Top Ten Albums of 2016
1. Drive-By Truckers - American Band - No album I heard this year felt more “of the moment”. Tackling gun violence, racial tensions, climate deniers, and so much more, all within their best songs since Brighter Than Creation’s Dark. A true album of 2016.
2. Brian Fallon - Painkiller
3. You Won’t - Revolutionaries
4. Baaba Maal - The Traveller
5. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
6. Bombino - Azel
7. Joseph - I’m Alone, No You’re Not
8. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
9. NOFX - First Ditch Effort
10. The I Don’t Cares - Wild Stab
Honorable Mentions
De La Soul - ...And the Anonymous Nobody
Butch Walker - Stay Gold
Augustines - This is Your Life
Top 50 Songs of 2016
1. Brian Fallon - A Wonderful Life - In a year where I got married, switched jobs, and watched both the worlds of my friends and family, as well as the world at large, go through more major changes than I can remember ever happening in a single year, this song drove me through the hard times and soundtracked the great ones. Fallon was already one of my favorite song-writers, and I actually was not impressed by the track at first, but as the year went on, nothing else stuck to me as strongly.
2. American Authors - Pride
3. Drive-by Truckers - What It Means
4. Baaba Maal - Traveller
5. Sting - I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
6. Joseph - White Flag
7. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave
8. Hayes Carll - Good While it Lasted
9. David Bowie - Lazarus
10. Billy Talent - Leave Them All Behind
11. Panic! At the Disco - LA Devotee
12. Mumford & Sons - There Will be Time (feat. Baaba Maal, The Very Best)
13. You Won’t - No Divide
14. Bombino - Akhar Zaman (This Moment)
15. DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak (feat. Run the Jewels)
16. Elton John - Blue Wonderful
17. Judah and the Lion - Folk-Hop Sound
18. RJD2 - Peace of What
19. Goo Goo Dolls - Boxes
20. Junior Empire - West Coast
21. Matagi - Valley Isle
22. Silver Torches - Cal
23. The I Don’t Cares - King of America
24. Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Wipeout Turn
25. Aesop Rock - Rings
26. Dogbreth - Cups and Wrappers
27. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Kevin (feat. Leon Bridges)
28. Glass Animals - Life Itself
29. Damien Jurado - Exit 353
30. John Doe - Voar (feat. Dito Rodrigues)
31. The Last Shadow Puppets - Aviation
32. The Naked & Famous - Laid Low
33. The Menzingers - Lookers
34. Butch Walker - Descending
35. The Hotelier - Sun
36. Descendents - Smile
37. Third Eye Blind - Cop vs. Phone Girl
38. Babymetal - Road of Resistance
39. Miranda Lee Richards - 7th Ray
40. Bryce Vine - Glamorama
41. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - In a Black Out
42. James Blake - I Need a Forest Fire (feat. Bon Iver)
43.Band of Horses - In a Drawer (feat. J. Mascis)
44. Spookyland - God’s Eyes
45. Courtney Barnett - Three Packs a Day
46. Leonard Cohen - On the Level
47. Alex Da Kid - Not Easy (feat. X Ambassadors, Elle King, Wiz Khalifa)
48. Tegan and Sara - Stop Desire
49. The XX - On Hold
50. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Best of the Rest (Alphabetized)
Against Me! - Crash
Alicia Keys - Holy War
Allah-Las - Could Be You
The Americans - The Right Stuff
Anthony Hamilton - Love is an Angry Thing
Astronautalis - Papillion
Augustines - No Need to Explain
Barns Courtney - Hands
Bastille - Winter of Our Youth
Beach Slang - Punks in a Disco Bar
Ben Harper - How Dark is Gone
Blink-182 - Sober
Bob Mould - Hold On
Bon Iver - 00000 Million
Caveman - Never Going Back
Charles Bradley - Change for the World
Craig Finn - Screenwriters School
Delicate Steve - Winners
Dinosaur Jr. - Be a Part
Empty Houses - Daydream
Eric Bachmann - Mercy
Face to Face - Double Crossed
Federale - Chango
The Game - What Your Life Like
Gary Clark Jr. - Take Me Down
The Hunna - We Could Be
James Wyatt Crosby - Wild Dog
Jamie T - Joan of Arc
The Jayhawks - Lovers of the Sun
Jimmy Eat World - The End is Beautiful
John K. Sampson - Postdoc Blues
Josh Kelly - The Rock Who Found a Rolling Stone
Lucius - Gone Insane
LUH - I&I
Mako - Into the Sunset
Matisyahu - Crash Landings
Matt and Kim - Haunting Me
Mona - In the Middle
Nada Surf - Believe You’re Mine
Nahko and Medicine for the People - San Quentin
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
P.O.S. - Sleepdrone/Superposition
Paul Simon - Cool Papa Bell
Rayland Baxter - Mr. Rodriguez
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities
Rogue Wave - Take it Slow
Sam Feldt - Summer On You
Santana - Anywhere You Want to Go
Santigold - Who I Thought You Were
Skylar Grey - Kill for You (feat. Eminem)
Stephen Marley - It’s Alright
Van Morrison - Too Late
Violent Femmes - Memory
The Virginmarys - Motherless Land
White Denim - Holda You (I’m Psycho)
White Lung - Below
White Sea - Arcadia
The White Stripes - City Lights
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