music best of 2015 Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper Panda Bear is a weirdo. On Meets The Grim Reaper, he spirals into his psychedelic midlife crisis and takes us with him. Let the weirdness consume you.
-Russell Finn The Dead Weather Dodge & Burn One of Jack White’s many side projects, The Dead Weather is a band that you know is going to toss out some pretty good stuff every couple of years, under the radar. music isn’t going to change your life, but it could probably make it a little more fun. Dr. Dre compton Hip-hop’s Howard Hughes finally emerged with new music this year after a decade and a half of rumors and postponements. compton is a fantastic album. Is it “worth waiting 16 years” fantastic? Maybe. The Darkness Last of Our Kind This is everything you forgot you loved about rock. Flamboyant, excessive, and on top of that, really, really good. Cool people listen to The Darkness. You want to be cool, don’t you? Chris Isaak First Comes the Night Chris Isaak is the modern-day Roy Orbison. First Comes the Night is an album to put on when you’re getting to know someone. If they’re not digging it, they’re probably a jerk. It’s absolutely spectacular. Adele 25 Everything Adele does is beautiful. I don’t know how she’s making it in this sea of garbage called pop music, but I am happy she is. There was never any question; my #1 album of 2015 is Adele’s 25.
-J. Robert Lobeck
LOCAL ALBUMS of NOTE FIGURE - Monsters 6.66 Kid Kollision- Foreign ATM Stella - Skin and Seeds Sexy, etc. - Sex Tapes Deja Blu 5 - Deja Blu 5
Local Artist/Band Picks (cont.) TOBY ELLIS Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free Wilco - Star Wars Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Heartless Bastards Restless Ones Dave & Phil Alvin - Lost Time
CASEY WILLIAMS David Gilmour - Rattle that Lock Jeff Lynne’s ELO - Alone in the Universe Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure The Wombats - Glitterbug Mark Ronson - Uptown Special
LINDSEY WILLIAMS James Taylor - Before This World Marianas Trench - astoria Sturgil Simpson Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour Jeff Beck - Live
LACY JEAN Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free Chris Stapleton - Traveller Los Hijos de la Montaña Los Hijos de la Montaña Logic - The Incredible True Story Turnpike Troubadours Turnpike Troubadours
STEVE TYNER of JENNY’S BAD HAIR DAY Muse - drones Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind Adele - 25 Florence and the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful James Bay - chaos and the Calm
THE HONEY VINES Brandi Carlile - The Firewatcher’s Daughter Indigo Girls - One Lost Day Osiella - EP#2 The Cold Stares - Look Over Yonder Hill Adele - 25
STOLEN REMAINS Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm und Drang Sevendust - Kill the Flaw Trivium - Silence in the Snow Stone Sour - Meanwhile in Burbank Tremonti - Cauterize RUNNING WITH TARANTULAS Faith No More - Sol Invictus Sumac - The Deal Failure - The Heart Is a Monster Kylesa - Exhausting Fire Torche - Restarter
TJ TANOOS of TASTES LIKE CHICKEN Adele - 25 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness Dr. Dre - compton Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color REED FOUR Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color Ghost - Meliora Tame Impala - Currents Björk - Vulnicura
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