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Our Favorite Albums of 2015

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc…

Day For Night Festival day 2 pics (Kendrick Lamar, HEALTH, Flying Lotus, Death Grips, Dan Deacon, Holly Herndon, more)

To the great relief of ticket holders, festival organizers, music bloggers and the hip-hop gods themselves, Kendrick lived up to the hype. Giving the rapper a giant stage with perfect weather in a city that loves him might have been equivalent to tossing a nice, fat softball to a man holding a flat-bottom shovel, but he still gets credit for knocking it out of the park…

The Guardian's Top 40 Albums of 2015

Like they usually do, The Guardian rolled out their 40 Best Albums of 2015 list over a two-week period, and the whole thing is now here. The top 10 has nine US/UK list regulars and last year’s Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers (who seem to be more loved in t…

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 …

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…

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…

The Quietus' Top 100 Albums of 2015

If you’re sick of seeing the same names atop every publication’s year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different…

NME's Top 50 albums of 2015

It’s the season for year-end lists, and they just keep rolling in. Now longrunning (and now free) UK weekly NME has joined the party, going with Grimes‘ Art Angels at #1 on their top 50 albums of 2015 list (she also topped Gorilla vs…

Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2015

The new issue of UK music mag Uncut is out now, and it includes their Top 75 Albums of 2015 list. Like fellow UK mags MOJO and Q, they’ve got a lot of love for Julia Hol…
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