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Phantogram // photo by Matthew B. Thompson
For the last two weeks, we’ve been sharing with you KEXP DJs’ Top Ten Albums of 2014 lists, but KEXP is also supported by many dedicated people who work behind the scenes as staff, volunteers and interns, and who are all passionate music fans themselves. Below, you can see what they chose for their Top Ten Albums of 2014.
You still have time to vote for your own Top Ten Albums of 2014! VOTE HERE by 6PM on Tuesday, December 16, and then tune in to KEXP on Friday, December 19, starting at 10AM, to hear the entire countdown of KEXP listeners’ top albums of 2014.
| Ann Allen |
DJ Assistant for Kevin Cole |
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Real Estate |
Atlas |
Domino |
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Jungle |
Jungle |
XL |
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Temples |
Sun Structures |
Fat Possum |
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Woods |
With Light and With Love |
Woodsist |
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Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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Mac Demarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
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The War on Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
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ODESZA |
In Return |
Counter Records |
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We Were Promised Jet Packs |
Unravelling |
FatCat |
| Graham Amsden |
Financial Coordinator |
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Mac DeMarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
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Chad VanGaalen |
Shrink Dust |
Sub Pop |
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Angel Olsen |
Burn Your Fire For No Witness |
Jagjaguwar |
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Shabazz Palaces |
Lese Majesty |
Sub Pop |
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Alvvays |
Alvvays |
Polyvinyl |
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Les Sins |
Michael |
Company Records |
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Parquet Courts |
Sunbathing Animal |
What’s Your Rupture? |
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Avi Buffalo |
At Best Cuckold |
Sub Pop |
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Juan Wauters |
N.A.P. North American Poetry |
Captured Tracks |
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King Tuff |
Black Moon Spell |
Sub Pop |
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Wussy // photo by Brady Harvey
| Jim Beckmann |
Online Content Manager / Senior Video Producer |
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Wussy |
Attica! |
Shake It Records |
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Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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The War on Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Sólstafir |
Ótta |
Season of Mist |
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Parquet Courts |
Sunbathing Animal |
What’s Your Rupture? |
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Low Roar |
0 |
Tonequake Records |
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Big Ups |
Eighteen Hours of Static |
Dead Labour |
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The Barr Brothers |
Sleeping Operator |
Secret City Records |
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The Orwells |
Disgraceland |
Atlantic / Canvasback |
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Thee Oh Sees |
Drop |
Castle Face |
| Roxy Boggio |
DJ Assistant for Cheryl Waters/Programming Assistant |
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The Unicorns |
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? |
Caterpillar Records (Reissue) |
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Kevin Morby |
Still Life |
Woodsist |
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The Growlers |
Chinese Fountain |
Everloving Records |
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Wimps |
Repeat |
End of Time Records |
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Cherry Glazerr |
Haxel Princess |
Burger |
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The Shivas |
You Know What To Do |
K |
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Shintaro Sakamoto |
Let’s Dance Raw |
Other Music Recording Co. |
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Zig Zags |
Zig Zags |
In the Red |
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Posse |
Soft Opening |
Beating A Dead Horse |
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Caribou |
Our Love |
Merge |
| Alaia D’Alessandro |
Creative Production Intern and DJ Assistant for Larry Rose |
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Temples |
Sun Restructured |
Heavenly |
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King Tuff |
Black Moon Spell |
Sub Pop |
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AJ Davila |
Terror Amor |
Burger Records |
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Deerhoof |
La Isla Bonita |
Polyvinyl |
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Julian Casablancas and The Voidz |
Tyranny |
Cult Records |
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Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger |
Midnight Sun |
Chimera Music |
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Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings |
Give the People What They Want |
Daptone Records |
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tUnE-yArDs |
Nikki Nack |
4AD |
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La Sera |
Hour of the Dawn |
Hardly Art |
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Perfect Pussy |
Say Yes To Love |
Sswampzz |
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Perfume Genius // photo by Morgen Schuler
| Cyrus Despres |
Manager of Information Technology |
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Run the Jewels |
RTJ2 |
Mass Appeal |
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Flying Lotus |
You’re Dead |
Warp |
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Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Turnstile |
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Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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Eno / Hyde |
High Life |
Warp |
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Parquet Courts |
Sunbathing Animal |
What’s Your Rupture? |
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Chad VanGaalen |
Shrink Dust |
Sub Pop |
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Mac DeMarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
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The Men |
Tomorrow’s Hits |
Sacred Bones |
|
Moodymann |
Moodymann |
KDJ |
| Sam Dunnington |
Development Communications Intern |
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St. Vincent |
St. Vincent |
Loma Vista/Republic |
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Angel Olsen |
Burn Your Fire For No Witness |
Jagjaguwar |
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FKA Twigs |
LP1 |
Young Turks |
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Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Matador |
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Drake |
Nothing Was The Same |
Cash Money |
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Sun Kil Moon |
Benji |
Caldo Verde Records |
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Open Mike Eagle |
Dark Comedy |
Mello Music Group |
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Spoon |
They Want My Soul |
Loma Vista |
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Run The Jewels |
Run The Jewels 2 |
Mass Appeal |
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Future |
Honest |
Epic |
| Carol DuPuis |
A.E. Business Support |
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Elbow |
The Take Off and Landing Of Everything |
Fiction |
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The War On Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Alt-J |
This Is All Yours |
Infectious Music |
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Thom Yorke |
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes |
self-released |
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The Barr Brothers |
Sleeping Operator |
Secret City |
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St. Vincent |
St. Vincent |
Loma Vista/Republic |
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Beck |
Morning Phase |
Capitol |
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Temples |
Sun Structures |
Heavenly |
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Little Dragon |
Nabuma Rubberband |
Loma Vista |
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First Aid Kit |
Stay Gold |
Columbia |
| Meagan Dupre |
Front Desk Assistant |
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Alt-J |
This Is All Yours |
Infectious Records |
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Lo Fang |
Blue Film |
4AD |
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FKA Twigs |
LP1 |
Young Turks |
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Hozier |
Hozier |
Island Records |
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Broods |
Evergreen |
Universal |
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Sir Sly |
You Haunt Me |
Interscope Records |
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Vance Joy |
Dream Your Life Away |
Atlantic Records |
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Caribou |
Our Love |
City Slang Worldwide |
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Spoon |
They Want My Soul |
Loma Vista Recordings |
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Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Matador Records |
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The War on Drugs with Cheryl Waters // photo by Renata Steiner
| Gerrit Feenstra |
Blog Contributor |
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Shabazz Palaces |
Les Majesty |
Sub Pop |
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The War on Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Operators |
EP1 |
self-released |
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Future Islands |
Singles |
4AD |
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Thom Yorke |
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes |
self-released |
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Run the Jewels |
Run the Jewels 2 |
Mass Appeal |
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Lykke Li |
I Never Learn |
Atlantic |
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Mac DeMarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
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Tinashe |
Aquarius |
RCA |
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Fucked Up |
Glass Boys |
Matador |
| Lizzy Rose Flores |
Traffic Assistant |
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The Skull Defekts |
Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown |
Thrill Jockey |
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Oskar Schuster |
Sneeuwland |
self-released |
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Wolves in the Throne Room |
Celestite |
Artemisia Records |
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Shellac |
Dude Incredible |
Touch & Go |
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Israel Nash |
Israel Nash’s Rain Plans |
Continental |
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Zig Zags |
Zig Zags |
In The Red |
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Lusine |
Arterial |
Ghostly |
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Sun Glitters |
Scattered Into Light |
Mush Records |
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Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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Swans |
To Be Kind |
Mute |
| Andrew Franks |
Videographer |
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Jungle |
Jungle |
XL Recordings |
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RAC |
Strangers |
Interscope |
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MØ |
No Mythologies to Follow |
RCA |
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Röyksopp |
The Inevitable End |
Wall of Sound |
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Chromeo |
White Woman |
Atlantic |
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SBTRKT |
Wonder Where We Land |
Young Turks |
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ODESZA |
In Return |
Counter Records |
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Sylvan Esso |
Sylvan Esso |
Partisan |
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Lyla Foy |
Mirrors the Sky |
Sub Pop |
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Flying Lotus |
You’re Dead! |
Warp |
| Atticus George-Andrijeski |
DJ Assistant and Development Intern |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
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alt-J |
This is All Yours |
Infectious |
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Hundred Waters |
The Moon Rang Like a Bell |
OWSLA |
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Chet Faker |
Built on Glass |
Future Classic |
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Tom Vek |
Luck |
Moshi Moshi |
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Liars |
Mess |
Mute |
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Beck |
Morning Phase |
Capitol |
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Total Control |
Typical System |
Iron Lung |
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Warpaint |
Warpaint |
Rough Trade |
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Jamie T |
Carry on the Grudge |
Virgin |
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Temples // photo by Dave Lichterman
| Rischel Granquist |
Manager of Administrative Services |
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Temples |
Sun Structures |
Fat Possum |
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Ty Seagall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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The New Pornographers |
Brill Bruisers |
Matador |
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Taylor Swift |
1989 |
Big Machine |
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The Both |
The Both |
Superego |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
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Imogen Heap |
Sparks |
RCA |
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Sia |
1000 Forms of Fear |
RCA |
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First Aid Kit |
Stay Gold |
Columbia |
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Wampire |
Bazaar |
Polyvinyl |
| Jon Hamilton |
DJ Assistant for the Monday Afternoon Show |
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Jack White |
Lazaretto |
Third Man Records/Columbia |
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Beck |
Morning Phase |
Capitol |
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Jesus Sons |
Jesus Sons |
Mock Records |
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Kishi Bashi |
Lighght |
Joyful Noise |
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Jenny Lewis |
the Voyager |
Warner Brothers |
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Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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Meatbodies |
Meatbodies |
In the Red |
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Conor Oberst |
Upside Down Mountain |
Nonesuch |
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Thee Oh Sees |
Drop |
Castle Face |
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St. Vincent |
St. Vincent |
Loma Vista/Republic |
| Katrina Harvie-Watt |
Major Gifts Officer |
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Augustines |
Augustines |
Votiv |
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Alt-J |
This is All Yours |
Infectious Records |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
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Glass Animals |
ZABA |
Harvest |
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Strand of Oaks |
Heal |
Dead Oceans |
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Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Matador |
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
Only Run |
self-released |
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First Aid Kit |
Stay Gold |
Columbia |
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The Black Keys |
Turn Blue |
Nonesuch |
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Drowners |
Drowners |
Frenchkiss |
| Greta Heller |
KEXP Business Support Intern and DJ Assistant |
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Bod |
Party Drug |
Swoon Records |
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Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Matador |
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The New Pornographers |
Bill Bruisers |
Matador |
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Cataldo |
Guilded Oldies |
self-released |
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Jungle |
Jungle |
XL |
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jj |
V |
Secretly Canadian |
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Zola Jesus |
Taiga |
Mute |
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Caribou |
Our Love |
Merge |
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Museum of Love |
Museum of Love |
DFA |
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tUnE-yArDs |
Nikki Nack |
4AD |
| Brian Hill |
Music and Business Support |
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Cloud Nothings |
Here and Nowhere Else |
Carpark Records |
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FKA Twigs |
LP1 |
Young Turks |
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Mac DeMarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
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Run the Jewels |
Run the Jewels 2 |
Mass Appeal |
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Dreamsalon |
Soft Stab |
Sweet Rot Records |
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Warpaint |
Warpaint |
Rough Trade |
|
Todd Terje |
It’s Album Time |
Olsen Records |
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GOAT |
Commune |
Sup Pop |
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Caribou |
Our Love |
Merge |
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The War on Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Strand of Oaks // photo by Renata Steiner
| Susan Hood |
Blog Volunteer |
|
Bob Mould |
Beauty & Ruin |
Merge |
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Ex Hex |
Rips |
Merge |
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Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
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Strand of Oaks |
Heal |
Dead Oceans |
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Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings |
Give the People What They Want |
Daptone |
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Parquet Courts |
Sunbathing Animal |
What’s Your Rupture? |
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The New Pornographers |
Brill Bruisers |
Matador |
|
Temples |
Sun Structures |
Fat Possum |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
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Foxygen |
And Star Power |
Jagjaguwar |
| Jay Kardong |
Software Engineer |
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Sturgill Simpson |
Metamodern Sounds In Country Music |
High Top Mountain |
|
Daniel Lanois |
Flesh and Machine Plus Songs I Love |
Red Floor Records |
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Shakey Graves |
And the War Came |
Dualtone |
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First Aid Kit |
Stay Gold |
Columbia |
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Maggie Bjorklund |
Shaken |
Bloodshot |
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Beck |
Morning Phase |
Capitol |
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Woods |
With Light and With Love |
Woodsist |
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Steelism |
615 to Fame |
Single Lock Records |
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Shovels & Rope |
Swimmin’ Time |
Dualtone |
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Tomo Nakayama |
Fog On The Lens |
self-released |
| Chris Kellogg |
Operations Manager, Programming and Production |
|
Ty Segall |
The Manipulator |
Drag City |
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Thee Oh Sees |
Drop |
Castle Face |
|
The Donkeys |
Ride the Black Wave |
Easy Sound Recording Co. |
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The Barr Brothers |
Sleeping Operator |
Secret City |
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy |
Singer’s Grave A Sea of Tongues |
Drag City |
|
Pete Molinari |
Theosophy |
Clarksville Recordings |
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Meatbodies |
Meatbodies |
In the Red |
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The Horrors |
Luminous |
XL |
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Tacocat |
NVM |
Hardly Art |
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Diarrhea Planet |
Aliens in the Outfield EP |
Infinity Cat Recordings |
| Jackson Long |
Audio Engineer |
|
Nick Waterhouse |
Holly |
Stone’s Throw |
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
Half the City |
Single Lock Records |
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Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings |
Give The People What They Want |
Daptone |
|
Taylor Swift |
1989 |
Big Machine |
|
Foo Fighters |
Sonic Highways |
RCA |
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First Aid Kit |
Stay Gold |
Columbia |
|
Ryan Adams |
s/t |
Pax AM |
|
The New Pornographers |
Brill Bruisers |
Matador |
|
Angel Olsen |
Burn Your Fire For No Witness |
Jagjaguwar |
|
Jen Wood |
Wilderness |
New Granada |
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The Drums // photo by Bebe Labree Besch
| Clare McGrane |
Licensing/Podcasting Intern |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
|
Alt-J |
This is All Yours |
Infectious Music |
|
Lake Street Dive |
Bad Self Portraits |
Signature Sounds |
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Childbirth |
It’s A Girl! |
Help Yourself Records |
|
The Drums |
Encyclopedia |
Minor Records |
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Conor Oberst |
Upside Down Mountain |
Nonesuch |
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| Amy Nygaard |
Front Desk Volunteer |
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The War On Drugs |
Lost in a Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Metronomy |
Love Letters |
Because Music |
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Chromeo |
White Women |
Atlantic |
|
Pixies |
Indie Candy |
Pixiemusic |
|
Warpaint |
Warpaint |
Rough Trade |
|
Taylor Swift |
1989 |
Big Machine Records |
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Kimbra |
The Golden Echo |
Warner Bros |
|
Alt-J |
This is all yours |
Infectious Records |
|
Beck |
Morning Phase |
Capitol Records |
|
Jack White |
Lazaretto |
Third Man Records |
| Charina Pitzel |
Photographer / DJ Assistant for Kevin Cole |
|
Mogwai |
Rave Tapes |
Sub Pop |
|
The Twilight Sad |
Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave |
Fat Cat |
|
Interpol |
El Pintor |
Matador |
|
Marissa Nadler |
July |
Sacred Bones |
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Stile Antico |
From the Imperial Court: Music for the House of Hapsburg |
Harmonia Mundi |
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Sharon Van Etten |
Are We There |
Jagjaguwar |
|
The War on Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
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Angela Hewitt |
Bach: The Art of Fugue |
Hyperion |
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The Young Evils |
False Starts (EP) |
No-Count |
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Johnny Marr |
Playland |
New Voodoo |
| Brandon Schoepf |
Assistant to the Morning Show |
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Morrissey |
World Peace Is None of Your Business |
Harvest |
|
The Faint |
Doom Abuse |
SQE Music |
|
The New Pornographers |
Brill Bruisers |
Matador |
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Total Control |
Typical System |
Iron Lung Records |
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Phantogram |
Voices |
Republic |
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The Raveonettes |
Pe’ahi |
The Beat Dies |
|
Iceage |
Plowing Into the Field of Love |
Matador |
|
Mogwai |
Rave Tapes |
Rock Action |
|
St. Vincent |
St. Vincent |
Loma Vista |
|
Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Matador |
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Kris Orlowski // photo by Morgen Schuler
| Jacob Uitti |
Blog Writer |
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Prom Queen |
Midnight Veil |
self-released |
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Inly |
Inly |
self-released |
|
Julia Massey and the Five Finger Discount |
A.L.I.T.E. |
self-released |
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Lonesome Shack |
More Primitive |
Alive Naturalsound |
|
Catskills |
Time Away |
self-released |
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The Hoot Hoots |
Colorpunch |
self-released |
|
Stereo Embers |
Stereo Embers |
self-released |
|
Kris Orlowski |
Believer |
self-released |
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Spekulation |
Home of the Mighty |
self-released |
|
The Jesus Rehab |
The Zoo at Night |
self-released |
| Jeff Vetting |
Events and Outreach Manager |
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Run The Jewels |
Run The Jewels 2 |
Mass Appeal |
|
The Hold Steady |
Teeth Dreams |
Razor & Tie |
|
How To Dress Well |
What Is This Heart |
Domino |
|
Rich Gang |
Tha Tour Mixtape |
Self-released |
|
Ex Hex |
Rips |
Merge |
|
Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
|
Chad VanGaalen |
Shrink Dust |
Sub Pop |
|
Strand of Oaks |
Heal |
Dead Oceans |
|
Braid |
No Coast |
Top Shelf |
|
Kithkin |
Rituals, Trances & Ecstasies for Humans in Face of The Collapse |
self-released |
| Erin Waters |
Individual Giving Manager |
|
Warpaint |
Warpaint |
Rough Trade |
|
Goat |
Commune |
Sub Pop |
|
Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
|
Broncho |
Too Hip to Be a Woman |
Dine Alone Records |
|
Benjamin Booker |
Benjamin Booker |
ATO Records |
|
Temples |
Sun Structures |
Heavenly |
|
Mac DeMarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
|
Perfume Genius |
Too Bright |
Matador |
|
ODESZA |
In Return |
Counter Records |
|
Courtney Barnett |
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas |
Marathon Artists |
| Justin Wilmore |
Video Producer |
|
Mac Demarco |
Salad Days |
Captured Tracks |
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The War On Drugs |
Lost in the Dream |
Secretly Canadian |
|
Big Ups |
Eighteen Hours Of Static |
Dead Labour |
|
Ty Segall |
Manipulator |
Drag City |
|
Tacocat |
NVM |
Hardly Art |
|
Constant Lovers |
Experience Feelings |
Good To Die |
|
Kiasmos |
Kiasmos |
Erased Tapes |
|
Angel Olsen |
Burn Your Fire For No Witness |
Jagjaguar |
|
Sylvan Esso |
Sylvan Esso |
Partison |
|
PUP |
PUP |
Side One Dummy |
| Van Wolfe |
DJ Assistant (mostly for Cheryl) |
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clipping. |
CLPPNG |
Sub Pop |
|
Dude York |
Dehumanize |
Help Yourself |
|
Taylor Swift |
1989 |
Big Machine |
|
S |
Cool Choices |
Hardly Art |
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Panopticon |
Roads to the North |
Self-Released |
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Hightek Lowlives |
Humanoid Void |
Cabin Games |
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Against Me! |
Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
Domino |
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Sun Kil Moon |
Benji |
Calo Verde |
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Run the Jewels |
RTJ2 |
Mass Appeal |
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Swans |
To Be Kind |
Young God |
