2019's Greatest Hits
I just wanna say what an amazing year it was for singles. I actually came across over 250 of 'em and I'm sure that if I listened even more, it would been closer to 300. God bless all these artists below still making great tunes despite the shrinking pile of money available to most people in the music biz. Please support them whenever you can, or at least support the artists YOU love.
I also wanna give a shout-out to the wonderful music distributors/stores/destinations whose mailing lists constantly educate me about great new music that keeps coming out, including Bleep, Boomkat, Downtown Music Gallery, Forced Exposure, Juno, Naxos, Rough Trade, Soundohm, Sounds of the Universe, Vinyl Factory. Do yourself a favor and go to Bandcamp and sign up for alerts about your favorite artists and labels too- they'll also give you some good recommendations about related music you might like too. Also, much respect to review site All Music Guide, release listings from Pause and Play. Publications like Blurt, The Fader, Rock and Roll Globe and Aquarium Drunkard are also excellent resources.
So, on to all the 2019 music I liked (in rough order of preference) and hope to listen to again one day...
ALBUMS
I also wanna give a shout-out to the wonderful music distributors/stores/destinations whose mailing lists constantly educate me about great new music that keeps coming out, including Bleep, Boomkat, Downtown Music Gallery, Forced Exposure, Juno, Naxos, Rough Trade, Soundohm, Sounds of the Universe, Vinyl Factory. Do yourself a favor and go to Bandcamp and sign up for alerts about your favorite artists and labels too- they'll also give you some good recommendations about related music you might like too. Also, much respect to review site All Music Guide, release listings from Pause and Play. Publications like Blurt, The Fader, Rock and Roll Globe and Aquarium Drunkard are also excellent resources.
So, on to all the 2019 music I liked (in rough order of preference) and hope to listen to again one day...
ALBUMS
- Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Darkroom)
- Various Artists This Is Toolroom 2019 (Toolroom)
- Jason Ringenberg Stand Tall (Courageous Chicken)
- Little Simz Grey Area (Age 101)
- Haviah Mighty 13th Floor (Haviah Mighty)
- Lizzo Cuz I Love You (Nice Life)
- Deep State The Path to Fast Oblivion (Friendship Fever)
- Megan Thee Stallion Fever (300 Entertainment)
- Teeth of the Sea Wraith (Rocket Recordings)
- Business Of Dreams Ripe For Anarchy (Slumberland)
- Czarface and Ghostface Killah Czarface Meets Ghostface (Silver Age)
- Durand Jones and The Indications American Love Call (Dead Oceans)
- Mdou Moctar Ilana (The Creator) (Sahel Sounds)
- XXX Language (Bana, 2018)
- Sego Sego Sucks (Roll Call)
- Dave Psychodrama (Neighbourhood)
- Tool Fear Inocolum (Volcano/RCA)
- Otoboke Beaver ITEKOMA HITS (Damnably)
- Surfbort You Don't Exist (Modern Sky)
- Gang Starr One of the Best Yet (Gang Starr Enterprises)
- Sore Points Not Alright (Slovenly)
- Control Top Covert Contracts (Get Better)
- Sebadoh Act Surprised (Dangerbird)
- Pat Todd and the Outsiders The Past Came Callin' (Hound Gawd!)
- slowthai Nothing Great About Britain (Method)
- AQXDM Infrared (Houndstooth)
- Kyle Craft Showboat Honey (Sub Pop)
- Bryce Vine Carnival (Sire)
- Various Artists Bombstrikes: The Best of 2019 (Bombstrikes)
- Dressy Bessy Fast Faster Disaster (Yep Roc)
- UV-TV Happy (Deranged)
- Ali Barter Hey, I'm Doing My Best (Girly Bits)
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Watchmen: Vol. 1 (Music From the HBO Series) (Null Corporation)
- Conforce Dawn Chorus (Delsin)
- Drifting in Silence Away (Labile)
- Iguana Death Cult Nude Casino (Innovative Leisure)
- Sports Team Making Hay (Bright Antenna)
- Buddy and Julie Miller Breakdown on 20th Ave. South (New West)
- Necking Cut Your Teeth (Mint)
- Shredders Great Hits (Doomtree)
- Kelsey Waldon White Noise/White Lines (Oh Boy)
- Jason James Seems Like Tears Ago (Melodyville)
- beabadoobee Space Cadet (Dirty Hit)
- Pup Morbid Stuff (Rise)
- Jeanines Jeanines (Slumberland)
- Atomic Road Kings Clean Up the Blood (Big Tone)
- Fujiya and Miyagi Flashback (Impossible Objects Of Desire)
- Prosper, Stabfinger Fire in the Remix (Bombstrikes)
- Gauche A People's History of Gauche (Merge)
- The Resonars No Exit (Trouble In Mind)
- Teodross Avery After the Rain : A Night for Coltrane (Tompkins Square)
- Oliver Lieb Violet Sky (Tronic)
- Patrick Topping Watch What Ya Doing (Trick)
- Aleksi Perälä Resonance (Trip)
- New York United New York United (577)
- Dump Him Dykes to Watch out For (Get Better)
- The 5 Browns Christmas With the 5 Browns (Steinway and Sons)
- Mall Grab Growing Pains (Looking For Trouble)
- Billy Branch and The Sons of Blues Roots And Branches - The Songs Of Little Walter (Alligator)
- Epic Beard Men This Was Supposed to Be Fun (Strange Famous)
- Olivia Jean Night Owl (Third Man)
- Mammoth Penguins There's No Fight We Can't Both Win (Fika Recordings)
- Ill Considered Ill Considered 8 (Ill Considered Music)
- Riel Espacio Interior (Buen Dia)
- MC Lars and Mega Ran The Dewey Decibel System (Horris/Random Beats)
- Equiknoxx Eternal Children (Equiknoxx)
- Jae Mansa Relationships and Money (EOARN Entertainment)
- Verbz Pathways (Group BraCil)
- Midnite Snaxxx Music Inside (Slovenly)
- Various Artists Music For Brainwaves (Erased Tapes)
- LenneBrothers Band Rocking Live Around the Fire Station (AGR Television)
- The Pinheads Is This Real (Farmer and The Owl)
- Kaspiann Cancel EP (Planet Rhythm)
- Martha Love Keeps Kicking (Dirtnap)
- Temp-Illusion Autolected (Zabte Sote)
- Gregory Taylor Retinue (Palace of Lights)
- Madmadmad Proper Music (STAC)
- Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes (Bella Union)
- Shed Oderbruch (Ostgut Ton)
- Lee 'Scratch' Perry Heavy Rain (On U Sound)
- Techno Bert Neue Dimensionen (Mannequin)
- Grup Ses and Elektro Hafız Varyete (Zel Zele)
- Mark Peters Ambient Innerland (Sonic Cathedral)
- Sphäre Sechs Transient Lunar Phenomenon (Cryo Chamber)
- Hash Redactor Drecksound (Goner)
- David Champagne Bad Choices Make Good Stories (Agnostic Gospel)
- The Sh-Booms Blurred Odyssey (Limited Fanfare)
- The Hot Sardines Welcome Home, Bon Voyage - Live (Eleven)
- Rat Fancy Stay Cool (HHBTM)
- Witching Waves Persistence (Specialist Subject)
- Melii phAses(Rule #1)
- Altin Gün Gece (ATO)
- Patio Essentials (Fire Talk)
- Olan Mill Sacred Geometry (Dronarivm)
- Dumb Club Nites (Mint)
- Rastronaut Calhariz/Massama N/Portas (Roska Kicks and Snares)
- Photonz Angel Heart (Naive)
- Neil Tolliday Mallumo (Utopia)
- Kim Lenz Slowly Speeding (Blue Star)
- Paul O'Dette Albert de Rippe: Un Perfaict Sonneur de Leut (Harmonia Mundi)
- Elkhorn Sun Cycle / Elk Jam (Feeding Tube)
- Kiwi Jr Football Money (Mint)
- Thick Thick (Epitaph)
- Robert Stillman Reality (Orindal)
- Mark Fox Iridescent Sounds (Humble Genius)
- Nick Waterhouse Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure)
- Magna Pia Eostre (Soma)
- Spielbergs This Is Not The End (By the Time It Gets Dark)
- Warmth Wildlife (Archives)
- Abjects Never Give Up (Yippie Ki Yay)
- Hasselman 45 Drive (Pearl Music)
- The Beaumonts This Is Austin (Recorded Live at The White Horse) (Saustex)
- Lisa Prank Perfect Love Song (Father/Daughter)
- Unidentified Pattern El Desespere (Duro)
- G. Calvin Weston The Phoenix Orchestra - Dust and Ash (577)
- Asya Selyutina Nikita Koshkin: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Vol. 1 (Naxos)
- The Galileo 7 There Is Only Now (Damaged Goods)
- Sven Laux and Daniela Oren The Writings (Dronarivm)
- Ben LaMar Gay Confetti In The Sky Like Fireworks (This Is Bate Bola OST) (International Anthem)
- Kyle Dixon + Michael Stein Native Son (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Milan)
- Michael Vincent Waller Moments (Unseen Worlds)
- Kyle McEvoy Always Fading (1631 Recordings)
- ni. nOBLE iMPULSE. + nORMAL iNSANITY. (tenzenmen)
- Marco Ambrosini/Ensemble Supersonus Resonances (ECM)
- Various ArtistsThis Is Frafra Power (Makkum)
- Duenn bgm (Line)
SINGLES
- Wiley, Sean Paul, Stefflon Don (feat. Idris Elba) "Boasty" (BMG)
- Blu DeTiger "In My Head" (HeavyRoc)
- Fold "Stronger Than The Evils (feat. Motormouf)" (FoldFM)
- Chemical Brothers "MAH" (Virgin)
- Skny "I Got" (Machine Entertainment Group)
- Meghan Trainor "Foolish" (Epic)
- Leikeli47 "Tic Boom [Explicit]" (Hardcover)
- Haiku Hands "Dare You Not To Dance" (Haiku Hands)
- Lizzo "Juice" (Nice Life)
- Amara La Negra "Celebra (feat. Messiah)" (BMG)
- Trio Ternura "A Gira (KOWL Bootleg)" (Casablanca Sunset)
- Bobby D'Ambrosio Feat. Michelle Weeks "Moment Of My Life (JN Closer To The Source mix)" (Z)
- The 1975 "People" (Polydor)
- Judgitzu "Umeme" (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
- Chanti McCoy "Baila Conmigo (Remix)" (Inavator)
- Migos "Stripper Bowl" (Quality Control Music)
- Future "Jumpin on a Jet" (Epic)
- United Souls "Walk Like A Model" (MegaBlast)
- Kove "The Music" (Drum and Bass Arena)
- Tritonal, Evalyn "Real (Steff Da Campo Extended Remix)" (Enhanced Recordings)
- City Girls "Twerk ft. Cardi B" (Quality Control Music)
- Perel "Karlsson" (Uncanny Valley)
- Atom TM "Supersonor (Mono/Stereo Mix)" (AtomTM Audio Archiv)
- Kano "Teardrops" (Parlophone)
- Baja Frequencia "Crisis" (Chinese Man)
- Stormzy "Crown" (Hashtag Merky)
- Dua Lipa "Don't Start Now" (Warner Bros)
- Octo Octa "Spin Girl, Let's Activate!" (T4T LUV NRG)
- BPMF "Tell Mommy Bye" (is/was)
- Dave"Paper Cuts"(Neighbourhood)
- M-22 "White Lies" (3 Beat Productions)
- Queen Zee "Loner" (Sasstone)
- Megan Thee Stallion "Still Tippin (Freestyle)" (no label)
- cupcakKe "Ayesha" (cupcakKe)
- Ali Barter "Ur A Piece of Shit" (Girly Bits)
- Two Door Cinema Club "Talk" (Glassnote)
- Black Leather Jacket "Village People" (Mayway)
- ROSALÍA and J Balvin feat. El Guincho "Con Altura" (Columbia)
- DJ Shadow "Rocket Fuel feat. De La Soul" (Mass Appeal)
- Priests "Jesus' Son" (Sister Polygon)
- Omar Souleyman "Shi Tridin" (Mad Decent)
- Roland Tings "Up Close" (Cascine)
- Sofi Tukker "Purple Hat" (Sofi Tukker)
- NF "Time" (NF Real Music)
- Tawiah "Borders" (First Word)
- Shaggy "Caribbean Way" (300 Entertainment)
- Mattiel "Follow My Name" (Burger)
- Big K.R.I.T. "Addiction (feat. Lil Wayne and Saweetie)" (Multi Alumni)
- Yung Manny "Mask Down" (no label)
- K.Flay "This Baby Don't Cry" (Interscope)
- DeeWunn "Jaw Jump" (Waxploitation)
- Ice Cream "Peanut Butter" (Ice Cream)
- Radiohead "MD125" (Bandcamp)
- Lady Lykez feat. Lioness “Muhammad Ali” (Hyperdub)
- Robert Forster "Inferno (Brisbane in Summer)" (Tapete)
- clipping."Blood on the Fang" (Sup Pop)
- Haiku Hands "Onset" (Haiku Hands)
- Fat Joe, Cardi B, Anuel AA ft. Dre "Yes" (RNG/Empire)
- Beabadoobee "I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus" (Dirty Hit)
- Kanye West "Follow God (MAGA-Dog remix)" (Def Jam)
- Kimmortal "Sad Femme Club" (Coax)
- Escort "City Life (feat. Fonda Rae)" (Escort)
- Kash Doll "Mobb'n" (Republic)
- Anderson .Paak "Jet Black (feat. Brandy)" (Aftermath)
- cupcakKe"Squidware Nose" (cupcakKe)
- Boyracer "Strong Arms" (Emotional Response)
- Stef Chura "Scream" (Saddle Creek)
- Jason Hawk Harris "I'm Afraid" (Bloodshot)
- Lady Lee Mega "#WELOVEIT" (IntentionalXL)
- Mark Ronson, The Last Artful, Dodgr "Freak Of Nature" (Zelig Entertainment)
- Caroline Jones "Tough Guys (Remix)" (True to the Song)
- Sampa The Great "Final Form" (Ninja Tune)
- Beach Bunny "Dream Boy" (Mom + Pop)
- The Dollyrots "Oblivious" (Wicked Cool)
- Declan McKenna "British Bombs" (Sony)
- Lady Gangsta "Bombshell feat. Baby Girl and Lady Slim" (InAvator)
- DaBaby "Baby Sitter ft. Offset" (Interscope)
- Paco Versailles "Lilac Moon" (Paco Versailles)
- L7 "Stadium West" (Blackheart)
- Maggie Rogers "Give A Little" (Capitol)
- Mal Blum "I Don't Want To" (Don Giovanni)
- Mo Money X Nuk "Worthless" (Big Godz Worldwide)
- Brittany Howard "13th Century Metal" (ATO)
- Koffee "Raggamuffin" (Columbia)
- Lil Nas X "Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus) [Remix]" (Columbia)
- Tory Lanez "Yessirr" (Mad Love/Interscope)
- Ralph "Last Time" (Crocodile Tears)
- Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y "Garage Talk" (Jet Life Recordings)
- Tommy Wommack "We'll Get Through This Too" (Need To Know)
- Vampire Weekend "Harmony Hall" (Spring Snow)
- Eilen Jewell "79 Cents (The Meow Song)" (Signature Sounds)
- Rico Nasty and Kenny Beats "Hatin" (Sugar Trap)
- Jonas Brothers "Sucker" (Republic)
- Kokoko! "Malembe" (Transgressive)
- Mahalia "Simmer (feat. Burna Boy)" (Asylum)
- Munnycat "don't stop (drip drip drop)" (Infinite Companion)
- Trap Beckham "Fight Back ft. Yella Beezy, Too $hort" (Stevie Stacks)
- Snoop Dogg "Do It When I'm In It (feat. Jermaine Dupri, Ozuna and Slim Jxmmi)" (Doggstyle)
- The Black Keys "Go" (Nonesuch)
- Imani Coppola "Lying to My Therapist" (Ipecac)
- Indica "Intoxicated" (Tommy Boy)
- Chalmaine The God feat Baby Shae "Cold Blooded" (Baraka)
- Jamila Woods "Giovanni" (Jagjaguwar)
- Jon Pardi "Tied One On" (Capitol)
- Comet Gain "We're All Fucking Morons" (Tapete)
- Sophia Eris "Feel the Burn" (Sophia Eris)
- Freddie Gibbs and Madlib "Giannis ft. Anderson .Paak" (Keep Cool)
- that dog. "If You Just Didn't Do It" (Universal)
- Miranda Lambert "Locomotive" (Sony)
- Amyl and the Sniffers "Control" (ATO)
- Lil Baby "Whoa" (Quality Control)
- Guy Mantzur "Where Is Home" (Bedrock)
- Lupe Fiasco "Run Game" (1st and 15th Productions)
- Pell "Skyfall" (Payday)
- Amerigo Gazaway "B.I.G. Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag" (Bandcamp)
- Fortitude Valley "Wreck" (Fika Recordings)
- DeeWunn + Leo Justi "Back It Up, Drop It" (Waxploitation)
- Caroline Spence "What You Don't Know" (Rounder)
- Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders "Bang Bang And Then You're Dead" (Beluga)
- Terry Vs. Tori "Heathers" (Terry Vs. Tori)
- Bee Bee Sea "Be Bop Palooza" (Wild Honey)
- Dead Ghosts "Drugstore Supply" (Burger)
- Mustard, Migos "Pure Water" (10 Summers)
- Sturgill Simpson "Last Man Standing" (Elektra)
- Seratones "Gotta Get To Know Ya" (New West)
- Charlie Bliss "Supermoon" (Barsuk)
- Curtis Harding "Here She Comes Now" (Burger)
- Dry Cleaning "Goodnight" (It's OK)
- Summer Cannibals "False Alarm" (Tiny Engines)
- Pip Blom "Daddy Issues" (Heavenly)
- Dressy Bessy "Fearless" (Yep Roc)
- DJ Agile "Flavor ft. Ammoye" (Agile Music)
- Ralph "Gravity" (Crocodile Tears)
- Princess Nokia “Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.)" (Princess Nokia)
- Beck "Saw Lightning (Freestyle)" (no label)
- Diat "Foreign Policy" (Iron Lung)
- clipping. "Nothing Is Safe" (Sub Pop)
- Otha "Tired And Sick" (Independent)
- Queen Key "Can't Take It" (Machine Enterainment)
- Logic "Mama/Show Love [feat. YBN Cordae]" (Def Jam)
- Czarface "Brother Czarquis" (Silver Age)
- Quelle Chris "Obamacare" (Mello Music)
- Demob Happy "Autoportrait" (SO Recordings)
- remst8 andlt;--andgt; Drekka "Droneuary LXI - Sense of Sint-Baafsabdij v1.44" (Silber)
- Ex-Hex "Cosmic Cave" (Merge)
- Witching Waves "Eye 2 Eye" (Specialist Subject)
- Sweetooth "Midnight Kiss" (Masterworks Music)
- SkillzVa "2018 RAP UP feat. Lil Duval" (no label)
- Dej Loaf "Go Dej Go" (Yellow World)
- Chance the Rapper "All Day Long" (Chance the Rapper)
- Kasey Musgraves "Ribbons and Bows" (UMG)
- Squid "Houseplants" (Practice Music)
- Apollo Brown "Never (feat. Paradime, Miz Korona, and DJ AMF)" (Mello Music)
- MC Lars, Mega Ran, Jill Sobule "Gulliver's Travels" (Horris)
- Monika Kruse and Timmo "Violet" (Terminal M)
- Cristina Quesada "I Think I Heard A Rumor" (Elefant)
- UV-TV "Happy" (Deranged)
- The Shivas "Playing on the Radio" (Tender Loving Empire)
- Failed Flowers "Faces" (Slumberland)
- Chris Orrick and The Lasso "No Place Is Safe" (Mello Music)
- Josie Cotton "Money (featuring Brian Setzer)" (Cleopatra)
- Sault "Don't Waste My Time" (Forever Living Originals)
- Carl Stone "Han Yan" (Unseen Worlds)
- Snoh Aalegra "Peace" (Artium Recordings)
- Ocean Wisdom "Blessed (Feat. DIzzee Rascal)" (Beyond Measure)
- J. Cole "Middle Child" (Dreamville)
- Orville Peck "Dead of the Night" (Sub Pop)
- Jae Mansa feat. Young Marco "Gryndin" (EOARN Entertainment)
- Tourdefrance "Solou" (1229029)
- Black Pumas "Eleanor Rigby" (no label)
- Kelow LaTesha "The Real Deal" (Butta)
- Pelada "Ajetreo" (PAN)
- Jade Imagine "Big Old House" (Marathon Artists)
- Drahla "Stimulus for Living" (Captured Tracks)
- Team Dresch "Your Hands My Pockets" (Jealous Butcher)
- Beach Slang "I Hate Alternative Rock" (Bridge 9)
- Mr Cheeks, Lost Boyz, K Chrys, and Freaky Kah "Lost Boyz" (Empire State Mixtapes)
- LightSkinKeisha "Hey Lightskin" (Hitco)
- Paula Temple "Raging Earth" (Noise Manifesto)
- Julia Haltigan "Walk Away" (Julia Haltigan)
- Gaby Moreno, Van Dyke Parks "The Immigrants" (Metamorfosis Enterprises)
- Pitbull "3 To Tango" (Mr. 305)
- Ari Lennox "BMO" (Dreamville/Interscope)
- Ambjaay "Uno (Remix) featuring Tyga, Lil Pump" (Columbia)
- Trisha Yearwood "Something Kinda Like It" (Gwendolyn)
- staHHr "Chest Piece" (Soundcloud)
- Dallas Moore "Mama and Daddy" (Sol)
- Hobo Johnson "Typical Story" (Reprise)
- Charly Bliss "Hard to Believe" (Barsuk)
- Megan Thee Stallion "Sex Talk" (300 Entertainment)
- Purple Mountains "All My Happiness Is Gone" (Drag City)
- Alfred. "Niggas Wish" (Citrus City/Topshelf)
- !!! "Off the Grid (feat. Meah Pace)" (Warp)
- Chanti McCoy "Stay (feat. Juicy J)" (The Feature Presentation Music Group)
- tummyache "Median" (Poor Man)
- ILovemakonnen "Drunk on Saturday" (Warner)
- Sorcha Richardson "Don't Talk About It" (RandR Digital)
- Pup "Kids" (Rise)
- Sheer Mag "Blood From A Stone" (Wilsun)
- GOLDA "Jaded (Tentendo Remix)" (majestic)
- Frank Ocean "DHL" (Blonded)
- Papa Ya "Cali Girl" (One Seven Music)
- Dreezy "Where Them $ @" (Interscope)
- Desert Sharks "Serpent" (Substitute Scene)
- Altered Five Blues Band "Great Minds Drink Alike" (Blind Pig)
- James Welch "Hammers (Hodge remix)" (Future Boogie)
- Deidre and the Dark "Bad Day" (YouTooCanWoo)
- girl in red "i need to be alone." (Marie Ulven)
- Lucy Dacus "Last Christmas" (Matador)
- James Bong "Shift" (Float)
- Tallies "Mother" (Kanine)
- Fontaines D.C. "Boys In The Better Land" (Partisan)
- Yung Baby Tate "Babytron" (no label)
- Polo G "Through Da Storm" (Columbia)
- Toro y Moi "Ordinary Pleasure" (Carpark)
- Bruno Bavota "(dis)connected" (Temporary Residence)
- Steel Panther "All I Wanna Do is Fuck (Myself Tonight)" (Steel Panther)
- Jesse Dayton "Bankrobber" (Blue Elan)
- Deli Girls "Officer" (Sweet Equity NYC)
- Gerun "Girnata Swing (Valeron Remix)" (Bercana)
- Ali Barter "Backseat" (Girly Bits)
- Guided By Voices "Heavy Like the World" (GBV)
- Dreamville "Down Bad ft. JID, Bas, J. Cole, EARTHGANG and Young Nudy" (Dreamville)
- Y La Bamba "Mujeres" (Tender Loving Empire)
- The Coathangers "F the NRA" (Suicide Squeeze)
- Floating Points "LesAlpx" (Ninja Tune)
- Ex-Void "Only One" (Don Giovanni)
- Je Suis France "House Style" (Ernest Jenning)
- Mexico City Blondes "Sunny Day" (Burger)
- Kryssie Ann "Trilly" (Solid Peeps)
- She Drew the Gun "Resister" (Skeleton Key)
- Timothy Clerkin "Unborn" (Ransom Note)
- London On Da Track, G-Eazy "Throw Fits ft. City Girls, Juvenile" (London Productions)
- Wilco "Everybody Hides" (dBpm)
- HTRK "New Year's Eve" (Ghostly International)
- Nilüfer Yanya "Tears" (ATO)
- Jay Som "Superbike" (Polyvinyl)
- Daniel Norgren "Dandelion Time" (Superpuma)
- Arlo Parks "Second Guessing" (Beatnik Creative)
- Pink Mexico "P.O.D." (Little Dickman)
- Erol Alkan"Spectrum"(Phantasy)
- J-E-T-S "Real Truth(Feat. Tkay Maidza)" (Innovative Leisure)
- Acquaintances "And It All Went Black" (File 13)
- Sheer Mag "The Killer" (Sheer Mag)
- L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae "Dead Battery" (Mello Music)
- Neil Young and Crazy Horse "I Do" (Reprise)
- Dyson Stringer Cloher "With My Hands" (Milk!)
- Daddy Long Legs "Be Gone" (Yep Roc)
- Gary Clark Jr. "Got to Get Up" (Warner Bros)
- Georgia "About Work The Dancefloor" (Domino)
- mwvm "Droneuary LII - Gotta Walk A Dog" (Silber)
- Apex Manor "Asked and Answered" (Merge)
- Hatchie "Obsessed"(Double Double Whammy)
- Merle Hazard feat. Alison Brown "(Gimme Some of That) Ol' Atonal Music" (Merle Hazard)
- Bellamy Brothers "Redneck Rockstar" (Bellamy Brothers)
- White Denim "Shanalala" (City Slang)
- Theus Mago and Local Suicide "Komm Ins Loch (Original Mix)" (Duro)
- Sue Jeffers "Dr. Sue's Talking Fracking Blues" (Sue Jeffers)
- M. Ward "Miracle Man" (M Ward)
- Ben Folds "Moscow Mitch" (no label)
REISSUES/ARCHIVES
- Marvin Gaye You're The Man (Motown)
- Curtis Mayfield Keep On Keeping On: Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums 1970-1974 (Rhino)
- John Coltrane Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings (Craft)
- Hank Williams The Complete Health and Happiness Recordings (BMG)
- Various Artists The Daisy Age (Ace)
- Various Artists The Apollo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Universal)
- Human Switchboard Who's Landing In My Hangar (Fat Possum)
- Various Artists Country Music - A Film by Ken Burns (The Soundtrack) (Legacy)
- Mary J. Blige HERStory Vol. 1 (UMG)
- Atom™ Lassigue Bendthaus/Cloned (+ Singles) ( AtomTM Audio Archiv)
- Alex Chilton From Memphis to New Orleans (Bar/None)
- Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band Pedal Steal + Four Corners (Paradise of Bachelors)
- Professor Longhair Live on the Queen Mary (Harvest)
- Various Artists Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 (Third Man)
- Various Artists 1977 The Year That Punk Broke (Cherry Red)
- Burial Tunes 2011–2019 (Hyperdub)
- Mighty Sparrow Calypso Time (Erasmus Black)
- Various Artists Studio One DJ Party (Soul Jazz)
- Lula Collins The Delta Gospel Queen (Salvation Rock)
- John Coltrane Blue World (Impluse!)
- Various Artists Merry Luxmas ~ It's Christmas In Crampsville: Season's Gratings From The Cramps' Vinyl Basement (Righteous)
- Robert Ashley Private Parts (Lovely Music)
- Various Artists Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde (Ostinato)
- Remember Sports Sunchokes (Deluxe Edition) (Father/Daughter)
- Joe McPhee Nation Time (Superior Viaduct)
- Upsilon Acrux Volucris Avis Dirae-Arum (Cuneiform)
- Dolly Mixture Demonstration Tapes (Spa Green)
- Wayne Hancock Man of the Raod (Bloodshot)
- Notorische Reflexe Notorische Reflexe (Bureau B)
- The Springfields Singles-1986-1991 (Slumberland)
- Tony Higgins and Mike Peden J Jazz Volume 2 – Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969 – 1983 (BBE Music)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto BTTB - 20th Anniversary Edition (Milan)
- Various Artists Djax-Re-Up Vol. 1 (Dekmantel)
- Hiromasa Suzuki Primrose (LE TRES JAZZ CLUB)
- The Wedding Present Tommy 30 (Scopitones)
- Naosuke Miyamoto Sextet Step! (Le Tres Jazz Club)
- Mikey Young You Feelin' Me? (Castle Face)
- David Behrman On the Other Ocean (Lovely Music)
- The Hers Tough Cunt (Death Is Not the End)
- Lloyd Miller Oriental Jazz (Now Again)
- Brent Snyder Cumulus (Morning Trip)
- Kane Ikin and David Wenngren Strangers (1631 Recordings)
- Igor Wakhévitch Kshatrya - The Eye of the Bird (Transversales Disques)
- Various Artists Wire Recorded Pieces (Sound Miracle Recordings)
MOVIES/DOCUMENTARIES
To be fair/honest, I didn't see everyone of these but would like to. I bolded several of the ones I saw and loved (or at least really liked a lot).
- Birth of the Cool
- Carmine Street Guitars
- David Crosby: Remember My Name
- Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo
- Echo In the Canyon
- GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS
- John and Yoko- Above Us Only Sky
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice
- LYDIA LUNCH - The War Is Never Over
- Marianne and Leonard
- Motley Crue: The Dirt
- Rocketman
- The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
- Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho
- Waiting: The Van Duren Story
- We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told
- Western Stars (Bruce Springsteen)
- Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
- Yesterday
- ZZ TOP: THAT LITTLE OL' BAND FROM TEXAS
BOOKS
Again, I didn't read all of 'em but would ideally like to. The faves I did are in bold, once again.
- Hanif Abdurraqib Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Tori Amos Resistance
- Will Ashon Chamber Music: Wu Tang and America (in 36 Pieces)
- Brian T. Atkinson The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard
- Celeste Bell and Zoë Howe Dayglo! The Poly Styrene Story
- Will Birch Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe
- Dale Cockrell Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
- Common Let Love Have The Last Word
- Jim DeRogatis Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly
- Ani DiFranco No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
- John Doe/Tom DeSavia More Fun in the New World
- Geoff Edgers Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
- Walter Everett/Tim Riley What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music and Their Time
- Flea Acid for the Children
- Bob Gersztyn Conversations With and About John Fahey
- Mike Greenblatt Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm
- Deborah Harry Face It
- Michael Heath/Pat Thomas My Week Beats Your Year:
Encounters with Lou Reed - Ian Hunter Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star
- Booker T. Jones Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note
- Richard King The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape
- Alan B. Krueger Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life
- C.M. Kushins Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon
- Lydia Lunch So Real It Hurts
- Robert Dean Lurie Begin the Begin: R.E.M.'s Early Years
- Jim Marshall Show Me the Picture: Images and Stories from a Photography Legend
- Joni Mitchell Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings
- Alan Paul and Andy Aledort Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Benjamin Piekut Henry Cow- the World Is A Problem
- Sarah Pinsker A Song for A New Day
- Iggy Pop 'Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More
- Prince The Beautiful Ones
- Rakim Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
- Amy Rigby Girl To City: A Memoir
- Hans-Joachim Roedelius The Book
- Chris Schwartz Ruffhouse: From the Streets of Philly to the Top of the '90s Hip-Hop Charts
- Anita Schlank and Tab Benoit Blues Therapy
- Michael Stipe Our Interference Times: a visual record
- Damo Suzuki and Paul Woods I Am Damo Suzuki
- Aaron Tanner Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean?
- Aaron Tanner Ministry:Prescripture
- Billy Vera The Specialty Story
- Richard Zoglin Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Also see other stuff I liked, such as...
- 25 Pieces of Christmas Music to Actually Enjoy in 2019 via Blurt Magazine
- Plus a Spotify playlist of most of these Xmas treats
- Best Music Journalism of 2019 via Rock and Roll Globe
- Best Videos of 2019 via of Rock and Roll Globe