Running Out of Love
**The Alternative**
/ Sioux Falls – Rot Forever
x Cool American—You Can Only Win a Few
x Mom Jeans - Best Buds
x TTNG - Disappointment Island
x Slingshot Dakota - Break
x Peaer—Peaer
x Romp—Departure From Venus
x Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked For Death
x Hotelier – Goodness
*Lauren Denitzo*
/ Lizzo - Coconut Oil
x Pinkwash - Collective Sigh
x Swanning - Drawing Down the Moon
*Loud Women*
https://loudwomen.org/2016/12/29/loud-womens-top-albums-of-2016/
/ Bleached – Welcome The Worms
/ Kitten Forever – 7 Hearts
x NOTS – Cosmetic
x Deux Furieuses – Tracks Of Wire
x Witching Waves – Crystal Cafe
x Actual Crimes – Ceramic Cat Traces
x The Wharves – Electa
x Wolf Girl – We Tried
x PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
*Noisey Overlooked*
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/the-37-best-overlooked-albums-of-2016
/ Mongo - Abdu Ali
/ Charles Bradley - Changes
! Tink - Winters Diary 4
x Petrol - Anenon
x James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
x Nice as Fuck - Nice as fuck
x Nico Yaryan - What a tease
x Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits
**Luke from The Copyrights**
! Music Band – Wake Up Laughing
x Vince Staples – Prima Donna
x Mind Spiders – Prosthesis
x Clipping – Wriggle
x Sonic Avenues – Disconnector
**Kris from The Brokedowns**
/ Uranium Club : "All Of Them Naturals"
x Two Houses : "I Feel So Good I Can't Stand Myself"
x Brickfight : "To What End"
x Big Business : "Command Your Weather"
x Busman's Holiday : "Popular Cycles"
x Fake Limbs : "Matronly"
*Tiny Engines*
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/tiny-engines-bands-top-lps-of-2016-signals-midwest-look-mexico-more/
/ Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
x Shy Layers – Shy Layers (Growing Bin)
x The Gunshy – Porterhouse
x Woods – City Sun Eater in the River of Light (Woodsist)
x Aloha – Little Windows Cut Right Through (Polyvinyl)
x Hovvdy – Taster (Sports Day & Merderhaus)
x Flock Of Dimes – If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
x Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale (Bachelors of Paradise)
**SideOneDummy Records staff**
/ Slothrust – Everyone Else
x Marching Church – Telling It Like It Is
x The Growlers – City Club
x Band Of Horses – Why Are You Ok?
*Overblown*
http://overblown.co.uk/best-albums-of-2016-25-1/9/
x Chuck - my band is a computer
x Mi Mye - The Sympathy Sigh
x Yung - A youthful dream
x Tigercub - Abstract Figures in the dark
x weaves - weaves
x Pinkshinyultrablast – Grandfeathered
x September Girls – Age of Indignation
x Hinds – Leave Me Alone
x Windings – Be Honest and Fear Not
x Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits
x FEAR OF MEN – Fall Forever
x AMBER ARCADES – Fading Lines
_________________________________
#2015 End of Year
###Misc
/ KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly
/ CHRISTIAN SCOTT aTUNDE ADJUAH
/ Skinny Lister -Down On Deptford Broadway
/? The Fall - Venice with the Girls
/? JME Integrity
x Kamasi Washington The Epic
x COLLEEN Captain of None
x Joan Shelley: Over and Even
x ICE In the Light of Air (Anna Thorvaldsdottir)
x Shellac - Dude Incredible
x MBONGWANA STAR From Kinshasa
x Popcaan Where we come from
###Stewart Lee
/ Stick In The Wheel – From Here (From Here)
/ Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
x The Wolfhounds – Middle Aged Freaks
x Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders – 14th & Nowhere
x The Wave Pictures – Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon
x The Nightingales – Mind Over Matter
x Walter Salas Humara – Curve And Shake (Blue Rose)
x Laura Cannell – Beneath Swooping Talons
x Bardo Pond – Record Store Day Trilogy
x Ricked Wicky – King Heavy Metal
x Ricked Wicky – Swimmer To Liquid Armchair
x Ricked Wicky – I Sell The Circus
x Trash Kit – Confidence
x Terrakaft – Alone
x Robert Pollard – Faulty Superheroes
x Eliza Carthy & Tim Eriksen – Bottle
x Phil Minton – A Donut's End
###Laura Jane Grace
/ All Dogs — Kicking Every Day
/ Oh Pep — Living
x Le Butcherettes — A Raw Youth
x Christine and the Queens — Christine and the Queens
###Punktastic
http://www.punktastic.com/radar/best-of-2015-the-album-list/
/ Bad Cop / Bad Cop – 'not Sorry'
/ Tellison – 'hope Fading Nightly'
/ Fidlar – 'too'
/ The Winter Passing – 'a Different Space Of Mind'
/ The Spook School
/ Jesus And His Judgemental Father
/ WOAHNOWS
/ Kamikaze Girls
/? Podacter
/? Midnight Reruns
/! MOLAR - demo
x Baroness – 'purple'
x Nai Harvest – 'hairball'
x Failure – 'the Heart Is A Monster'
x The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – 'harmlessness'
x Neck Deep – 'life's Not Out To Get You'
x Hindsights – 'cold Walls / Cloudy Eyes'
x Crooks – 'are We All The Same Distance Apart'
x Turnover – 'peripheral Vision'
x Turnstile – 'nonstop Feeling'
x The Wonder Years – 'no Closer To Heaven'
x Brawlers – 'romantic Errors Of Our Youth'
x The Lion and The Wolf
x Science Club
x Turnspit
x Looming
x Pinegrove
x Bow & Spear
x Costanza
x Honey Joy *
x The Potentials
x Two Houses
x Dudes Night
x Yeesh
x Dog & Wolf
###More Punknews
/ Radioactivity: Silent Kill
/ Vacation: Non-Person
/ Cutters: Both//Neither [7-inch]
/ Crazy and the Brains: Brain Freeze [EP
/ Diet Cig: Over Easy
/ Upset: '76
/ Downtown Boys: Full Communism
/ Wavves: V
/ IJI: Whatever Will Happen
/ Closet Fiends
/ Blackbird Raum - Destroying
/ Success - Radio Recovery
/ The Exhausts: Leave the Suburbs
/ Top Bunk: Top Bunk
/ B. Dolan: Kill The Wolf
/ Screaming Females: Rose Mountain
/ Caspian: Dust and Disquiet
/ Sorority Noise: Joy, Departed
/ Juiceboxxx: Heartland 99
/ Lucero: All a Man Should Do
/ Julia Holter: Have you in my wilderness
/ Beirut: No No No
/ Rocky Votolato: Hospital Handshakes
/ Joel Plaskett - three to one
/ Young Guv: Ripe 4 Luv
/ Dilly Dally: Sore
/ Satellite Go: Kate
/? Wet Nurse: So It Goes
/? Pins: Wild Nights
/? Shellshag: Why'd I Have to Get So High?
/? Earth Girls: Someone I'd Like To Know
/? Best Coast: California Nights
/? Mikal Cronin: MCIII
/? Mike Krol: Turkey
/? No Weather TalksUndoing Defeat
/? Days N Daze
/? Banquets: Spit At The Sun
/? Colleen Green: I Want to Grow Up
/? The Underground Railroad To Candyland: The People Are Home
/? Titus Andronicus: Most Lamentable Tragedy
/! Dollar Signs: Yikes
/! Soul Glo: Untitled
/! Joel Plaskett: The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
/! Jason Kutchma and the Five Fifths: Blue Highways
/! Sheer Mag: II (Also Buy III 7")
/! Cende: Cende [EP]
x Violent Reaction: Marching On
x Royal Headache: High
x Tenement: Predatory Headlights
x Los Crudos - Cobardes
x Poison Idea: Confuse & Conquer
x Metz: II
x Veruca Salt: Ghost Notes
x Superheaven: Ours Is Chrome
x All Torn Up - Drone Life
x Pale Angels: Imaginary People
x Nervosas: Nervosas
x Winter Break: Winter Break
x Diners: It's All True
x PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries
x Western Settings: Yes It Is
x Civil War Rust: Help Wanted
x The Penske File: Burn Into The Earth
x Not Scientists: Destroy Rebuild
x Quarterbacks: Quarterbacks
x Street Sity Surf: Roadhouse Disco
x The Headies: Every Little Thing Breaks My Punk Rock Heart
x Divers: Hello Hello
x Totally Mild: Down Time
x Saviours: Palace of Vision
x WOOZY: BLISTERED
x Donovan Wolfington: How To Treat The Ones You Love
x Red City Radio: Red City Radio
x Swingin' Utters: Fistful of Hollow
x Brutal Youth: Bottoming Out
x Modern Pain - Peace Delusions [From War on Women/Punk News]
x Midnight Reruns: Force of Nurture
x Tulalah: The Flood
x TT the Artist: Art Royalty
x The Velvet Teen: All Is Ilusory
x Marriages: Salome
x Good Riddance - Peace in our time
x Jabber: Well… Just Jabber
x Buffers: Frankie Road
x Pears: Go to Prison
x Shannon And The Clams: Gone by the Dawn
x Danger Friends: Zeros [EP]
x Creepoid: Cemetery Highrise Slum
x mewithoutYou: Pale Horses
x The Sidekicks: Runners in the Nerved World
x Citizen: Everybody Is Going To Heaven
x After the Fall: Dedication
x Make Do and Mend: Don't Be Long
x Pentimento: I, No Longer
x Strung Out: Transmission.Alpha.Delta
x Atlas Losing Grip: Currents
x Wilderness Dream - S/T
x Wild Moth - Inhibitor
x The Tosspints: The Privateer
x Break Anchor: Van Down By The River
x Smokey Bastard: Back To The Drawing Room
x Runaway Brother: Mother
x Youth Decay: The Party's Over
x Annabel: Having It All
x Choke Up: Black Coffee, Bad Habits
x Timeshares: Already Dead
x Institute: Catharsis
x Tropical Trash: UFO Rot
x Circuit Des Yeux: In Plain Speech
x No Problem: Kid Killer [7-inch]
x Speedy Ortiz: Foil Deer
x Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear
x Vince Staples: Summertime '06
x Built To Spill: Untethered Moon
x A Place to Bury Strangers: Transfixiation
x Take One Car: Everyone You Know is Here Right Now
x Citizen: Everybody Is Going To Heaven
x Greys: Repulsion
x The Dirty Nil: No Weaknesses
x TV Freaks: Bad Luck Charms
x B.A. Johnston: Shit Sucks
x Soupcans: Soft Party
x The Beverleys: Brutal
x Terrible Feelings: Tremors
x Ceremony: The L-Shaped Man
x Dogs On Acid: Dogs On Acid
x Darius Koski - Sisu
x Tartar Control: We Forgive You
x Eradicator: Eradicator
x Winter Break: Winter Break
x Flowers of Evil: Flowers of Evil
x Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: The High Country
x Valet: Nature
x KEN Mode: Success
x Ben Caplan: Birds With Broken Wings
x Red Dons: The Dead Hand of Tradition
x Posers: Posers [EP]
x Bad Canoes: Bad Canoes [EP]
x Bugs and Rats: Bugs and Rats
x Dead Milkmen / F.O.D.: Split [7-inch]
x Mindtroll: Buff for the Summer
x Unions: Let Your Heart Be Humble
x Frau: Mira
x Patsy: Tuley Tide High
x Death Grips: Jenny Death
x Didi: Didi
x Blistered: The Poison of Self Confinement
x Flying Faders: No Sweat
x Flesh Wounds: In the Mouth [EP]
x The Stops: Nameless Faces
###Noisey
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-top-26-overlooked-albums-of-2015?utm_source=noiseytwitterus
/ Spector – Moth Boys
/! Katie Dey – Asdfasdf
x Adventures – supersonic Home
x Lower Dens – escape From Evil
###Mostly Dan Ozzi
/ Desaparecidos – Payola [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
/ Sports – All of Something [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
/ Torres – Sprinter [From NPR Music]
/ Saintseneca - Such Things [From NPR music]
/ Crazy & the Brains – Good Lord [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
/ Meat Wave – Delusion Moon [From Fest recommedations]
/ Murder By Death: Big Dark Love
/? toyGuitar - In This Mess [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
/? Soda Bomb - Wanna Jam? [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Pet Symmetry – Pet Hounds [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Alex Winston - The Day I Died [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Night Birds - Mutiny at Muscle Beach [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Sannhett - Revisionist [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Envy - Atheists Cornea [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Drakulas - OWOWOWOWO [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
x Muted Man - Bleeder [From Dan Ozzi/Noisey]
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#2014 and Earlier
/! Peeple Watchin' - Somethin' Ta Tell Ya
/! DAWN OF MIDI DYSNOMIA
/ Downtown Boys: Downtown Boys (7" Ep)
/ Hard Girls: A Thousand Surfaces
/ Spoonboy: Split EP
/ Bad Cop/Bad Cop: Boss Lady
/? The Garden: The Life and Times of a paperclip
/ The Smith Street Band: Throw Me in the River (Expanded Edition)
/ The Mountain Goats: Full Force Galesburg
/ The Mountain Goats: We Shall All Be Healed
/ The Mountain Goats: Nine Black Poppies
/ The Mountain Goats: Zopilote Machine
/? Clem Snide: The Ghost of Fashion
/? The Head and the Heart: The Head and the Heart
/? Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt
/? Goat: Commune
/? Brian Blade & The Fellowship:
/ Nils Frahm: Spaces
/? Mission of Burma - vs.
/? Agnes Obel - Aventine
/ Hostage Calm: Die On Stage
/ CHRIS STAPLETON: Traveller
/ Single Mothers: Negative Qualities
/ The Undisputed Truth: Smiling Faces: The Best Of
/ Cormega: Mega Philosophy
/ Priests: Bodies and Control and Money and Power
/? The Copyrights: Report
/ Together Pangea: Badillac
/? Wild Flag: Wild Flag
/? Ex-Easter Island Head: Mallet Guitars Three [From Stewart Lee]
/? Matt and Kim: New Glow
x Mirah: Changing Light
x Books of Love - Space Time
x Crusades: Perhaps You Deliver This Judgment With Greater Fear Than I Receive It
x Swans - To Be Kind
x Dirty Three - Whatever You Love
x M. WardTransistor Radio
x Rodrigo Amarante, 'Cavalo'
x William Basinski - Cascade
x Manchester Orchestra: Cope
x Aphex Twin: Syro
x Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls
x Three Man Cannon: Pretty Many People
x Astpai: Burden Calls
x Gateway District: Partial Traces
x Black Wine: Yell Boss
x Somos: Temple of Plenty
x Little Big League: Tropical Jinx
x Pianos Become Keep You
x Kepi Ghoulie: Kepi Goes Country
x The Brokedowns: Life Is A Breeze
x Henrietta: The Trick Is Not Minding
x Dads: I'll Be the Tornado
x Leagues Apart: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
x Eagulls: Eagulls
x Sid Griffin: The Trick Is To Breathe
x CTMF: Acorn Man
x Scott Walker + Sunn O))): Soused
x Richard Dawson: Nothing Important [From Stewart Lee]
x Radian / Howe Gelb: Radian Verses Howe Gelb
x Willie Dunn: Native North America (Vol. 1) [From Stewart Lee]
x Darren Hayman: January Songs
x The Manx: Blood Chronicles
x Frontier Ruckus: Sitcom Afterlife
x Hints:No Regrets In Old English
x Wolves - My Latest Novel
x Ceci Bastida: La Edad De La Violencia
x Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra: Well Soon
x The Holy Mess: Comfort in the Discord
x The Mighty Fine: Brothers and Smugglers
x Banquets: Banquets
x Cassie Ramone: The Time Has Come
x La Sera: Hour Of The Dawn
x Beach Day: Native Echoes
x Bill Callahan - Dream River
x The Coathangers: Suck My Shirt
x Sims: Field Notes
x Mariachi El Bronx: Mariachi El Bronx (III)
x Weaves: Weaves
x Grieves: Winter & The Wolves
x Weatherbox: Flies in All Directions
x Average Times: Average Times
x Tinariwen: Emmaar [From Stewart Lee]
x Billy Sedlmayr: Charmed Life