2017

1. Whiskey Gentry – “Rock and Roll Band” – Dead Ringer (Pitch A Tent)
2. Nikki Lane – “700,000 Rednecks” – Highway Queen (New West)
3. Lisa Leblanc – “Could You Wait ‘Til I’ve Had My Coffee?” – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? (Bonsound)
4. William C Beeley – “Little Wheel Spin and Spin & Co’Dine” – Gallivantin’ (Tompkins Square)
5. Truckstop Honeymoon – “Big Things and Little Things” – Big Things and Little Things (S/R)
6. Old 97’s – “Jesus Loves You” – Graveyard Whistling (ATO)
7. Luke Warm and the Cool Hands – “Ramshackle Shack” – What Makes You Happy (S/R)
8. Private Investigators – “Don’t You Know My Love Is Free” – The Case Files of the Private Investigators Reopened (Prize Fighter)
9. Roy Orbison with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – “You Got It” – A Love So Beautiful (Sony)
10. Neil Young – “My Pledge” – Peace Trail (Reprise)
11. Nashville Colonel and His Fabulous Band – “Nashville-Centric Boogie” – COLONEL (KFC)
12. Up and Down – “Down It Goes” – Hell Of A Time (S/R)
13. Deborah Crooks – “Make This House” – Beauty Everywhere (S/R)
14. Laura Benitez – “Imitation Of You” – KALX Live! (KALX)
15. Pokey Lafarge – “Wellington” – Manic Revelations (Rounder)
16. Cash Box Kings – “Build That Wall” – Royal Mint (Alligator)
17. Aki Kumar – “Back to Bombay” – Aki Goes To Bollywood (Little Village Foundation)
18. Sera Cahoone – “Time To Give” – From Where I Started (Lady Muleskinner)
19. Old Crow Medicine Show – “I Want You” – 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)
20. Kevin Fisher – “Last Call” – Beer Me (37)
21. Elena Setien – “Rosilido” – Dreaming of Earthly Things (Yellowbird)
22. Liminanas – “Kostas” – Malamore (Hozac)
23. Roselit Bone – “Dreamless Sleep” – On The Run, Jenny Don’t single (S/R)
24. Greg Ashley – “A Sea Of Suckers” – Pictures of Saint Paul (Trouble In Mind)
25. Dale Watson and Ray Benson – “Bus Breakdown” – Dale and Ray (Ameripolitan/Home)
26. Steve Earle and the Dukes – “The Firebreak Line” – So You Wannabe An Outlaw (Warner)
27. Soozee Hwang and the Realistics – “Creator of the Universe” – Accordion Babes 2017 Album (S/R)
28. Nickel Slots – “Garberville” – Five Miles Gone (S/R)
29. Hyperdrive Kittens – “Child Of The Night” – Back To The Alley (Whip N Cream)
30. Brother Spellbinder – “Rolling River” – KALX Live! (KALX)
31. Lynn McCracken – “I Wrote You A Letter” – Acoustic Rainbow Roots Vol 46 (Poetman)
32. Front Country – “Millionaire” – Other Love Songs (Organic)
33. The Wild Reeds – “Fix You Up” – The World We Built (Dualtone)
34. Mayya And The Revolutionary Hell Yeah! – “Phone Is Dying” – Open Minds Open Minds (S/R)
35. Gravel Spreaders – “When The Saints Go Marching In” – KALX Live! (KALX)
36. Little Tortuga – “City By The Sea” – Scotch Hollow (S/R)
37. Julia Jacklin – “Coming Of Age” – Don’t Let the Kids Win (Polyvinyl)
38. The Warning – “XXI Century Blood” – XXI Century Blood (S/R)
39. The Ogres – “Uh Huh” – Uh Huh (Hillsdale)
40. Tennis – “Ladies Don’t Play Guitar” – Yours Unconditional (Mutually Detrimental)

Thanks to all the artists who appeared LIVE on the air with me

• Annie Bacon And Her Oshen
• Laura Benitez
• Brother Spellbinder
• The Clarences
• Deborah Crooks
• Aireene Espiritu
• Flim Flam
• The Gravel Spreaders
• Nathan Jones and the Sloe Sippers
• Muchacho Mandanga
• Penny Opry (Joannie)
• Maurice Tani and Mike Anderson
• Frank Martin’s Advanced U.C. Jazz Combo
• Up and Down
• Yours Truly Michelle

• Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Naim Audio)
• Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin  – Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti (Harmonia Mundi)
• Ambrose Akinmusire – A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
• Tony Allen – The Source (Blue Note)
• Björk – Utopia (One Little Indian)
• Benjamin Booker – Witness (Rough Trade)
• Jaimie Branch – Fly Or Die (International Anthem)
• Camille – Oui (Because)
• Circuit des Yeux – Reaching for Indigo  (Drag City)
• Colleen – A Flame My Love, A Frequency  (Thrill Jockey)
• Jane Antonia Cornish – Into Silence (Innova)
• Rodney Crowell – Close Ties (New West)
• Angèle David-Guillou – En Mouvement (Village Green)
• Akua Dixon – Akua’s Dance (Akua’s Music)
• Downtown Boys – Cost of Living  (Sub Pop)
• Steve Earle – So You Wannabe An Outlaw (Warner Brothers)
• Amir El Saffar’s Rivers Of Sound Orchestra – Not Two (New Amsterdam)
• Forest Swords – Compassion (Ninja Tune)
• Godspeed You Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers (Constellation)
• Curtis Harding – Face Your Fear  (Anti-)
• Harriet Tubman – Araminta (Sunnyside)
• Hauschka – What If (Temporary Residence)
• Iron & Wine – Beast Epic (Sub Pop)
• Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)
• Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far from Over  (ECM)
• Jlin – Black Origami  (Planet Mu)
• Nicole Johanntgen – Henry (Hofa)
• Kelela – Take Me Apart  (Warp)
• King Krule – The Ooz  (XL)
• La Santa Cecilia – Amar y Vivir  (Universal)
• Laibach – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute)
• Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.  (Top Dawg/Interscope)
• Arto Lindsay – Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy)
• Lost Horizons – Ojalá  (Bella Union)
• Clint Mansell – Loving Vincent (Original Soundtrack) (Milan)
• Laura Marling – Semper Femina  (More Alarming)
• Makaya McCraven – Highly Rare (International Anthem Recording Company)
• Zara McFarlane – Arise  (Brownswood)
• Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams and Daggers  (Mack Avenue)
• Myra Melford and Ben Goldberg – Dialogue (BAG)
• Roscoe Mitchell – Bells for the South Side  (ECM)
• Juana Molina – Halo  (Crammed Discs)
• The Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics  (Transgressive)
• Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me  (P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.)
• Randy Newman – Dark Matter (Nonesuch)
• Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)
• Peter Perrett – How The West Was Won (Domino)
• Robert Plant – Carry Fire  (Nonesuch)
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band – So It Is (Legacy)
• Max Richter – Max Richter: Three Worlds – Music from Woolf Works (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Roots Magic – Last Kind Words (Clean Feed)
• Sampha – Process  (Young Turks)
• Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)
• Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love  (Static Shock)
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid  (Western Vinyl)
• Wadada Leo Smith – Najwa (TUM)
• Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi)
• St. Vincent – Masseduction  (Loma Vista)
• Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology  (Fire)
• Wire – Silver/Lead (Pink Flag)

• Abronia – Obsidian Visions / Shadowed Lands (Water Wing)
• John Carpenter – Anthology (Sacred Bones)
• The Classical – Survival of the Softest (s/r)
• Cober Ord, The Austrasian Goat – Et Ils Franchirent Le Seuil (Steelwork Maschine)
• Colleen – A Flame My Love, A Frequency (Thrill Jockey)
• Jane Antonia Cornish – Into Silence (Innova)
• Dire Wolves – Oceans of Green (Feeding Tube)
• Ekin Fil – Ghosts Inside (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
• Fovea Hex – Salt Garden II (Janet)
• Diamanda Galás – All The Way / At Saint Thomas The Apostle Harlem (Intravenal Sound Operations)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers (Constellation)
• Jim Haynes – Electrical Injuries (auseenraum)
• Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now (Sub Pop)
• Icelandic Symphony Orchestra – Recurrence (Sono Luminus)
• Laibach – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute)
• Lau Nau – Poseidon (Final)
• Andrew Liles – Diario De Un Monstruo (Dirter)
• Drew McDowall – Unnatural Channel (Dais)
• Morgen Wurde – Assassinous Act (Time Released Sound)
• Jessica Moss – Pools Of Light (Constellation)
• Nordic Affect – Raindamage (Sono Luminus)
• Nurse With Wound – Kafka’s Parachute (Lenka Lente)
• Saltland – A Common Truth (Constellation)
• Kathleen Yearwood – This Guitar Is Wrecked parts 1 & 2 (Voice of the Turtle)
• Kristeen Young – Live At The Witch’s Tit (s/r)

1. Slowdive – S/T (Dead Oceans)
2. Laura Marling – Semper Femina (More Alarming Records)
3. The Horrors – V (Wolf Tone)
4. Alfa Mist – Antiphon (Pinkbird Recording Co.)
5. Ambrose Akinmusire – A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
6. Oddisee – The Iceberg (Mellow Music Group)
7. Zara McFarlane – Arise (Brownswood Recordings)
8. Alice Coltrane – World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
9. Boogarins – Lá Vem A Morte (OAR)
10. St. Vincent – Masseduction (Loma Vista)
11. Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau – S/T (Nonesuch)
12. Zola Jesus – Okovi (Sacred Bones)
13. Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far From Over (ECM)
14. Ensemble, et al. – The Slow Reveal (Imaginator)
15. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid (Western Vinyl)
16. Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
17. Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones)
18. Tinariwen – Elwan (Epitaph)
19. Esmerine – Mechanics Of Dominion (Constellation)
20. Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives (Warp)

• Tony Allen – The Source (Blue Note)
• Amendola vs Blades – Greatest Hits (Sazi)
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creatures: Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014 (Mute)
• Cazyapjazz – Sehnaz Delirdi (Anason)
• Cold Beat – Chaos By Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
• Crimpshrine – Free Box (Numero)
• Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta – Fonografic (Electric Cowbell)
• Downtown Boys – Cost of Living (SubPop)
• Funkadelic – Reworked By Detroiters (Westbound)
• Horrible-Adorable – Caprice! (Hovercraft)
• Hüsker Dü – Savage Young Dü (Numero)
• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Soul of A Woman (Daptone)
• Ladama – Ladama (Six Degrees)
• Ted Leo – The Hanged Man (S/R)
• Mastodon – Emperor of Sand (Reprise)
• Motörhead – Under Cover (Silver Lining)
• Myrrors – Hasta La Victoria (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
• Lee Perry – Super Ape Returns to Conquer (Subatomic)
• Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain Deluxe Expanded re-issue (Warner)
• Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent (Mute)
• Rancid – Trouble Maker (Hellcat)
• Replacements – For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s (Sire)
• Side Eyes – So Sick (In the Red)
• Sleater-Kinney – Live in Paris (SubPop)
• Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black (Anti-)
• Tinariwen – Elwan (Anti-)
• V/A – Nigeria Soul Fever (Soul Jazz) 

Favorite Albums of 2017

• Big Thief – Capacity (Saddle Creek)
• Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
• Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
• Jay Som – Everybody Works (Polyvinyl)
• Cold Beat – Chaos by Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
• Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator (ATO)
• Sneaks – It’s a Myth (Merge)
• ADULT. – Detroit House Guests (Mute)
• Kelela – Take Me Apart (Warp)
• Various – Cold Waves of color vol. 4 (Color Tapes)
• Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
• Florist – If Blue Could be Happiness (Double double Whammy)
• The World – First World Record (Upset the Rhythm) 

Some songs that affected me very deeply in 2017

• Cold Beat – “In Motion” – Chaos by Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
• Chastity Belt – “Different Now” – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
• Hamilton Leithauser, Angel Olsen – “Heartstruck – Wild Hunger [single]” (Glassnote)
• Michael Nau – “Good Thing” – Some Twist (Suicide Squeeze)
• Savage Hymn – “La Vida Sigue Igual” – La Vida Sigue Igual (Dark Entries)
• Little Dragon – “Celebrate” – Season High (Loma Vista)
• Bezier – “Imperial Tranz-Am” – Primes (Dark Entries)
• Chelsea Wolfe – “16 Psyche” Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
• Drab Majesty – “39 by Design” – The Demonstration (Dais)
• Aldous Harding – “Imagining my Man” – Party (4AD)
• Girlpool – “It Gets More Blue” – Powerplant (Anti-)
• Arms of Someone New – “Song for Krista” – Susan Sleepwalking (Dark Entries)
• Goldfrapp – “Moon in your Mouth” – Silver Eye (Mute)
• Japanese Breakfast – “Boyish” – Soft Sounds from Another Planet (Dead Oceans)
• (Sandy) Alex G – “Powerful Man” – Rocket (Domino)