2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 9

Kalyn
MC/Beats, Wheelchair Sports Camp

Top 10 albums (no order):

Frank Ocean - Blond

Warpaint - Heads Up

Beyonce - Lemonade

James Blake - The Colour in Anything

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Solange - A Seat at the Table

Rihanna - Anti

Anderson Paak - Malibu

Drake - Views

Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Fav shows of the year (no order)

The Other Black @ Syntax

Santigold @ Ogden

Erykah @ Ogden 

Warpaint @ Gothic

Coco Rosie + Milk Blossoms @ Gothic

Nao @ Gothic

Chicharra @ Titwrench

Alabama Shakes in Taos

Gaslamp Killer @ Cervantes

The Librarian @ Cervantes 

Sango @ Cervantes

Drake @ Pepsi Center

Sierra Leon in Tijuana

LCD Soundsystem @ Red Rocks

Mangchi @ meow wolf

Shane
of The Kissing Party

Here's my top 10 2016 releases I bought:

Planes Mistaken For Stars - "Prey"

Neurosis - "Fires Within Fires"

Mogwai - "Atomic"

Trap Them - "Crown Feral"

Explosions in the Sky - "The Wilderness"

Deftones - "Gore"

Mono - "Requiem For Hell

Batman vs Superman Soundtrack (What? Hans Zimmer is awesome!)

Radiohead - "A Moon Shaped Pool"

Russian Circles - "Guidance"

Michael Bunnell
Executive Director Think Indie

Owner Of The Record Exchange

1105 W Idaho St

Boise, Idaho

Leonard Cohen- You Want It Darker
Hayes Carll- Lovers & Leavers
David Bowie- Blackstar
Parquet Courts- Human Performance
Alejandro Escovedo- Burn Something Beautiful
Paul Simon- Stranger to Stranger
Rokia Traore- Ne So
Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau- Nearness
Black Mountain- IV
Margaret Glaspy- Emotions and Math

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 8

Orlandez Lewis
Marketing & Promotions, Vintage Vinyl

6610 Delmar Blvd.

University City, MO 63130

Orlandez Lewis from Vintage Vinyl here!

Here's my list of favorites from the year!


​1. "Yes Lawd!" - Nxworries
2. "Blackstar" - David Bowie
3. "We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service" - A Tribe Called Quest
4. "Lemonade" - Beyonce
5. "Malibu" - Anderson Paak
6. "99.9%" - Kaytranada
7. "Untitled. Unmastered" - Kendrick Lamar
8. "A Seat at the Table" - Solange
9. "Heads Up" - Warpaint
10. "Blonde" - Frank Ocean

Storm Gloor
Music Business Professor at CU Denver, Twitter Account

Well, here ya go.. (in no particular order):

Anything But Words - Banks & Steelz

Blackstar - David Bowie

A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead

Freetown Sound - Blood Orange

Midwest Farmer’s Daughter - Margo Price

True Sadness - Avett Brothers

Day Breaks - Norah Jones

57th & 9th - Sting

Soundtrack - Suicide Squad

Signs of Light - The Head and the Heart

Adam Baumeister
of Meep Records Denver, CO

Y La Bamba - Ojos Del Sol 

So beautiful my favorite new record this year 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNDvW9PlwrU

Thug Entrancer - Arcology 

The Breadth of this is mind-blowing collaborative effort on artwork w/ Milton Melvin Croissant III welcome to the future -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevqLRiyykc

Mary Halvorson Octet - Away With You
Not very often and I sucked in at first listen - but with Mary I was. The pedal steel player in the group Susan Alcorn is amazing as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRiL66misc

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here... 
So refreshing - So current. Made me feel like I was a 10 year old white kid from the suburbs hearing Public Enemy for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAoqWu6wmfI

Esme Patterson - We Were Wild Rocking Esme is my favorite Esme. Miss you boo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQylnGUCASo

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
I can't write about this now - it's been a rough year - just listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCg5BRhlxw

Beyonce - Lemonade 

It took me awhile to get around to this - but yes everyone was right - it's completely amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeonBmeFR8o

Joe Sampson - Chansons de Parade
New EP from one of the best - this - song -  kills - me

https://joesampson1.bandcamp.com/track/orchard

Wilco - Schmilco 

New rock record by 20 year old "indie" band usually means I will automatically dismiss it - Wilco always gets me though - especially this one - so weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2_P0GI4n5Y

Hippies Wearing Muzzles - Animist Pools
Really Good Modular synth stuff when the world is too heavy and you just want to lay back and read Neuromancer for the 5th time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU9wt12bzKw

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 7

Spells
One Of Our Favorite Denver Bands, Spells

Here are a few picks from SPELLS!

Mrs. Magician - Bermuda

Signals Midwest - At This Age

Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart

Ned Garthe Explosion - Flashlight Tan

Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland

The Hotelier - Goodness

ESP Ohio - Starting Point of the Royal Cyclopean

Tony Molina - Confront The Truth

Mako 1972 - Funeral Music

Sleaford Mods - TCR - EP

Brianna Dolly
Streetlight Records - Graphic & Social Media Director @ briannadolly.com

Top 10 Films Released in 2016:

The Witch - Robert Eggers

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

Into The Inferno - Werner Herzog

The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos

Handmaiden - Chan-wook Park

Hunt For The Wilder People - Taika Waititi

Swiss Army Man - The Daniels

Midnight Special - Jeff Nichols

Men & Chicken - Anders Thomas Jensen

Kubo & The Two String - Travis Knight

Chad Dryden
The Record Exchange

1105 West Idaho Street

Boise, ID 83702

And, in no particular order:

AFROSONICS - People Meet Your People
ELDOPAMINE - Sounds Like A Reasonable Thing For A Band To Play
MONEY - Suicide Songs
MARISSA NADLER - Strangers
PARQUET COURTS - Human Performance
THOMAS PAUL - Singalongs
SASHA - Scene Delete
SFM-STEVE FULTON MUSIC - Eponym
SLEEPY SEAHORSE - Frienditions
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 6

Ben Desoto
Talent Buyer and Artist Development at Bohemian Nights

Here are 10 records that burned out my turntable this year...

Esmé Patteron - We Were Wild

Margaret Glaspy - Emotions & Math

Fruit Bats - Absolute Loser

Eros & Eschaton - Weight of Matter

Paper Bird - Paper Bird

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive

Angel Olsen - My Woman

Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here...

Car Seat Head Rest - Teens of Denial

Kevin Morby - Singing Saw

Helen Triesch
WEA Music Group, Account Manager, Independent Sales

In no particular order:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Savages - Adore Life

Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter

David Bowie - Blackstar

Angel Olsen - My Woman

Parquet Courts - Human Performance

Blood Orange - Freetown Sound

Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

Tribe Called Quest We Got it From Here...Thank you 4 Your Service

And Because I can never narrow it down to just one list:

Cool Shows I saw this year: Margo Price, Neil Youjng, Case/Lang/Viers, Black Sabbath, Buzzcocks, LCD Soundsystem, Robert Plant, and The Kills

Kayvan S.T. Khalatbari
Co-founder of Denver Relief Consulting, Sexy Pizza, Sexpot Comedy, and Social Use Advocate

And, in no particular order:

Parquet Courts - Human Performance
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
The Devil Makes Three - Redemption & Ruin
Dwight Yoakam - Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars...
Allen Toussaint - American Tunes
De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody...
Noname - Mixtape
DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 5

Luke Sinclair
Long Time Customer and Good Friend of the Shop

2016

I spent a lot of 2016 digging deeper into old Irish, jazz, and country albums, which at times led me to not notice the new music coming out. I kept up with my favorite bands & artists, but over the past couple of months, I realized everything else I missed over the year. And what a year it was, I'm still trying to catch up!

New Album Favorites (In No Particular Order)

The White Stripes - Complete Peel Sessions

Radiohead - Moon-Shaped Pool

Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels - Born Too Late

KT Tunstall - KIN

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger

Various Artists - George Fest

Autolux - Pussy's Dead

Charles Bradley - Changes

Night Moves - Pennied Days

Margo Price -  Midwestern Farmer's Daughter

Reissue Faves from 2016

The Beatles - Hollywood Bowl

Led Zeppelin - Complete BBC Sessions

Oasis - Be Here Now (especially Noel Gallagher's 2016 remix of "D'Ya Know What I Mean?" Holy Crap)

Chris Anderson
Sony Music, Sales Representative

Yes! I love these things.

1) Car Seat Headrest  “Teens Of Denial”

2) Preoccupations  “Preoccupations”

3) DIIV  “Is The Is Are”

4) Parquet Courts  “Human Performance”

5) Ty Segall  “Emotional Mugger”

6) Elza Soares  “A Mulher do Fim do Mundo”

7) Savages  “Adore Life”

8) A Tribe Called Quest  “We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service”

9) David Bowie  “Blackstar”

10) Swans  “The Glowing Man”

Darlene D'Agostino Beck
Director of Marketing. Z2 Entertainment

Iggy Pop, Josh Homme - Post Pop Depression

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Black Mountain - IV

Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros

Angel Olsen - My Woman

Esme Patterson - We Were Wild

Carseat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Flume - Skin

BADBADNOTGOOD - IV

Blood Orange - Freetown Sound

St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Sea of Noise

Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love!

Devendra Banhart - Ape in Pink Marble

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 4

Itchy-O
Denver-based percussion-centered electronic performance band.

1. Church Fire - Pussy Blood

2. David Bowie - Black Star

3. Amanda Palmer - Piano Is Evil

4. SPELLS - Staying In Is The New Going Out

5. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from here... Thank you 4 your service

6. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

7. Savages - Adore Life

8. Horseback - Dead Ringers

9. Archy Marshall - A New Place 2 Drown

10. JG Thrilwell - The Venture Bros. Vol 2

Scott Brand
Manager, Commercial Development, Caroline 

Top Records 2016

·         Nxworries – Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw)

·         Blood Incantation – Starspawn (Dark Descent)

·         Haast’s Eagled – II: For Mankind (Holy Roar)

·         Sumac – What One Becomes (Thrill Jockey)

·         Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas – Mariner (Indie)

·         Bhavachakra – Bhavachakra (Translation Loss)

·         Sonny Sharrock – Ask the Ages (M.O.D. Technologies)

·         Seven Sisters of Sleep – Ezekiel’s Hags (Relapse Records)

·         Yussef Kamaal – Black Focus (Brownswood Recordings)

·         King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (ATO Records)

·         Trap Them – Crown Feral (Prosthetic Records)

·         Träd, Gräs och Stenar - Träd, Gräs och Stenar (Anthology/Mexican Summer)

·         The Avalanches – Wildflower (Astralwerks)

·         Johnny “Hammond” Smith – Gears (Concord)

·         Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer (Seasons of Mist)

Top Songs 2016

·         Nxworries – Get Bigger / Do U Luv

·         Seven Sisters of Sleep – War Master

·         Yussef Kamaal – Lowrider

·         Hooded Menace — Elysium of Dripping Death

·         Jan Hammer Group — Don't You Know

·         Primordial — Bloodied Yet Unbowed

·         The Brothers Johnson – In the Way

·         Roger Webb – Flying Objects

·         The Comet is Coming – Channel the Spirits

·         Idris Ackamoor and  the Pyramids – Epiphany

·         Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas- Cygnus

·         Power Trip – Hammer of Doubt

Top Shows 2016

·         At the Drive-In – Palladium, Los Angeles: June 1^st, 2016

·         Taake – The Regent Theatre, Los Angeles: June 11, 2016

·         Anderson .Paak – Theatre at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles: June 27^th, 2016

·         Demilich w/ Hooded Menace – Complex, Glendale, CA: October 19^th, 2016

·         Dillinger Escape Plan - The Regent Theatre, Los Angeles: October 30^th, 2016

Zoe Lanterman
Marketing Director, Soda Jerk Presents

Here’s my choices:

·         Anderson .Paak - Malibu

·         Justice – Woman

·         Parquet Courts – Human Performance

·         Wilco – Schmilco

·         Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition

·         Kaytranada – 99.9%

·         Allah-Las – Calico Review

·         Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Denial

·         Margaret Glaspy – Emotions and Math

·         King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon infinity

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 3

Arturo Gómez
Music Director, KUVO-Denver

My personal Top Ten favorite releases of 2016

1. Steve Turre “Colors for the Masters” Smoke Sessions Records

2. Ray Charles Orchestra “Zurich 1961” TCB

3. Wilson “Chembo” Corniel Quintet “Land of the Descendants” Chemboro Records

4. Catherine Russell “Harlem on my Mind” World Village

5. Erroll Garner “Ready Take One” Sony Legacy

6. Allan Harris “Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better” Love Productions

7. Andy González “Entre Colegas” Truth Revolution Records

8. Harry Allen NY Saxophone Band “The Candy Men” Arbors Records

9. Dave Stryker “Eight Track II” Strikezone Records

10. Hot Club of San Francisco “John, Paul, George & Django” Hot Club Music

Taylor Townes
Independent Retail Coordinator, Merge Records

I put together a list of new stuff from the year or reissues that are sort on the experimental / new age / ambient spectrum, with the idea that people might want to zone out to them given how completely shitty the year was.... so that's this:

Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties

Psychic Temple - Plays Music for Airports

Mary Lattimore - At the Dam

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS

Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Trust the Glide and Guide

Syrinx - Tumblers from the Vault

Anna Homler & Steve Moshier - Breadwoman & Other Tales

And if you want a more traditional list, or more of what I listened to most rather than something concept-y (though there's a lot of overlap), here's that, in no order really:

Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties

Psychic Temple - Plays Music for Airports

Warehouse - super low

Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion

David Bowie - Blackstar

Mary Lattimore - At the Dam

Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy

Gina M Cuomo
General Manager - Sie FilmCenter

the albums that stick out are:

Luke Cage soundtrack

Red Fang - Only Ghosts

Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 2

Rupert Morrison
Drift.

DRIFT WEBSITE

103 HIGH STREET, TOTNES

DEVON, UK. TQ9 5SN

Records Of Thee Year

The year 2016, or perhaps Thee year 2016 has been about one band for us at Drift, San Francisco's explosive Thee Oh Sees. John Dwyer's garage polymaths dropped THREE releases this year, firstly a face melting live LP back in the early summer, a paradigm for their assault on the senses. In August their seventeenth studio album (and our record of the year) in A Weird Exits, a duel drumming adrenaline bubbling rawk LP that we've played to death over the last few months. Finally, they saw the year out with An Odd Entrances, very much the companion to Weird, but an altogether more psychedelic trip into the marshy underground. Hell of a band.

 Elsewhere we've played and grieved equally the last swansongs from David Bowie and Leonard Cohen. Nick Cave's Skeleton tree was almost too much to play with any kind of regularity and some gargantuan returns from Radiohead and The Avalanches really did not disappoint against all the anticipation. Most spun albums from Whitney, Angel Olsen, Hiss Golden Messenger, Ryley Walker, Kevin Morby, Heron Oblivion, Preoccupations and our good friends Ultimate Painting.

 Biggest "who is this?" sellers off the turntable have doubtless been BADBADNOTGOOD and Kaytranada, two of the most brilliantly sculpted albums and such a privilege seeing people loose their mind too for the first time. That's why we do it right? Turning people on, that's why record shops open the door every morning.

Frankie Brack
Pizza Cook/Cartoonist

Hello, My name is Frankie Brack and I am Twist and Shout family. I now live in Brooklyn, NY making pizza (of course) and drawing cartooons!! This is my sick list of 2016.

My top 20 albums from 2016. in no particular order.

1. Pizza Time – Todo

2. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter

3. B Boys - No Worry No Mind

4. Parquet Courts - Human Performance

5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

6. Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP

7. The Game – 1992

8. Ty Segall & The Muggers - Emotional Mugger

9. Feels – Feels

10. Angel Olsen – My Woman

11. Geneva Jacuzzi – Technophelia

12. Jeremih – Late Nights: Europe

13. Mild High Club – Skiptracing

14. Morgan Delt – Phase Zero

15. Cosmonauts – A-Ok!

16. The Reverberation Appreciation Society Presents – A Tribute To Pet Sounds

17. Alex Cameron – Jumping The Shark

18. Soft Hair – Soft Hair

19. The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset

20. Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits

My top 16 albums that didn’t come out in 2016 but I got OBSESSED wit em.  in no particular order.

1. Gato Barbieri – Caliente (1976)

2. Les McCann – Much Les (1969)

3. Miles Davis – In A Silent Way (1969)

4. Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby (1976)

5. Part Time – What Would You Say? (2011)

6. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol II (1994)

7. Good Morning – Shawcross (2014)

8. Brian Bennett – Voyage (A Journey Into Discoid Funk) (1978)

9. Horace Silver - Song for My Father (1964)

10. Venom – Welcome To Hell (1981)

11. Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes – Paix (1972)

12. Deru – 1979 (2014)

13. Graham De Wilde – Clouds (1981)

14. MC Pooh - Life Of A Criminal (1992)

15. The Liminanas - The Liminanas (2010)

16. Geneva Jacuzzi – Lamaze (2010)

I’d have to say my favorite show was Angel Olsen at a place called Warsaw here in Brooklyn. I even got to meet her that day! Swoon! <3 Second favorite was Junior Brown, got to meet him too! But I also went to a lot of other really great shows. Including Ty Segall & The Muggers, Morgan Delt, Cherry Glazerr, Still Corners, The Cosmonauts and many more that I can’t remember right now.

I didn’t go to a lot of new movies this year but my favorite movie experience was a 35mm print of David Lynch’s Wild At Heart. Which is like the best movie ever! I also got to see Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud by Louis Malle in the theatre, which was also excellent.

There were a lot of bummers this year but there were also some very cool things. Thank you Twist and Shout for reminding me that not everything sucks! Miss you, Love you!!

Terry McGibbon
RED Distribution, Sales & Marketing Rep

1)      Royal Headache – High.

2)      Q5 – New World Order.

3)      Sloucher – Certainly.

4)      Joseph Arthur – The Family.

5)      Ages And Ages – Something to Ruin.

6)      Anomalisa soundtrack.

7)      Neil Young – The Monsanto Years.

8)      Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree.

9)      J Churcher – Borderland State.

10)      Money – Suicide Songs. 

2016 Best ofs from friends of Twist & Shout Part 1

Dean Whitmore

Sub Pop Records, Direct Sales Guy / Buyer of Things

10 GREAT ALBUMS OF 2016:

Special “Favorite Records of 2016 That Were Released Really Late 2015” section:

Richard Dawson - Nothing Important

Wolf Eyes - I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces

Top 5 of 2016 (in no order after Heron Oblivion)

Heron Oblivion - I listened to this record 5 times in a row after my first listen. Beautiful & powerful, scrappy & assured. My favorite record of the year. There are obvious folk rock touchstones (Fairport, Pentangle) as well as echoes of previous bands the members have been in (Comets On Fire, Meg Baird, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound). Punky jabs & Sonic Youth nods show up as well & manage to fit in seamlessly. Timeless record.

Dwarfs of East Agouza - Double LP from this trio from Cairo that features Alan Bishop & two Egyptian musicians. Repetitive jams w/ post punky bass lines, propulsive hand percussion, keys & guitar, heavy on the picking & light on the strum that can sound Arabic, African, atmospheric & rockin'. Groovy as hell. I do all four sides every time.

So Pitted - neo - Freak/art rock fueled by young adult despair/frustration/anger. Dirgy/sludgy riffs, throat shredding vocals. Arty & unpretentious. Made by kids weaned on Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead & 90's radio hits? It's not easy to understand how this comes of that for me... I hear Devo, Unwound, Karp, Nirvana etc.

Neutral - S/T - Cold, collage, art punk from Sweden. Songs center around a repetitive bass / keyboard / guitar line, tape hisses & warbles, spoken Swedish language female vocals deadpan, a taped conversation or found sound appears. Sinister & vulnerable, sometimes at the same time. At times this reminds me vaguely of Finnish "freak folk" bands of the oughts.

Karl Blau - Introducing.. - Covers of classic country tunes (many of which I must admit I didn't know). Saw him play for 2 hrs at a bar in Anacortes over the summer & would've stayed for a third if he'd kept playing. I was only vaguely familiar w/ Karl before this which made me feel sorry that I missed a lot of opportunities to see him, buy his records & hear his great songs & wonderful voice.

Favorite Show of 2016

Senyawa - My girlfriend cried & screamed fuck yeah involuntarily, i stretched my eye sockets to keep from crying as well, forgetting there was anything else but this insane blend of modern, traditional, classical, punk, metal, noise music for awhile.

These Artists Released Records In 2016 That I Enjoyed A lot (In no order)

Hound Dog Taylors Hand, Uranium Club, Cate Le Bon, The Writhing Squares, Renderers, Nothing Band, Ryley Walker, Omni, Violence Creeps, Justin Gallego, Rafi Bookstaber, Male/Female, Spray Paint, Kikagaku Moyo, Spacin', Private Room, Nathan Bowles, Oren Amberachi, Primitive Parts, Goat, Trashies, Marisa Anderson, Roy Montgomery, Thee Oh Sees, Bad Breeding, Dead C, Mary Lattimore, Behavior, Vats, Colleen, the Baird Sisters, Lithics, Zig Zags, Rosalie, Stickers, EL-G, PJ Harvey, Ignatz, Lavender Flu, DoNormaal, Beret, Kane Strang, Gnod, VHS, Mothers, Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, Fat White Family, Dræmhouse, Male Bonding and all the other ones I’ve forgotten..

So many great reissues. Too many to list. A record consumers dream / nightmare. Keep it coming I guess. 

Terry Currier

Owner, Music Millennium, Portland OR

Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful

David Bowie - Blackstar

The Shelters - The Shelters

Frankie Lee - American Dreamer

William Bel l- This is Where i Live

Kyle Craft - Dolls of Highland

Margo Price - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter

Kacy + Clayton - Strange Country

Ian Hunter - Fingers Crossed

Mudcrutch - 2

Doyle Bramhall Jr. - Rich Man

John Renbourn & Wizz Jones - Joint

Primal Scream - Chaosmosis

Aoife O'Donovan - In The Magic Hour

Mystery Lights - Mystery Lights

Alisha Sweeney

Host, CPR's OpenAir/102.3 FM

I'm not the authority on music, but I do know that these albums comforted me the most over the last twelve months when I needed it. This collection also happens to be some of the most compelling records that  I loved talking about on the radio this year too! xx

1)David Bowie - Blackstar

2)Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math

3)The Avalanches - Wildflower

4)Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

5)Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker 

6)A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service 

7)Savages - Adore Life

8)N.A.F. - N.A.F. 

9)Anderson .Paak - Malibu 

10)Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

10 GREAT LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2016:

1)Eros and the Eschaton - Weight of Matter 

2)Wheelchair Sports Camp - No Big Deal 

3)Shel - Just Crazy Enough

4)Dressy Bessy - Kingsized

5)YAWL - A Pile To Keep, A Pile To Burn 

6)Slim Cessna's Auto Club - The Commandments According to SCAC

7)Lisa Prank - Adult Teen

8)Mesita - With Love, From Laniakea

9)Chimney Choir - (dream) 

10)Colfax Speed Queen - Talk To Your Doctor