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July 2015

July 2015.

The best songs of 2014 are:

01. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka) – MANIC STREET PREACHERS
02. Magic – COLDPLAY
03. Don’t Disconnect – SARAH JAFFE
04. Sleeper – SNARKY PUPPY
05. Freedom Day – RODNEY WHITAKER
06. When I Watch You Sleeping [Orchestral] – NEIL YOUNG
07. Parade – REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
08. Seasons (Waiting on You) – FUTURE ISLANDS
09. Cedar Walton – GEORGE CABLES
10. November Tale – THE WATERBOYS
11. Down on the Bottom – THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES
12. Wolverine Blues – HENRY BUTLER & STEVEN BERNSTEIN
13. Disappearing – THE WAR ON DRUGS
14. Think Carefully – ENOCH LEE
15. Comet, Come to Me – ME’SHELL NDEGEOCELLO
16. If I Could be Anywhere – JACKSON BROWNE
17. Forget – BEN WATT
18. All About That Bass – MEAGHAN TRAINOR
19. Fish Soup – THE UGLY COUSIN BROS.
20. Cinema – SABINA
21. Conrad – BEN HOAWRD
22. A Simple Beautiful Truth – Wild Beasts
23. 疾走する閃光 – FOX CAPTURE PLAN
24. Beat Street – JEFF BALLARD TRIO
25. The Augurs of Spring – THE BAD PLUS
26. Up Heavy – PAT MASTELOTTO & TOBIAS RALPH
27. St. Roch Blues – HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF
28. Insel Inside – BILLY COBHAM
29. Detox – THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS
30. Farewell Bluebird – BRIAN BLADE & THE FELLOWSHIP BAND
31. Ginger Spice – GINGER BAKER
32. Staying There – TORD GUSTAVSEN QUARTET
33. Welcome to New York – TAYLOR SWIFT
34. Point of Departure – FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON
35. Aisatsana – APHEX TWIN
36. Preben Goes to Acapulco – TODD TERJE
37. Electric Umbrella – BUCKETHEAD
38. Culture – MARBIN

Listen now! The best songs of 2014.

November 2014

November 2014

April 2014

April 2014.

The best songs of 2013 are:

01. The Watcher – DAVE HOLLAND
02. A Side Order of Hijiki – KENNY GARRETT
03. Creole – ETIENNE CHARLES
04. Gravity (Move Mountains, Turn Rivers Around) – MARY FAHL
05. Sing, Sing, Sing – DAVE BENNETT
06. Planet Chia – CHICK COREA
07. Old Man Song – KT TUNSTALL
08. The Moment – TOAD THE WET SPROCKET
09. Stranger – GOLDFRAPP
10. Giorgio by Moroder – DAFT PUNK
11. Last Glimpse of Gotham – JOSHUA REDMAN
12. Jumpin’ Out – JOE SATRIANI
13. Prelude/There’s a Lull in My Life – CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT
14. Ode to the Cathars – BILL FRISELL, CAROL EMANUEL, and KENNY WOLLESEN
15. The Brook – TRICHOTOMY
16. Hail & Farewell – BIG COUNTRY
17. Seconal – GOODBYE HEART
18. S.S. Golden Mean – WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET
19. Brave – SARA BAREILLES
20. Flume – JULIAN WATERFALL POLLACK TRIO
21. Oslo Skyline – JAGA JAZZIST with BRITTEN SINFONIA
22. Violence of the Red Sea – EARTHLESS
23. Yoda – LINDA OH
24. Ask Me – STEVE GADD BAND

Listen now! The best songs of 2013.

November 2013

November 2013

  • Whole Note: Transducers
  • Review: Neil Cowley Trio, The Face of Mount Molehill
  • Review: Various artists, Who’s That Man: A Tribute to Conny Plank

Dedicated to Lou Reed, 1942-2013

May 2013

May 2013

  • Whole Note: Visionaries
  • Review: Rush, Clockwork Angels (album and novel by Kevin J. Anderson based on the album)
  • Appreciation: The Blue Nile, A Walk Across the Rooftops