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2015

Top 10 Debut Releases

January 23, 2016 by hyperadmin

  • Shamir – Ratchet (XL)
  • Diet Cig – Over Easy (Father/Daughter)
  • Say Lou Lou – Lucid Dreaming (Cosmos)
  • Joywave – How Do You Feel Now? (CultCo)
  • SOAK – Reckless Behavior (Rough Trade)
  • GEMS – Kill The One You Love (Carpark)
  • Seinabo Sey – Pretend (Universal)
  • Natalie Prass – S/T (Spacebomb)
  • Madeon – Adventure (Sony)
  • Sports – Naked All The Time (S/R)
  • In Tall Buildings – Driver (Western Vinyl)

Top 10 Local Releases

  • Hot Flash Heat Wave – Neapolitan (S/R)
  • The Dodos – Individ (Polyvinyl)
  • Geographer – Ghost Modern (Roll Call)
  • Bhi Bhiman – Rhythm & Reason (BooCoo Music)
  • The Stone Foxes – Twelve Spells (S/R)
  • Tiaras – S/T (Mt.St.Mtn.)
  • Naytonrix – Mister Divine (City Slang)
  • Waters – What’s Real (Vagrant)
  • Toro y Moi – What For? (Capark)
  • Sonny & the Sunsets – Talent Night at the Ashram (Polyvinyl)
  • Top 10 Shows (not including festival sets) out of a grand total of 95

  • Typhoon – Revolution Hall (Portland), 12/20
  • The Decemberists – Greek Theatre, 5/1
  • Rubble bucket – The Independent, 3/27
  • Ezra Furman – Rickshaw Stop, 12/6
  • Unconditional Arms – Santo Studios, 7/17
  • Future Islands – Fox Theater, 9/25
  • Alvvays – The Independent 11/17
  • Interpol – The Warfield, 4/21
  • The Wild Reeds – Hyde Street Studios,
  • Noah Gunderson – The Battery, 3/25

BEST SONGS OF 2015

January 21, 2016 by hyperadmin

  1. Lindi Ortega – “I Ain’t The Girl” – Faded Gloryville – (Last Gang)
  2. Angela Easterling – “Arkansas Murder Ballad” – Common Law Wife” – (De L’Est Music)
  3. Charflies – “Witch Of Sunoco” – Linoleum Angel – (Mule Fuel)
  4. Wonky Tonk – “Washington Avenue” – Stuff We Leave Behind – (S/R)
  5. Elle King – “Exs and Ohs” – Love Stuff – (RCA Victor)
  6. Ben Rogers – “Wanted” – Bloodred Yonder – (Tonic)
  7. Cracker – “King Of Bakersfield” – Berkeley To Bakersfield – (429 records)
  8. Calexico – “Beneath The City Of Dreams” – Edge Of The Sun – (Anti-)
  9. Talent Brothers – “Lately” – Back On The Old Stuff – (S/R)
  10. 11 Acorn Lane – “Lucky Day” – Time For Tea – (Wooden Hat)
  11. Liminanas – “La Fille De La Ligne” – I’ve Got Trouble In Mind – (Trouble In Mind)
  12. John Schooley – “The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World” – The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World – (Voodoo Rhythm)
  13. Bottle Rockets – “Dog” – South Broadway Athletic Club – (Bloodshot)
  14. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin – “Sit Down Baby” – Lost Time – (Yep Roc)
  15. Dwight Yoakum – “Liar” – Second Hand Heart – (Reprise)
  16. Quiet Life – “Skin And Bones” – Wild Pack – (Mama Bird)
  17. Lonesome Heroes – “Steel” – Can’t Stand Still – (S/R)
  18. Kacey Musgraves – “Biscuits” – Pagent Material – (Mercury)
  19. Eleni Mandell – “I’m Old Fashioned” – Dark Lights Up – (Yep Roc!)
  20. Steve Earle and the Dukes – “Baby Baby Baby (baby)” – Terraplane – (New West)
  21. Stereophonics – “C’est La Vie” – Keep The Village Alive – (Stylus)
  22. Lisa Leblanc – “You Look Like Trouble (But I Guess Do Too)” – Highways Heartaches And Time Well Wasted – (Bonsound)
  23. Gangstagrass – “Barnburning” – American Music – (Rench Audio)
  24. Sleepy Man Banjo Boys – “By My Side” – By My Side – (Dreamcatcher)
  25. Natalia LaFourcade – “Hasta La Raiz” – Hasta La Raiz – (RCA)
  26. Legendary Shack Shakers – “Cold” – The Southern Surreal” – (Alternative Tentacles)
  27. Steelism – “Cat’s Eye Ring” – 615 To Fame – (Single Lock)
  28. Whiskey Kiss – “Two-Timin’ Two Step” – Dangerous One – (S/R)
  29. Ting Tings – “Only Love” – Super Critical – (Finca)
  30. Yo La Tengo – “Friday Im In Love” – Stuff Like That There – (Matador)
  31. Amy Blaschke – “Running Into The Fire” – Opaline – (Bird On A Lyre)
  32. Corb Lund – “Alt Berliner Blues” – Things That Can’t Be Undone – (New West)
  33. Las Cafeteras – “La Bamba Rebelde” – Las Cafeteras Remixed – (La Junta)
  34. Timothy O’Neil Band – “The Saloon” – Timothy O’Neil Band – (S/R)
  35. Grid Pickers – “29 Days” – Shack Wacky – (S/R)
  36. Vivants – “By And By” – Bluegrass Special – (S/R)
  37. Rose’s Pawn Shop – “What Were You Waiting For” – Gravity Well – (S/R)
  38. Yawpers – “Beale Street Blues” – American Man – (Bloodshot)
  39. Pokey La Farge And The South City 1 – “Something In The Water” – Something In The Water – (Rounder)
  40. Caitlin Anne Webster – “Black Moon” – Black Moon – (S/R)
  41. Secret Club – “Circle K” – Apocalypse Meow – (American Echo)
  42. Neil Young + Promise Of The Real – “A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop” – The Monsanto Years – (Reprise)
  43. Nocona – “Long Gone Song” – Long Gone Song – (S/R)
  44. Cedar Shakes – “Ramblin’ Lips” – The Western Road – (What Bang)
  45. Russell Hoke – “Bewilthered” – Through The Hardship Of Seasons – (Unheard Of)
  46. Bela Fleck and Chick Corea – “Mountain” – Two – (Stretch)
  47. Joe Ely – “Cold Black Hammer” – Panhandle Rambler – (Rack ‘Em)
  48. Raina Rose and Rebecca Loebe – “Dublin Blues” – Three Nights Live – (Goose Creek)
  49. Mantles – “Undelivered” – Memory – (Slumberland)
  50. Jessica Lee Wilkes – “Something’s Goin’ On” – Lone Wolf- (Free Dirt)

BEST COMPILATIONS OF 2015

  • I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70 – (Light in the Attic)
  • Native North America Vol. 1 – (Light in the Attic)

THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING WHO PLAYED LIVE WITH ME ON KALX IN 2015

  • Annie Bacon And Her Oshen
  • Crying Time
  • Rene De La Prade
  • Eight Belles
  • Front Country
  • Dave Ricketts (Gaucho)
  • Hot Toddies
  • Mountain Men Collective
  • Octomutt
  • Quiet Life
  • Emily Bonn and the Vivants
  • Whiskey And Women

The Muse’s Best of 2015 (no order)

January 17, 2016 by hyperadmin

  • Imelda May – Mayhem (Decca)
  • Barrence Whitfield And The Savages – Under the Savage Sky (Bloodshot)
  • Deadly Orgone Radiation (w/ Weasel Walter) – Power Trips (Deadly Orgone)
  • Juke Joint Pimps – Boogie Pimps (Voodoo Rhythm)
  • Lydia Lunch Retrovirus – Urge to Kill (Widowspeak)
  • Bomba Estereo – Amanecer (Soly)
  • Eleventh Dream Day – Works for Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey)
  • The Gravel Spreaders – Skidmarks (Hot In The Hole)
  • Silvertron Youth Choir – Our God is a Possum God (Ten Dollar)
  • Alex Carlin Band – Are You Better Than My Girlfriend? (S/R)
  • Eleven Acorn Lane – Time for Tea (Wooden Hat)
  • Meat Wave – Delusion Moon (Side One Dummy)
  • Ragpicker String Band – The Ragpicker String Band (Yellow Dog)
  • Michael Vlatkovich Septet – Ask 7 (Pfmentum)
  • Terence Blanchard – Breathless (Blue Note)
  • The Claudettes – No Hotel (Yellow Dog)
  • Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – Two (Stretch)
  • Ice (International Contemporary) – In the Light of Air (Sono Luminus)
  • Mark Weber & Michael Vlatkovic – Elasticity (Pfmentum)

18 of My Favorite Releases of 2015 (alphabetical order)

January 15, 2016 by hyperadmin

  • 11 Acorn Lane – Time for Tea (Wooden Hat)
  • Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom & Pop)
  • Bomba Estereo – Amanecer (Sony Music Latin)
  • Boss Moxi – Oddball (S/R)
  • Caravan Palace – Robot Face (Le Plan)
  • Empress Of – Me (Terrible)
  • Fillamosta – Like It Is (aagoo)
  • Flower & McLaren – One plus One (Little Cat)
  • Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  • Girlpool – Before the World Was Big (Wichita)
  • Jose Gonzalez – Vestiges and Claws (Mute)
  • Grimes – Art Angels (4AD)
  • Elle King – Love Stuff (RCA)
  • La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  • Mass Bass – Movement Movin’ (S/R)
  • Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
  • Taraf de Locos – S/T (S/R)
  • The Twerps – Range Anxiety (Merge)

7 Awesome Albums of 2015

January 14, 2016 by hyperadmin

  • Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
  • Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge)
  • Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
  • Eleventh Dream Day – Works For Tomorrow (VBR)
  • Jacco Gardner – Hypnophobia (Polyvinyl)
  • Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down (Matador)
  • Wand – 1000 Days (Drag City)

7 Splendid Songs of 2015

  • Sarah Cracknell – “Nothing Left to Talk About (feat. Nicky Wire)” – Red Kite (Cherry Red)
  • Eskimeaux – “Broken Necks” – O.K. (Double Double Whammy)
  • Robert Pollard  – “Café of Elimination – Faulty Superheroes (GBV, Inc.)
  • Sweet Baboo – “Got To Hang On To You” – The Boombox Ballads (Moshi Moshi)
  • Warm Soda  – “I Wanna Know Her” – Symbolic Dream (Castle Face)
  • Wire – “Blogging” – Wire (Pink Flag)
  • Neil Young & Promise Of The Real – “People Want To Hear About Love” – The Monsanto Years (VBR)

7 (+3) Amazing Acts of 2015

  • The Wombats – Rickshaw Stop, January 22
  • Magma – Slim’s, April 8
  • Sir Richard Bishop – Brick and Mortar, April 28
  • Fuzz – Great American Music Hall, May 20
  • Neutral Milk Hotel – Phoenix Theater, June 11
  • Burger Boogaloo – Mosswood Park, July 4-5
  • Mac McCaughan + The Non-Beleivers – Rickshaw Stop, September 17
  • Neil Young & Promise Of The Real – Berkeley Greek Theater, October 17
  • The Ex & Ken Vandermark, Surplus 1980 – Bottom of the Hill,  October 29
  • An Acoustic Evening with Yo La Tengo featuring Dave Shramm -The Masonic, November 14

Ten Favorite Songs of 2015 (in alphabetical order)

January 14, 2016 by hyperadmin

  • Friendly Males – “Done It Again” – Nopalera (Lolipop)
  • Girlpool – “Ideal World” – Before the World Was Big (Wichita Recordings) 
  • Hop Along – “Powerful Man” – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
  • Los Daddys – “Cumbia Sin Calzones” – 7” single (Disco Mas)
  • MJ’s Brass Boppers – “Ya Know, Ya Know” – online single
  • Olivia Cheney – “Too Social” – “The Longest River (Nonesuch)
  • Purity Ring – “Begin Again” – “Another Eternity” (4AD)
  • Seemway – “LED Marquee” – online single
  • Willie Dunn – “I Pity the Country” – V/A Native North America (Light in the Attic)
  • Worriers – “Plans” – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
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