20 favorite albums of 2015 (in no order)

Hop Along - Painted Shut
Wilco - Star Wars
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
The Sidekicks - Runners in the Nerved World
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Laura Stevenson - Cocksure
Something Sneaky - Pictures
Tenement - Predatory Highlights
Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
Warren Haynes - Ashes and Dust
Worriers - Imaginary Life
Yonder Mountain String Band - Black Sheep
Watkins Family Hour - S/T
Dogs on Acid - S/T
Downtown Boys - Full Communism
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
Screaming Females - Rose Mountain
Choke Up - Black Coffee, Bad Habits
Circles Around The Sun - Interludes for the Dead

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Word - Soul Food
Justin Bieber - Purpose
Desaparecidos - Payola
Jack U - S/T

Favorite Albums of 2014

LP
Against Me - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Bruce Lee Band - Everything Will Be Alright, My Friend
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - Juice
The Menzingers - Rented World
Mike Gordon - Overstep
Owls - Two
Punch - They Don’t Have to Believe
Radiator Hospital - Torch Song
Riff Raff - Neon Icon
Skrillex - Recess
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags
The String Cheese Incident - Song in my Head
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Tweedy - Sukirae
Tweens - TweensWhite Lung - Deep Fantasy


LIVE/ARCHIVE

Fugazi - First Demo
Grateful Dead - So Glad You Made It / Wake Up To Find Out
Grateful Grass - Dos
Jerry Garcia Band - GarciaLive Vol. 4 - 3.22.1978
Twiddle - Live
Umphrey’s McGee- 04.12.14 UM Covers It

TOP RECORDS OF 2013

records of the year
laura stevenson - wheel
the flatliners - dead language
swearin’ - surfing strange
daft punk -random access memories
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
the julie ruin - run fast
lemuria - the distance is so big
katy perry - prism
worriers - cruel optimist
justin timberlake - 20/20


honorable mentions
major lazer - free the universe
waxahatchee- cerulean salt
night birds - born to die in suburbia
broadcaster - a million hours
mad conductor - mc rises


re-issues / archive releases
death cab for cutie - transatlanticism (demos)
phish - ventura / niagara falls
grateful dead - sunshine daydream
nirvana - in utero (live & loud)


eps/singles
paint it black - invisible
hop along - sister cities
jahbreaker - bad weed, dealers fault
ben gibbard - bigger than love feat. aimee mann
miley cyrus - we can't stop
against me - true trans
iron chic - spooky action
upset - oxfords and wingtips

summah'13

5/09 SCREAMALES

5/18 ALKALINE

5/21 LEMURIA

5/23 LAURA

5/25 MENZINGERS

6/12 POSTAL SERVICE

6/13- ROO
6/16

6/23 B52S +GOGOS

7/03 PHISH

my top records of 2012

1) THE SIDEKICKS - AWKWARD BREEDS (REALLY)
2) THE EVENS - THE ODDS (DISCHORD)
3) JOYCE MANOR - OF ALL THINGS I’LL SOON GROW TIRED (ASIAN MAN)
4) THE MENZINGERS - ON THE IMPOSSIBLE PAST (EPITAPH)
5) TITUS ANDRONICUS - LOCAL BUSINESS (XL)
6) JOHN K SAMSON - PROVINCIAL (XL)
7) CLASSICS OF LOVE- CLASSICS OF LOVE (ASIAN MAN)
8) FIONA APPLE - THE IDLER WHEEL... (EPIC)
9) WAXAHATCHEE - AMERICAN WEEKEND (DON GIOVANNI)
10) CONVERGE - ALL WE LOVE WE LEAVE BEHIND (EPITAPH)

HONORABLE MENTIONS
-DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT- LOVE THIS GIANT (4AD)
-JEFF ROSENSTOCK- I LOOK LIKE SHIT (QUOTE UNQUOTE)
-GRIMES - VISIONS (ARBUTUS)

Ted Leo in Brighton, MA

thanks to liz pelly for putting this on 

and supporting 826 literacy and writing center- boston

Laura Stevenson Halloween 2012

halloween pts 1+2 felt so right

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