Best of 2019

Our picks for the 50 best albums of the year, including Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Nick Cave, Thom Yorke, Danny Brown, Blood Incantation, Little Simz, and more...

Kevin Morby's year-end lists for BrooklynVegan have become an annual tradition, and this year's his favorites include Purple Mountains, Big Thief, 75 Dollar Bill and more...

Including Cave In, Nick Cave, Chromatics, Swans, Kate Tempest, Lana Del Rey, Blood Incantation, Chelsea Wolfe, Purple Mountains, Spirit Adrift, Mizmor, Better Oblivion Community Center, and more.

Wye Oak have a new album out in 2020 and will be going out with an expanded lineup of the group on the JOIN Tour.

Kory's list includes some of the artists who are on the new Prince Daddy covers album (like Oso Oso, Strange Ranger, and Yeah This Is What We Have), plus Slipknot and more...

William Tyler, who played in the mid-'90s lineup of Silver Jews, hosted a tribute to the late David Berman in Nashville over Thanksgiving weekend, and he'll be part of another one at Portland Bunk Bar on January 4, which would've been Berman's 53rd birthday...

Jaye Jayle (aka Evan Patterson of Young Widows) tells his what albums he enjoyed most this year...

Members of hardcore supergroup Hesitation Wounds and Gouge Away (who share a drummer) offer up their favorite albums of the year.

Celeste, Beabadoobee, Georgia, Squid, and more were nominated.

As you'd expect from NPR, their lists represent tons of styles of music, including country, rap, indie, jazz, modern classical, Afro-pop, R&B, reggaeton, electronic, experimental, pop, soul, and more.