Top 30 for 2016 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Lucy Dacus No Burden Egghunt
2 Camp Howard Camp Howard Crystal Pistol
3 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night Egghunt
4 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
5 Get in the Car Get in the Car self-released
6 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl
7 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
8 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
9 The Julie Ruin Hit Reset Hardly Art
10 Teen Love Yes Carpark
11 Imaginary Sons Don’t Impress Me Bossy Lil’ Thing
12 Lydia Loveless Real Bloodshot
13 Savages Adore Life Matador
14 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
15 The Frightnrs Nothing More to Say Daptone
16 Avers Omega/Whatever EggHunt
17 Naked Pictures NUDES self-released
18 Flock of Dimes If You See Me, Say Yes Partisan
19 Mitski Puberty 2 Dead Oceans
20 Grass Panther Vignette Nosy Pants
21 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
22 Eleanor Friedberger New View Frenchkiss
23 Esperanza Spalding Emily’s D+Evolution Concord
24 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
25 Quilt Plaza Mexican Summer
26 Warpaint Heads Up Rough Trade
27 Pete Curry Doin’ Nothin’ Crystal Pistol
28 Parquet Courts Human Performance Rough Trade
29 Sidestepper Supernatural Love Real World
30 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason

    December 31st, 2016

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Top 30 for Jun 27 – Jul 3 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
2 TEEN Love Yes Carpark
3 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
4 Gazebos Die Alone Hardly Art
5 Kristin Kontrol X-Communicate Sub Pop
6 Mitski Puberty 2 Dead Oceans
7 White Lung Paradise Domino
8 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt
9 Gnoomes Ngan! Rocket Recordings
10 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
11 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
12 Chris Cohen As If Apart Captured Tracks
13 Regrettes A Living Human Girl Warner Bros.
14 Nap Eyes Thought Rock Fish Scale Paradise of Bachelors
15 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
16 Tanya Donelly Swan Song Series American Laundromat
17 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
18 Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack Canvasback
19 Aloha Little Windows Cut Right Through Polyvinyl
20 Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony Fat Possum
21 Boulevards Groove! Captured Tracks
22 Esperanza Spalding Emily’s D+Evolution Concord
23 Fruit Bats Absolute Loser Easy Sound
24 Casket Girls The Night Machines Graveface
25 Amber Arcades Fading Lines Heavenly
26 Levitation Room Ethos Burger
27 Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial Matador
28 Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado My Lover the Killer Munster
29 Big Thief Masterpiece Saddle Creek
30 Erin McKeown According to Us TVP

    July 4th, 2016

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Top 30 for Mar 21-27 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Quilt Plaza Mexican Summer
2 Charles Bradley Changes Daptone
3 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon
4 Shopping Why Choose FatCat
5 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
6 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
7 Rokia Traoré Né So Nonesuch
8 The James Hunter Six Hold On! Daptone
9 Joy Formidable Hitch self-released
10 Bombino Azel Partisan
11 The Bonnevilles Arrow Pierce My Heart Alive
12 Aziza Brahim Abbar el Hamada Glitterbeat
13 The KVB …Of Desire Invada
14 Mothers When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired Grand Jury
15 The Spook School Try to be Hopeful Fortuna POP!
16 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
17 Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Loma Vista / Concord
18 Wild Nothing Life of Pause Captured Tracks
19 Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Concord
20 Savages Adore Life Matador
21 Thermals Hey You [single] Saddle Creek
22 Dreamtime Dreamtime [reissue] Captcha / Cardinal Fuzz
23 Fatima Al Qadiri Brute Hyperdub
24 Brackish Water Jamboree Brackish Water Jamboree Riverrock
25 Sidestepper Supernatural Love Real World
26 Mavis Staples Livin' on a High Note Anti-
27 Laney Jones Laney Jones self-released
28 Eerie Wanda Hum Beyond Beyond is Beyond
29 Gazebos Die Alone Hardly Art
30 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt

    March 28th, 2016

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Top 30 for Feb 29 – Mar 13 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt
2 Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Concord
3 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
4 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
5 Prince Rama Xtreme Now Carpark
6 Sidestepper Supernatural Love Real World
7 Peter Astor Spilt Milk Slumberland
8 Imaginary Sons Let it Beer self-released
9 Hinds Leave Me Alone Mom+Pop
10 Heron Oblivion Heron Oblivion Sub Pop
11 Various Artists Daptone Gold II Daptone
12 Camp Howard Camp Howard Crystal Pistol
13 Spook School Try to be Hopeful Fortuna POP!
14 Nap Eyes Thought Rock Fish Scale Paradise of Bachelors
15 Various Artists The Rough Guide To South African Jazz World Music Network
16 Quilt Plaza Mexican Summer
17 Teen Love Yes Carpark
18 Various Artists Cease and Desist: DIY Post Punk Cult Classics Optimo Music
19 Savages Adore Life Matador
20 Sons of the Void Sons of the Void Sunrise Ocean Bender
21 Fat White Family Songs for Our Mothers Fat Possum
22 Porches Pool Domino
23 DIIV Is the Is Are Captured Tracks
24 Your Friend Gumption Domino
25 Gazebos Die Alone Hardly Art
26 Essaie Pas Demaine est une autre nuit DFA
27 Burnt Palms Back on My Wall We Were Never Being Boring
28 Eleanor Friedberger New View Frenchkiss
29 Trillions Superposition self-released
30 Aziza Brahim Abbar el Hamada Glitterbeat

    March 14th, 2016

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