Best New Releases of 2013
- My Bloody Valentine – Mbv (MBV)
- Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band – Take Me To The Land Of Hell (Chimera)
- Kurt Vile – Wakin‘ On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
- William Onyeabor – World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop)
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! (Sony Legacy)
- Pere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai (Fire)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.)
- Fela Kuti – The Best Of The Black President 2 (Knitting Factory)
- Afrolicious – California Dreaming (Afrolicious Music)
- Charles Bradley – Victim Of Love (Daptone)
- The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon Ventures)
- Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin (Castleface)
- Delfonics – Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics (Wax Poetics)
- Ty Segall – Sleeper (1-2-3-4-GO!)
- Fuzz – S/T (In The Red)
- Melt-Banana – Fetch (A-Zap)
- Erkin Koray – Arap Saci (Pharaway Sounds)
- Man Or Astro-Man – Defcon…5…4…3…2…1 (Chunklet)
- The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Warner Bros.)
- Lumerians – The High Frontier (Red Distribution)
- Nightmares On Wax – Feelin‘ Good (Warp Records)
- Coachwhips – Hands On The Controls (Castleface)
- King Khan & The Shrines – Idle No More (Merge)
- Trombone Shorty – Say That To Say This (Verve)
- Wau Y Los Arrrghs!!! – Todo Roto (Slovenly)
- Nobunny – Secret Songs: Reflections from the Ear Mirror (Goner)
- Elvis Costello and The Roots – Wise Up Ghost And Other Songs (Blue Note Records)
- Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine – White People and the Damage Done (Alternative Tentacles)
- Acid Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO – In Search of the Lost Divine Arc (Important Records)
- Boris – PRAPARAT (ltd.) (DIW Records)
Best Compilations of 2013
- Punk 45: Kill the Hippies! Kill Yourself! 1 Underground Punk in Usa 1973 (Soul Jazz)
- Chinese Rocks (Outhouse)
- R&B Hipshakers Vol. 3: Just a Little Bit of the Jumpin‘ B (Vampisoul)
- Feeling High: Psychedelic Sound Of Memphis (Big Beat UK)
- Red Hot & Fela (Knitting Factory)
- Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana (Analog Africa)
- Qat, Coffee and Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen (Dust to Digital)
- Kassidat: Raw 45s From Morocco (Dust to Digital)
- Change The Beat: The Celluloid Records Story 1980 – 1987 (Celluloid)
Favorite Concerts of 2013
- Dengue Fever – Independent SF
- Cheap Suit Serenaders – Freight and Salvage
- Dr. John – Yoshi’s
- Kermit Ruffins – New Parish
- Burger Boogaloo (with Red Kross, Jonathan Richman, etc.) – Mosswood Park
- Death – New Parish
- Gary Numan – Oakland Metro
