music best of 2015 Local Artist/Band Picks FIGURE The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness Rustie EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE Tyler the Creator - Cherry Bomb Jungle - Jungle DJ Qbert - Extraterrestrial CAS ONE Bitter Stephens - Skinning the Gloves Dr. Dre - compton Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Ceschi - Broken Bones Ballads B. Dolan - Kill the Wolf JAKE MARTIN Imagine Dragons - Smoke and Mirrors Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night Muse - drones Beck - Morning Phase Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack A HAYGAN A Haygan - Heart, Mind & Soul Bryson Tiller - Trap Soul Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Drake - If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late Rae Sremmurd SremmLife JOSH MERRITT Ed Sheeran - X Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard - Django & Jimmie Turnpike Troubadours Turnpike Troubadours Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free Chris Stapleton - Traveller
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THEO AKAI of OSIELLA Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Chris Stapleton - Traveller Leon Bridges - Coming Home CHRIS TAPP of THE COLD STARES Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart Link Wray - 3 Track Shack Led Zeppelin - coda (reissue) Miles Davis - at Newport 1955 (reissue) The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (reissue) Honorable Mention: Dirty Streets - White Horse THE SO LONG VINYLS Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness The Cribs - For All My Sisters Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves THUNDER/DREAMER Built to Spill - Untethered Moon Promised Land Sound For Use and Delight Wilco - Star Wars Mac Demarco - another One Kurt Vile - b’lieve I’m goin down...
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News4U Writer Picks Bjork Vulnicura Always the unapologetic innovator, Bjork’s haunting vocals and composition put others to shame. Goosebumps start to finish. The Weekend Beauty Behind the Madness No one could escape this album in 2015, but who would want to anyway? Sexy, catchy, refreshing- feels like the weekend every day. Bully Feels Like An indie Pandora creeper, Feels Like is a no-skipper, and with their nuvo-grunge, raw simplicity, Bully’s not slipping through the cracks in 2016, bet. Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor Manson is a chameleon of epic proportions- the level of artistry on this album proves that artists don’t have to trim back their roots to grow. Lana del Ray Honeymoon Thank the universe for the theatrical and depressing mess that is Lana del Ray. A flush-giver, Honeymoon pines for itself.
-Whitney Patterson Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear Possibly the smartest, smuggest album of the year. No other artist managed to capture humor, wit, vulgarity, and beauty so perfectly like Father John Misty did. Viet Cong Viet Cong This brooding seven-song collection avoids a lot of conventions and clichés, making it one of the strongest albums of the year for artsy sad boys or hard rockers. Tame Impala Currents Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker stood in the happy intersection of psychedelic rock and synth-pop and created Currents—the grooviest, most polished album of the year. Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly Given the current state of affairs in America, no other album is as politically important as Kendrick Lamar’s. Hip hop fan or not, everyone should listen to this album.