The end of 2018 is here, and our DJs are taking a look back at their favorite releases from this year. Take a look at what album releases your favorite KGNU DJs loved in 2018!
- Andy Zicklin
- Bios+a+ic
- Bob Cosmo
- Brian Eyster
- Brother Louie
- Deana Morton
- DJ Marlowe
- DJ Swingsett
- Doug Gertner
- D Rider
- E23
- EC
- Eraserhead
- Gary McBride
- George Figgs
- Gretchen Troop
- The Groove Thief
- Indra Raj
- Joanne Cole
- Joel Davis
- Keith Colligan
- Luke Janke
- Major Lance
- Marco Mangione
- Michael Buck
- Mike Finn
- Old Man GG
- Patrick Mendoza
- Sam Fuqua
- Sandman
- Uncle Jeff
# Artist Album 1 The Fratelli’s In Your Own Sweet Time 2 The Damned Evil Spirits 3 Holly Cole Holly 4 Kyle Craft Full Circle Nightmare 5 The Interrupters Fight the Good Fight 6 Low Cut Connie Dirty Pictures Part 2 7 The London Suede The Blue Hour 8 Angelique Kidjo Remain In Light 9 UK Subs Subversions 10 Charming Disaster Be My Bride of Frankenstein
# Artist Album 1 Meat Beat Manifesto Impossible Star 2 Hammock Universalis 3 Bill Frisell Music IS 4 acidbat + bios+a+ic sonar waves 5 Daniel Avery Songs for Alpha 6 Al Petteway The Collector’s Passion 7 Helena Hauff Qualm 8 Alpturer Odonata 9 Mondo Obscura Focus on Black 10 entropic advance Destroying Denver
# Artist Album 1 Cities Aviv Raised for a Better View 2 Milo budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies 3 JPEGMAFIA Veteran 4 Serengeti 6e 5 Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar 6 Low Double Negative 7 Ehiorobo/Tsar of Gamble A Furnace in the Coin Fountain 8 Mothers Render Another Ugly Method 9 Busdriver Electricity is On Our Side 10 Zone Motif AW/OA 014
# Artist Album 1 Kittel & Co. Whorls 2 Punch Brothers All Ashore 3 The Beths Future Me Hates Me 4 Okra Playground Ääneni Yli Vesien 5 Simon Chrisman & Wes Corbett Simon Chrisman & Wes Corbett 6 Anna & Elizabeth The Invisible Comes to Us 7 David Benedict The Golden Angle 8 Tim Hecker Konoyo 9 Joshua Redman Still Dreaming 10 Adrian Teacher & The Subs Anxious Love
# Artist Album 1 Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son 2 Bob Dylan More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 3 Jim White Waffles, Triangles & Jesus 4 Neko Case Hell-On 5 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels w/ Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens 6 Giant Sand Returns to the Valley of Rain 7 Hiss Golden Messenger Virgo Sand 8 Amy Helm This Too Shall Light 9 Phosphorescent New Birth in New England 10 J Mascis Elastic Days
# Artist Album 1 Snail Mail Heat Wave 2 Mac Miller Swimming 3 Robyn Honey 4 The Internet Hive Mind 5 Bastien Keb Midnight Nasties EP 6 Swarvy Anti-Anxiety 7 Slum Village The Lost Scrolls Vol. 2 8 Pasar de la Luces Mint Field 9 Oshun Bittersweet Vol. 1 10 Noname Room 25
# Artist Album 1 Various Artists Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights 2 Exploded View Obey 3 Klaus Johann Grobe Du Bist So Symmetrich 4 High on Fire Electric Messiah 5 Head Technician Profane Architecture 6 Peel Dream Magazine Modern Meta Physic 7 Film School Bright to Death 8 Zuider Zee Zeenith 9 The Limiñanas Shadow People 10 Job Sifre Het Bestaan
# Artist Album 1 Steve Spacek Sci-Fi 2 T.R.A.C. Life In Motion 3 Marc Mac All Power to the People 4 Norm Talley Norm-a-lize 5 Fatima And Yet It’s All Love 6 Selectors Assemble Selectors Assemble Vol. 3 7 Saxxon Jungle Odyssey 8 Waajeed From the Dirt 9 Kaidi Tatham It’s A World Before You 10 Various Artists Turntables on the Hudson: 20 Year Anniversary
Doug’s Top 10 Favorite Live Shows by Artists who released music in 2018
# Artist Album 1 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel 2 Jon Batiste Hollywood Africans 3 Bombino Deran 4 Anna Burch Quit the Curse 5 Shemekia Copeland America’s Child 6 Half Waif Lavender 7 I’m With Her/td> See You Around 8 Angelique Kidjo Remain In Light 9 Femi Kuti One People One World 10 Waxahatchee Great Thunder EP
# Artist Album 1 Everything is Recorded Everything is Recorded 2 Wahatta Casual High Technology 3 Sofi Tukker Treehouse 4 Solomon Thompson Good Damn Music 5 Morena Son Lo Quo Traigo Yo 6 Mura Masa Mura Masa 7 Alain Perez ADN 8 AMMAR 808 Maghreb United 9 Tune-Yards I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 10 Chris Dave & The Drumhedz Chris Dave & The Drumhedz
# Artist Album 1 Rufus Du Sol Solace 2 No Mana Melted Candy EP 3 Olver Huntemann Propaganda (Remixes Pt. 1) 4 Various Artists Realm of Consciousness Pt. III 5 Various Artists mau5trap ’17 6 Maksim Dark Movement 7 Jam Blomqvist Disconnected 8 deadmau5 Mau5ville: Level 1 9 Tiga & Clarian Stay Cool & Remixes EP 10 Au/Ra & Camelphat Panic Room
# Artist Album 1 Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet Landfall 2 Oumou Sangare Mogoya 3 Domenico Lancellotti The Good is a Big God 4 Anandi Bhattacharya Joys Abound 5 Marc Ribot Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 6 Kiran Ahluwalia 7 Billion 7 Robert Diack Lost Villages 8 David Byrne American Utopia 9 Bombino Deran 10 Opium Moon Opium Moon
# Artist Album 1 Machine Girl The Ugly Art 2 Girl Pusher 911 3 Neckbeard Deathcamp White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers 4 ERDA ERDA 5 HXCMIDI Roland Sound Canvas Hardcore 6 JPEGMAFIA Veteran 7 Lana Del Rabies Shadow World 8 Jesus Piece Only Self 9 Sense Fracture In My Escape I Look For A Weapon 10 Soulja Boy No Sleep EP
# Artist Album 1 Andy Akiho The War Below 2 Aaron Jay Kernis Dreamsongs/Three Concertos 3 David Lang Writing on Water 4 Erkki-Sven Tuur Tuur: Illuminato, Whistles and Whispers from Uluru & Symphony No. 8 5 Steve Reich Pulse/Quartet 6 Toshio Hosokawa Orchestral Works – 3: Meditation, Nach dem Strurm & Klage 7 Bent Sørensen Rosenbad – Pantomime 8 John Adams Absolute Jest & Naive and Sentimental Music 9 Mason Bates, The Santa Fe Opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs 10 Various Artists Field Works: Initial Sounds
# Artist Album 1 Goran Bregovic Three Letters from Sarajevo, Opus 1 2 Ammar 808 Mahgreb United 3 Maarja Nuut & Ruum Muunduja 4 3MA Anarouz 5 Chancha Via Circuito Bienaventuranza 6 Josh Trinidad In November 7 Ólafur Arnalds re:member 8 Orquesta Akoka?n Orquesta Akoka?n 9 Deben Bhattacharya PARIS to CALCUTTA: Men and Music on the Desert Road 10 Arat Kilo, Mamani Keita, Mike Ladd Visions of Selam
# Artist Album 1 Anderson .Paak Oxnard 2 Tash Sultana Flow State 3 Janelle Monae Dirty Computer 4 Blood Orange Negro Swan 5 Leon Bridges Good Thing 6 Me’Shell Ndegeocello Ventriloquism 7 Gregory Porter One Night Only (Royal Albert Hall) 8 The Internet Hive Mind 9 H.E.R. H.E.R. 10 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth
# Artist Album 1 Various Artists Puffer’s Choice Vol. 2 2 Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band The Serpent’s Mouth 3 Protoje A Matter of Time 4 King Kong Repatriation 5 Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix Overdubbed 6 Monkey Marc Yaad N Abraad EP 7 Various Artists Ketch A Fire 8 Little Harry Youngest Veteron 9 Dub Spencer & Trance Hill Christmas in Dub 10 Scotty McD Share It
# Artist Album 1 Skinshape Filoxiny 2 Snail Mail Lush 3 Makaya McCraven Universal Beings 4 Vinyl Williams Opal 5 Various Artists Brainfeeder X 6 Felbm Tape 2 7 Thom Yorke Suspiria OST 8 Nostrum Grocers Nostrum Grocers 9 Beverly Glenn-Copeland Beverly Glenn-Copeland 10 DJ Koze Knock Knock
# Artist Album 1 Vanessa Collier Honey Up 2 Tin Men Sing With Me 3 Dr. Michael White Tricentennial Rag 4 Playing for Change Listen to the Music 5 Walter Wolfman Washington My Future is My Past 6 Dexter Payne Quintet Jazz For All 7 Marcus Miller Laid Black 8 Tia Fuller Diamond Cut 9 Cha Wa Spy Boy 10 Jon Cleary Dynamite
# Artist Album 1 Altin Gun On 2 Animanz & Exotic Other Exotic Other 3 Arthur Melo Nhanderuvuçu 4 Kutiman Don’t Hold Onto the Clouds 5 Mdou Moctar & Elite Beat Mdou Moctar meets Elite Beat in a Budget Dancehall 6 Nickodemus A Long Engagement 7 Richmond Fontaine Don’t Skip Out On Me 8 Skinshape Filoxiny 9 Tenderlonious & The 22archestra The Shakedown 10 Tommy Guerrero The Road to Knowhere
# Artist Album 1 Khalab Black Noise 2084 2 The Turbans The Turbans 3 Mary Lou Newmark Room to Breathe 4 Jupiter and Okwess Kin Sonic 5 The Interplanetary Acoustic Team 11 11 (Me, Smiling) 6 Reverend Freakchild Dial It In 7 Superorganism Superorganism 8 The Essex Green Hardly Electronic 9 Potatohead People Nick and Astro’s Guide to the Universe 10 John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness
# Artist Album 1 Swim Good Now Daylight 2 Eric Phillips One 3 Moonface This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet 4 Son Lux Brighter Wounds 5 Bedbug I’ll Count to Heaven in Years without Seasons 6 Mathew Lee Cothran My First Love Mends My Final Days 7 Orchid Mantis Yellow House 8 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel 9 Free Cake for Every Creature The Bluest Star 10 Haley Heyndrickx I Need to Start a Garden
# Artist Album 1 Walter Salas-Humara Walterio 2 I’m With Her See You Around 3 Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son 4 Kim Richey Edgeland 5 Chris Smither Call Me Lucky 6 Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore Downey to Lubbock 7 M. Ward What A Wonderful Industry 8 Roseanne Cash She Remembers Everything 9 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Sparkle Hard 10 The Glands Double Coda
# Artist Album 1 Nucleya Mizra (tota Myna) (feat. Rafaar & Rashmeet Kuar) – Single 2 Tarsem Jasar Turanator 3 Danakil, Ondubground Danakil Meets Ondubground 4 Nightmares on Wax Shape the Future 5 Jasmine Sandias Sip Sip (feat. Intense) – Single 6 Sidu Moose Wala Tochan – Single 7 Dipreet Dhilion Chill Mode (feat. Jaggi Singh) – Single 8 Raftaar Zero to Infinity 9 Kaur-B & Desi Crew Engaged Jatti – Single 10 Sara Gurpal & Rajat Nagpal Ki Mai Kalli Aa (feat. Dilpreet Dhilion & Meenakshi Choudhary) – Single
# Artist Album 1 Caroline Rose Loner 2 Kikagaku Moyo Masana Temples 3 Shopping The Official Body 4 The Breeders/td> All Nerve 5 Angelique Kidjo Remain In Light 6 Goat Girl Goat Girl 7 Conner Youngblood Cheyenne 8 Idles Joy as an Act of Resistance 9 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel 10 serpentwithfeet Soil
# Artist Album 1 I’m With Her See You Around 2 Doc Watson & David Grisman Doc & Dawg: Live at Acoustic Stage 3 Steep Canyon Rangers Out in the Open 4 Mary Gauthier Rifles and Rosary Beads 5 The Earls of Leicester Live at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame 6 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour 7 Jonas and Jane Sedona Rain EP 8 Old Crow Medicine Show Volunteer 9 John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness 10 Punch Brothers All Ashore
# Artist Album 1 Nu Guinea Nuova Napoli 2 Jeff Crosby Postcards from Magdalena 3 Prince Piano and a Microphone 1983 4 Dizzy K. Falola Sweet Music Volume 1 5 Charles Bradley Black Velvet 6 Kamasi Washington The Choice 7 Kamaal Williams The Return 8 The New Mastersounds Renewable Energy 9 Jimi Hendrix Both Sides of the Sky 10 Various Artists Gumba Fire (Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa)
# Artist Album 1 Janelle Monae Dirty Computer 2 Sixteem Jackie’s Movie Was Bad/Mascula 3 Parquet Courts Wide Awake! 4 The Midnight Hour The Midnight Hour 5 Brent Cowles How to Be Okay Alone 6 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams 7 Gino & the Goons Rip It Up 8 Low Cut Connie Dirty Pictures Pt. 2 9 Live Percenters Higher Vibrations 10 OBNOX Templo Del Sonido
# Artist Album 1 Prince Piano & A Microphone 1983 2 Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf Science Fair 3 Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami Melodic Circles 4 Midori Takada & Lafawndah Le Renard Bleu 5 Wayne Shorter Emanon (w/ graphic novel) 6 Charles Mingus Live in Detroit 1973 7 The Regrettes Attention Seeker EP 8 Toshimaru Nakamura NIMB #9 9 Lonnie Holley MITH 10 Jakob Bro Bay of Rainbows
# Artist Album 1 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel 2 DeVotchKa This Night Falls Forever 3 Khruangbin Con Todo El Mundo 4 Calexico The Thread That Keeps Us admin
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