Best of 2016

NPR's Top 100 Songs of 2016

From Oathbreaker to Fifth Harmony to Mitski to Beyonce, here’s NPR’s 100 favorite songs of the year.

Austra shares 'Future Politics' video, tells us about her Top 10 LPs of 2016

“How do we find hope when things seem so bleak? For me hope lies in the future. It lies in the potential of a future world that doesn’t exist yet; a world can be created only if we can imagine it. It’s time to build visions that are radically different from anything we’ve known before.”

Pitchfork's Top 20 Rap Albums of 2016

The ‘best of 2016′ lists keep coming. After having rolled out their best music videos list, Pitchfork now published The Top 20 Rap Albums of 2016…

Savoy Motel's Jeffrey Novak made it through 2016 by listening to Royal Trux (a Top 10 list)

“It was hard to come up with something positive from 2016 to turn into a list, but a Top Ten of what I love about Royal Trux seems topical enough.” – Jeffrey Novak

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor gives us his "Top Ten Homeless Thanksgiving San Francisco Tracks" (listen)

“This is the music I listened to whilst walking around San Fransisco on Thanksgiving, the music I heard in my head, and also some of the tunes various people were listening to on the streets that I ‘Shazammed’.” – Alexis Taylor

Modern Baseball's favorite LPs of 2016

All four members made their own lists. Sean’s is the heaviest on punk (NOFX, PUP, So So Glos, Bayside), Brendan’s is the heaviest on pop (Beyonce, Rihanna, Solange, Frank Ocean), and Jake and Ian both mostly have indie rock…

Rolling Stone's Top 50 Songs of 2016

Rolling Stone’s favorite songs of 2016 include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Beyonce, Rae Sremmurd and more.

Hinds tell us their Top 10 LPs of 2016

The Madrid quartet have had a very busy year.

new MST3K host Jonah Ray tells us his top 10 mostly-music favorites of 2016

Jonah says, ” All and all though, it’s been a pretty great year…..I mean, for stuff coming out. Nearly everything else about this year has been TERRIBLE. But! In hindsight, it could be not so bad. For all we know, 2017 could be THE WORST year we’ve ever known…and it’s shaping up to be that way too!”
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