In 2025, KALX DJs played songs from over 40,000 releases!
You can find the 500 most played albums here and below are our “Specialty Charts”!
Electronica — Jazz — Folk/Americana — Classical — Difficult (coming soon)
Electronica
1. Naked Roommate – Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
2. Matmos – Metallic Life Review (Thrill Jockey)
3. Vegyn & Air – Blue Moon Safari (Parlophone)
4. Various Artists – All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 (Night School)
5. Evelyne / Masao – Testpattern (Dark Entries)
6. clipping. – Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
7. Dub Syndicate – Obscured By Version (On-U Sound)
8. Sextile – yes, please. (Sacred Bones)
9. Adrian Sherwood – The Grand Designer (On-U Sound)
10. Ora the Molecule – Dance Therapy (Mute)
11. Salami Rose Joe Louis – Lorings (Brainfeeder)
12. Blackploid – Cosmic Drama (Central Processing Unit)
13. Lara Sarkissian – Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
14. Rani Jambak – Vibra Genetika (Yes No Wave)
15. Joni Void – Every Life Is A Light (Constellation)
16. FKA twigs – EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
17. Sally Shapiro – Ready To Live A Lie (Italians Do It Better)
18. Manslaughter 777 – god’s world (Thrill Jockey)
19. james K – Friend (AD 93)
20. James Krivchenia – Performing Belief (Planet Mu)
21. Ibibio Sound Machine – The Black Notes EP (Merge)
22. Filhos – Vol. 1 (Discrepant)
23. Bonobo, Floating Points & Kamasi Washington – Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack) (SME)
24. Various Artists – Não Estragou Nada (Principe)
25. DJ Koze – Music Can Hear Us (Pampa)
26. Rrose – 2 or 3 Drops of Height Have Nothing to do With Savagery (T4T LUV NRG)
27. Herbert & Momoko; Herbert and Momoko; Matthew Herbert; Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill – Clay (Strut)
28. Kiln – Lemon Borealis (A Strangely Isolated Place)
29. Mytron & Zongamin – Congregate (Multi Culti)
30. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Khadim (Ndagga)
31. Various Artists – Planet Mu 30 (Planet Mu)
32. Cruzloma – Mitos & Ritos (ZZK)
33. Barry Can’t Swim – Loner (Ninja Tune)
34. Various Artists – Trax Records: The 40th Anniversary Collection (2025 Remaster) (Trax)
35. µ-Ziq – 1979 (Balmat)
36. Cube – Lucky Numbers & True Weight (Digital Regress)
37. Blawan – SickElixir (XL)
38. Andrew Pekler – New Environments & Rhythm Studies (Faitiche)
39. Kelly Lee Owens – Dreamstate (dh2)
40. Michael Grigoni * Pan•American – New World, Lonely Ride (kranky)
41. Guedra Guedra – MUTANT (Smugglers Way)
42. Maribou State – Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
43. Sofia Kourtesis – Volver (Ninja Tune)
44. Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – Tall Tales (Warp)
45. Nazar – Demilitarize (Hyperdub)
46. Meemo Comma – Decimation Of I (Planet Mu)
47. Erika de Casier – Lifetime (Independent Jeep)
48. Ammar 808 – Live at Another Sky Festival (Glitterbeat)
49. The Beverage Station – Little Grey Cells (Gold Bolus)
50. Ela Minus – DÍA (Domino)
Jazz
1. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra – Tension (Batov)
2. Chicago Underground Duo – Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
3. Tortoise – Touch (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
4. Marshall Allen – New Dawn (Mexican Summer/Week-End)
5. Alabaster DePlume – A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (International Anthem)
6. Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
7. Lazarus – Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack (Milan)
8. Ella Fitzgerald – The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseum (Verve)
9. Brandee Younger – Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
10. Shabaka – Possession (Impulse!)
11. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
12. Anouar Brahem – After The Last Sky (ECM)
13. SML – How You Been? (International Anthem)
14. Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet And The Madman (Brainfeeder)
15. Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose and Scott Amendola – Here to There (Secret Hatch)
16. BADBADNOTGOOD – Mid Spiral (XL)
17. Actual/Actual – Dimensionality (Edgetone)
18. Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
19. Ben Lamar Gay – Yowzers (International Anthem)
20. Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
21. Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – Defiant Life (ECM)
22. Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
23. James Brandon Lewis Trio – Apple Cores (Anti-)
24. Butcher Brown – Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
25. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet – The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
26. Cochemea – Vol 3: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
27. Immanuel Wilkins – Blues Blood (Blue Note)
28. Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (Warp)
29. Jon Batiste – Beethoven Blues (Verve)
30. Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus – The Children & the Warlock (Cellar)
31. Marco Eneidi Quintet – Wheat Fields Of Kleylehof (Botticelli)
32. Kokoroko – Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood)
33. V/A – KING Jazz Re:Generation Vol.1 (Sounds Fuji)
34. Pink Martini – Bella Ciao (Heinz)
35. Kokoroko – Get The Message (Brownswood)
36. Roy Haynes – Hip Ensemble (We Want Sounds)
37. Gregory Uhlmann, John Johnson, Sam Wilkes – Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes (International Anthem)
38. Citizens Jazz – Earth Angels (S/R)
39. Nat Adderley Jr. Trio – Took So Long (S/R)
40. Dom Salvador – Jazz is Dead 24 (Jazz is Dead)
41. Richard Carr – The Escarpment (Infrequent Seams)
42. Theo Croker – Dream Manifest (Dom)
43. Ute Lemper – Pirate Jenny (The Audiophile Society)
44. Leon Anderson – Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music)
45. Michael Pisaro-Liu – Tombstones II (Circum-Disc)
46. Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding – Milton + esperanza (Concord)
47. Unessential Oils – Unessential Oils (Secret City)
48. Wayne Shorter – Celebration Volume 1 (Blue Note)
49. The Irv Grossman Sextet – Sound Advice (Cellar Music)
50. Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford – Jump Blues Live 1972 (Liberation Hall)
51. Nubya Garcia – Odyssey (Concord)
52. Resavoir & Matt Gold – Horizon (International Anthem)
53. Ken Peplowski – Unheard Bird (Arbors)
54. The Bad Plus – Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue)
55. Darius Jones – The Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
56. Antonio Adolfo – Carnaval – The Songs Were So Beautiful (AAM)
57. Phil Minton, John Butcher, Gino Robair – Blasphemious Fragments (Rastascan)
58. Funkwrench Blues – Mischief in the Musitorium (Need to Know)
59. Alchemist Quintet – Ghost Radio (S/R)
60. Hiromi – Out There (Concord)
61. Jason Gay – The Present And The Past (Aloha Got Soul)
62. De Beren Gieren – What Eludes Us (Sdban)
63. Yusuf Mumin – Journey to the Ancient (We Want Sounds)
64. NYO Jazz – Live in Johannesburg (Platoon)
65. Mafalda Minnozzi – Riofonic (MPI)
66. Carl Allen – Tippin’ (Cellar)
67. Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet – Armando Mi Conga (Amor de Flores)
68. Laufey – Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (AWAL)
69. The Headhunters – The Stunt Man (Ropeadope)
70. Anthony Pirog – The Hunger Artist (Otherly Love)
71. Peggy Lee – Mirrors (Universal Music Enterprise)
72. Keith Jarrett – New Vienna (ECM)
73. Paul Hecht – Pyrography (ears&eyes)
74. Keith Jarrett – At the Deer Head Inn:The Complete Recordings (ECM)
75. James Moody – 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note (Origin)
76. Michael Petrucciani Trio – Jass Club Montmartre- CPH 1988 (Storyville)
77. Otherworld Ensemble – Elegies, Dedication to Lost Friends (Edgetone)
78. Peter Erskine and The JAM Music Lab All-Stars – Vienna to Hollywood (Origin)
79. Shelley Yoelin – Rojo (S/R)
80. Jason Kao Hwang – Myths Of Origin (True Sound Recordings)
81. Paul Cherry – Los Angeles Story (Born Losers)
82. Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra – Mad Scientist Music (Origin)
83. Walter Smith III – Three Of Us Are From Houston And Reuben Is Not (Blue Note)
84. Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine (Soundtrack) (Warp)
85. Cory Weeds – Corey Weeds Meets Jerry Weldon (Cellar)
86. Thomas Marriot – Screen Time (Imani)
87. Jessica Jones Quartet – Edible Flowers (Reva)
88. Eric Alexander & Mike Le Donner – Together (Cellar Music)
89. Tomohiro Mori – Prana (S/R)
90. Peter Lin and AAPI Jazz Collective – Identity (OA2)
91. Carlos Mena – Con Personas (With the People) (Pinch)
92. Alon Farber Hagiga – Dreams I Dream (Origin)
93. Stuart Mack – Vibrations (Outside in Music)
94. Mike Clark & Mike Zilber – Standard Deviations (Sunnyside)
95. Naomi Moon Siegel – Shatter the Glass Sanctuary (Break Open)
96. George Colligan – Live at the Jazz Standard (Whirlwind Recordings)
97. Chicago Jazz Orchestra – More Amour: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (CJO)
98. Rent Romus & Tatsuya Nakatani – Uplift (Edgetone)
99. Russ Anixter’s Hippie Big Band – What Is? (S/R)
100. Jumaane Smith – Come On Home (Zinn)
Folk/Americana
1. Katsy Pline – Live at Three Teardrops (S/R)
2. Valerie June – Owls, Omens, And Oracles (Fantasy)
3. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)
4. Big Thief – Double Infinity (4AD)
5. Aux Meadows – Draw Near (Eiderdown)
6. Galactic and Irma Thomas – Audience With The Queen (Tchuop-Zilla)
7. Mekons – Horror (Fire)
8. S.G. Goodman – Planting By The Signs (Slough Water)
9. V/A – Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sony Masterworks)
10. Terry Callier – The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier (Craft)
11. Annie And The Caldwells – Can’t Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop)
12. Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love (Freedom To Spend)
13. Sam Amidon – Salt River (River Lea)
14. Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
15. Haley Heynderickx – Seed Of A Seed (Mama Bird)
16. Bonnie Prince Billy – The Purple Bird (No Quarter)
17. The Horsenecks – In the West (Tiki Parlor)
18. Jenny Scheinman – All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
19. Foxtails Brigade – Red Album (Gold Hour)
20. Sunny War – Armageddon In A Summer Dress (New West)
21. Florist – Jellywish (Double Double Whammy)
22. I’m With Her – Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder)
23. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti-)
24. Aux Meadows – Dust Kingdom (Shed)
25. Adrienne Lenker – Live at Revolution Hall (4AD)
26. Alex G – Headlights (RCA)
27. Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
28. Flora Hibberd – Swirl (22TWENTY)
29. Woody Guthrie – Woody at Home (Shamus)
30. Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled By Turtles (Sub Pop)
31. Buckingham Nicks – Buckingham Nicks (Rhino)
32. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore (New West)
33. Emma Swift – The Resurrection Game (Tiny Ghosts)
34. Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise – New Kind Place (Kestrel)
35. Richard Dawson – End of the Middle (Domino)
36. Rainbow Girls – Haunting (S/R)
37. Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams Sings the Beatles from Abbey Road (Highway 20)
38. Silkroad Ensemble w/ Rhiannon Giddens – American Railroad (Nonesuch)
39. Barbara Dane – I’m On My Way (Gregmark)
40. Ollella – AntiFragile (S/R)
41. V/A – Cardinals At The Window (S/R)
42. Florry – Sounds Like… (Dear Life)
43. American Patchwork Quartet – American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)
44. The Seldom Scene – Remains To Be Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
45. Jon Batiste – Beethoven Blues (Verve)
46. Yasmin Williams – Acadia (Nonesuch)
47. Marlon Williams – Te Whare Tīwekaweka (S/R)
48. Willie Nelson – Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy)
49. Bridget St. John – Covering My Brothers (Shagrat)
50. Swimming Bell – Somnia (Perpetual Doom)
51. Emily D’Angelo – Freezing (Deutsche Grammophon)
52. Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
53. Tajmo (Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo) – Room on the Porch (Concord)
54. Little Mazarrn – Mustang Island (Dear Life)
55. Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It (Compass)
56. The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Cadmean Dawn)
57. Samantha Fish – Paper Doll (Rounder)
58. Jerron Paxton – Things Done Changed (Smithsonian Folkways)
59. Phipps Pt. – Songs We No Longer Sing (S/R)
60. Todd Snider – High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless)
61. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat (Partisan)
62. Jason Isbell – Foxes In The Snow (Southeastern)
63. Joan Baez – Farewell, Angelina (Craft)
64. Canyon Songs – Ghost Chair (S/R)
65. Barb Murphy – Gold (S/R)
66. Ultan O’Brien – Dancing The Line (Nyahh)
67. The Brothers Comatose – Golden Grass (Swamp Jam)
68. Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar)
69. Evan Nicole Bell – Shades of Blue (Hummingbird)
70. Mike Beck – Mike Beck (S/R)
71. Case Oats – Last Missouri Exit (Merge)
72. Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion (Feel It)
73. Avi C. Engel – Strangling Vine (Elephant Shrew Editions)
74. Dandeline – Beautiful World (Ripe)
75. Captain’s Audio Project – Waiting For The Moon (S/R)
76. Shinyribs – Leaving Time (S/R)
77. Pelvis Wrestley – Andy (Earth Libraries)
78. Annie Stokes – Ghostwriter (PonyGirl)
79. Africatown, AL – Ancestor Sounds (Free Dirt)
80. Unessential Oils – Unessential Oils (Secret City)
81. Willie Nelson – Last Leaf On The Tree (Legacy)
82. MJ Lenderman/This is Lorelei – “Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)” (Double Double Whammy)
83. Mavis Staples – Sad And Beautiful World (Anti-)
84. Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford – Jump Blues Live 1972 (Liberation Hall)
85. Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override (dBpm)
86. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir (High Top Mountain / Thirty Tigers)
87. River Drivers – Live at SteelStacks (S/R)
88. Snocaps – Snocaps (Anti-)
89. John Fogerty – Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (Concord)
90. Erik Core – Killing The Sacred (Rock Cult)
91. Phoebe White – Cowgirl’s Delight (Poetman)
92. Lily Seabird – Trash Mountain (Lame-O)
93. Ezra – Froggy’s Demise (Adhyaropa)
94. Waxahatchee – “Mud” (Anti/Epitaph)
95. Rachel Drew – Old Sky New (Floop)
96. The Glass Hours – The Glass Hours (Cornelius Chapel)
97. Collisionville – To Wit (Booplet)
98. Georgia Sea Island Singers – The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)
99. John McCutcheon – Field of Stars (Appalsongs)
100. Jack O’ The Clock – Portraits (S/R)
Classical
1. Carla Kihlstedt & Present Music – 26 Little Deaths (Cantaloupe)
2. Owls – Rare Birds (New Amsterdam)
3. Terry Riley – The Columbia Recordings – Shri Camel (SME)
4. Third Coast Percussion – Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
5. Theresa Wong – Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
6. Jessica Moss – Unfolding (Constellation)
7. The Great Learning Orchestra – Selected Recordings from “Grapefruit” by Yoko Ono (Karlrecords)
8. Rebecca Foon – Reverie (Constellation)
9. Third Coast Percussion – Glass: Aguas da Amazonia (Rockwell)
10. Hildur Guðnadóttir – Where to From (Deutsche Grammophon)
11. A Moving Sound & Ethel – The Wheel of Life (Arc)
12. Raven Chacon – Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass (New World)
13. Max Richter – In A Landscape (Decca)
14. Thea Farhadian – Tattoos and Other Markings (Other Minds)
15. Emily D’Angelo – Freezing (Deutsche Grammophon)
16. Feico Deutekom – Philip Glass: Etudes for Piano (Orange Mountain)
17. Kronos Quartet & Mary Kouyoumdjian – Witness (Phenotypic)
18. Cavatina Duo & Pacifica Quartet – River of Fire (Cedille)
19. Richard Carr – The Escarpment (Infrequent Seams)
20. Donnacha Dennehy, Alarm Will Sound & Alan Pierson – Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter (Nonesuch)
21. Hildur Guðnadóttir – Hedda (Music from the Original Motion Picture and Score) (Milan)
22. Charles Amirkhanian – Ratchet Attach It (Other Minds)
23. Joe Hisaishi – Joe Hisaishi Conducts (Deutsche Grammophon)
24. The Crossing – Ochre (Navona)
25. Gloria Cheng – Root Progressions (Biophilia)
26. Avi Avital – Song of the Birds (Deutsche Grammophon)
27. Coalescent Quartet – The Wall Between Us (Is Where We Meet) (Neuma)
28. Ludwig Göransson – Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score) (Sony Classical)
29. PAN Project Ensemble – Borderless Flows (Neuma)
30. Philip Glass & Sussan Deyhim – Once Within A Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Orange Mountain)
31. Richard Carr – The Leap (Ravello)
32. Teresa de la Torre – Kamaleonic Weill (Ars Harmonica)
33. Lina Bahn – Axolotl (Neuma)
34. Pamela Z – Simultaneous (Other Minds)
35. Putu Septa – Piwal (Other Minds)
36. Adam Tendler – Inheritances (New Amsterdam)
37. Kristina Marinova – The Bus Came By and I Got On (Navona)
38. Sarah Bassingthwaighte – Orchestrating the Wild (ARIA classics)
39. La tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait (Alpha Classics)
40. Meredith Monk – Cellular Songs (ECM New Series)
41. Rick Baitz – River of January (Neuma)
42. Philip Glass – Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain)
43. Patrick Galvin & Jennifer Hou – Dear Camilla, (Navona)
44. Hypercube – The Force for Good (Neuma)
45. Kronos Quartet – Forgive Us For (Phenotypic)
46. Adrianne Munden-Dixon – Vision Mantra (Neuma)
47. Allison Dromgold Adams – Flames Will Grow (Albany)
48. Caroline Shaw – Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score) (Nonesuch)
49. Isabelle Faust – Ligeti: Violin Concerto – Concert Românesc – Piano Concerto (harmonia mundi)
50. Christopher Clarino – Parlando (Neuma)
