Top NACC Albums & Singles

Top Albums

Bud Johnson
“Acoustic Accents”

Wes Collins “Welcome To The Ether”
Heather Maloney “Just Enough Sun”
Sarah Sample “Redwing”
Jesse Terry “Natural
Lori McKenna “The Tree”
Tommy Emmanuel “Accomplice One”
Mipso “Edges Run”
Pharis and Jason Romero “Sweet Old Religion”
David Francey “The Broken Heart of Everything”
The Jellyman’s Daughter “Dead Reckoning”

Gina Bellovary
101.5 WIPZ-LP
I’ll keep it short and sweet this year. The following aren’t in any particular order; they are all great albums and singles.

Dance Gavin Dance – ‘Artificial Selection’
Beartooth – ‘Disease’
Rainbow Kitten Surprise – ‘How to: Friend, Love, Freefall’
McCafferty – ‘Yarn’
Tilian – ‘The Skeptic’
Don Broco – ‘Technology’
Justin Courtney Pierre – ‘In the Drink’
Matt and Kim – ‘ALMOST EVERYDAY’
Kate Nash – ‘Yesterday Was Forever’
Rare Americans – Self-titled

Gareth Sturrup
102.7 CHOP-FM

Now, Now – Saved
Low – Double Negative
Wild pink – Yolk In The Fur
Noname – Room 25
Soccer Mommy – Clean
Saba – Care For Me
Typhoon – Offerings
Foxing – Nearer My God
Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Camp Cope – How To Socialize And Make Friends

Cliff Jenkins
88.1 WKNC FM HD-1 Raleigh
Was sick

Year of the Snitch
Veteran
RENDER ANOTHER UGLY METHOD
Small Car Big Wheels
Perfect Shapes
Be The Cowboy
Twisted Crystal
Some Rap Songs
Clean
Crush Crusher

Jessica Spottek
88.5 KURE: Ames Alternative
Seasonal music (aka, a lot of good stuff at one time, but not spread out through the entire year)

Jungle- “For Ever”
Castlecomer- “Castlecomer”
Caroline Rose- “Loner”
MGMT- “Little Dark Age”
Rhye- “Blood”
Porches- “The House”
Vinyl Theatre- “Starcruiser”
Blood Orange- “Negro Swan”
Courtney Barnett- “Tell Me How You Really Feel”

Jodi Gianakopoulos
88.9 FM, WRRG, The Old School Playground
Amazing year of music!!

BALOJI “137 Avenue Kaniama”
MOHSEN NAMJOO “on the string of the tear’s bow”
BIENAVENTURANZA “chancha via circuito”
JUPITER & OKWESS “kin sonic”
LES POULES A COLIN “morose”
BOMBINO “deran”
HECTOR GUERRA “desde el infierno”
RAHIM ALHAJ “one sky”
BARRIO MANOUCHE “aires de cambio”
RIO MIRA “marimba del pacifico”

Sophia Pastore
90.3 The Core

Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Kendrick Lamar – Black Panther The Album Music From and Inspired By
JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
Superorganism – Superorganism
Snail Mail – Lush
Mick Jenkins – Pieces of a Man
Forth Wanderers – Forth Wanderers
Blood Orange – Negro Swan
KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS

Monty Daniel
90.5 KCSU FM
I think this has been an extraordinary year in music, especially for women. They were not taking no for an answer and really made their voices heard.

How to Socialize and Make Friends by Camp Cope
Boygenius by boygenius
Lavender by Half Waif
Be the Cowboy by Mitski
Historian by Lucy Dacus
Clean by Soccer Mommy
The Lamb by Lala Lala
My Mind Makes Noises by Pale Waves
Wanderer by Cat Power
St. Leonards by Slowly Slowly

Miranda Roberts
90.7 KJHK

Blood Orange – Negro Swan
Sidney Gish – No Dogs Allowed
Jorja Smith – Lost & Found
Boygenius – Boygenius
Foxwarren – Foxwarren
Salad Boys – This Is Glue
Frank Turner – Be More Kind
Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Trampled By Turtles – Life is Good on the Open Road
Yowler – Black Dog In My Path

Jason Parker
90.7 The Capstone

Beach House “7”
U.S. Girls “In a Poem Unlimited”
Parquet Courts “Wide Awake!”
Brockhampton “Iridescence”
Car Seat Headrest “Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
Wild Nothing “Indigo”
Enjoy “Small Car Big Wheels”
Sleep “The Sciences”
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks “Sparkle Hard”
Valley Maker “Rhododendron”

Justin Dodd
90.7 WXIN
Overall some great stuff

Bamboo Star – No Hard Feelings
Coheed and Cambria – Unheavenly Creatures
Fight the Fury – Still Breathing
Atreyu – In Our Wake
Audiotopsy – The Real Now
All That Remains – Victim of the New Disease
Disturbed – Evolution
Architects UK – Holy Hell
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Wasteland
High on Fire – Electric Messiah

Erin Wolf
91.7 FM WMSE

Beach House, 7, Sub Pop
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Hope Downs, Sub Pop
Prince, Piano and a Microphone 1983, Warner Bros.
Cashfire Sunset, Chemical Breeze, self-released
Shannon and the Clams, Onion, Easy Eye Sound
Yo La Tengo, There’s A Riot Going On, Matador
The Breeders, All Nerve, 4AD
Tanukichan, Sundays, Company Records
Collections of Colonies of Bees, HAWAII, Polyvinyl
Mind Spiders, Furies, Dirtnap

Ian Doig – Phaneuf
94.9 CHRW / Radio Western
(my program is called ‘A Person Disguised As People’)
Who can complain? We live in a very exciting time for music. If people complain, they’re not digging enough! The amount of brilliant music being released is staggering.

Rachel Grimes – The Doctor From India
Low – Double Negative
Autechre – NTS Sessions
Jeremy Dutcher – Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Arp – Zebra
The Caretaker – Everywhere At The End Of Time Stages 1 – 3
Astronauts, Etc – Living In Symbol
Chris Reimer – Hello People
Khotin – Beautiful You
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage

Haley Isom
95.7 The Spin
Music is good

Bambi – Hippo Campus
Delta – Mumford and Sons
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships – 1975
Castlecomer – Castlecomer
Lamp Lit Prose – Dirty Projectors
Lake Effect Kid – Fall Out Boy
Blue Madonna – Borns
Pray For The Wicked – Panic! at the Disco
Concentrate – The Happy Fits
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) – Queen

Todd Paulson
ALT360 Radio

Alice Merton – No Roots EP
The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
CHVRCHES – Love is Dead
Meg Myers – Take Me To the Disco
Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic
Bishop Briggs – Church of Scars
Panic! At the Disco – Pray For the Wicked
Thirty Seconds to Mars – America
Gorillaz – The Now Now
Florence + The Machine – High As Hope

Sean Carolan
Altrok Radio (from Brookdale Public Radio)
Strong year!

Mitski, Be The Cowboy
Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel
Brazilian Girls, Let’s Make Love
Elvis Costello and the Impostors, Look Now
Caroline Rose, Loner
Field Music, Open Here
The Beths, Future Me Hates Me
Slothrust, The Pact
Teleman, Family Of Aliens
Franz Ferdinand, Always Ascending

Brian Robb
AM1700
This was the year millennials finally killed the record industry.

IDLES – Brutalism
SHAME – Songs Of Praise
LOW – Double Negative
BEACH HOUSE – 7
SOCCER MOMMY – Clean
ANNA BURCH – Quit The Curse
THE BREEDERS – All Nerve
COURTNEY BARNETT – Tell Me How You Really Feel
CAR SEAT HEADREST – Twin Fantasy
MITSKI – Be The Cowboy

Jamey Osborne
Audiosyncracy – KTEP
The music this year has been outstanding and prolific! These are hard to choose!

Jeff Oster – Reach
Michael Logozar – Passage
Carl Weingarten – This is Where I Found You
Kevin Wood – Eternal
Vicente Avella – Rising
Helen Jane Long – Perspective
Neil Tatar – After the Rain
Matteo Palmer – Opaline Sky
Heidi Breyer – Moonlight in Empty Rooms
Pete Calandra – Carpe Noctum

Ted Leibowitz
BAGeL Radio, SomaFM
another great year for indie rock, noisy pop, garage punk, and psych rock.

Parquet Courts – “Wide Awake!”
Courtney Barnett – “Tell Me How You Really Feel”
IDLES – “Joy As An Act Of Resistance.”
Mudhoney – “Digital Garbage”
Camp Cope – “How To Socialize & Make Friends”
Beach Skulls – “Las Dunas”
Pip Blom – “Singles”
Bodega – “Endless Scroll”
Menace Beach – “Black Rainbow Sound”
Bad Sports – “Constant Stimulation”

Joltin Joe Pszonek
Blues and Roots Radio & WMSC

Kerri Powers Starseed
The Ramonas First World Problems
The Marcus King Band Carolina Confessions
Rachel Beck Rachel Beck
The Whispering Tree Invisible Forces
Emma Langford Gentle Giant
Kirsty Merryn She & I
Kal Lavelle For The Loved and Lost
In Layman Terms Strong Roots
Duende Libre Drift

Troy Lemberg
CFUV 101.9 FM
This year saw my own personal top 100 become even more diversified in genres, it may not show up in the top 10 but been a great year for me exploring more ambient, jazz, and experimental releases.

Frigs “Basic Behaviour”
Daughters “You Won’t Get What You Want”
Jeremy Dutcher “Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa”
the body “I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer”
Grouper “Grid Of Points”
Nap Eyes “I’m Bad Now”
Mount Eerie “Now Only”
Blood Orange “Negro Swan”
Fucked Up “Dose Your Dreams”
Lie “Hounds”

Benoit Poirier
CISM 89,3 FM

Sunwatchers – II [Trouble In Mind]
Victime – La femme taupe [Michel]
Nap Eyes – I’m Bad Now [You’ve Changed]
Feu doux – Feu doux [Dare To Care]
Freak Heat Waves – Beyond XXXL [Telephone Explosion]
Tess Roby – Beacon [Italians Do It Better]
Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile [Verve / Impulse]
Spirit of the Beehive – Hypnic Jerks [Tiny Engines]
Ben LaMar Gay – Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun [International Anthem]
The Scorpions & Sauf Abu Bakr – Jazz Jazz Jazz [Habibi Funk]

Lauren Hedges
CJAM 99.1 FM

Moonlight Benjamin “Siltane”
The Interrupters “Fight the Good Fight”
We Hunt Buffalo “Head Smashed In”
The Dirty Nil “Master Volume”
Strangers on a Plane “Wings”
The Lytics “Float On”
Barstool Preachers “Grazie Governo”
Protoje “A Matter of Time”
Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis “Wild! Wild! Wild!”
Night Club “Scary World”

Zakary Slax
CJLO 1690 AM
A year where darkness and light increasingly grow in tension… top 10 list is in alphabetical/non-hierarchical order

Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
Kamasi Washington – Heaven/Earth
La Luz – Floating Features
Lonely Parade – The Pits
Low – Double Negative
Noname – Room 25
Sleep – The Sciences
Stephen Malkmus – Sparkle Hard
Tim Hecker – Konoyo
Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On

Andrew Wieler
CJLO 1690AM

Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Harakiri For the Sky – Arson
Dirt Cannon – What Eats You
Author & Punisher – Beastland
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
Mantar – The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Ghost – Prequelle

Trevor Morrison
co-sign
2018 joins 2010, 2012 and 2015 as the best years (in terms of musical output) of the decade so far. Feeling GOOD about my Top 50 records of the year. Keep an eye out for that top 50 on my blog @ warmvisions.wordpress.com ;^)

U.S. Girls “In A Poem Unlimited”
Mitski “Be The Cowboy”
Sophie “Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides”
Hop Along “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
Yves Tumor “Safe In The Hands Of Love”
Kali Uchis “Isolation”
Kacey Musgraves “Golden Hour”
Skee Mask “Compro”
DJ Koze “Knock Knock”
Grouper “Grid Of Points”

Tyler Freese
co-sign
if you know you know

Camp Cope – How To Socialise and Make Friends (Run For Cover)
Jeff Rosenstock – POST- (Polyvinyl)
IDLES – Joy (Partisan)
Antarctigo Vespucci – Love In The Time Of E-Mail (Polyvinyl)
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (MCA Nashville)
Caroline Rose – LONER (New West)
Justin Courtney Pierre – In The Drink (Epitaph)
Mitski – Be The Cowboy (Dead Ocean)
Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Saddle Creek)
Petal – Magic Gone (Run For Cover)

Ayappa Biddanda
Concord Music
A great year for music across genres!

Matt Nathanson ‘Sings His Sad Heart’ (Acrobat Records / Crush / AWAL)
Denzel Curry ‘TA13OO’ (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord Music)
Ruston Kelly ‘Dying Star’ (Rounder Records / Concord Music)
Janelle Monae ‘Dirty Computer’ (Bad Boy Records / Atlantic)
Indigo Girls ‘Indigo Girls Live With The University Of Colorado Symphony Orchestra’ (Rounder Records / Concord Music)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats ‘Tearing at the Seams’ (Stax / Concord Music)
Various Artists ‘Stax ’68: A Memphis Story’ (Stax / Craft Recordings / Concord Music)
R.E.M. ‘R.E.M at the BBC’ (R.E.M. / Craft Recordings / Concord Music)
Kacey Musgraves ‘Golden Hour’ (MCA Nashville)
Elvis Costello & The Imposters ‘Look Now’ (Concord Records / Concord Music)

Gregory A Gates
Cygnus Radio, Bury the Needle
A Great Year For All Types Of Metal!

Book of Bad Decisions – Clutch
I Loved You at Your Darkest – Behemoth
Firepower – Judas Priest
Prequelle – Ghost
What Was and What Shall Be – Brimstone Coven
The Sciences – Sleep
None Shall Live… The Hymns Of Misery – Churchburn
Eternal Return – Windhand
Rift – Forming the Void
Electric Messiah – High on Fire

Terence Praet
Distiller Promo

Trembling Bells “Dungeness”
Ohmme “Parts”
Spider Bags “Someday Everything Will Be Fine”
The Beths “Future Me Hates Me”
Open Mike Eagle “What Happens When I Try to Relax”
Cadence Weapon “Self-Titled”
Moonface “This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet”
Angelique Kidjo “Remain in Light”
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan “Dirt”
Titus Andronicus “A Productive Cough”

John Diliberto
ECHOES
Better than I thought once I tried to make a list.

TALITHA RISE – An Abandoned Orchid House
NILS FRAHM – All Melody
SOLOMON GREY – Human Music
OLAFUR ARNALDS – re:member
LOMA – Loma
IAN BODDY & ERIK WOLLO – Meridien
MOBY – Everything Was Beautiful, Nothing Hurt
POPPY ACKROYD – Resolve
ALL INDIA RADIO – Space
William Fitzsimmons – Mission Bell

Chris DeRoin
Forces Of Obvious Luck on KRBX Radio Boise

Lyrics Born – Quite a Life
Alma Cook – Hearsay [single]
#3 Henry Canyons – Cool Side of the Pillow
Phonte – No News Is Good News
Epic Beard Men – Season 1
Open Mike Eagle – What Happens When I Try to Relax
SUM – S U M
Flex Mathews & Damu The Fudgemunk – Dreams & Vibrations
Ivy Sole – Overgrown
The Off Daze – Couple’s Skate

Chris Heim
Global Village/Night Train/Crossroads

Samurai Accordion – Te (Visage Music)
Ben Ben Allison – Quiet Revolution (Sonic Camera)
Shemekia Copeland – America’s Child (Alligator)
Dancas Ocultas – Dentro Desse Mar (Sony/Galileo Music)
Aaron Goldberg – At the Edge of the World (Sunnyside)
Sue Foley – Ice Queen (Stony Plain)
Sonido Gallo Negro – Mambo Cosmico (Glitterbeat)
Stefon Harris + Blackout – Sonic Creed (Motema)
Colin James – Miles to Go (Stony Plain)
Ray Bonneville – At King Electric

Jeff McCoy
High Dive Records

Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
Shame – Songs of Praise
King Tuff – The Other
Richard Swift – The Hex
Rays – You Can Get There From Here
Guerilla Toss – Twisted Crystal
Lithics – Mating Surfaces
US Girls – In A Poem Unlimited
King Khan & The Shrines – Three Hairs And You’re Mine
Grapetooth – Grapetooth

Jenny Inzerillo
High Plains Public Radio
I think this year proves that folk music isn’t going ANYWHERE.

John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness
Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss
Mountain Man – Magic Ship
Ryan Culwell – The Last American
The War & Treaty – Healing Tide
Bombino – Deran
Ana Egge – White Tiger
Colter Wall – Songs of the Plains
Nathan Evans Fox – Texas Dust
The Brother Brothers – Some People I Know

Richard Estrada
ILLEGAL intern Radio / KUCI 88.9FM

Logos by Dos Santos
Sabor Maracuyá Desnuda by Gilberto Rodriguez Y Los Intocables
A Todo Cuba Le Gusta by Afro-Cuban All Stars
Midnight in a Moonless Dream by The Buttertones
Sueños Deceptivos by Tozcos
Bienaventuranza by Chancha Via Circuito
Aztlán by Zoé
Tornaluna by Vanessa Zamora
Floating Features by La Luz
Parques by Los Romanitcos de Zacatecas

Nils Illokken
INHAILER Radio

Against All Logic (A.A.L.) – 2012-2017
Kali Uchis – Isloation
Harriet Brown – Contact
MGMT – Little Dark Age
Your Smith – Bad Habit EP
Miya Folick – Premonitions
Parcels – Parcels
Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimmited
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!

Jason Pulaski
Innamissions Radio / KUCI 88.9FM
Lists in no particular order

Nu Guinea – Nu Guinea
V/A “Free the Robots presents Tempo Dreams Vol. 5”
Te’Amir “Abyssinia / Abyssinia Rise EP”
Toshio Matsuura Group “Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From the Floor”
Djrum “Portrait With Firewood”
Sound Voyage “En Route to Thailand”
Shadow People “Shadow People”
Dengue Dengue Dengue “Semillero”
Natureboy Flako “Theme For a Dream”
Richard Spaven “Real Time”

Amy Presley
KACV-FM

The Breeders “All Nerve”
Caroline Rose “Loner”
Jack White “Boarding House Reach”
Superorganism “Superorganism”
Shakey Graves “Can’t Wake Up”
Interpol “Marauder”
First Aid Kit “Ruins”
Soccer Mommy “Clean”
Courtney Barnett “Tell Me How You Really Feel”
Jukebox The Ghost “Off to the Races”

KBMF MD Team
KBMF 102.5FM
Lots of great new music coming out all the time.

Lonnie Holley – MITH
SUMAC – Love in Shadow
Tommy Guerrero – The Road to Knowhere
Imarhan – Temet
Jupiter & Okwess – Kin Sonic
Moshen Namjoo – On The String of the Tear’s Bow
Sigur Ros – Route One
Karavan Sarai – Painted Sands
Champagne Superchillin – Beach Deep
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Close But No Cigar

the homebucket (Matt Boam)
KGAR 93.3 fm
The homebucket’s Top 10 are all in the heavy genre.

Letters From The Colony “Vignette” (Nuclear Blast)
Rivers Of Nihil “Where Owls Know My Name” (Metal Blade)
Voivod “The Wake” (Century Media)
Deafheaven “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love” (Anti)
Stryper “God Damn Evil” (Frontiers)
Haunt “Busrt Into Flames” (Shadow Kingdom)
Will Haven “Muete” (Minus Head)
Soulfly “Ritual” (Nuclear Blast)
Tribulation “Down Below” (Century Media)
10. Judas Priest “Firepower” (Epic)

Mark Shikuma
KHSU, 90.5, Arcata, CA

LONNIE HOLLEY, “MITH”
GURRUMUL, “Djarimirri (Child Of The Rainbow)”
GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW, “Overload”
LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET, “Landfall”
KAMASI WASHINGTON, “Heaven and Earth”
WARM DRAG, “Warm Drag”
ORQUESTA AKOKAN, “Orquesta Akokan”
THE BETHS, “Future Me Hates Me”
ROSE DROLL, “Your Dog”
THE NUDE PARTY, “The Nude Party”

Carly DeSanto
KMSC Dragon Radio- “The Showcase”
it was a REALLY great year for music, especially more experimental music

Mulberry Violence by Trevor Powers
With the Sun by Sunny War
True North by Zebulon Krol
Darker Days by Peter Bjorn and John
Magic Ship by Mountain Man
Indigo by Wild Nothing
Cold Heart by Thirdstory
Ballad of a Runaway Girl by Elisapie
Meta Meta Etc by Brick + Mortar
Landscape by Future Generations

Steve Klein
KPUR

Cat Power Wanderer
Black Belt Eagle Scout Mother of My Children
Oh See’s Smote Reverser
Slightly Stoopid Everyday Life, Everyday People
Johnny Marr Call the Comet
Jeffrey Martin One Go Around
Nightmares on Wax Shape the Future
Stephen Malkmus Sparkle Hard
All Them Witches ATW
Sunny War With the Sun

Russ Slaten
KRUA Loud Rock Director
Top 10 Metal Albums of 2018

The Ocean ‘Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic’
Obscura ‘Diluvium’
Behemoth ‘I Loved You At Your Darkest’
Pig Destroyer ‘Head Cage’
Between the Buried & Me ‘Automata I’
At The Gates ‘To Drink From The Night Itself’
YOB ‘Our Raw Heart’
Tribulation ‘Down Below’
Marduk ‘Viktoria’
Heidevolk ‘Vuur Van Verzet’

Andrew McCallister
KRZA
So many choices this year!

Metric – Art of Doubt
All Them Witches – ATW
Elvis Costello – Look Now
Michigan Rattlers – Evergreen
Tokyo Police Club – TPC
Tellico – Woven Waters
Cat Power – Wanderer
Hippo Campus – Bambi
Spesh – Famous World
Madeline Kenney – Perfect Shapes

Michael McAllister
KSJD
This year struck me as diverse, emotional, and generally too slow. Is everyone stoned? Pick up the pace people. JK, Mike.

Nathaniel Ratelife and the Night Sweats – “Tearing At The Seams”
Lake Street Dive – “Free Yourself Up”
Playing For Change – “Listen To The Music”
US Girls – “In A Poem Unlimited”
Wye Oak – “The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs”
The Chamanas – “NEA II”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Wrong Creatures”
El Ten Eleven – “Banker’s Hill”
Lo Moon – “Lo Moon”
Van William – “Countries”

Caroline Janes
KTSW 89.9
Not bad!!!

Dance Alone- BOYO
Soy Pablo- Boy Pablo
Like A Baby- Jerry Paper
In Real Time- The Undercover Dream Lovers
Online- Triathalon
Sleep- Ruru

Tristan McGarr
KUGS
One of the best years for music this decade

Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
Idles – Joy As An Act of Resistance
Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place
Sleep – The Sciences
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
Anderson .Paak – Oxnard
Kids See Ghosts – S/T
All Against Logic – 2012-2017
JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
MGMT – Little Dark Age

Zoë Finkelstein
KWUR, Clayton 90.3FM

Lucy Dacus “Historian”
Camp Cope “How to Socialise & Make Friends”
Mom Jeans “Puppy Love”
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers “Boygenius”
Mitski “Be the Cowboy”
Illuminati Hotties “Kiss Yr Frenemies”
Hovvdy “Cranberry”
Trace Mountains “A Partner to Lean On”
Joji “BALLADS 1”
Soccer Mommy “Clean”

The Ozzy Freak of Boulder Creek
Metal from the Mountains/Hardrock for the Humpday
Music rules the planet, for some of us anyway. I love listening to my shows afterward, because during a show it’s so busy and it’s hard to enjoy what’s happening at the time. When I listen afterwards it reminds me why I love listening to music, and I can enjoy the songs that made that night’s playlist. I am fortunate to be, what I want to call, a legitimate DJ. Having the opportunity to hear new music first-hand and being able to share it with an audience is tremendous. Let’s keep rockin’!

Exmortus “The Sound of Steel”
Tremonti “A Dying Machine”
Judas Priest “Firepower”
Jinjer “Cloud Factory”
Black Mirrors “Into the Black Mirrors”
Graveyard “Peace”
Kobra and the Lotus “Prevail II”
The Crown “Cobra Speed Venom”
Alien Weaponry “Tu”
Psycroptic “As the Kingdom Drowns”

Eric Funk
Mountain Chill (KRKQ-Telluride, CO)
This was one of the bests year’s for new music out of the last half dozen, and the year that deep house made a breakthrough into the mainstream.

RÜFÜS DU SOL – Solace
BOB MOSES – Battle Lines
MARIBOU STATE – Kingdoms In Colour
GEORGE FITZGERALD – All That Must Be
CLAPTONE – Fantast
SIGUR ROS – Route One
MATTHEW DEAR – Bunny
SOFI TUKKER – Treehouse
JON HOPKINS – Singularity
ROBOT KOCH – Sphere

Mike Pop
Music Choice Indie
Wow, there was a lot this year…

Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
Pinegrove – Skylight
Bedbug – i’ll count to heaven in years without seasons
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
Wild Nothing – Indigo
Superorganism – Superorganism
Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Tune-Yards – I feel you creeping into my personal life
Preoccupations – New Material
Swearin’ – Fall Into The Sun

Caroline Shadood
Mute
women to the front literally always

Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Snail Mail – Lush
Anna Calvi – Hunter
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
US Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
Dilly Dally – Heaven
Soccer Mommy – Clean
Boygenius – Boygenius EP
US Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer

Martin Curti
NewWorldBuzz

Femi Kuti “One People One World”
Bombino “Deran”
Imarhan “Temet”
Boubacar Traoré “Dounia Tabolo”
Jupiter & Okwess “Kin Sonic”
Angélique Kidjo “Remain In Light”
Rio Mira “Marimba Del Pacifico”
Fatoumata Diawara “Fenfo”
Henri Dikongué “Diaspora”
Ziggy Marley “Rebellion Rises”

David Sommerstein
North Country Public Radio / “The Beat Authority”

Kali Uchis – Isolation
Khruangbin – Con Todo el Mundo
Jupiter & Okwess – Kin Sonic
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
Chancha Via Circuito – Bienaventuranza
Magic Drum Orchestra – The DNA of Rhythm
Imarhan – Temet
Baloji – 137 Avenue Kaniama
Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light
Brownout – Fear of a Brown Planet

Doug
Pirate! Promotions
Wish there was more Beachwhistle.

The Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Neko Case-Hell On
Hop Along- Bark Your Head off dog
Alkaline Trio–Is this thing Cursed?
Idles–Joy as an act of Resistance
Doe-Grow into it
gobbinjr–ocala wick
Jeff Rosenstock–POST
Breeders–All Nerve
Cupcakke- Ephorize

Ben Zalman
Planetary Group
Top Ten’s from me are in Alphabetical Order

A Vulture Wake – The Appropriate Level of Outrage
Anemone – Baby Only You & I
Bugs – Social Slump
Camp Cope – How To Socialize and How To Make Friends
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How Your Really Feel
MGMT – Little Dark Age
Momma – Interloper
Now, Now – Saved
Rubblebucket – Sun Machine
Soccer Mommy – Clean

CJ
Planetary Group
I believe 2018 will be probably considered the weakest or second weakest (2014) year for music of this decade (2019 pending, obviously). Not to say there weren’t great records this year, but

LONER by Caroline Rose
7 by Beach House
POST- by Jeff Rosenstock
Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
VHS by CASTLEBEAT
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love by Deafheaven
2012-2017 by A.A.L. (Against All Logic)
Knock Knock by DJ Koze
Fetti by Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs, & The Alchemist
Future Me Hates Me by The Beths

Lucas Frangiosa
Planetary Group
Lots of high profile artists with mediocre albums this year, lots of new artists with outstanding albums, and a whole lot of memes.

Mac Miller “Swimming”
Verzache “Thought Pool”
Pusha T “DAYTONA”
Jerry Folk “Leisure Tapes”
KIDS SEE GHOSTS “KIDS SEE GHOSTS”
Cautious Clay “Blood Type”
Matt DiMona “JUNO”
Ben Khan “Ben Khan”
JOJI “BALLADS 1”
Vacationer “Mindset”

Luke Phillips
Planetary Group
2018 seemed like a bit of a transitional year in music – a lot of good but not GREAT albums. It was so incredible to see women and female-identifying artists capturing the zeitgeist more than ever.

Amen Dunes – Freedom
Kadhja Bonet – Childqueen
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
Soccer Mommy – Clean
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Anna Burch – Quit the Curse
U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited
Mitski – Be The Cowboy
SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Peach Kelli Pop – Gentle Leader

Maddie Schwappach
Radio K – KUOM
Spectacular year for tunes! Can’t remember a time where there have been this many inspiring and exciting releases.

Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love
Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
Rico Nasty – Nasty
JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
Soccer Mommy – Clean
Noname – Room 25
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer

Scott Davidson
Rebel Radio

Judas Priest Firepower
Clutch Book Of Bad Decions
Iron Maiden The Stusio Collection
Dee Snider For
The Love Of Metal
Micheal Romeo War Of The Worlds Part 1
Dream Child
Pig Destoyer
Wrath Rage
Suicidal Tendencies

Rupam Sofsky
Shine On
SSION had all the best music videos of 2018, by a large margin.

Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning – Carpark
Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose – Domino
Caroline Says – No Fool Like An Old Fool – Western Vinyl
Low – Double Negative – Sub Pop
SSION – O – DERO Arcade
Haley Heynderickx – I Need To Start A Garden – Mama Bird
Oh Sees – Smote Reverser – Castle Face
The Internet – Hive Mind – Columbia
Lykke Li – so sad so sexy – RCA
Kurt Vile – Bottle It In – Matador

Munsey Ricci
Skateboard Marketing Ltd.
Stellar

Judas Priest, Firepower
Unearth, Extincition(s)
Striker, Play To Win
High On Fire, Electric Messiah
Alien Weaponry, Tu
Suicidal Tendencies, Still Cyco Punk After All These Years
Between The Buried And Me, Automata I
Jinjer, Cloud Factory
Architects UK, Holy Hell
Atreyu, In Our Wake

Michelle Feghali
Sub Pop Records
This year between Sub Pop and Hardly Art we put out over 60 releases and I seriously loved them all. Making this list was tough!

IAN SWEET
Loma
Low
Lala Lala
Kyle Craft
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Beach House
Forth Wanderers
Jo Passed
Father John Misty

Dan Manning
Terrorbird
GOOD YEAR

Amen Dunes – Freedomo
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus
Low – Double Negative
Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands of Love
Devon Welsh – Dream Songs
Them Are Us Too – Amends
Bambara – Shadow On Everything
Teyana Taylor – KTSE
Ichiko Aoba – qp
Devil Master – Manifestations

Shannon Kurlander
Terrorbird

Ariana Grande – Sweetener
Hatchie – Sugar & Spice EP
Tirzah – Devotion
MorMor – Heaven’s Only Wishful EP
Lala Lala – The Lamb
Smerz – Have Fun
Tanukichan – Sundays
Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love
Kevin Krauter – Toss Up
Sidney Gish – No Dogs Allowed

Tess Plummer
Terrorbird
music rocks

A Partner To Lean On – Trace Mountains
Time ‘n’ Place – Kero Kero Bonito
Bark Your Head Off, Dog – Hop Along
No Fool Like an Old Fool – Caroline Says
Dirty Computer – Janelle Monae
The Opener – Camp Cope
Perfect Shapes – Madeline Kenney
Almost – The Ophelias
Room 25 – Noname
I’ll Sing – Shannen Moser

Tess Plummer
Terrorbird
Music is sick

Trace Mountains – A Partner To Lean On
Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place
Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Caroline Says – No Fool Like An Old Fool
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
Camp Cope – How to Socialise & Make Friends
Madeline Kenney – Perfect Shapes
The Ophelias – Almost
Noname – Room 25
Shannen Moser – I’ll Sing

Dan Murphy
The Acoustic Outpost, Folk Frontier
A fine year with excellent albums from old-timers and newcomers alike.

John McCutcheon – Ghost Light
Eliza Gilkyson – Secularia
Joe Jencks – The Forgotten
John Prine – The Tree of Foregiveness
Rod MacDonald – Beginning Again
Eric Bannan – You Are Welcome Here
Stephen Stills & Judy Collins – Everybody Knows
John Gorka – True In Time
Meghan Cary – Sing Louder
Ziggy Marley – Rebellion Rises

Jenn Misko
The Band Mom
I’m never quite done with these types of lists until January at the earliest (then I publish them on thebandmom.com), so this is far from definitive, but it’s where I’m at right now. This also does not include any Band Mom releases, because they are all my favorite, don’t make me choose! Particularly painful to have to leave off Open Mike Eagle, Dear Nora, Jenn Champion, Courtney Barnett, Mitski, Okkervil River, Yo La Tengo, Andrew WK, Superchunk, and Dilly Dally – sticking to 10 is a killer! Plus I haven’t even spent any time with a few releases likely to become favorites ASAP, so particularly reserving room for Mount Eerie, Low, Anna Burch, Say Hi, Eric Bachmann, Nick Krgovich, Ezra Furman, the Mountain Goats, and Sufjan to make a late-season leap up there.  Ah well. Life is hard!

Strange Parts “Oh God, What A Beautiful Time I Spent In The Wild”
Ruler “Winning Star Champion”
The Beths “Future Me Hates Me”
Hop Along “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
Advance Base “Animal Companionship”
Fred Thomas “Aftering”
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus “Boygenius EP”
Lucy Dacus “Historian”
Father John Misty “God’s Favorite Customer”
Phosphorescent “C’est La Vie”

Jesse Wiza
The Current (KCMP)
A wild ride.

Jim James – Uniform Distortion
Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
Low – Double Negative
Rostam – Half-Light
Sure Sure – Sure Sure
Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
Valley Queen – Supergiant
Your Smith – The Spot

Rogalsky
The Foundry
Some unexpected gold this year.

Victim of The New Disease
War of the Worlds Part 1
Malady X
Warning Blast
Apocalypse
Revival
Play to Win
For the Love of Metal
Reverence
The Outer Ones

Patrick O’Malley
The Safes

Run Hide Fight – “He’s A Jerk” (Hidden Volume Records) https://hiddenvolume.com/
The Kyring – “So Many Girls” (Action Weekend Records) https://actionweekend.bandcamp.com/album/the-kryng-so-many-girls-aw019
The Fadeaways – “Dirty Water EP” (Dirty Water Records USA) https://thefadeawaysdwrusa.bandcamp.com/
The Spookies – “Please Come Back” (Bickerton Records) https://bickertonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/br021-please-come-back-out-of-the-inside
The Routes – “4 Track EP” (Ghost Highway Records) http://www.ghosthighwayshop.com/es/home/448-7-the-routes-4-track-ep-black.html
Kurt Baker – “Lets Go Wild” (Wicked Cool Records) https://kurtbakerwcr.bandcamp.com/album/lets-go-wild
Gorilla – “Oh California” (Pop N Roll Records) https://gorilla45.bandcamp.com/album/oh-california-4-4-extended-pop
King Salami and the Cumberland Three – “Tainted Love” (Folc Records) https://folcrecords.bandcamp.com/album/folc089-king-salami-the-cumberland-3-tainted-love
The Lampshades – “Astrology” https://thelampshadespgh.bandcamp.com/album/astrology-2
The Differents – “It’s All Too Beautiful” (Stars No Stars Records) https://thedifferents-chicago.bandcamp.com/

Joe McGinnis
The Syndicate
What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been

BODEGA – Endless Scroll
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
Shy Boys – The Bell House
Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurts
Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
Foxing – Nearer My God
Kississippi – Sunset Blush
Shannon and The Clams – Onion
Blood Orange – Negro Swan

Jordan
The Syndicate
“Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow running free
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time” – Hootie & The Blowfish

Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)
Death Cab For Cutie, Thank You For Today (Atlantic)
BROCKHAMPTON, iridescence (RCA)
Caroline Rose, LONER (New West)
Shannon Shaw, Shannon In Nashville (Easy Eye Sound)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Hope Downs (Subpop)
The Happy Fits, Concentrate (Self-Released)
MGMT, Little Dark Age (Columbia)
Flasher, Constant Image (Domino)
Shy Boys, Bell House (Polyvinyl)

Shil K. Patel
Tiger Bomb Promo
These are some of my favorite releases of 2018 that Tiger Bomb didn’t promote presented in no particular order.

Blood Orange “Negro Swan”
Bonny Doon “Longwave”
Anna Burch “Quit The Curse”
Caroline Says “No Fool Like An Old Fool”
Flasher “Constant Image”
Helado Negro “Island Universe Story Four”
Haley Heyndrickx “I Need To Start A Garden”
Mitski “Be The Cowboy”
The Sea And Cake “Any Day”
Yuno “Moodie”

Jordan Young
Tinderbox Music
Still biased, but slightly less than last year.

Dessa “Chime”
Mac Miller “Swimming”
Evidence “Weather or Not”
Jungle “For Ever”
Raz Simone “Drive Theory”
The Internet “Hive Mind”
Anderson .Paak “Oxnard”
Blood Orange “Negro Swan”
Buddy “Harlan & Alondra”
Nipsey Hussle “Victory Lap”

Sali
Twin Vision

OURS “New Age Heroine”
JENN CHAMPION “Single Rider”
ELLEN STARSKI “The Days When Peonies Prayed For The Ants”
VNV Nation “Noire”
WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS “The More I Sleep The Less I Dream”
METRIC “Art Of Doubt”
OCEAN HOPE “Rolling Days”
ANNA CALVI “Hunter”
MADELINE KENNEY “Perfect Shapes”
WILD NOTHING Indigo

Jerry Steller
Vitriol Radio Promo
I never have time to listen to as much as I’d like but of the stuff I heard this year, these are my favorites.

KACEY MUSGRAVES Golden Hour
METRIC Art Of Doubt
SOCCER MOMMY Clean
JANELLE MONAE Dirty Computer
BEACH HOUSE 7
TROYE SIVAN Bloom
SNAIL MAIL Lush
ROBYN Honey
MITSKI Be The Cowboy
BOYGENIUS boygenius [EP]

Ryan Rutz
WAWM-SD Bulldog Radio

Theory of a Deadman – Wake Up Call
The Record Company – All of This Life
Blue October – I Hope You’re Happy
Laura Veirs – The Lookout
Everlast – Whitey Ford’s House of Blues
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians – Rocket
Loreena McKennitt – Lost Souls
Morrissey – Low in High School
Greta Van Fleet – Anthem of the Peaceful Army
Roots of Creation – Grateful Dub

Paul Simpson
WCBN

Autechre: NTS Sessions
Mount Eerie: Now Only
Lotic: Power
Anna Burch: Quit the Curse
Jlin: Autobiography
Kadhja Bonet: Childqueen
DJ Taye: Still Trippin’
Low: Double Negative
Blawan: Wet Will Always Dry
Profligate: Somewhere Else

Brian
WCNI
strong start and finish!

Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
Curtis Roush – Cosmic Campfire Music
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Close But No Cigar
Charles Bradley – Black Velvet
The Sheepdogs – Changing Colours
Israel Nash – Lifted
Michael Nau and the Mightly Thread – Michael Nau and the Mightly Thread
King Tuff – The Other
José James – Lean on Me
Carl Broemel – Wished Out

Tofu Dave
WCOM Community Radio

Del McCoury Band Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass
Hot Rize Hot Rize’s 40th Anniversary Bash
Della Mae Della Mae
Richard Thompson 13 Rivers
Norah Jones Live At Ronnie Scott’s
Thelonious Monk Complete Prestige 10” Collection (5LP Box)
The Secret Sisters You Don’t Own Me Anymore
Junior Byles Rasta No Pickpocket
Rebelution Free Rein
The Revivalists Take Good Care

Art Menius
WCOM The Revolution Starts Now
Great year for topical protest music, although that might not be a good thing.

Janelle Monae “Dirty Computer”
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers “Years”
Neil Young “Songs for Judy”
Kaia Kater “Grenades”
Shemekia Copeland “America’s Child”
Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, & Sam Gleaves “Shout and Shine”
Zoe Speaks “Wings”
Barbara Dane “Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs”
Joe Jencks “The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures for the Pen of Si Kahn”
Dede Wyland “Urge for Going”

Christopher Milo
WCXS – The Steel Eagle

Bob Moses – Battle Lines
Mother Mother – Dance and Cry
Son Real – One Long Dream
The Happy Fits – Concentrate
Nathaniel Rateliff – Tearing at the Seams
Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino
Slothrust – The Pact
Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today
Grapetooth – Grapetooth
Striker – Play to Win

andy Dunn
WCYT
IDLES

IDLES – Joy as An Act of Resistance
Lucy Dacus – Historian
MGMT – Little Dark Age
Bodega – Endless Scrolls
Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Anna Burch – Quit the Curse
Hatchie – Sugar & Spice
Kero Kero Benito – Time ‘n Place
Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo in Blue
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy

Jesse Taconelli
WDBM
One of the best years in music in decades

Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance
Mid-Air Thief – Crumbling 무너지기
Amen Dunes – Freedom
Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
JPEGMAFIA – VETERAN
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
Against All Logic – 2012-2017
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
Pill – Soft Hell
Pinegrove – Skylight

Conner Kincaid
WDCE
The metal scene was ripe with prime albums from established acts and fresh blood alike.

Zeal & Ardor, “Stranger Fruit”
Haken, “Vector”
Deafheaven, “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love”
Architects, “Holy Hell”
Bloodbath, “The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn”
The Black Queen, “Infinite Games”
The Ocean, “Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic”
Alkaloid, “Liquid Anatomy”
Obscura, “Diluvium”
Winterfylleth, “The Hallowing of Heirdom”

Keith Krause
WEGL 91.1 FM Auburn, AL – Music Director

Amnesia Scanner “Another Life”
U.S. Girls “In a Poem Unlimited”
Skee Mask “Compro”
SOPHIE “OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES”
Tim Hecker “Konoyo”
Julia Holter “Aviary”
Yves Tumor “Safe in the Hands of Love”
Pendant “Make Me Know You Sweet”
Oneohtrix Point Never “Age Of”
RP Boo “I’ll Tell You What!”

Rusty Roberts
WERA-LP

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat – Riddles
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Flasher – Pressure
Wild Pink – Yolk In The Fur
Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On
Fred Thomas – Aftering
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
Foxing – Nearer My God

Russ Borris
wfuv.org

Caroline Rose, LONER
Phosphorescent, C’est La Vie
The Decemberists, I’ll Be Your Girl
Natalie Prass, The Future and the Past
Tracey Thorn, Record
Brian Fallon, Sleepwalkers
Richard Swift, The Hex
Mitski, Be the Cowboy
Joshua Hedley, Mr. Jukebox
Superorganism, Superorganism

Jeff Rosedale
WFWM 91.9 Frostburg,Maryland

Guided By Voices – Space Gun
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Something Else
Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
Wooden Shjips – V
Preoccupations – New Material
Superchunk – What A Time to Be Alive
Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Shriekback – Why Anything, Why This?
The Essex Green – Hardly Electronic

Mark Michaelis
WGDR/WGDH – Acoustic Harmony
So many great folk/americana releases, it’s almost impossible to name a top 10!

Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – “Awake”
Lori McKenna – “The Tree”
Tracy Grammer – “Low Tide”
Craig Bickhardt – “Home For The Harvest”
Low Lily – “10,000 Days Like These”
Tom Russell – “Old Songs Yet To Sing”
Mipso – “Edges Run”
Caroline Cotter – “The River”
Wes Collins – “Welcome To The Ether”
Laurie MacAllister – “The Lies The Poets Tell”

Mike Saffran (GM)
WGSU-FM (SUNY Geneseo)
2018 was a great year for new music! (And, especially, music by female acts.)

Allison Leah “Fly Home” [EP]
Jackknife Stiletto “Chronicles of Jane: Vol. 1” [EP]
Let’s Eat Grandma “I’m All Ears”
Madyx “Madyx” [EP]
Marmozets “Knowing What You Know Now”
Metric “Art of Doubt”
Pale Waves “My Mind Makes Noises”
Rubblebucket “Sun Machine”
Transviolet “Valley” [EP]
Wild Moccasins “Look Together”

David May
WHFC-FM, Desert Island Jazz
There were some outstanding new recordings in 2018, I wish I could add more to the list!

Bootsie Barnes, Larry McKenna, The More I See You
Hal Galper, Cubist
Kyle Eastwood, In Transit
Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Chet Baker, Ballads for Two
Kent Miller Quartet, Sunday Evenin’
Andrea Brachfeld, If Not Now, When
John Colianni Sextet, I Never Knew
McClenty Hunter, Jr., The Groove Hunter
Ben Paterson, Live at Van Gelder’s
Gabriel Espinosa, Nostalgias de Mi Vida

Shawn Novatt
WHPC

Parquet Courts “Wide Awake”
Camp Cope “How To Socialize and Make Friends”
Jeff Rosenstock “Post-“
Goon Sax, The “We’re Not Talking”
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever “Hope Downs”
Big Red Machine “Big Red Machine”
Beths, The “Future Me Hates Me”
Titus Andronicus “A Productive Cough”
Spiritualized “And Nothing Hurt”
Antarctigo Vespucci “Love In The Time Of Email”

Eli Winter
WHPK
I’ll be leaving quite a lot out. Here are the first ten records that come to mind, in no real order.

The Morning Star — Daniel Bachman
Between the World and Small Things — Evan Morgan
New & Old — Cameron Knowler
Beyondless — Iceage
The Book of Sounds — Hans Otte
Deafman Glance — Ryley Walker
The Lillywhite Sessions — Ryley Walker
Axially Grasp — Mute Duo
Tom and Christina Carter — Charalambides
The Astronaut’s Laundry — Sam Wagster

Paul Shugrue
WHRV

Courtney Barnett “Tell Me How You Really Feel”
Decemberists “I’ll Be Your Girl”
Lucy Dacus “Historian”
Old Crow Medicine Show “Volunteer”
Death Cab For Cutie “Thank You For Today”
First Aid Kit “Ruins”
John Prine “The Tree of Forgiveness”
Devotchka “This Night Falls Forever”
Snail Mail “Lush”
Lord Huron “Vide Noir”

Jacob Levine
WHRW
Huge year for women and a huge year for indie

This is What Happens When I Try To Relax by Open Mike Eagle
Lush by Snail Mail
Bark Your Head Off, Dog by Hop Along
Whack World by Tierra Whack
Double Negative by Low
Little Dark Age by MGMT
El Mal Querer by Rosalia
7 by Beach House
Iridescence by BROCKHAMPTON
God’s Favorite Customer by Father John Misty

Jeremy Franklin
WLUR (Lexington, VA)

Julia Holter “Aviary”
Wye Oak “The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs”
Lucy Dacus “Historian”
Haley Heynderickx “I Need to Start a Garden”
Anna St. Louis “If Only There Was a River”
Rosalía “El Mal Querer”
Anna & Elizabeth “The Invisible Comes to Us”
Hop Along “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
Kali Uchis “Isolation”
Gabriella Cohen “Pink Is the Colour of Unconditional Love”

Joanie Lindstrom
WMBR

Monster Magnet – Mindfucker
The Scaners – s/t
Spiders – Killer Machine
Bad Sports – Constant Stimulation
Territories – s/t
Wild Zeros – Motormouth
The Chats – Get This in Ya
Dead Furies – Get This in Ya
The Vintage Caravan – Gateways
Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip – v/a

Randall Wynne
WMNF
too early to evaluate

Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Wye Oak The Louder I Call, The Faster It Gets
The Record Company – All of This Life
Caroline Rose Loner
Parquet Courts Wide Awake!
Nathaniel; Rateliff & the Nightsweats Tearing at the Seams
The Decemberists – Ill be Your Girl
Phosphorescent C’est La Vie
Leon Bridges – Good Thing
J Mascis Elastic Days

Paul Krempasky
WMUH

The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe Infinity
Geotic – Traversa
Ohmme – Parts
Chris Liebing – Burn Slow
The Coral – Move Through The Dawn
J Mascis – Elastic Days
Belly – DOVE
Gruff Rhys – Babelsberg

Michael Philips
WOWD/In the Jazz Kitchen

Gilad Hekselman – Ask For Chaos
Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile
Stefon Harris – Sonic Creed
Cecile McLorin Salvant – The Window
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble – All Can Work
Brad Mehldau – After Bach
Helen Sung – Sung With Words
Black Art Jazz Collective – Armor of Pride
Mathias Eick – Ravensburg
Kenny Barron – Concentric Circles

Sydney Rock
WPRK

Mitski “Be The Cowboy”
Turnstile “Time & Space”
Father John Misty “God’s Favorite Customer”
Boygenius “Boygenuius”
Liza Anne “Fine by Dying”
Death Cab for Cutie “Thank You For Today”
Hatchie “Sugar and Spice”
Free Cake for Every Creature “The Bluest Star”
Frankie Cosmos “Vessel”
Soccer Mommy “Clean”

Sophie Lawton
WPRK 91.5

Jessie Reyez “Being Human in Public”
The Marcus King Band “Carolina Confessions”
Rose Droll “Your Dog”
Darwin Deez “10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart”
Kali Uchis “Isolation”
Boy Pablo “Soy Pablo”
Dirty Projector “Lamp Lit Prose”
Good Old War “Part of Us”
Honne “Love Me/Love Me Not”
Born Ruffians “Uncle, Duke & The Chief”

Bill Lupoletti
WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio

Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Sira Ba Kele (Sublime Frequencies)
Angelique Kidjo – Remain In Light (Kravenworks)
Vaudou Game – Otodi (Hot Casa)
Orquesta Akokan – Orquesta Akokan (Daptone)
Guy One – #1 (Philophon)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Black Times (Strut)
Newpoli – Mediterraneo (Beartones)
Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
Jupiter & Okwess – Kin Sonic (Everloving)
Imarhan – Temet (City Slang)

Kelli Lynch
WRRG
so hard to whittle down my top 10

Fucked Up – Does Your Dreams – Merge
Juliana Hatfield – Olivia Newton-John – American Laundromat
Johnny Marr – Call the Comet – New Voodoo
J Mascis – Elastic Days – Sub Pop
Mastersytem – Dance Music – Physical Education
Nothing – Dance on the Blacktop – Relapse
Shannon Shaw – Shannon in Nashville – Easy Eye Sound
Smoking Popes – Into the Agony – Asian Man
Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt – Fat Possum
Superchunk – What A time to Be Alive – Merge

Carly Flatau
WRUV

Lost & Found – Jorja Smith
I Used To Know Her Part 2 – H.E.R.
Hive Mind – The Internet
Rhododendron – Valley Maker
Room 25 – Noname
Lush – Snail Mail
Earthtones – Bahamas
Wide Awake – Parquet Courts
Being So Normal – Peach Pit
Fudge Sandwich – Ty Segall

Mark Pruett
WSCA
Too much music, not enough time

Galatee “Sans Titre”
Cauldron “New Gods”
Unleashed “The Hunt for White Christ”
Lizzy Borden “My Midnight Things”
Chevalier “II”
Nervosa “Downfall of Mankind”
Grave Upheaval “untitled”
Speedclaw “Beast in the Mist”
Immortal “Northern Chaos Gods”
Altars of Grief “This Shameful Burden”

Maddy
WSHL
This was a rough year overall, but boy, did it produce some great music. I think I speak for everyone at WSHL when I say we’ve found lifetime faves. We’ve been loving the submissions we get, the music we find, and the feelings they’ve made (even if there’s a lot of sad stuff). The list is less of a top 10 countdown, and more of a culmination of what the WSHL Executive Board loved this year.

Mitski “Be the Cowboy”
Godsmack “When Legends Rise”
Ghost “Prequelle”
Snail Mail “Lush”
Ariana Grande “sweetener”
Janelle Monàe “Dirty Computer”
Rare Americans “Rare Americans”
Hippocampus “Bambi”
Jerry Paper “Like a Baby”
Castlecomer “Castlecomer”

Katie Wilson
WSOU

Firepower – Judas Priest
Thunderbolt – Saxon
Prequelle – Ghost
Avatar Country – Avatar
God Damn Evil – Stryper
Book of Bad Decisions – Clutch
Until Death Do We Meet Again – Dream Child
Northern Chaos Gods – Immortal
Conqueror’s Oath – Visigoth
Evolution – Disturbed

Tyler
WSUM

Toby Driver – They Are The Shield
Julia Holter – Aviary
Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
Palm – Rock Island
IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Low – Double Negative
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
Beak> – >>>
Ihsahn – Amr

John “El Prezidente” Adams
WTSR / The Chainsaw Symphony

Behemoth “I Loved You At Your Darkest”
Devildriver “Outlaws Till the End”
Pig Destroyer “Head Cage”
Dee Snider “For the Love of Metal”
Unearth “Extinction(s)”
Jesus Piece “Only Self”
Parkway Drive “Reverence”
Judas Priest “Firepower”
Cabal “Mark of Rot”
Soulfly “Ritual”

Tori Benes
WUOG

U.S. Girls “In A Poem Unlimited”
Kali Uchis “Isolation”
Kacey Musgraves “Golden Hour”
Noname “room 25”
Hop Along “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
Tierra Whack “Whack World”
Mitski “Be The Cowboy”
Haley Heynderickx “I Need To Start A Garden”
Boygenius “Boygenius EP”
Marissa Nadler “For My Crimes”

Emme Ostrander
WUSC
soooooo good! Janelle Monae’s album was 100000x better than anything else but there were so many good albums released

Janelle Monae — Dirty Computer
Hayley Kiyoko — Expectations
Maty Noyes — Love Songs from a Lolita EP
Troye Sivan — Bloom
Sofi Tukker — Treehouse
Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
Transviolet — Valley EP
Kim Petras — TURN OFF THE LIGHT, VOL. 1

Rachel Ames
WVFS Tallahassee

Miss Red “K.O.”
Popcaan “Forever”
Low “Double Negative”
Sumac “Love In Shadow”
G36 “Floor Weapons”
Earl Sweatshirt “Some Rap Songs”
Sunun “Ooid”
Makaya Mccraven “Universal Beings”
Galcher Lustwerk “200% Galcher”
Vile Luxury “Imperial Triumphant”

George Graham
WVIA Music director, producer/host
Not a whole lot stood out from previous years

Gabriel Kahane “Book of Travelers”
Paul Simon “In the Blue Light”
Playing for Change “Listen to the Music”
Sheila Nicholls “All of Nature”
John McCutcheon “Ghost Light”
Umphrey’s McGee “It’s Not Us”
Justin Gray and Synthesis “New Horizons”
Shemekia Copeland “America’s Child”
Oliver the Crow “Oliver the Crow”
I’m with Her “See You Around”

Braiden Morris
WVKR
every year since 2015, i’ve said “this has been the best year for music in decades!” really makes me wonder if music’s just gonna finally peak some year soon.

Julia Holter “Aviary”
Anna von Hausswolff “Dead Magic”
Let’s Eat Grandma “I’m All Ears”
Robyn “Honey”
Earl Sweatshirt “Some Rap Songs”
Hop Along “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
SOPHIE “OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES”
Yowler “Black Dog in My Path”
Kero Kero Bonito “Time ‘n’ Place”
Tomberlin “At Weddings”

Ken Luther
WVLP / Mostly Metal
This didn’t seem like a strong year overall, at least in the subsubsubgenres I like!

Seventh Wonder: Tiara
Redemption: Long Night’s Journey Into Day
Dynazty: Firesign
Michael Romeo: War of the Worlds Pt 1
Destinia: Metal Souls
Angra: OMNI
Beyond the Black: Heart of the Hurricane
Stratovarius: Enigma – Intermission II
Kingcrow: The Persistence
Grave Digger: The Living Dead

Shane Patrick
WVUA FM 90.7 The Capstone
RIP EDM

Best of Toolroom 2018
Anjunadeep The Yearbook 2018
Defected presents The Closing Party Ibiza 2018
mau5ville: Level 2
Anjunadeep Explorations 07
Toolroom Amsterdam 2018
The Birds: Alex Niggemann
Deep House Hits: Winter 2018 Armada Music – Extended Versions
John Digweed Live In Tokyo
Defected Ibiza 2018

Ahnnabella Kolacki
WVUR
Great year for music!

Amir – Tamino
God’s Favorite Customer – Father John Misty
Indigo – Wild Nothing
Landscape – Future Generations
Bambi – Hippo Campus
Mirror Master – Young the Giant
Crush Crusher- Ian Sweet
7 – Beach House
When My Heart Felt Volcanic – The Aces
Living In Symbol – Astronauts, Etc.

Brianna Snider
WXCU Radio
Music this year was a big leap forward in terms of innovation!

Petal “Magic Gone”
oldsoul “Coy”
Pool Kids “Music To Practice Safe Sex To”
Hop Along “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
Barely Civil “We Can Live Here Forever”
The Sonder Bombs “Modern Female Rockstar”
Snail Mail “Lush”
Soccer Mommy “Clean”
Ian Sweet “Crush Crusher”
saltlick “Until Next Time”

Josh T. Landow
Y-Not Radio
Great year for music, especially music made by women!

Caroline Rose – Loner
Kate Nash – Yesterday Was Forever
Metric – Art of Doubt
CHVRCHES – Love Is Dead
Tune-Yards – I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
The Vaccines – Combat Sports
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Dream Wife – Dream Wife
Superorganism – Superorganism
Jukebox The Ghost – Off To The Races