2016 | Year End Favorites

Favorite Albums of 2016 (alphabetical)
Black Mountain - IV (Jagjaguwar)
Bon Iver - 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
Charles Bradley - Changes (Daptone/Dunham)
David Bowie - Blackstar (Columbia)
DIIV - Is the Is Are (Captured Tracks)
Drive By Truckers – American Band (ATO Records)
James Blake – The Colour of Anything (Universal)
Jon Mueller – Tongues (Rhythmplex)
Kevin Morby – Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
Parquet Courts - Human Performance (Rough Trade)
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)
Savages – Adore Life (Matador)
Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines (Matador)
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (Atlantic)
The Comet is Coming – Channel the Spirit (The Leaf Label)
The Goon Sax – Up For Anything (Chapter Music)
Thee Oh Sees – Weird Exits / Odd Entrances (Castle Face)
Wire – Nocturnal Koreans (Pink Flag)

Favorite Concerts of 2016 (alphabetical)
Bob Mould @ Majestic Theater (Madison, WI)
Bon Iver @ Eaux Claires Fest (Eau Claire, WI)
Descendents @ First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN)
Iggy Pop with QOTSA @ Northrup Theater (St. Paul, MN)
Savages @ The Rave (Milwaukee, WI)
The Cure @ Excel Energy Center (St. Paul, MN)
Wilco & Kurt Vile @ Breeze Field (Madison, WI)

2015 | Year End Favorites

Favorite Albums

Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color [ATO Records]

Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars/Depression Cherry [Sub Pop]

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style [Matador]

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think... [Mom + Pop]

Deerhunter - Fading Frontier [4AD]

Faith No More - Sol Invictus [Ipecac]

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear [Sub Pop]

Health - Death Magic [Loma Vista]

Helen - Original Faces [Kranky]

Jamie xx - In Colour [Young Turks/XL]

Killing Joke - Pylon [Killing Joke/Spinefarm]

Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin’ Down [Matador]

Low - Ones and Sixes  [Sub Pop]

Mikal Cronin - MCIII [Merge]

My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall [ATO/Capitol]

Ryley Walker - Primrose Green [Dead Oceans]

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love [Sub Pop]

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell [Asthmatic Kitty]

Tame Impala - Currents [Interscope]

Viet Cong - Viet Cong [Jagjaguwar]

Favorite Shows

Chris Porterfield (solo acoustic) / Andie & Mike’s living room [Madison]

Death Cab For Cutie / The Riverside Theater [Milwaukee]      
Deerhunter / Majestic Theater [Madison]        

Kraftwerk / Northrup Auditorium [St. Paul]

Morrissey / Fitzgerald Theater [St. Paul]

My Morning Jacket (two nights) / The Riverside Theater [Milwaukee]

Strand of Oaks / Shitty Barn [Spring Green]

Sufjan Stevens / Eaux Claires Fest [Eau Claire]

Tame Impala / The Riverside Theater [Milwaukee]

The Church / Turner Hall [Milwaukee]

The Melvins / High Noon Saloon [Madison]

Thurston Moore & Mikal Cronin / High Noon Saloon [Madison]

2014 | Year End Favorites

Favorites Albums of 2014 (Alphabetical Order)
Aphex Twin :: Syro Warp
Courtney Barnett :: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas Marathon Artists/Mom+Pop
Cloud Nothings :: Here and Nowhere Else Carpark/Mom+Pop
Ex Hex :: Rips Merge
Field Report :: Marigolden Partisan
Curtis Harding :: Soul Power Burger Records
Mogwai :: Rave Tapes Sub Pop
Thurston Moore :: The Best Day Matador
Kevin Morby :: Still Life With Rejects From the Land of Misfit Toys Woodsist
Bob Mould :: Beauty & Rain Merge
Parquet Courts :: Sunbathing Animals What's Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop
Real Estate :: Atlas Domino
St. Vincent :: St. Vincent Loma Vista/Republic
Ty Segall :: Manipulator Drag City
Sturgill Simpson :: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music High Top Mountain
Spoon :: They Want My Soul Loma Vista/Republic
Strand of Oaks :: Heal Dead Oceans
Sharon Van Etten :: Are We There Jagjaguwar
The War on Drugs :: Lost in the Dream Secretly Canadian
Jack White :: Lazaretto Third Man Records

Favorites Concerts of 2014 (Chronological Order)
Superchunk @ High Noon Saloon Madison
Bob Mould @ Onion AV Backyard Party (SXSW) Austin
Gary Numan @ Hype Machine Showcase (SXSW) Austin
St. Vincent @ Turner Hall Milwaukee
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds @ State Theater Minneapolis
Spoon / Guided By Voices / Kurt Vile @ Walker Art Center Minneapolis
New Order @ BMO Harris Pavilion (Summerfest) Milwaukee
Ryan Adams @ Riverside Theater Milwaukee
Johnny Marr @ Vic Theater Chicago
Wilco @ Riverside Theater Milwaukee

2013 | Year End Favorites

Alphabetical list of Album favorites for 2013

Arcade Fire – Reflektor Merge Records

Atoms For Peace – AMOK XL Records

Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe Glassnote Records

Fidlar - Fidlar Mom + Pop Records

Forest Swords – Engravings Tri Angler Records

Fuzz – Fuzz In The Red Records

Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities Trouble In Mind Records

Jagwar Ma – Howlin Mom + Pop Records

Jason Isbell – Southeastern Southeastern Records

Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound ATO Records

The National - Trouble Will Find Me Beggars Banquet Records

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Anti Records

Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks Null Corporation / Columbia Records

Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork Matador Records

Savages - Silence Yourself Matador Records

Sigur Ros – Kveikur XL Records

Superchunk – I Hate Music Merge Records

Surf City – We Knew It Was Going To Be Like This Fire Records

Volcano Choir - Repave Jagjaguwar Records

Wavves - Afraid of Heights Mom + Pop Records

2012 | Year End Favorites

25 Albums

Baroness :. Yellow & Green Relapse

Beach House :. Bloom Sub Pop

Bear In Heaven :. I Love You, It’s Cool Dead Oceans

Bob Mould :. Silver Age Merge

Cat Power :. Sun Matador

Chromatics :. Kill For Love Italians Do It Better

Cloud Nothings :. Attack on Memory Carpark Records

Delta Spirit :. Delta Spirit Rounder Records

Diiv :. Oshin Captured Tracks

Dirty Projectors :. Swing Lo Magellan Domino Recording Co.

Father John Misty :. Fear Fun Sub Pop

Grizzly Bear :. Shields Warp Records

Japandroids :. Celebration Rock Polyvinyl Records

Mark Lanegan Band :. Blues Funeral 4AD

Passion Pit :. Gossamer Columbia Records

Porcelain Raft :. Strange Weekend Secretly Canadian

Purity Ring :. Shrines 4AD

Spiritualized :. Sweet Heart Sweet Light Fat Possum

Tame Impala :. Lonerism Modular Records

Tennis :. Young & Old Fat Possum

Jack White :. Blunderbuss Third Man/Columbia

Wild Nothing :. Nocturne Captured Tracks

Woods :. Bend Beyond Woodsist

The Xx :. Coexist Young Turks/XL Recordings

Yeasayer :. Fragrant World Secretly Canadian

25 Songs for your Spotify Playlist

Away Frm U - Oberhoffer

Bloody Mouth (Watchtower Version) - Moons

Cheap Beer - FIDLAR

Cold Feet - Lost Lander

Default - Atoms For Peace

Elephant King - Yellow Ostrich

Fergus Falls - Field Report

Five Seconds - Twin Shadow

Get Free - Major Lazer

Hail Bop - Django Django

Heavy Metal - White Rabbits

Husbands - Savages

Hysteria - Ceremony

Keep You - Wild Belle

Landfill - Daughter

My Love is Real - Divine Fits

Oblivion - Grimes

Octopus - Bloc Party

Okay, Alright, I’m Alive - Bahamas

Serpents - Sharon Van Etten

Swingin' Party - Kindness

That Old Black Hole - Dr. Dog

The Full Retard - El-P

The Only Place - Best Coast

You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb - Ex Cops

12 Favorite Shows of 2012

Beach House :. The Pabst Theater Milwaukee

Bear In Heaven, Delta Spirit, FIDLAR, Milo Greene, Poliça, Tallest Man on Earth, Washed Out, White Rabbits

Lollapalooza/Grant Park Chicago

Best Coast, Bruce Springsteen, Cults, Delta Spirit, FIDLAR, Grimes, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Shins, The War on Drugs, Yellow Ostrich SXSW Austin

Bon Iver & Poliça | Radio City Music Hall New York

Chromatics, Cloud Nothings, Dirty Projectors, Japandroids, Lotus Plaza, Psychic Paramount, Purity Ring, Youth Lagoon

Pitchfork Music Festival/Union Park Chicago

David Byrne & St. Vincent | The Pabst Theater Milwaukee

Dirty Projectors | The Pabst Theater Milwaukee

The Lumineers | The Frequency Madison

        

Poliça | High Noon Saloon Madison

White Rabbits | High Noon Saloon Madison

The Xx | The Pabst Theater Madison                 

Yeasayer | The Majestic Theater Madison

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2011 | Year End Favorites

Tom Waits : Bad As Me Anti

My Morning Jacket : Circuital ATO

The Decemberists : The King is Dead Capitol

Tune-Yards : W H O K I L L 4AD

Washed Out : Within and Without Sub Pop

Charles Bradley : No Time for Dreaming Daptone

Handsome Furs : Sound Kapital Sub Pop

Cut Copy : Zonoscope Modular

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks : Mirror Traffic Matador

Beirut : The Rip Tide Pompeii

Bon Iver : Bon Iver Jagjaguwar

Wilco : The Whole Love dBpm

TV on the Radio : Nine Types of Light Interscope

Radiohead : The King of Limbs TBD

St Vincent : Strange Mercy 4AD

Fleet Foxes : Helplessness Blues Sub Pop

The Antlers : Burst Apart French Kiss

The War on Drugs : Slave Ambient Secretly Canadian

Destroyer : Kaputt Merge

Yuck : Yuck Fat Possum

Ryan Adams : Ashes & Fire PaxAmericana

Wire : Red Barked Tree Pinkflag

2010 | Year End Favorites

Broken Bells :. Broken Bells (Sony)

Arcade Fire :. The Suburbs (Merge)

LCD Soundsystem :. This is Happening (DFA)

Band of Horses :. Infinite Arms (Columbia)

Surfer Blood :. Astro Coast (Kanine)

Spoon :. Transference (Merge)

The Black Keys :. Brothers (Nonesuch)

Local Natives :. Gorilla Manor (French Kiss)

The National :. High Violet (4AD)

Deerhunter :. Halcyon Digest (4AD)

Dr. Dog :. Shame, Shame (Anti-)

The Dead Weather :. Sea of Cowards (Third Man)

The Tallest Man on Earth :. The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)

The Morning Benders :. Big Echo (Rough Trade)

The Gaslight Anthem :. American Slang (SideOneDummy)

Sleigh Bells :. Treats (Mom + Pop)

Wavves :. King of the Beach (Fat Possum)

No Age :. Everything In Between (Sub Pop)

Delorean :. Subiza (True Panther)

Broken Social Scene :. Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)