Here’s the January/February 2026 edition:

1. The Format: Shot in the Dark
2. CHVRCHES: Such Great Heights
3. Lime Garden: 23
4. Mitski: Where’s My Phone?
5. Brigitte Calls Me Baby: Slumber Party
6. Young the Giant: Different Kind of Love
7. Colony House: Life Goes On
8. MUTEMATH: Without It
9. The Beaches: I Ran (So Far Away)
10. U2: Song of the Future
11. The Sha La Das: Young Love and Laughter
12. Tyler Ballgame: Matter of Taste
13. JOSEPH: Blindspot
14. Mumford & Sons: Icarus (ft. Gigi Perez)
15. The Lone Bellow: Islands in the Stream
16. NEEDTOBREATHE: Momma Loves Me
17. Elles Bailey: Can’t Take My Story Away
18. Courtney Marie Andrews: Pendulum Swing
19. Elvis Presley: You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling (EPiC Version)
20. Bruce Springsteen: Streets of Minneapolis

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the November/December 2025 edition:

1. Outkast: So Fresh, So Clean (Stankonia Remix)
2. Arkells & Portugal. The Man: Money
3. Kings of Leon: The Wolf
4. White Lies: Keep Up
5. Bastille: SAVE MY SOUL
6. Florence + the Machine: Buckle
7. Danny Brown: Starburst
8. Nas: NY State of Mind Pt. 3
9. The Smashing Pumpkins: Muzzle (Live in Detroit, 6/29/96)
10. Richard Ashcroft: Lovin’ You
11. The Beatles: Free as a Bird (2025 Mix)
12. JOSEPH: Looking Back
13. Medium Build: Stick a Round
14. David Ramirez: I Got People
15. The Lone Bellow: Night Goes Black
16. Whitney: Evangeline (feat. Madison Cunningham)
17. Lake Street Dive & Tiny Habits: Leaving on a Jet Plane
18. Jennifer Knapp: Can’t Let Go (feat. Wild Ponies)
19. David Gray: Slow Motion (Original Take)
20. Bryan Adams: Little Saint Nick

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the track list:

1. Penny & Sparrow: Lefty
2. Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
3. Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out
4. Brandi Carlile: Returning to Myself
5. Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia
6. Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
7. HAIM: I quit
8. Wet Leg: moisturizer
9. The Blue Stones: Metro
10. Paul Meany: FOREVER PHASE
11. Tyler, the Creator: DON’T TAP THE GLASS
12. Elbow: AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO
13. Elton John & Brandi Carlile: Who Believes in Angels?
14. Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green
15. Lucius: Lucius
16. Mt. Joy: Hope We Have Fun
17. Larkin Poe: Bloom
18. Mumford & Sons: RUSHMERE
19. Hayely Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
20. The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
21. Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant
22. Lola Kirke: Trailblazer
23. Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save
24. Lissie: Promises
25. Lorde: Virgin

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Here’s the track list:

1. The Blue Stones: Happy Cry
2. Penny & Sparrow: Dogs of War (ft. JOSEPH)
3. Bon Iver: Everything is Peaceful Love
4. Wet Leg: CPR
5. Elbow: Sober
6. Chappell Roan: The Giver
7. Tyler, the Creator: Big Poe (ft. Sk8brd)
8. Lola Kirke: Bury Me in NYC
9. Bon Iver: Day One (ft Dijon & Flock of Dimes)
10. Clipse: P.O.V.
11. The Black Keys: Down to Nothing
12. Penny & Sparrow: Alphabet
13. Hayley Williams: Disappearing Man
14. Lucius: Gold Rush
15. Alison Krauss: Looks Like the End of the Road
16. Lord Huron: Nothing I Need
17. Clipse: Chains & Whips
18. HAIM: The farm
19. Brandi Carlile: A Woman Oversees
20. Bastille: Bonnie & Clyde
21. Tyler, the Creator: Stop Playin With Me
22. Mumford & Sons: Rushmere
23. Brandi Carlile: Church and State
24. Mark Ronson & RAYE: Suzanne
25. Penny & Sparrow: Jeopardy

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Here’s the (unranked) track list:

1. Tess & The Details: Maniac
2. Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb: Shut Up and Dance
3. Jose James: Rock with You
4. The Dip: What You Won’t Do for Love
5. The Heavy Heavy: Real Love Baby
6. JR JR: Let My Love Open the Door
7. Pale Waves: Zombie
8. Weakened Friends: Torn
9. A Killer’s Confession: Heart-Shaped Box
10. Brass Against: No More Tears
11. Lee Lewis: Maneater
12. Natural Wonder Beauty Concept: Wicked Game
13. Lykke Li: Love Hurts
14. Ruston Kelly: Complicated
15. Maggie Rose: I Can’t Make You Love Me (ft. Vince Gill)
16. Lucy Dacus: Time in a Bottle
17. Paul Weller: I Started a Joke
18. Muireann Bradley: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
19. Frazey Ford: Crazy Love
20. Cory Asbury: Have You Ever Seen the Rain
21. Flock of Dimes & Sylvan Esso: Don’t Dream It’s Over
22. Mitski: Let My Love Open the Door
23. Lissie: I’ll Stand by You
24. Brandon Victor Dixon: Hotel California
25. The Redhill Valleys: One Headlight
26. Silos: Save Tonight
27. I’m With Her: Espresso
28. Fanny Lumsden: Somebody That I Used to Know
29. Margo Price: Maggie’s Farm
30. Cory Asbury: Iris
31. Margaret Glaspy: Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
32. Lake Street Dive & Tiny Habits: Leaving on a Jet Plane
33. Lissie: Eternal Flame
34. Lucius: Everybody Hurts

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Here’s the September/October 2025 edition:

1. Larkin Poe: Bluephoria (Unplugged)
2. Curtis Harding: The Power
3. St. Paul & the Broken Bones: Fall Moon
4. Brandi Carlile: Church & State
5. Neko Case: Wreck
6. Luke Bower: Truth
7. Flock of Dimes & Sylvan Esso: Don’t Dream it’s Over
8. Paul Meany: Say the Word
9. Lissie: Eternal Flame
10. Geese: Cobra
11. Hayley Williams: Disappearing Man
12. HAIM & Bon Iver: Tie you down
13. Penny & Sparrow: Jeopardy (Late Night with Lefty)
14. Lucius: Old Tape
15. Margaret Glaspy: Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
16. Rob Thomas: Hard to Be Happy
17. Car Seat Headrest: The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
18. Mumford & Sons & Hozier: Rubber Band Man
19. Fruit Bats: Let You People Down
20. Oasis: Acquiesce (Unplugged)

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the July/August 2025 edition:

1. Tyler, the Creator: Big Poe (ft. Sk8brd)
2. Girl Group: Man-Made Girl Bands
3. The Dip: What You Won’t Do for Love
4. Wolf Alice: Bloom Baby Bloom
5. Alex G: Afterlife
6. Wet Leg: CPR
7. Clipse: P.O.V.
8. POLIÇA: Dreams Go
9. The Black Keys: Down to Nothing
10. Mammoth: The Spell
11. Flock of Dimes: Long After Midnight
12. Whitney: Dandelions
13. Penny & Sparrow: O-Ren Ishii (Stripped Version)
14. Natalie Bergman: Lonely Road
15. Lord Huron: Nothing I Need
16. Winnetka Bowling League, Dawes, Medium Build: This is Life
17. The Heavy Heavy: Real Love Baby
18. Bastille: Bonnie & Clyde
19. Kathleen Edwards: Save Your Soul
20. Oasis: Little by Little

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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A quick note: I decided not to rank these. So this playlist is ordered solely on what makes for a good flow in terms of the listening experience. (But if you really wanna know, I think Penny & Sparrow’s Dogs of War is the best song of the year so far…)

Here’s the track list:

1. Lucius: Gold Rush
2. Mat Kearney: Drowning in Nostalgia
3. Wet Leg: catch these fists
4. Lola Kirke: Bury Me in NYC
5. Mt. Joy: Coyote
6. Alessia Cara: Subside
7. Elton John & Brandi Carlile: Who Believes in Angels?
8. Penny & Sparrow: Alphabet
9. The Blue Stones: Happy Cry
10. Natalie Bergman: Gunslinger
11. Bon Iver: Day One (ft. Dijon & Flock of Dimes)
12. Lord Huron: Nothing I Need
13. Beach Bunny: Just Around the Corner
14. Chappell Roan: The Giver
15. Penny & Sparrow: Dogs of War (ft. JOSEPH)
16. Mumford & Sons: Rushmere
17. HAIM: The farm
18. Mark Ronson & RAYE: Suzanne
19. Bon Iver: Everything is Peaceful Love
20. Elbow: Sober
21. Mt. Joy: In the Middle
22. Lord Huron: Bag of Bones
23. Larkin Poe: Mockingbird
24. Medium Build: Problem Solver
25. Alison Krauss & Union Station: Looks Like the End of the Road

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the May/June 2025 edition:

1. Mark Ronson & RAYE: Suzanne
2. JR JR: Free My Mind
3. Portugal. The Man (feat. Lucius): Silver Spoons
4. Wet Leg: catch these fists
5. Mt. Joy: In the Middle
6. Mamalarky: Broken Bones
7. Tune-Yards: Heartbreak
8. HAIM: The farm
9. Lola Kirke: Bury Me in NYC
10. Medium Build: Problem Solver
11. Dallas Ugly: See Me Now
12. Elbow: Sober
13. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova: Great Weight
14. Lucius (feat. Madison Cunningham): Impressions
15. Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant
16. Tash Sultana: Kiss the Sky
17. Bono: Desire
18. Lord Huron: Bag of Bones
19. The Beaches: Did I Say Too Much
20. Lorde: Clearblue

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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I put together a list of my favorite Brian Wilson-penned songs, ordered by release date. Hope you enjoy.

1. Surfin’ Safari
2. Surfer Girl
3. In My Room
4. Don’t Worry Baby
5. I Get Around
6. All Summer Long
7. Help Me, Rhonda
8. California Girls
9. Sloop John B
10. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
11. God Only Knows
12. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
13. I Know There’s an Answer
14. Good Vibrations
15. Heroes and Villains
16. Do It Again
17. This Whole World
18. Surf’s Up
19. I’ll Bet He’s Nice
20. Love and Mercy

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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I’m headed to New York City this week with my daughter and what’s a trip without a great soundtrack?

Here’s NYC25.

1. The Suitcase Junket: New York City
2. Billy Joel: Uptown Girl
3. Fiona Apple: Not About Love
4. Beastie Boys: Sure Shot
5. Jenny and Johnny: New Yorker Cartoon
6. Nas: Bridging the Gap
7. Dirty Projectors: That’s a Lifestyle
8. Jay-Z: Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
9. The Strokes: Last Nite
10. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House
11. Lola Kirke: Bury Me In NYC
12. Regina Spektor: Us
13. Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone
14. Elbow: New York Morning
15. Wu-Tang Clan: Triumph
16. The Notorious B.I.G.: One More Chance (Remix)
17. Vampire Weekend: Mary Boone
18. Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer
19. The Kills: New York
20. Chris Thile: Thank You, New York

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the March/April 2025 edition:

1. The Blue Stones: Happy Cry
2. Momma: I Want You (Fever)
3. Lord Huron: Nothing I Need
4. Perfume Genius: It’s a Mirror
5. Tennis: Sister
6. Beach Bunny: Just Around the Corner
7. Lucius: Gold Rush
8. Tune-Yards: Limelight
9. Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso: Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
10. Haim: Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out
11. Mt. Joy: Coyote
12. Mumford & Sons: Rushmere
13. Hayes Carll: Progress of Man (Bitcoin & Cattle)
14. Natalie Bergman: Gunslinger
15. Bon Iver: Everything is Peaceful Love
16. Elton John & Brandi Carlile: The Rose of Laura Nyro
17. Alison Krauss: Looks Like the End of the Road
18. James Bay, The Lumineers & Noah Kahan: Up All Night
19. JOHNNYSWIM: Los Feliz
20. JR JR: Let My Love Open the Door

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the January/February 205 edition:

1. Penny & Sparrow: Dogs of War (ft. JOSEPH)
2. Jessica Willis Fisher: Honest
3. Wilder Woods: Offering (ft. Anna Graves)
4. Sleigh Bells: Wanna Start a Band?
5. Redman: Lalala (ft. Method Man)
6. Mat Kearney: Drowning in Nostalgia
7. Alessia Cara: Subside
8. Sam Fender: TV Dinner
9. Ben Rector: Favorite Person
10. David Gray: After the Harvest
11. Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb: Rain or Shine
12. I’m With Her: Espresso
13. Michigander: Peace of Mind
14. The Red Clay Strays: Disaster
15. Waxahatchee: Mud
16. Cory Asbury: Have You Ever Seen the Rain
17. Larkin Poe: Mockingbird
18. Sharon Van Etten: Idiot Box
19. Elton John & Brandi Carlile: Who Believes in Angels?
20. Maggie Rose: I Can’t Make You Love Me (ft. Vince Gill)

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the November/December 2024 edition:

1. Kendrick Lamar: wacced out murals
2. Elbow: Adriana Again
3. Father John Misty: Screamland
4. Lucius: Take a Picture
5. Snoop Dogg: Outta da Blue (ft. Dr. Dre)
6. Kelly Finnigan: :Prove My Love
7. Lauren Mayberry: Something in the Air
8. Lucinda Williams: Something
9. Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Ellie Holcomb: High Seas
10. The Brook & the Bluff: Calling Cards
11. Maggie Rose: Under the Sun (Stripped) (ft. Charlotte Sands)
12. Alessia Cara: Dead Man
13. David Gray: Plus & Minus (ft. Talia Rae)
14. The Black Keys: I’m With the Band (ft. Beck)
15. JR JR: The Best Song in the World
16. John Legend: Money Blown
17. Sky Ferreira: Leash
18. Medium Build: Triple Marathon
19. Richard Swift: Common Law
20. Paul Meany: Distance

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the track list:

1. Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us
2. Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood
3. Elbow: Audio Vertigo
4. Tyler, the Creator: CHROMAKOPIA
5. Charly Bliss: Forever
6. Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
7. Father John Misty: Mahashmashana
8. Kendrick Lamar: GNX
9. Lake Street Dive: Good Together
10. The Black Keys: Ohio Players
11. St. Vincent: All Born Screaming
12. MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks
13. Snoop Dogg: Missionary
14. Justin Timberlake: Everything I Thought It Was
15. Maggie Rogers: Don’t Forget Me
16. Beyonce: COWBOY CARTER
17. Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace)
18. Lucius: Wildewoman (The New Recordings)
19. Sheryl Crow: Evolution
20. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors: Strangers No More, Vol. 2
21. LL Cool J: THE FORCE
22. Maggie Rose: No One Gets Out Alive
23. Pearl Jam: Dark Matter
24. Billie Eilish: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the track list:

1. Vampire Weekend: Mary Boone
2. Kendrick Lamar: Not Like Us
3. Waxahatchee: 365
4. Vampire Weekend: Capricorn
5. Maggie Rogers: Don’t Forget Me
6. The Secret Sisters: All the Way (ft. Ray LaMontagne)
7. Father John Misty: Screamland
8. Waxahatchee: Right Back to It (ft. MJ Lenderman)
9. Charly Bliss: Nineteen
10. Tyler, the Creator: I Killed You
11. Elbow: Lover’s Leap
12. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors: Burn
13. Justin Timberlake: Love & War
14. Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
15. Lake Street Dive: Walking Uphill
16. St. Vincent: Flea
17. Beyonce: Blackbird
18. Elbow: The Picture
19. Snoop Dogg: Outta Da Blue
20. Father John Misty: She Cleans Up
21. Kendrick Lamar: wacced out murals
22. Lenny Kravitz: Human
23. Sheryl Crow: You Can’t Change the Weather
24. Lauren Mayberry: Something in the Air

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Like every year when I post this list, let me clarify what I mean by “new music discoveries.” This is not necessarily only artists who first came out in 2024. This is one of the following three scenarios:

1. A brand new artist who appeared on the national scene for the first time in 2024. (Example: Joh Chase)
2. An artist who had their debut full-length album in 2024. (This is for artists who might’ve released EPs or was a part of a band previously, but never a solo LP.) (Example: Lauren Mayberry)
3. An artist who I personally discovered for the first time ever in 2024. (Example: Kelly Finnigan)

Here’s the track list:

1. Ac Sapphire: Sibling Rivalry
2. Joh Chase: When I Got This Place
3. MJ Lenderman: Wristwatch
4. Lauren Mayberry: Something in the Air
5. Paul Meany: No Such Thing
6. Johnny Blue Skies: Mint Tea
7. Medium Build: In My Room
8. Lime Cordiale: Happiness Season
9. Liam Gallagher & John Squire: Mars to Liverpool
10. The Heavy Heavy: Feel
11. Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham:
12. The Hanseroth Twins: Remember Me
13. Katie Pearlman: The Problem
14. William Doyle: Now in Motion
15. Kelly Finnigan: Prove My Love
16. Nilufer Yanya: Mutations
17. Benny the Butcher: Back Again (ft. Snoop Dogg)
18. I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME: GLOOMTOWN BRATS
19. Rainbow Kitten Surprise: Superstar
20. Sheer Mag: Moonstruck
21. Bad Bad Hats: Let Me In
22. Bailey Bigger: William’s Spring
23. Balu Brigada: So Cold
24. The Brook & The Bluff: Calling Cards

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Here’s the (unranked) track list:

1. Aloe Blacc: Black Hole Sun
2. Aloe Blacc: Don’t Speak
3. Aloe Blacc: Seven Nation Army
4. Aloe Blacc: When I Come Around
5. Aloe Blacc: Wonderwall
6. Amythyst Kiah: In the Pines
7. Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham: Don’t Let Me Down Again
8. Atreyu: Like a Stone
9. Atreyu: Mary’s Jane’s Last Dance
10. Black Keys: I Forgot to be Your Lover
11. Daisy Grenade: Polly
12. Fiona Apple: Lately
13. Gatlin: The Reason
14. Gus Dapperton: Believe
15. John Mark McMillan: I Believe in You
16. John Mark McMillan: When He Returns
17. Kacey Musgraves: Three Little Birds
18. LAKE: Accidentally in Love
19. Lissie: Into the Great Wide Open
20. Lorde: Take Me to the River
21. Lucinda Williams: I’m Looking Through You
22. Lucinda Williams: I’ve Got a Feeling
23. Lucinda Williams: Something
24. Lucius: Take a Picture
25. Luther Vandross: Michelle
26. Lykke Li: Ring of Fire
27. Maren Morris: Dancing With Myself
28. Nicole Serrano: Cry Me a River
29. Nouvelle Vague: Shout
30. Paramore: Burning Down the House
31. Plumb: Everywhere
32. Real Estate: Daniel
33. Remi Wolf: How Sweet It Is
34. Ruelle: Iris
35. San Fermin: Don’t Speak
36. Sharon Van Etten: I Won’t Back Down
37. Skylar Grey: Numb
38. Slow Pulp: Hanging By a Moment
39. Snail Mail: Tonight Tonight
40. Stephen Wilson Jr: Stand by Me
41. Talia Keys: Sweet Dreams
42. The Dirty Nil: Total Eclipse of the Heart
43. The Gaslight Anthem: Ocean Eyes
44. The Kills: Happier Than Ever
45. The Scarlet Opera: Heaven is a Place on Earth
46. The Staves: She’s Leaving Home
47. The War on Drugs: You Wreck Me
48. The Zutons: Back to Black
49. Tyson Motsenbocker: Baby Baby
50. Tyson Motsenbocker: Kiss Me

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the September/October 2024 edition:

1. The War on Drugs: You Wreck Me
2. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors: Burn
3. Nilüfer Yanya: Method Actor
4. Waxahatchee: Much Ado About Nothing
5. Bon Iver: SPEYSIDE
6. Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham: Don’t Me Down Again
7. Tyler, The Creator: I Killed You
8. The Heavy Heavy: Feel
9. JR JR: As I Walk Along
10. MJ Lenderman: Wristwatch
11. Bastille: Leonard & Marianne
12. The Kills: Happier Than Ever
13. Phantogram: All a Mystery
14. LL Cool J: Murdergram Deux (ft. Eminem)
15. Lissie: Into the Great Wide Open
16. Wild Rivers: What Kind of Song
17. BØRNS: Letting Myself Go
18. Danny Brown: Dark Sword Angel
19. The Cactus Blossoms: Something’s Got a Hold On Me
20. Medium Build & Julien Baker: Yoke

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1. Father John Misty: Real Love Baby
2. Katie Pearlman: The Problem
3. beabadoobee: Beaches
4. Charly Bliss: Back There Now
5. Hozier: Nobody’s Soldier
6. Jack White: What’s the Rumpush
7. Tune-Yards: Rally
8. Ray LaMontagne: Step Into Your Power
9. John Mark McMillan: I Believe in You (ft. Sandra McCracken)
10. Kacey Musgraves: Irish Goodbye
11. Lime Cordiale: Happiness Season
12. Remi Wolf: How Sweet It Is
13. New Radicals: Lost Stars
14. Clairo: Add Up My Love
15. Cults: Onions
16. Snail Mail: Tonight, Tonight
17. Garbage: Better Not Lie to Me
18. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: When the Levee Breaks
19. Johnny Blue Skies: Mint Tea
20. Johnny Cash: Have You Ever Been to Little Rock?

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the track list:

1. Vampire Weekend: Mary Boone
2. Kendrick Lamar: Not Like Us
3. Waxahatchee: 365
4. Vampire Weekend: Capricorn
5. Maggie Rogers: Don’t Forget Me
6. The Secret Sisters: All the Way (ft. Ray LaMontagne)
7. Elbow: Lover’s Leap
8. Waxahatchee: Right Back to It (ft. MJ Lenderman)
9. Charly Bliss: Nineteen
10. Justin Timberlake: Love & War
11. Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
12. Lake Street Dive : Walking Uphill
13. St. Vincent: Flea
14. Elbow: The Picture
15. Ac Sapphire: Sibling Rivalry
16. Beyonce: Blackbird
17. The Black Keys: Beautiful People (Stay High)
18. Joh Chase: What I Got This Place
19. Hozier: Too Sweet
20. Penny & Sparrow: Mattering Ram
21. William Doyle: Now in Motion
22. Lenny Kravitz: Human
23. Paul Meany: No Such Thing
24. Sheryl Crow: You Can’t Change the Weather

You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.

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Here’s the track list for the May/June 2024 edition:

1. Kendrick Lamar: Not Like Us
2. Lenny Kravitz: Human
3. Lake Street Dive: Walking Uphill
4. Bille Eilish: L’AMOUR DE MA VIE
5. Jon Foreman: Where the Sidewalk Ends
6. The Decemberists: Oh No!
7. Penny & Sparrow: Mattering Ram
8. Lucius: Go Home (ft. Marcus Mumford)
9. Sylvan Esso: Jaime’s Song
10. Iron & Wine: All in Good Time (ft. Fiona Apple)
11. Jennifer Knapp: Martyrs & Thieves
12. Sammy Rae & The Friends: Coming Home Song
13. Charly Bliss: Nineteen
14. Joh Chase: When I Got This Place
15. Childish Gambino: Little Foot Big Foot (ft. Young Nudy)
16. DK the Drummer: Sincerity (ft. Jamie Lidell)
17. Plumb: Lie Low (Reimagined)
18. Hiatus Kaiyote: Everything’s Beautiful
19. Paul Meany: No Such Thing
20. Remi Wolf: Alone in Miami

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Here’s the track list for the March/April 2024 Two in Review:

1. Waxahatchee: 365
2. Beyonce: Blackbird
3. Bleachers: Modern Girl
4. Ac Sapphire: Sibling Rivalry
5. The Black Keys: Paper Crown (ft. Beck & Juicy J)
6. Elbow: The Picture
7. Justin Timberlake: Love & War
8. Hozier: Too Sweet
9. Kacey Musgraves: Anime Eyes
10. William Doyle: Now in Motion
11. Sad Astronauts: Q.M.R.
12. Maggie Rogers: The Kill
13. Maggie Rose: Fake Flowers
14. Pearl Jam: Wreckage
15. Sheryl Crow: You Can’t Change the Weather
16. Vampire Weekend: Mary Boone
17. St. Vincent: Flea
18. Liam Gallagher & John Squire: Mars to Liverpool
19. Medium Build: In My Room
20. Sierra Ferrell: Dollar Bill Bar

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The podcast did 120 songs for, um, their 60 songs. So I took a little bit of license myself and my list ended up with 75. Not too bad.

The beauty of the 90s is that it was an explosion of diversity in music and, more broadly, popular culture. Some have said that the 90s was the last true “decade” in the sense that there was a cohesive cultural narrative and it was the last stand for monoculture. I tend to agree with that, but what I think was great about the 90s is that things really began to splinter in interesting ways while still adhering to some shared 90s concepts.

One of the interesting things about the 90s, also, is that there was some very distinctive phases and evolutions, so I’ve grouped my list by these phases (some more broad than others). Here’s my groupings:

Changing of the Guard: Songs/Artists that shed light on the transition from the 80s to the 90s, but were still able to tap into a very 90s-ness.

The Mainstreaming of Rap: Rap was a smaller subgenre in the 80s, but in the 90s, it became Top 40 radio.

R&B: I really believe that the first half of the 90s was the greatest period of all-time for R&B.

Bubblegum Pop: Boy bands and cheesy pop blasted off in the 90s.

Rock’s Pop Culture Evolution: What began with heavy, darker rock (Nirvana, grunge, Metallica, etc) ended with Top 40 pop-rock and was essentially the last stand for “true” rock music.

Women: Yeah, I get it — women have been around in music for a long time, but in the 90s, women took over the charts and launched several legendary careers.

Something for Everybody (AKA Things Got Weird): This is a grab bag and in some ways, I think this explains the 90s the best of all these groupings. The 90s is the last true era of one-hit wonders and those hits were increasingly odd. It’s what made the 90s in the 90s in a lot of ways.

Alright, here’s my list (in order by groups as well as when they were released, chronologically):

Changing of the Guard

1. Madonna: Vogue (March 90)
2. George Michael: Freedom ’90 (October 90)
3. Michael Jackson: Black or White (November 91)
4. Guns n’ Roses: November Rain (Februaryruary 92)
5. Janet Jackson: That’s the Way Love Goes (March 93)
6. Aerosmith: Cryin’ (June 93)

The Mainstreaming of Rap

7. MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch This (February 90)
8. Vanilla Ice: Ice Ice Baby (July 90)
9. Sir Mixalot: Baby Got Back (May 92)
10. Dre: Nuthin’ But a G Thang (November 92)
11. Ice Cube: It Was a Good Day (February 93)
12. Tag Team: Whoomp! There it Is (May 93)
13. Snoop: Gin and Juice (January 94)
14. Biggie: Juicy (August 94)
15. Tupac: California Love (December 95)
16. Bone: Tha Crossroads (March 96)
17. Missy Elliot: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (May 97)
18. Puff Daddy: Been Around the World (November 97)
19. Master P: Make ‘Em Say Ugh (January 98)
20. Eminem: My Name Is (January 99)

R&B

21. Bell Biv Devoe: Poison (February 90)
22. Boyz II Men: End of the Road (June 92)
23. SWV: Weak (March 93)
24. TLC: Waterfalls (May 95)
25. The Fugees: Killing Me Softly (May 96)
26. Next: Too Close (January 98)
27. Brandy & Monica: The Boy is Mine (May 98)
28. Aaliyah: Are You That Somebody? (May 98)

Bubblegum Pop

29. Spice Girls: Wannabe (June 96)
30. N’Sync: Tearin’ Up My Heart (February 97)
31. Hanson: MMMBop (March 97)
32. Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time (September 98)
33. Backstreet Boys: I Want it That Way (March 99)
34. Christina Aguilera: Genie in a Bottle (May 99)

Rock’s Pop Culture Evolution

35. Metallica: Enter Sandman (July 91)
36. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit (September 91)
37. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge (March 92)
38. Pearl Jam: Jeremy (September 92)
39. Beck: Loser (February 94)
40. Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun (May 94)
41. Green Day: Basket Case (August 94)
42. Weezer: Buddy Holly (September 94)
43. Hootie & the Blowfish: Only Wanna Be With You (July 95)
44. Oasis: Wonderwall (October 95)
45. No Doubt: Don’t Speak (March 96)
46. Smashing Pumpkins: Tonight, Tonight (May 96)
47. Counting Crows: A Long December (December 96)
48. Third Eye Blind: Semi-Charmed Life (February 97)
49. Matchbox Twenty: Push (June 97)
50. Marcy Playground: Sex and Candy (September 97)
51. Goo Goo Dolls: Iris (March 98)
52. Santana: Smooth (June 99)

Women

53. Sinead O’Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U (January 90)
54. Whitney Houston: I Will Always Love You (November 92)
55. Lisa Loeb: Stay (May 94)
56. Alanis Morissette: You Oughtta Know (July 95)
57. Mariah Carey: Fantasy (August 95)
58. Sheryl Crow: If It Makes You Happy (September 96)
59. Jewel: You Were Meant for Me (November 96)
60. Celine Dion: My Heart Will Go On (November 97)
61. Fiona Apple: Criminal (September 97)
62. Shania Twain: You’re Still the One (January 98)
63. Lauryn Hill: Doo Wop (That Thing) (August 98)

Something for Everybody (AKA Things Got Weird)

64. Garth Brooks: Friends in Low Places (August 90)
65. Right Said Fred: I’m Too Sexy (July 91)
66. Billy Ray Cyrus: Achy Breaky Heart (March 92)
67. Ace of Base: The Sign (November 93)
68. Los del Rio: Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix) (August 95)
69. OMC: How Bizarre (December 95)
70. Chumbawamba: Tubthumping (August 97)
71. Ricky Martin: Livin’ La Vida Loca (March 99)
72. Lou Bega: Mambo No. 5 (March 99)
73. Smash Mouth: All Star (May 99)
74. Limp Bizkit: Nookie (June 99)
75. LFO: Summer Girls (June 99)

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Here’s the track list for the January/February 2024 Two in Review:

1. Elbow: Lover’s Leap
2. Vampire Weekend: Capricorn
3. Katy Kirby: Cubic Zirconia
4. Ike Peters: Just a Little Talk
5. Black Keys: I Forgot To Be Your Lover
6. Real Estate: Haunted World
7. Maggie Rogers: Don’t Forget Me
8. Justin Timberlake: Selfish
9. Benny the Butcher: Back Again (ft. Snoop Dogg)
10. MØ: Fake Chanel
11. Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
12. Liam Gallagher & John Squire: Just Another Rainbow
13. Derek Webb: Inside Out
14. Secret Sisters & Ray LaMontagne: All the Ways
15. Waxahatchee: Right Back To It (ft MJ Lenderman)
16. Sarah Jarosz: Jealous Moon
17. I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME: WHAT LOVE?
18. Black Crowes: Wanting and Waiting
19. Rachel Baiman & Pony Bradshaw: Dominoes
20. The Smile: Read the Room

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Here’s the track list:

1. Bad Books: The After Party
2. The Beatles: Now and Then
3. Divorce: Eat My Words
4. Josh Radnor: Nyc
5. Cold War Kids: Run Away with Me
6. Busta Rhymes: HOLD UP
7. Trans-Canada Highwaymen: Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy
8. Steven Page: The Golden Age of Doubling Down
9. Lenny Kravitz: TK421
10. Danny Brown: Y.B.P. (ft. Bruiser Wolf)
11. Real Estate: Water Underground
12. Dolly Parton: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (ft. P!nk & Brandi Carlile)
13. Emilie Weiss & John Mark McMillan: Death in Reverse
14. James and the Shame: Nothing Left to Love
15. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Going Nowhere (Abbey Road Sessions)
16. Lake Street Dive: Neighbor Song (ft. Madison Cunningham)
17. Nicki Minaj: Beep Beep (ft. 50 Cent)
18. Madi Diaz: Don’t Do Me Good (ft. Kacey Musgraves)
19. Madison Cunningham: Subtitles
20. MOONRIIVR: Let the World Turn

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Here’s the track list:

1. Nickel Creek: Celebrants
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Council Skies
3. Hozier: Unreal Unearth
4. Jenny Lewis: Joy’All
5. Dan Croll: Fools
6. Derek Webb: The Jesus Hypothesis
7. Macklemore: BEN
8. John Mark McMillan: DEEP MAGIC
9. Mitski: The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We
10. NEEDTOBREATHE: CAVES
11. Metallica: 72 Seasons
12. boygenius: the record
13. Black Pumas: Chronicles of a Diamond
14. Margaret Glassy: Echo the Diamond
15. Bethany Cosentino: Natural Disaster
16. Sufjan Stevens: Javelin
17. The Kills: God Games
18. Manchester Orchestra: The Valley of Vision
19. Margo Price: Strays
20. Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure
21. Kesha: Gag Order
22. Killer Mike: MICHAEL
23. JOSEPH: The Sun

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Here’s the track list:

1. Nickel Creek: The Meadow
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: I’m Not Giving Up Tonight
3. Macklemore: GRIME
4. Hozier: First Time
5. Nickel Creek: Where the Long Line Leads
6. Madison Cunningham & Remi Wolf: Hospital (One Man Down)
7. Mipso: Carolina Rolling By
8. Derek Webb: Gift Shop
9. Kesha: Eat the Acid
10. Jenny Lewis: Joy’All
11. Margaret Glaspy: Act Natural
12. Dan Croll: Red and Green
13. Manchester Orchestra: The Way
14. City and Colour: Meant to Be
15. boygenius: $20
16. Danny Brown: Y.B.P. (ft. Bruiser Wolf)
17. Lake Street Dive: Neighbor Song (ft. Madison Cunningham)
18. Charly Bliss: You Don’t Even Know Me Anymore
19. Bethany Cosentino: Outta Time
20. Hippo Campus: Honeysuckle
21. Dan Croll: Talk to You
22. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Mind Games
23. Glen Hansard: There’s No Mountain

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Like every year when I post this list, let me clarify what I mean by “new music discoveries.” This is not necessarily only artists who first came out in 2023. This is one of the following three scenarios:

1. A brand new artist who appeared on the national scene for the first time in 2023. (Example: Georgia)
2. An artist who had their debut full-length album in 2023. (This is for artists who might’ve released EPs or was a part of a band previously, but never a solo LP.) (Example: Bethany Cosentino)
3. An artist who I personally discovered for the first time ever in 2023. (Example: The Teskey Brothers)

Here’s the track list:

1. Alex Lahey: You’ll Never Get Your Money Back
2. Angie McMahon: Letting Go
3. The Beaches: Blame Brett
4. Bethany Cosentino: Outta Time
5. Blondshell: Olympus
6. Boy & Bear: Silver Moon
7. Cassandra Coleman: Coming of Age
8. Daisy Jones & the Six: Aurora
9. Divorce: Eat My Words
10. The Gaslight Anthem: History Books (ft. Bruce Springsteen)
11. Georgia: It’s Euphoric
12. Josh Radnor: Nyc
13. Juke of June: Where’d She Go
14. Kolezanka: Mania
15. Lauren Spencer Smith: Bigger Person
16. MOONRIIVR: Let the World Turn
17. The Revivalists: Kid
18. Superviolet: Big Songbirds Don’t Cry
19. The Teskey Brothers: This Will Be Our Year
20. Tish Melton: Michelle
21. Trans-Canada Highwaymen: Theme from Trans-Canada Highwaymen
22. Walker Lukens: The One Who Loves You
23. Zeus: Air I Walk

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Here’s the (unranked) track list:

1. Alexandra Kay: Dammit
2. Blinker the Star: Little Lies
3. Brothertiger: Take a Picture
4. Christy Nockels: In Your Eyes
5. Crooks & Nannies: Islands in the Stream
6. David Gray: Place to Be
7. Dolly Parton: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (ft P!nk & Brandi Carlile)
8. Emilie Weiss: Death in Reverse (ft. John Mark McMillan)
9. Florence + the Machine: Just a Girl
10. Flower Face: You Oughta Know
11. Francesca Blanchard: Wicked Game
12. Garbage: Cities in Dust
13. Henry Jamison: Our House
14. Ismay: Linger
15. Jessye DeSilva: The Boys of Summer
16. John Paul White: Big Love
17. Jon Bellion: Meant to Live
18. Joshua Ray Walker: Linger
19. King Hannah: Like a Prayer
20. Lake Street Dive: Can’t Help Falling In Love With You
21. Lana del Rey: Take Me Home, Country Roads
22. lilo: Addicted to Love
23. Lola Marsh & RedBand: Feel it Still
24. Lydia Loveless & Jason Hawk Harris: Portions For Foxes
25. Maple Glider: You’re Still the One
26. Miya Folick: Walking On Broken Glass
27. MS MR: Flagpole Sitta
28. New Friends: High and Dry
29. Phoebe Bridgers: The Gold
30. Razor Braids: Buddy Holly
31. Rosie Thomas: Eternal Flame
32. Rufus Wainwright: Cotton Eyed Joe (ft. Chaka Khan)
33. Rufus Wainwright: Harvest
34. Slothrust: Pony
35. Smoking Popes: Don’t You Want Me (ft. Sincere Engineer)
36. Soccer Mommy: Soak up the Sun
37. Solaya: Criminal
38. Spectre Jones: Bad Moon Rising
39. Storefront Church: Pure Imagination
40. The Regrettes: Dancing on My Own
41. Theo Tams: Cowboy Take Me Away
42. Trans-Canada Highwaymen: Rock Me Gently
43. Trans-Canada Highwaymen: Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy

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Here’s the track list for the September/October edition:

1. John Mark McMillan: Has It Been You
2. Mitski: I Don’t Like My Mind
3. Glen Hansard: There’s No Mountain
4. Madison Cunningham & Remi Wolf: Hospital (One Man Down)
5. NEEDTOBREATHE: How Wonderful We Are
6. Jorja Smith: Broken is the man
7. Earl Sweatshirt: Vin Skully
8. Royal Blood: Pull Me Through
9. Zeus: Air I Walk
10. Sufjan Stevens: Will Anybody Ever Love Me?
11. Bombay Bicycle Club: Diving (ft. Holly Humberstone)
12. Sampha: Suspended
13. Bahamas: Somebody Just Like Me
14. Charly Bliss: I Need a New Boyfriend
15. U2: Atomic City
16. The Kills: 103
17. Black Pumas: Mrs. Postman
18. The Gaslight Anthem: History Books (ft Bruce Springsteen)
19. Wild Nothing: Headlights On (ft. Hatchie)
20. MS MR: Flagpole Sitta

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Here’s the track list for the July/August 2023 edition:

1. Bethany Cosentino: Outta Time
2. BORNS: Suddenly
3. Hozier: First Time
4. Margaret Glaspy: Acts Natural
5. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Mind Games
6. David Wax Museum: Best Lover
7. Travis Scott: HYAENA
8. John Mark McMillan: New Day in the Dark
9. Mipso: Carolina Rolling By
10. Superviolet: Big Songbirds Don’t Cry
11. Molly Tuttle: Next Rodeo
12. Soccer Mommy: Soak up the Sun
13. Nas: Office Hours (ft. 50 Cent)
14. NEEDTOBREATHE: Everknown
15. Georgia: It’s Euphoric
16. Local Natives: NYE
17. Black Pumas: More than a Love Song
18. HAIM: Home
19. Guns N’ Roses: Perhaps
20. Danger Mouse & Jemini: Brooklyn Basquiat

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Here’s the track list:

1. Nickel Creek: In the Meadow
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: I’m Not Giving Up Tonight
3. Macklemore: GRIME
4. City and Colour: Meant to Be
5. Kesha: Eat the Acid
6. boygenius: $20
7. Jenny Lewis: Joy’All
8. Nickel Creek: Where the Long Line Leads
9. Madison Cunningham: Hospital
10. Charly Bliss: You Don’t Even Know Me Anymore
11. Dan Croll: Red and the Green
12. Derek Webb : Gift Shop
13. Manchester Orchestra: The Way
14. Hippo Campus: Honeysuckle
15. Jenny Lewis: Apples and Oranges
16. Bully: Lose You (ft. Soccer Mommy)
17. Dan Croll: Talk to You
18. Derek Webb: Boys Will Be Girls (ft. Flamy Grant)
19. Killer Mike & El-P: Don’t Let the Devil
20. Metallica: Lux Æterna
21. Josh Ritter: For Your Soul
22. Christine and the Queens: Tears can be so soft
23. Blondshell: Olympus

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Here’s the track list for the May/June 2023 edition:

1. Charly Bliss: You Don’t Even Know Me Anymore
2. Dan Croll: Red and Green
3. Jenny Lewis: Joy’All
4. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: I’m Not Giving Up Tonight
5. Queens of the Stone Age: Emotion Sickness
6. Kesha: Eat the Acid
7. Alex Lahey: You’l Never Get Your Money Back
8. Janelle Monae: Float (ft. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80’)
9. Walker Lukens: The One Who Loves You
10. Josh Ritter: For Your Soul
11. The Revivalists: Kid
12. Christine and the Queens: Tears are so soft
13. Killer Mike: SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS (ft. Future, Eryn Allen Kane, and Andre 3000)
14. JOSEPH: Fireworks
15. Madison Cunningham: Hospital
16. Lake Street Dive: Can’t Help Falling in Love (ft. Monica Martin)
17. Josh Garrels: All in All
18. Rufus Wainwright: Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon) (ft. Susanna Hoffs, Chris Stills, and Sheryl Crow)
19. Bully: Lose You (ft. Soccer Mommy)
20. David Gray: Place to Be

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Let’s get to it. Here’s the track list for the March/April 2023 edition:

1. Nickel Creek: In the Meadow
2. boygenius: $20
3. Dan Croll: Talk to You
4. Macklemore: GRIME
5. Derek Webb: Gift Shop
6. Lana Del Rey: Let the Light In (ft. Father John Misty)
7. Blondshell: Olympus
8. Rufus Wainwright: Down in the Willow Garden (ft. Brandi Carlile)
9. Manchester Orchestra: The Way
10. T-Pain: A Change is Gonna Come
11. Killer Mike & EL-P: Don’t Let the Devil (ft. Thank You Good Sir)
12. Michigander: Cannonball
13. joan: loner
14. Wilder Woods: Patience
15. Hippo Campus: Honeysuckle
16. Metallica: Too Far Gone?
17. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Council Skies
18. Kevin Max: A Pearl to Hide
19. Daisy Jones & the Six: Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)
20. De La Soul: Me Myself and I

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Alright, let’s do this. Here’s the track list for the January/February 2023 edition:

1. U.S. Girls: Futures Bet
2. Dan Croll: Slip Away
3. Koleżanka: Mania
4. Caroline Polachek: Pretty in Possible
5. The Arcs: Heave is a Place
6. Isaac Alexander: Come Back Camelia
7. Margo Price: Change of Heart
8. Nickel Creek: Strangers
9. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Easy Now
10. Metallica: Lux Æterna
11. Smashing Pumpkins: Night Waves
12. Tennis: Let’s Make a Mistake Tonight
13. Andrew Bird: Never Fall Apart
14. Norah Jones & Chris Thile: Won’t You Come and Sing for Me
15. City and Colour: Meant to Be
16. U2: One (Songs of Surrender)
17. Mipso: Never Knew You Were Gone
18. Henry Jamison: Our House
19. Cassandra Coleman: Coming of Age
20. Christy Nockels: In Your Eyes

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Here’s the track list:

1. Penny & Sparrow: Olly Olly
2. Arcade Fire: WE
3. Pusha T: It’s Almost Dry
4. Weyes Blood: And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
5. Andrew Bird: Inside Problems
6. Mitski: Laurel Hell
7. Liam Gallagher: C’mon You Know
8. Father John Misty: Chloe and the Next 20th Century
9. Soccer Mommy: Sometimes, Forever
10. The Black Keys: Dropout Boogie
11. Maggie Rogers: Surrender
12. James and the Shame: Human Overboard
13. Young the Giant: American Bollywood
14. Wet Leg: Wet Leg
15. Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes
16. Two Door Cinema Club: Keep on Smiling
17. Selah Sue: Persona
18. Spoon: Lucifer on the Sofa
19. Lissie: Carving Canyons
20. Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
21. Mt. Joy: Orange Blood
22. Heavy Gus: Notions

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Here’s the track list:

1. Penny & Sparrow: Need You
2. Pusha T: Dreamin’ of the Past
3. Marcus Mumford: Grace
4. Penny & Sparrow: Voodoo
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Black Summer
6. Maggie Rogers: That’s Where I Am
7. Ethel Cain: American Teenager
8. alt-J: U&ME
9. Sheryl Crow: Forever
10. ROSALIA: CHICKEN TERIYAKI
11. Penny & Sparrow: Adeline
12. Wet Leg: Chaise Longue
13. Lissie: Lonesome Wine
14. Soccer Mommy: With U
15. Mitski: Should’ve Been Me
16. Andrew Bird: The Night Before Your Birthday
17. Pusha T: Diet Coke
18. Mt. Joy: Johnson Song
19. Mitski: Stay Soft
20. Kendrick Lamar: United in Grief
21. Two Door Cinema Club: Disappearer
22. Sigrid: It Gets Dark

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Each year, the most popular list is this one: Best Cover Songs.

Here’s the track list:

QUICK NOTE: While the other lists to come are in ranked order, these are just in alphabetical order (by artist). This does not represent preference.

1. alt-J: Golden Slumbers
2. AWOLNATION & Elohim: Flagpole Sitta
3. AWOLNATION & Taylor Hanson: Material Girl
4. Beck: Old Man
5. Best Coast: If It Makes You Happy
6. The Black Crowes: Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
7. Bleachers: Drive
8. Brandi Carlile: Space Oddity
9. Bria: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
10. Bruce Springsteen: Someday We’ll Be Together
11. The Cactus Blossoms: If Not For You
12. Dead Pony: Maneater
13. Doja Cat: Celebrity Skin
14. Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb: Fields of Gold
15. Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb: On the Road Again
16. Ella Henderson: Tears Dry on Their Own Own
17. Eli Paperboy Reed: Mama Tried
18. Eva Snyder: Gives You Hell
19. First to Eleven: Danger Zone
20. James Bay: Don’t Look Back in Anger
21. James Bay: Trouble
22. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Midnight Train to George (ft. Brittney Spencer & John Paul White)
23. Jessica Chastain: Stand By Your Man
24. Josh Ross: Iris
25. The Goon Sax: Steal my Sunshine
26. Kacey Musgraves: Can’t Help Falling in Love
27. Katie Toupin: Adam’s Song
28. Katie Toupin: Dammit
29. Kelly Clarkson: Happier Than Ever
30. Ibibio Sound Machine: Heroes
31. Lake Street Dive: Automatic
32. Lake Street Dive: You’re Still the One
33. Lake Street Dive: Linger
34. Loveless: happier than ever
35. Loveless: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
36. Maneskin: If I Can Dream
37. Margo Price: He Made a Woman Out of Me
38. Margo Price: You’re No Good
39. Moncrieff: I’m With You
40. Morgan Wade: Suspicious Minds
41. MUNA: Sometimes
42. Omarion: With a Little Help From My Friends
43. Punch Brothers: House Carpenter/Jerusalem Ridge
44. Punch Brothers: Pride of Man
45. Rosie Thomas: Always Be My Baby
46. SHAED: Come as You Are
47. She & Him: Wouldn’t It Be Nice
48. Sigrid: Bad Habits
49. Sigrid: Lost
50. St. Vincent: Funkytown
51. Stephen Dawes: Teenage Dream
52. Sumerlands: I’m So Afraid
53. Tate McRae: As It Was
54. Watkins Family Hour: Hypnotized
55. Weyes Blood: You’re No Good
56. Whitehorse: Summer Wine
57. Zachary Williams: You Can Call Me Al

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Here’s the track list for the November/December edition:

1. Weyes Blood: Grapevine
2. Manchester Orchestra: No Rule
3. Spoon: Wild (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)
4. Dolores Forever: Conversations with Strangers
5. Passon Fruit Boys: Tell Me No
6. Garbage: Witness to Your Love
7. Jessica Chastain: Stand By Your Man
8. Bellsburg Sessions & Derek Webb: We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are
9. Laura Jean: Too Much To Do
10. The Lone Bellow: Honey
11. First Aid Kit: Angel
12. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Pretty Boy
13. Heavy Gus: Breathe
14. Caedmon’s Call: Close of Autumn (ft. Jonatha Brooke)
15. Phoebe Bridgers: If We Make it Through December
16. Bruce Springsteen: Someday We’ll Be Together
17. Sophie Holohan: Olive Branch
18. Crocodyle: You’re Really Funny
19. Tomberlin: sunstruck
20. The Black Crowes: Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone

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Here’s the track list for the September/October edition:

1. Two Door Cinema Club: Disappearer
2. Marcus Mumford: Grace
3. We the Kingdom: Mine
4. Lake Street Dive: You’re Still the One
5. James and the Shame : Sorry
6. Stephen Sanchez: Until I Found You
7. Beck: Old Man
8. Brandi Carlile: Space Oddity
9. Bendigo Fletcher: Strange Encounters
10. The Mars Volta: Vigil
11. M.I.A.: Zoo Girl
12. Young the Giant: Dollar $tore
13. Michigander: Stay Out of It
14. Kid Cudi: Can’t Believe It (ft. 2 Chains)
15. Lissie: Lonesome Wine
16. Plains: Abilene
17. Andrew Bird: I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain (ft. Phoebe Bridgers)
18. Sierra Ferrell: Silver Dollar (Alternative Version)
19. Noah Kahan: Growing Sideways
20. Hiss Golden Messenger: Way Back in the Way Back

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Here’s the track list for the July/August edition:

1. King Princess: Let Us Die
2. The Regrettes: Monday
3. Broken Bells: Saturdays
4. Lake Street Dive: Automatic
5. Danger Mouse & Black Thought: The Darker Part (ft. Raekwon and Kid Sister)
6. Amethyst Kiah: Love Will Tear Us Apart
7. Amelia Moore: i feel everything
8. Beach Bunny: Entropy
9. Weyes Blood: You’re No Good
10. James and the Shame: Where We’re Going
11. Sandra McCracken: Thy Mercy, My God
12. She & Him : Wouldn’t it be Nice
13. Young the Giant: The Walk Home
14. Michigander: The Other Way
15. Beyoncé: VIRGO’S GROOVE
16. Maggie Rogers: Want Want
17. Watkins Family Hour: Hypnotized
18. Del Amitri: Gone in a Second
19. Margo Price: Been to the Mountain
20. Anchor Hymns: In Christ Alone

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Here’s the (unranked) track list:

1. Pusha T: Brambleton
2. Maggie Rogers: That’s Where I Am
3. Ethel Cain: American Teenager
4. Mt. Joy: Johnson Song
5. Mitski: Stay Soft
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Black Summer
7. Sheryl Crow: Forever
8. Penny & Sparrow: Adeline
9. Alt-J: U&ME
10. Pusha T: Dreamin’ of the Past (ft. Kanye West)
11. ROSALIA: CHICKEN TERIYAKI
12. Soccer Mommy : With U
13. Foals: Life is Yours
14. Kendrick Lamar: United in Grief
15. Wet Leg: Chaise Longue
16. Mitski: Should’ve Been Me
17. Pusha T: Diet Coke
18. Spoon: Wild
19. Ingrid Andress: Pain
20. Penny & Sparrow: Voodoo

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Here’s the track list:

1. Kendrick Lamar: United in Grief
2. The Black Keys: Your Team is Looking Good
3. Foals: Life is Yours
4. Sigrid: It Gets Dark
5. Andrew Bird: The Night Before Your Birthday
6. Liam Gallagher: Oh Sweet Children
7. Arcade Fire: Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
8. The Screaming Mimes: Love is Like
9. Ingrid Andress: Pain
10. Mt. Joy: Johnson Song
11. Palm Palm: Jungle Gender
12. Switchfoot : interrobang (b-side)
13. Ethel Cain: American Teenager
14. Penny & Sparrow: Adeline
15. Soccer Mommy: With U
16. Young the Giant: Wake Up
17. Jack White & Elvis Presley: Power of My Love
18. FKA twigs: killer
19. Regina Spektor: One Man’s Prayer
20. Beyoncé: BREAK MY SOUL

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Let’s do it.

1. The Black Keys: Wild Child
2. Father John Misty: Goodbye Mr. Blue
3. Maggie Rogers: That’s Where I Am
4. Lucius: Next to Normal
5. Pusha T: Dreamin’ of the Past (Ft. Kanye West)
6. ROSALIA: CHICKEN TERIYAKI
7. Selah Sue: All the Way Down
8. Ben Rector: Supernatural
9. Sheryl Crow: Forever
10. HAIM: Lost Track
11. Wet Leg: Chaise Longue
12. Arcade Fire : Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
13. Hippo Campus: Ride or Die
14. Dora Jar: Lagoon
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers: It’s Only Natural
16. Michigander & Manchester Orchestra: In My Head
17. John Mark McMillan: Prove My Love
18. Maren Morris: Nervous
19. Liam Gallagher: Better Days
20. JOHNNYSWIM: Nostradamus

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Let’s get to it.

1. Alt-J: U&ME
2. Mitski: Stay Soft
3. Eddie Vedder: Mrs. Mills
4. The Cactus Blossoms: Everybody (ft. Jenny Lewis)
5. Hurray for the Riff Raff: RHODODENDRON
6. Dr. Dre and Eminem: Gospel
7. Spoon: Wild
8. Punch Brothers: Pride of Man
9. Bastille: No Bad Days
10. Pusha T: Diet Coke (ft. Kanye West)
11. Caroline Polachek: Billions
12. Sarah Shook: Talkin’ to Myself
13. Doja Cat: Celebrity Skin
14. Snoop Dogg: Conflicted (ft. Nas)
15. Sharon van Etten: Porta
16. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Black Summer
17. The Game & Kanye West: Eazy
18. Liam Gallagher: Everything’s Electric
19. Father John Misty: Q4
20. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: She’ll Change

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Here’s the track list:

1. Arkells: One Thing I Know
2. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats: What If I
3. Nas: Speechless
4. Allen Stone: Bed I Made (ft. Alessia Cara)
5. Adele: Easy on Me
6. Bastille: Dancing in the Dark
7. Holly Humberstone: Friendly Fire
8. Lauren O’Connell: Unbelievers
9. Derek Webb: Here in America
10. Kanye West: Life of the Party (ft. Andre 3000)
11. MUTEMATH: Love Light a Way
12. Elbow: Red Sky Rado (Baby Baby Baby)
13. Punch Brothers: Orphan Annie
14. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Can’t Let Go
15. Aaron Sprinkle: Rolling Heads
16. Mount Westmore: Big Subwoofer
17. Silk Sonic: 777
18. Snail Mail: Headlock
19. Sad Astronauts: It’s all Happening
20. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (Solstice Version)

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Here’s the track list:

1. Kanye West: Donda
2. Brandi Carlile: In These Silent Days
3. Lake Street Dive: Obviously
4. Manchester Orchestra: The Million Masks of God
5. Lord Huron: Long Lost
6. St. Vincent: Daddy’s Home
7. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof
8. Various Artists: The Metallica Blacklist
9. Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever
10. Garbage: No Gods No Masters
11. The War on Drugs: I Don’t Live Here Anymore
12. Tune-Yards: sketchy.
13. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats: The Future
14. Natalie Hemby: Pins and Needles
15. Derek Webb: The Songs That Made Me: Rich Mullins
16. Kacey Musgraves: star-crossed
17. Greta Van Fleet: The Battle at Garden’s Gate
18. Yebba: Dawn
19. Lorde: Solar Power
20. Elbow: Flying Dream 1
21. Adele: 30

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Here’s the track list:

1. Lord Huron: I Lied
2. Manchester Orchestra: Angel of Death
3. Brandi Carlie: Broken Horses
4. Lou Barlow: In my Arms
5. Natalie Hemby: It Takes One to Know One
6. Greta Van Fleet: Heat Above
7. Kanye West: Off the Grid
8. Lucy Dacus: VBS
9. St. Vincent: Down
10. Lonas: Anxious Life
11. Tune-Yards: hold yourself.
12. Kanye West: Jail pt 2
13. Bendigo Fletcher: Evergreen
14. Nas: Death Row East
15. Manchester Orchestra: Keel Timing
16. Lake Street Dive: Feels like the Last Time
17. Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever
18. Lil Nas X: Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
19. Kanye West: Ok Ok
20. Tash Sultana: Beyond the Pine
21. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Can’t Let Go

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Each year, the most popular list is this one: Best Cover Songs.

Here’s the track list:

QUICK NOTE: While the other lists to come are in ranked order, these are 100% random in their order. This does not represent preference.

1. Christine and the Queens: Freedom
2. Alex Cameron ft. Roan Yellowthorn: Islands in the Stream
3. Shovels & Rope: Everybody Hurts
4. Derek Webb: Here in America
5. Queens Cast & Brandy: Wrecking Ball
6. Matt and Kim: You Don’t Own Me
7. Prom Queen: Baby One More Time
8. JR JR: Higher Love
9. Angel Olsen: Forever Young
10. tune-yards: Cannonball
11. The Knocks & Foster the People: Devi’s Haircut
12. Deep Sea Diver: Hand in my Pocket (feat. Damien Jurado)
13. Alessia Cara: Enter Sandman
14. The Wrecks: Rich Girl
15. The Secret Sisters: Heavy Balloon
16. Christian Lee Hutson: There She Goes
17. MUNYA: Tonight Tonight
18. Lauren O’Connell: Where Did Our Love Go
19. Brandi Carlile: I Put a Spell on You
20. Waxahatchee: Streets of Philadelphia
21. Christian Lee Hutson: A Thousand Miles
22. Garbage & Screaming Females: Because the Night
23. Kishi Bashi: Laughing With
24. Barbaro: Believe
25. K. Flay: Break Stuff
26. Barbaro: If it Makes You Happy
27. Angel Olsen: Safety Dance
28. Trixie Mattel: Blister in the Sun
29. TiKA: I Would Die 4 U
30. Christian Lee Hutson: Dancing Queen
31. Ryan Culwell & Aubrie Sellers: Head Like a Hole
32. Death Cab for Cutie: Waterfalls
33. Francesca Blanchard: White Flag
34. Margo Price: Help
35. Waxahatchee: Light of a Clear Blue Morning
36. Kacey Musgraves: Fix You
37. Molly Tuttle: Stop Dragging My Heart Around
38. Prom Queen: Lucky
39. Christian Lee Hutson: You’re Still the One
40. Miley Cyrus: Nothing Else Matters
41. Bathe Alone: Take a Bow
42. Future Teens: Believe
43. Jason Isbell: Sad but True
44. Shovels & Rope: What a Wonderful World
45. K. Flay: Self Esteem
46. Sarah Jarosz: my future
47. Derek Webb: We Are Not as Strong as We Think We Are
48. Alanis Morissette & Willie Nelson: On the Road Again
49. Sarah Jarosz: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
50. The Head and the Heart: Our House
51. John Mark McMillan: All I Want for Christmas is You
52. Post Malone: Only Wanna Be With You
53. Just Friends: Hella Good
54. Waxahatchee: Fruits of my Labor
55. Lauren O’Connell: Graceland
56. Shovels & Rope: In my Room (ft. Sharon Van Etten)
57. Vella: I’m Still Standing
58. Bastille: Dancing in the Dark
59. Matt and Kim: Our House
60. Molly Tuttle & Iron & Wine: You Don’t Get Me High Anymore
61. Phoebe Bridgers: Nothing Else Matters
62. Dr. Dog: Here Comes the
63. She & Him: Holiday
64. Lauren O’Connell: Unbelievers
65. Trixie Mattel: Jackson
66. Hazel English: California Dreamin’
67. Vella: Fly Away
68. Mars Big Bang: Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
69. Portugal. The Man: Steal My Sunshine
70. K. Flay: Brain Stew
71. St. Vincent: Sad but True
72. Molly Tuttle: Strong Enough
73. Julia Michaels: Just One Look
74. Katy Perry: All You Need is Love
75. Trixie Mattel: Video Games
76. White Reaper: Sad but True
77. Sara Watkins: Pure Imagination
78. Grouplove: You Oughta Know

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