2017 Best Of Lists from Friends of Twist & Shout! Part 1

Record Exchange, Boise, ID

List: HERE

Website: HERE

Omega Music, Dayton, OH

List: HERE

Website: HERE

Terry Currier, Music Millennium 

3158 E Burnside St. in Portland, OR

Taylor Townes, Merge Records

North Carolina 

Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Finding Me Finding You

Bitchin Bajas - Bajas Fresh

Joshua Abrams / Natural Information Society - Simultonality

Brooklyn Raga Massive - In C

Wand - Plum

Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo

Laraaji - Bring On the Sun

Chuck Johnson - Balsams

Mind Over Mirrors - Undying Color

Cate Le Bon - Rock Pool

A. Savage - Thawing Dawn 

Reissues: Midori Takada - Through the Looking Glass & Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music for Nine Postcards

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 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