Top 10 Albums of 2015

Our music staff's personal picks of the best albums of 2015.

album reviews, New MusicNatalie RaphaelDecember 17, 2015Drake, SOPHIE, Product, Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly, Death Grips, The Powers That B, Vince Staples, Summertime '06, FKA Twigs, M3LL155X, Ho99o9, METZ, //, Peaches, Rub, Young Fathers, White Men are Black Too, Panda Bear, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Earl Sweatshirt, I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside, White Men Are Black Men Too, Floating Points, Elaenia, Seven Davis Jr., Universes, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Multi-Love, De Lux, Generation, Future, JLin, Dark Energy, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Viet Cong, Romare, Projections, Beach House, Depression Cherry, Jeremih, Lat Nights: The Album, Young Thug, Barter 6, Grimes, Art Angels, Miguel, Wildheart, Bjork, Vulnicura, Shamir, Ratchet, Kamasi Washington, The Epic, Kehlani, You Should Be There, The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness, Jamie XX, In Colour, Alabama Shakes, Sound and Color, Tame Impala, Currents, Kelela, Hallucinogen, Björk, Deerhunter, Fading Frontier, Hiatus Kaiyote, Choose Your Weapon, At.Long.Last.A$AP, A Place to Bury Strangers, Transfixiation, The Sword, High Country, Travi$ Scott, Rodeo, Intronaut, The Direction of Last Things, Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit, Belzebong, Greenferno, Oneohtrix Point Never, Garden of Delete, Captain, Captain We're Sinking, The Future is Cancelled, Soichi Terada, Sounds of the Far East, Weed, Running Back, PZG and Dubsknit, We Rob Rave, Taso, TEKLIFE TILL THA NEXT LIFE VOL. 2, Jam City, Dream a Garden, Nomine, Inside Nomine, огни, факел, Barlow, music review, album review, top 10, Top 10 of 2015Comment

New Adds: Neon Indian, Deerhunter, Beach House and more

How many times can our music director Ashely reference "Hot Line Bling?" Check out this week's new music to figure out.

album reviews, New MusicNatalie RaphaelOctober 28, 2015New This Week, album review, music review, Wax Idols, American Tragic, Beach House, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Deerhunter, Fading Frontier, Raury, All We Need, Neon Indian, VEGAA INTL. Night School, Alaska Thunderfuck, AnusComment

10x10: Best Albums 2013

For those of you just getting back to school, we feel your pain of the slow and painful boredom that is syllabus week. We also know that 2013 was a pretty intense year for music and that you probably didn't get around to listening to everything you've been hearing about. So, to relieve you of your boredom and make the vast and swirling abyss of new music somewhat more manageable, ten of our DJs and staff members to compiled of a list of what they though were the 10 best albums released in 2013.

Natalie RaphaelJanuary 14, 2014music review, best of 2013, album review, Oneohtrix Point Never, R Plus 7, Young Thug, 1017 Thug, DJ Rashad, Double Cup, Visionist, I'm Fine, Thundercat, Apocalypse, Kanye West, Yeezus, Yellow Loveless, RP Boo, Legacy, Cassie, Rockabye Baby, Blood Orange, Yuck, Glow and Behold, Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City, King Krule, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, Baths, Obsidian, GRMLN, Empire, Sky Ferreira, Night Time, My Time, Best Coast, Fade Away, Beyoncé, Beyonce, Rhye, Woman, The Pizza Underground, My Bloody Valentine, mbv, Darkside, Psychic, Dirty Beaches, Drifters, Love is The Devil, Love Is The Devil, Deerhunter, Monomania, R Plus Seven, James Blake, Overgrown, Kirin J Callinan, Embracism, The Flaming Lips, Savages, Silence Yourself, The Field, Flying Lotus, ideas+drafts+loops, Cupid's Head, Franz Ferdinand, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, Settle, Disclosure, This Isn't Happening, DJ Koze, Amtgdala, Arcade Fire, Reflektor, Bill Callahan, Dream River, Dessa, Parts of Speech, Amok, Foxygen, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, Burial, James Holden, The Inheritors, Immunity, Jon Hopkins, R plus Seven, These New Puritans, Field of Reeds, La Femme, Psycho Tropical Berlin, Portugal, The Man, Evil Friends, FIDLAR, Psycho tropical Berlin, Alexander Von Mehren, Aeropop, Cate le Bon, Mug Museum, Cactus Channel, Wooden Boy, Tookah, Junip, The Melodic, Effra Parade, FKJ, Time For Change, Cat Nap, Bonobo, The North Borders, CocoRosie, Tales of a Grasswidow, Vieux Farka Toure, Mon Pays, Kurt Vile, Walkin on a Pretty daze, Porter Ray, RSE GOLD, RSE GLD, WHT GLD, BLK GLD, Bibio, Silver Wilkinson, Mala, Four Tet, Beautiful Rewind, AMOK, Atoms For Peave, Ultraista, KT Turnstall, Invisible Empire, Crescent Moon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Chance The Rapper, Acid Rap, Black Radio 2Comment

FYF Highlights

Between the screaming of The Locust, funky vibes of Charles Bradley, and the unmatchable energy of KXSC Fest alum Dan Deacon, FYF Fest had something for everyone. Some of our staff members went for FYF's 10 year anniversary and wanted to share what they thought were the highlights of the festival.

Natalie RaphaelAugust 31, 2013FYF, FYF Fest, Ty Segall, The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine, MGMT, Flag, Deerhunter, Death Grips, Dan Deacon, Charles Bradley, The Locust, show review, festival coverage Comment

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