Best Albums of 2019

PASSPORT - FRIDAYS AT 7pm - with LEILANI

Artist / Album / Label

Altin Gün / Gece / Glitterbeat
Fena Gitu / Unleashed / Fenamenal
Flamingods / Levitation / Moshi Moshi
Flor de Toloache / Indestructible / Flor de Toloache LLC
Ibibio Sound Machine / Doko Mien / Merge
KOKOKO! / Fongola / Transgressive
Mashrou' Leila / The Beirut School / Shoop! Shoop!
Mdou Moctor / Ilana (The Creator) / Sahel Sounds
Rachid Taha / Je Suis Africain / Naïve
Tuuletar / Rajatila/Borderline / Bafe's Factory

POPTOPIA PARKWAY - WEDNESDAYS AT 7pm - with LON PALMER

The Raconteurs : Help Us Stranger : [Third Man / Columbia / Sony]
Sleater-Kinney : The Center Won’t Hold : [Mom + Pop]
Starcrawler : Devour You : [Rough Trade]
Hutch Harris : Only Water [CD] : [Royal We Publishing]
The Dandy Warhols : Why You So Crazy : [Beat The World / Dine Alone]
L7 : Scatter The Rats : [Blackheart]
Ex Hex : It’s Real : [Merge]
Jenny Lewis : On The Line : [Warner]
The Claypool Lennon Delirium : South Of Reality : [Prawn Song / Chimera Music / ATO]
The New Pornographers : In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights : [Collected Works / Concord]
Jeff Lynne’s ELO : From Out Of Nowhere : [Big Trilby / Columbia / Sony]
The Bishop’s Daredevil Stunt Club : End Over End : [Big Blast]
Slumberjet : World Of Sound : [Broken Lullaby]
Pixies : Beneath The Eyrie : [Infectious Recordings / BMG]
Juliana Hatfield : Weird : [American Laundromat]
Filthy Friends : Emerald Valley : [Kill Rock Stars]
The Minus 5 : Stroke Manor : [Yep Roc]
Jeff Tweedy : WARMER : [dBpm]
The Brian Jonestown Massacre : The Brian Jonestown Massacre : [‘a’ Records]
Ty Segall : First Taste : [Drag City]
Iggy Pop : Free : [Loma Vista / Concord]
Chrissie Hynde w/ The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble : Valve Bone Woe : [BMG]
The Black Keys : ‘Let’s Rock’ : [Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch / Warner]
Liam Gallagher : Why Me? Why Not. : [Warner]
The Rubinoos : From Home : [Yep Roc]
Ringo Starr : What’s My Name : [Roccabella / UMe]
The Who : WHO : [Polydor / Interscope / UMe]
Imperial Teen : Now We Are Timeless : [Merge]
Car Seat Headrest : Commit Yourself Completely : [Matador]
Deerhunter : Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? : [4AD]
Ezra Furman : Twelve Nudes : [Bella Union]
Tacocat : This Mess Is A Place : [Sub Pop]
CRX : PEEK : [Headless / Columbia / Sony]
Beck : Hyperspace : [Fonograf / Capitol / UMe]
Wilco : Ode To Joy : [dBpm]
Lillie Mae : Other Girls : [Third Man]
Ani Difranco : No Walls [Mixtape] [CD] : [Righteous Babe]
Andrew Bird : My Finest Work Yet : [Loma Vista / Concord]
Guided By Voices : Zeppelin Over China : [GBV, Inc.]
Mark Lanegan : Somebody’s Knocking : [Flooded Soil / Heavenly / PIAS]
Vampire Weekend : Father Of The Bride : [Columbia / Sony]
Belle & Sebastian : Days Of The Bagnold Summer [Soundtrack] : [Matador]
The Waterboys : Where The Action Is : [Cooking Vinyl]
RIDE : This Is Not A Safe Place : [Wichita Recordings]
The Specials : Encore : [Island]
Ian Brown : Ripples : [Black Koi / Virgin EMI / UMe]
Robert Forster : Inferno : [Tapete]
Peter Perrett : Humanworld : [Domino]
Wreckless Eric : Transience : [Southern Domestic]
Meat Puppets : Dusty Notes : [Zia / Megaforce]
Bob Mould : Sunshine Rock : [Merge]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse : Colorado : [Reprise]
White Denim : Side Effects : [City Slang]
The Flaming Lips : King’s Mouth: Music And Songs : [Lovely Sorts Of Death / Warner]
Weezer : Weezer [The Black Album] : [Atlantic] // Weezer [The Teal Album] : [Atlantic]
Jonathan Coulton : Some Guys : [Jonathan Coulton]
Morrissey : California Sun : [Étienne / BMG]
The Hollywood Vampires : Rise : [earMUSIC]
Various Artists : Once Upon A Time In Hollywood [Soundtrack] : [Columbia / Sony]
Various Artists : International Pop Overthrow, Vol. 22 : [Omnivore]
Various Artists : Echo In The Canyon [Soundtrack] : [BMG]
Various Artists : Wilcovered: Wilco Songs Covered : [Uncut Magazine {Nov. 2019}]
Prince : **1999** [Super Deluxe Edition] : [NPG / Warner] // Originals : [NPG / Warner]
The Replacements : Dead Man’s Pop : [Sire / Reprise / Rhino]
R.E.M. : Monster [25th Anniversary Edition] : [Craft Recordings / Concord]
The Go : Whatcha Doin’ [20th Anniversary Remix Redux] : [Third Man]
The White Stripes : The White Stripes XX : [Third Man]
The Nazz : The Complete Nazz : [Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra]
Gene Clark : No Other [Super Deluxe Edition] : [4AD]
The Kinks : Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) [50th Anniversary Edition] : [Sanctuary / BMG]
The Dukes Of Stratosphear : Psurroundabout Ride : [Ape House]
Van Duren : Waiting: The Van Duren Story [Soundtrack] : [Omnivore]
Flight Of The Conchords : Live In London : [Sub Pop]
The Archies : The Definitive Archies: Greatest Hits & More! : [Real Gone Music / Sony]
The Beatles : Abbey Road [Super Deluxe Edition] : [Apple / Capitol / UMe]
Paul McCartney : Amoeba Gig : [MPL / Capitol / UMe] // Egypt Station [Explorer’s Edition] : [MPL / Capitol / UMe]
Ben Folds : Live At MySpace [CD] : [Epic / Real Gone Music / Sony]
Spoon : Everything Hits At Once: The Best Of Spoon [CD] : [Matador]
David Bowie : Serious Moonlight: Live ‘83 : [Parlophone / Warner] // Glass Spider: Live Montreal ‘87 : [Parlophone / Warner]
Paul Weller Band & Orchestra : Other Aspects: Live At The Royal Festival Hall : [Parlophone / Warner]
Pearl Jam : MTV Unplugged : [Epic / Legacy / Sony]
Eagles Of Death Metal : EODM Presents Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote : [UMe]
LCD Soundsystem : Electric Lady Sessions : [DFA / Columbia / Sony]
The Muffs : No Holiday : [Omnivore]
Harry Nilsson : Losst And Founnd : [Omnivore]
Cheap Trick : Are You Ready Or Not? Live At The Forum {12/31/79} : [Epic / Legacy / Sony]
The Desert Sessions : Vol. 11 / Vol. 12 : [Rekords Rekords / Matador]
Nick Lowe : Love Starvation [EP] : [Yep Roc]
Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Partridge : Planet England [EP] : [Ape House]
Thunderpussy : Milk It [EP] : [Stardog / Republic / UMe]
Lucy Dacus : 2019 [EP] : [Matador]