Dec 29, 2015

The Best Singles Of 2015

Top 50














  1. Pedestrian At Best - COURTNEY BARNETT
  2. The Answer - SAVAGES
  3. Let It Happen - TAME IMPALA 
  4. Lampshades On Fire - MODEST MOUSE 
  5. A New Wave - SLEATER-KINNEY
  6. Why Does It Shake? - PROTOMARTYR
  7. Snakeskin - DEERHUNTER
  8. Fool - NADINE SHAH
  9. False Hope - LAURA MARLING
  10. Feel You - JULIA HOLTER
  11. Interference - HOLLY HERNDON
  12. A Beautiful Woman - DERADOORIAN
  13. Raising The Skate - SPEEDY ORTIZ
  14. Under A Rock - WAXAHATCHEE
  15. Damn That Valley - U.S. GIRLS
  16. Begin Again - PURITY RING
  17. Go Out - BLUR
  18. Go! - PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
  19. Straight - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
  20. Irony.Utility.Pretext. - ALGIERS
  21. The Blacker The Berry - KENDRICK LAMAR
  22. Bunkerpop - LONELADY
  23. Return To The Moon (Political Song For Didi Bloome To Sing, With Crescendo) - EL VY
  24. Living Zoo - BUILT TO SPILL
  25. America Says Hello - THE CHILLS
  26. Laughing In The Sugar Bowl - VERUCA SALT
  27. Pay Attention - COLLEEN GREEN
  28. To Die In L.A. - LOWER DENS
  29. Forces From Above - DESTROYER
  30. First Light - DJANGO DJANGO
  31. Straight Lines - SHOPPING
  32. Giant Peach - WOLF ALICE
  33. Pears For Lunch - GIRL BAND
  34. What Went Down - FOALS
  35. Restless - NEW ORDER
  36. Water Water - EMPRESS OF
  37. Stonefist - HEALTH
  38. Sparks - BEACH HOUSE
  39. Cavalry Captain - THE DECEMBERISTS
  40. Pretty Pimpin - KURT VILE
  41. Random Name Generator - WILCO
  42. What Part Of Me - LOW
  43. Should Have Known Better - SUFJAN STEVENS
  44. I Don't Want To Let You Down - SHARON VAN ETTEN
  45. Cumbia De Donde - CALEXICO
  46. Black Sun - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
  47. The Shade - METRIC
  48. Flesh Without Blood - GRIMES
  49. What Kind Of Man - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
  50. Winter / Feeling Alright - DAUGHTER / WARPAINT

Dec 5, 2015

The Best Albums Of 2014

Top 50














  1. To be kind - SWANS
  2. St. Vincent - ST. VINCENT
  3. Manipulator - TY SEGALL
  4. Nikki nack - TUNE-YARDS
  5. Warpaint - WARPAINT
  6. Sun structures - TEMPLES
  7. They want my soul - SPOON
  8. Do to the beast - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
  9. Sunbathing animal - PARQUET COURTS
  10. Rips - EX HEX
  11. Too true - DUM DUM GIRLS
  12. The best day - THURSTON MOORE
  13. Benji - SUN KIL MOON
  14. Commune - GOAT
  15. Divide and exit - SLEAFORD MODS
  16. Mess - LIARS
  17. Dude incredible - SHELLAC
  18. With light and with love - WOODS
  19. Brill bruisers - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
  20. Lazaretto - JACK WHITE
  21. Are we there - SHARON VAN ETTEN
  22. Lost in the dream - THE WAR ON DRUGS
  23. Under color of official right - PROTOMARTYR
  24. Here and nowhere else - CLOUD NOTHINGS
  25. Elpintor - INTERPOL
  26. Phantom radio - MARK LANEGAN BAND
  27. Burn your fire for no witness - ANGEL OLSEN
  28. Atlas - REAL ESTATE
  29. Seeds - TV ON THE RADIO
  30. Run The Jewels 2 - RUN THE JEWELS
  31. The future's void - EMA
  32. Plowing into the field of love - ICEAGE
  33. Grassed inn - BLANK REALM
  34. The hum - HOOKWORMS
  35. Held in splendor - QUILT
  36. Worship the sun - ALLAH-LAS
  37. Tomorrow's hits - THE MEN
  38. Beauty & ruin - BOB MOULD
  39. The physical world - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
  40. IX - ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  41. Revelation - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
  42. Wig out at Jagbags - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
  43. We come from the same place - ALLO DARLIN'
  44. At best cuckold - AVI BUFFALO
  45. Lese majesty - SHABAZZ PALACES
  46. Pe'ahi - THE RAVEONETTES
  47. Wild crush - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
  48. World peace is none of your business - MORRISSEY
  49. The other I - 2:54
  50. Alvvays - ALVVAYS
Also recommended:

Hour of the dawn - LA SERA, Days of abandon - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, Indie Cindy - PIXIES, Initiation - HAUNTED HEARTS, Trouble - HOSPITALITY, Lateness of dancers - HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, July - MARISSA NADLER, Pom pom - ARIEL PINK, Darlings - KEVIN DREW, Content nausea - PARKAY QUARTS, Underneath the rainbow - BLACK LIPS, Suck my shirt - THE COATHANGERS, Deep fantasy - WHITE LUNG, Diploid love - BRODY DALLE, V for Vaselines - THE VASELINES, …And star power - FOXYGEN, Motivational jumpsuit - GUIDED BY VOICES, Barragan - BLONDE REDHEAD, Love letters - METRONOMY, Taiga - ZOLA JESUS, After the disco - BROKEN BELLS, Turn blue - THE BLACK KEYS, Royal Blood - ROYAL BLOOD, Teeth dreams - THE HOLD STEADY, The voyager - JENNY LEWIS, Upside down mountain - CONOR OBERST, Shriek - WYE OAK, Psychic 9 - 5 club - HTRK, Luminous - THE HORRORS, Cheatahs - CHEATAHS, Cursing the sea - SEPTEMBER GIRLS, Our love - CARIBOU, Weird little birthday - HAPPYNESS, Refractory obdurate - WOVENHAND, Ultimate Painting - ULTIMATE PAINTING, Wooden aquarium - MAZES, Do what you want to, it's what you should do - FLOWERS, Native echoes - BEACH DAY, Drop - THEE OH SEES, I'm in your mind fuzz - KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD, Encyclopedia - THE DRUMS, Tyranny - JULIAN CASABLANCAS + THE VOIDZ, Cosmic logic - PEAKING LIGHTS, Measures of joy - VIRGINIA WING, A new nature - ESBEN AND THE WITCH, Honeyblood - HONEYBLOOD, Eagulls - EAGULLS, Typical system - TOTAL CONTROL, Rave tapes - MOGWAI, Artificial sweeteners - FUJIYA & MIYAGI, You're dead! - FLYING LOTUS, Secret science - MECHANIMAL, Distractions - A VICTIM OF SOCIETY, Marginalia - BABY GURU, My Drunken Haze - MY DRUNKEN HAZE, Feel something - THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE, Heartstrings - HOWLING BELLS, Everyday robots - DAMON ALBARN, Tomorrow’s modern boxes - THOM YORKE, Morning phase - BECK, I never learn - LYKKE LI, Present tense - WILD BEASTS, Brothers and sisters of the eternal son - DAMIEN JURADO, Carnival of souls - PERE UBU, Words to the blind - SAVAGES AND BO NINGEN, Bestial burden - PHARMAKON, Angel guts red classroom - XIU XIU, Syro - APHEX TWIN, Drop the vowels - MILLIE AND ANDREA, Angels and devils - THE BUG, Ghettoville - ACTRESS, Close to the glass - THE NOTWIST, More than any other day - OUGHT, Say yes to love - PERFECT PUSSY, Away from the water - LOLA COLT, Departure - THE VACANT LOTS, Meatbodies - MEATBODIES, Way out weather - STEVE GUNN, Smoke Fairies - SMOKE FAIRIES, For the recently found innocent - WHITE FENCE, End times undone - DAVID KILGOUR AND THE HEAVY EIGHTS, Waiting for a sign - GITHEAD, Fear of falling down - WITCHING WAVES, Wooden head - THE PROPER ORNAMENTS, It's a girl! - CHILDBIRTH, La Isla Bonita - DEERHOOF, Forcefield - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, Lose - CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, Singles - FUTURE ISLANDS, Girlpool - GIRLPOOL, Wild onion - TWIN PEAKS, American interior - GRUFF RHYS, Dean Wareham - DEAN WAREHAM, Holly - NICK WATERHOUSE, Tied to a star - J MASCIS, Soul of the hour - GALLON DRUNK, Blood Red Shoes - BLOOD RED SHOES, Himalayan - BAND OF SKULLS, No time - SOFT WALLS, Ganglion reef - WAND, Salad days - MAC DEMARCO, Too bright - PERFUME GENIUS, LP1 - FKA TWIGS, It's album time - TODD TERJE, Stay gold - FIRST AID KIT, Still life - KEVIN MORBY, English oceans - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, After the end - MERCHANDISE, Total strife forever - EAST INDIA YOUTH, Faith in strangers - ANDY STOTT, Nabuma rubberband - LITTLE DRAGON, What is this heart? - HOW TO DRESS WELL, Colfax - THE DELINES, Give the people what they want - SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS, Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave - THE TWILIGHT SAD, Enter the slasher house - AVEY TARE'S SLASHER FLICKS, Sand and silence - THE ROSEBUDS, March - FÜR IMMER, Amnesia - AMANDA X, Trouble in paradise - LA ROUX, Carry on the grudge - JAMIE T, Xen - ARCA, 48:13 - KASABIAN, The take off and landing of everything - ELBOW, In conflict - OWEN PALLETT, Ruins - GROUPER, Emmaar - TINARIWEN, Small town heroes - HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, Somewhere else - LYNDA LOVELESS, Down where the spirit meets the bone - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Metamodern sounds in country music - STURGILL SIMPSON, At bay - THE WHARVES, Annabel dream reader - THE WYTCHES, A better tomorrow - WU-TANG CLAN, Sonic highways - FOO FIGHTERS, Monuments to an elegy - SMASHING PUMPKINS, Clear Lake Forest - THE BLACK ANGELS, Strange weather EP - ANNA CALVI