PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
Yes, right. Who?
If you like Electronic Dance Music, you'll like these guys. If you like Kraut rock, you'll like these guys. If you like the Blue Man Group, you'll like these guys. If you're just a nerd, you'll like these guys.
With the exception of the first, I qualify on all counts. Plus I'm a sucker for a live album. And anyone that gives Gene Kranz his props. Give it a listen.
For those of you with Spotify, there's a public Best of 2016 playlist here:
To recap:
2. Honest Life - Courtney Marie Andrews
3. The Last Days of Oakland - Fantastic Negrito
4. Everything is No Thing - Jah Wobble & the Invaders of the Heart
5. Sorrow - Colin Stetson
6. Ouroboros - Ray LaMontagne
7. Rejoice! I'm Dead! - Gong
8. Porcupine Meat - Bobby Rush
9. Everything Sacred - Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
10. Night Thoughts - Suede
Honorable Mention:
11. Gon' Boogaloo - CW Stoneking
12. Dolls of Highland - Kyle Craft
13. Arbina - Noura Mint Seymali
14. The Marcus King Band - s/t
15. Bamboo Diner in the Rain - The Wave Pictures
16. Overnight - Josienne Clark & Ben Walker
17. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not - Dinosaur Jr.
18. "Awaken My Love" - Childish Gambino
19. Boots No. 1 - Gillian Welsh
20. Burn Something Beautiful - Alejandro Escovedo
The Best of the Rest:
For those of you who complain there's no good music these days, here's 122 albums worth:
To recap:
2. Honest Life - Courtney Marie Andrews
3. The Last Days of Oakland - Fantastic Negrito
4. Everything is No Thing - Jah Wobble & the Invaders of the Heart
5. Sorrow - Colin Stetson
6. Ouroboros - Ray LaMontagne
7. Rejoice! I'm Dead! - Gong
8. Porcupine Meat - Bobby Rush
9. Everything Sacred - Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
10. Night Thoughts - Suede
Honorable Mention:
11. Gon' Boogaloo - CW Stoneking
12. Dolls of Highland - Kyle Craft
13. Arbina - Noura Mint Seymali
14. The Marcus King Band - s/t
15. Bamboo Diner in the Rain - The Wave Pictures
16. Overnight - Josienne Clark & Ben Walker
17. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not - Dinosaur Jr.
18. "Awaken My Love" - Childish Gambino
19. Boots No. 1 - Gillian Welsh
20. Burn Something Beautiful - Alejandro Escovedo
The Best of the Rest:
For those of you who complain there's no good music these days, here's 122 albums worth:
| 4 1/2 - Steven Wilson |
| A Cure for Loneliness - Peter Wolf |
| A Force of Nature - Sari Schorr |
| A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead |
| Abbar El Hamada - Aziza Brahim |
| Alice Bag - s/t |
| American Band - Drive-By Truckers |
| American Football (LP2) - s/t |
| Animal Races - Cool Ghouls |
| Aupres du Poele - Ten Strings and a Goat Skin |
| Azel - Bombino |
| Bang, Zoom, Crazy . . . Hello - Cheap Trick |
| Beautiful Scars - Lee Harvey Osmond |
| Bee in Your Bonnet - Fallon Crush |
| Black Peak - Xylouris White |
| Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones |
| Blues and Ballads - Brad Mehidau Trio |
| C & O Canal - Eric Brace & Peter Cooper |
| Carolina - Spain |
| Cautionary Tale - Dylan LeBlanc |
| Cayamo Sessions at Sea - Buddy Miller & Friends |
| Colvin & Earle - s/t |
| Commontime - Field Music |
| Couchville Sessions - Darrell Scott |
| Dead Ringers - Horseback |
| Death's Dateless Night - Paul Kelly |
| Deluxe - Omni |
| Disappointment Island - TTNG |
| Do Hollywood - Lemon Twigs |
| Don't Let the Kids Win - Julia Jacklin |
| Double Take - Frankie Miller |
| Dusk - Ultimate Painting |
| Eastside Bulldog - Todd Snider |
| Electa - The Wharves |
| Emotional Mugger - Ty Segall |
| Eric Bachmann - s/t |
| Everything's Different in the Night - Nudie |
| Exploded View - s/t |
| Eyes on the Lines - Steve Gunn |
| Far from Home - Calypso Rose |
| Feel Like Going Home - VA |
| Fera - Husbandry |
| Fleeting - Glenn Jones |
| Folk Time - Hart Valley Drifters |
| For Better, or Worse - John Prine |
| For the Good Times - Willie Nelson |
| Fowl Play - Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds |
| Front Row Seat to Earth - Weyes Blood |
| Funs Cool - The Prettiots |
| George Fest - VA |
| Get Gone - Seratones |
| Ghost Stations - Marconi Union |
| Golden Sings That Have Been Sung - Ryley Walker |
| Good Life Pie - Robert John & the Wreck |
| Goodbye World - The Relatives |
| Guadalupe Plata - s/t |
| Here Be Monsters - Motorpsycho |
| Heron Oblivion - s/t |
| High Stakes - Michael Martin Murphy |
| Hold On! - The James Hunter Six |
| Hubris - Oren Ambarchi |
| Hunter St. Blues - The Mayhemingways |
| If You See Me, Say Yes - Flock of Dimes |
| I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always - Luke Winslow-King |
| Imarhan - s/t |
| Innocent Road - Caleb Klauder & Reeb Williams |
| It Calls on Me - Doug Tuttle |
| It Is What It Is - Jimmy "Duck" Holmes |
| Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration - Joan Baez |
| K 2.0 - Kula Shaker |
| Keepin' the Horse Between Me & the Ground - Seasick Steve |
| Lazarus - Original Cast Recording |
| Lodestar - Shirley Collins |
| Lola - Carrie Rodriguiz |
| Look Park - s/t |
| Lost Property - Turin Brakes |
| Magic Fire - The Stray Birds |
| Man Made Object - GoGo Penguin |
| Marlowe's Revenge - Dan Stuart/Twin Tones |
| Max Jury - s/t |
| Modern Country - William Tyler |
| Monolith of Phobos - The Claypool Lennon Delirium |
| My Piece of Land - Amanda Shires |
| My Way Home - Lapsley |
| Ne So - Rokia Traore |
| New View - Elanor Friedberger |
| New York is My Home - Dion |
| Nine Pin - Kaia Kater |
| Nothing More to Say - The Frightnrs |
| Old Adam - Fay Heild |
| On the Ropes - The Honeycutters |
| Paging Mr. Proust - The Jayhawks |
| Painkillers - Brian Fallon |
| Pearls to Swine - Adam Torres |
| Redshift - Rhyton |
| Sadler Vaden - s/t |
| Scheherazade - Freakwater |
| Sea of Noise - St. Paul & the Broken Bones |
| Soft Days - Sea Pink |
| Someday, Buddy - The Trouble with Templeton |
| Something About April II - Adrian Younge |
| Stranger to Stranger - Paul Simon |
| Suicide Songs - MONEY |
| Supernatural Love - Sidestepper |
| Telling It Like It Is - Marching Church |
| That Album - Scotty Brachter |
| The End of Comedy - Drugdealer |
| The Olympians - s/t |
| The Ship - Brian Eno |
| The Things That We Are Made Of - Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| The Unity Sessions - Pat Metheny |
| Theyesandeyes - Lou Rhodes |
| This Changes Everything - Jim Lauderdale |
| This Girl's In Love - Rumer |
| This Is Where I Live - William Bell |
| Uncertain As it is Uneven - The Lowest Pair |
| Undercurrent - Sarah Jarosz |
| Upland Stories - Robbie Fulks |
| Vagabond Saint - Angelina |
| What to Fear - Sean Watkins |
| White Bear - The Temperance Movement |
| You're Dreaming - The Cactus Blossoms |
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