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    • Top 35 Albums of the Week
    • Informational Programs
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    • Weekly Entertainment Calendar
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Best New Music of 2015

Posted on December 22, 2015

  • Algiers – Algiers (Matador)
  • Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin – Lost Time (Yep Roc)
  • A Place to Bury Strangers – Transfixtion (Dead Oceans)
  • Blur – The Magic Whip (Warner Bros.)
  • Olivia Chaney – The Longest River (Nonesuch)
  • Damaged Bug – Cold Hot Plumbs (Castle Face)
  • Deadly Orgone Radiation – Power Trips (Copepod)
  • Deaf Wish – Pain (Sub Pop)
  • Dave Douglas – High Risk (Greenleaf)
  • Dungen – Allas Sak (Kemado)
  • F.F.S – F.F.S (Domino)
  • Fuzz – Fuzz II (In The Red)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet, and Other Distress (CST)
  • Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey)
  • Hank III – Take As Needed For Pain (Bruc)
  • Metz – Metz II (Sub Pop)
  • Moon Duo – Shadow Of The Sun (Sacred Bones)
  • The Pretty Things – The Sweet Pretty Things (Are In Bed Now, Of Course…) (Repertoire)
  • PiL – What The World Needs Now… (Cargo)
  • Pink Floyd – London 1966/1967 (Snapper)
  • Pins – Wild Nights (P&C Bella Union)
  • Pow! – Fight Fire (Castle Face)
  • Ty Segall – Ty Rex (Goner)
  • Omay Souleyman – Bahdeni Nami (Monkey Town)
  • Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born To Lose You (Cherry Red)
  • Emma Swift – Emma Swift (Laughing Outlaw)
  • Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
  • Richard Thompson – Still (Fantasy)
  • Nik Turner – Space Fusion Odyssey (Purple Pyramid)
  • Useless Eaters – Singles 2011-2014 (Slovenly)
  • Viet Cong – Viet Cong (Jajaguwar)
  • White Hills – Walks For Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
  • White Hills – Drivers For Pedestrians (Thrill Jockey)
  • Wire – Wire (Pink Flag)
  • Neil Young + Promise of the Real – The Monsanto Years (Reprise)

Best Singles

  • Flying Kangaroo Alliance – Hit The Wall/Wasted (Punk Fox)
  • Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift – Follow the Money/Motion Pictures (Yep Roc)
  • Lunch Box – Smash Hits (Jigsaw)
  • Repairs – Decay/Cycle (HoZac)
  • Wild Fruit – Barn Burn/Terror Tips (Blue Punk)

Best Reissues

  • Broadcast – All Four LPs (Wrap)
  • Holger Czukay – Eleven Years Innerspace (Groenland)
  • Holger Czukay – Flop Hit (Groenland)
  • Holger Czukay – Rot Ist Der Osten (Groenland)
  • Harmonia – Complete Works (Groenland)
  • Hawkwind – This Is Your Captain Speaking…Your Captain is Dead, The Albums and Singles 1970-1974 (Parlophone)
  • William Onyearbor – William Onyearbor (Luaka Bop)
  • The Pretty Things – Bouquets From The Cloudy Sky (Snapper)

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