Friday, December 7, 2018

2018 | Year End Favorites


2018 Album Favorites
Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless [Milk/Mom+Pop]
Beach House - 7 [Sub Pop]
Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine [People/Jagjaguwar]
Lucy Dacus – Historian [Matador]
Dead Can Dance - Dionysus [PIAS]
Nils Frahm - All Melody [Erased Tapes]
GAS – Rausch [Kompakt]
Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo [Dead Oceans]
Low - Double Negative [Sub Pop]
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars [Constellation]
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! [Rough Trade]
Shame - Songs of Praise [Dead Oceans]
Sink Ya Teeth - Sink Ya Teeth [Hey Buffalo]
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt [Fat Possum]
Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive [Merge]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food [Jagjaguwar]
Viagra Boys - Street Worms [Year0001]
Voivod - The Wake [Century Media]
Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance [Dead Oceans]
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth [Shoto Mas/Young Turks]


Favorite Concerts 2018
Bon Iver “For Emma 10th Anniversary” @ BMO Harris Bradley Center (Milwaukee)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Majestic Theater (Madison)                   
David Byrne @ Riverside Theater (Milwaukee)             
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard @ Pabst Theater (Milwaukee)
Radiohead @ United Center (Chicago)                          
Courtney Barnett/Julien Baker/Lucy Dacus @ Surly Brewing (Minneapolis)                          
The War on Drugs @ Riverside Theater (Milwaukee)
My Bloody Valentine @ Palace Theater (St. Paul)
New Order @ Palace Theater (St. Paul)                           
The The @ Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Thom Yorke @ Riverside Theater (Milwaukee)