Best of 2015
Title Fight and Pianos Become the Teeth list their favorite music (and more) of 2015
Title Fight and Pianos Become the Teeth are both forward-thinking post-hardcore bands who share a big portion of each other’s fanbases, toured together as recently as last year, and are sort of labelmates (PBTT is on Epitaph and TF is on Epitaph’s sister label …
FACT's Top 50 Albums of 2015
FACT published their 50 Best Albums of 2015 list and as always, it’s one of the more unique lists of the year. It’s loaded with high-quality electronic music, rap, R&B, indie, pop, and more, and you’re almost guaranteed to find something on it you haven’t…
Tiny Mix Tapes' Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015
TIny Mix Tapes posted their Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 list today. Like last year, it’s certainly a good list for anyone who’s tired of seeing the same artists on every list (though it does have Kendrick Lamar, Sufjan Stevens, Future, Bjork, Drake, Joanna Newsom, Carly Rae Jepsen, Grimes and other popular …
Philly's Mercury Girls made a year-end mix (listen), playing NYC shows this weekend w/ Expert Alterations, EZTV & more
Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto’s Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7″ out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland…
Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2015
You saw their songs and their honorable mentions, and now Pitchfork‘s Top 50 Albums of 2015 list is here. Like with the song list, “records released this year and records that made their greatest impact in 2015 were eligible,” which allows for things like D’Angelo‘s late 201…
Mercury Prize winner Benjamin Clementine touring, returning to the US in February (dates)
UK singer Benjamin Clementine released his soulful debut album At Least For Now earlier this year, which ended up winning the Mercury Prize last month (beating Florence + the Machine, Jamie xx, Roisin Murphy, Aphex Twin, and mo…
A Few Albums That Won't Be On Pitchfork's Best of 2015
Yesterday, Pitchfork put out their 100 Best Songs of 2015 list, and today they published their Honorable Mentions for albums of the year. A few of the albums did receive Best New Music during the year, like Lower Dens, Levon Vincent, Prurient and Viet Cong, and others weren’t reviewed at all like …
Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs of 2015
Pitchfork have published their 100 Best Tracks of 2015 list. The criteria was “any track that was released in 2015 or had its greatest impac…
The FADER list their 107 favorite songs of 2015
Like last year, The FADER have listed their favorite tracks of the year. They picked 107, “because 100 just wasn’t enough.” It’s got two Drake songs in the top 10, and a Skepta song cracks it too (grime in general is pretty well-rep…
Barack Obama's favorite song of the year is Kendrick Lamar's "How Much A Dollar Cost"
Kendrick Lamar has topped many year end lists this year (and he’ll probably win at least one Grammy), and now he topped one more: Barack Ob…
