Our music picks for 2013

Here is our office’s music selections for 2013

Columnist David Allen

  1. Best Coast “Fade Away” (Jewel City)
  2. Bombino “Nomad” (Nonesuch)
  3. Vampire Weekend “Modern Vampires of the City” (XL)
  4. Bleached “Ride Your Heart” (Dead Oceans)
  5. Arcade Fire “Reflektor” (Merge Records)
  6. Neko Case “The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You” (Anti-)
  7. Girls Names “The New Life” (Slumberland)
  8. The Julie Ruin “Run Fast” (Dischord)
  9. David Bowie “The Next Day” (Columbia)
  10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Mosquito” (Interscope)

Journalist Liset Marquez

  1. The National,Trouble Will Find Me” (album)
  2. San Fermin, “San Fermin” (album)
  3. London Grammar, “If You Wait” (album)
  4. The Head and the Heart, “Let’s Be Still” (album)
  5. Guards, “In Guards We Trust” (album)
  6. The Avett Brothers, “Magpipe and the Dandelion” (album)
  7. Local Natives, “Hummingbird”(album)
  8. Vampire Weekend, “Modern Vampires of the City”(album)
  9. Arcade Fire, “Reflektor” (album)
  10. The Civil Wars, “The Civil Wars” (album)

Honorable mention:

  1. The Lone Below, “The Lone Below” (album)
  2. Valerie June, “Pushin’ Against a Stone” (album)
  3. Lorde, “Pure Heroine” (album)

Sports reporter J.P. Hoonstra (these are all songs)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1IoPelxNtqydmFDexxTx1Xk2O6dsyOqz OR

1. The Strokes – Call it fate, call it karma

2. The Holydrug Couple – Paisley

3. Mayer Hawthorne – Her Favorite Song

4. Castle – Rotten Sushi / The Mushroom Of Course!

5. Tame Impala ~ Prototype [Outkast Cover]

6. Beautiful Eulogy – Release Me From This Snare (@beautifuleulogy)

7. Midlake – Provider

8. Phoenix – Trying To Be Cool (Official Video)

9. The Stepkids – Moving Pictures (Official Video)

10. Thundercat – “Heartbreaks + Setbacks”

Journalist Beau Yarbrough (songs)

1. “Party Kids” by Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside off of “Untamed Beast”

2. “The Sword by My Side” by the Thermals off of “Desperate Ground”

3. “Awkward” by San Cisco off of the “Awkward” EP

4. “Black Sheep” by Gin Wigmore off of “Man Like That”

5. “Holy Roller” by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

6. “Delicate Cycle” by The Uncluded off of “Hokey Fright”

Reporter Wes Woods II

1. Kanye West “Yeezus” (album)

2. Valerie June, “Pushin’ Against a Stone” (album)

3. Vampire Weekend “Modern Vampires of the City” (album)

4. Run The Jewels “Run the Jewels” (free album)

5. The National “Trouble Will Find Me” (album)

6. Youth Lagoon “Wondrous Bughouse” (album)

7. Bombino “Nomad” (album)

8. Neko Case “The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You” (album)

9. Earl Sweatshirt “Doris” (album)

10. David Bowie “The Next Day” (album)

11. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “We The Common” (album)

12. Pusha-T “My Name Is My Name” (album)

Honorable mention:

Chance the Rapper “Acid Rap” and Danny Brown “Old” because their voices annoy me but you can’t deny their writing abilities.