Wednesday, January 01, 2014

The Best of 2013



Top Twenty Releases of 2013
1 Water Liars Wyoming
2 Josh Rouse The Happiness Waltz
3 Ha Ha Tonka Lessons
4 Ewert & the Two Dragons Good Man Down
5 The Features self titled
6 The Veils Time Stays, We Go
7 Ezra Furman The Day of the Dog
8 Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium
9 Dietrich Gosser Oh, to Begin
10 Matt Pond The Lives Inside the Lines in your Hands
11 Robbie Fulks Gone Away Backward
12 Bob Dylan Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
13 David Dondero This Guitar
14 Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley
15 Trouble with Templeton Bleeders
16 Sebadoh Defend Yourself
17 Josh Ritter The Beast in Its Tracks
18 Luke Winslow King The Coming Tide
19 Anders & Kendall Wild Chorus
20 The Dodos Carrier


Top Twenty Shows of 2013
1 Conor Oberst & Friends; October 4; Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco
2 Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks; July 6; Kiki’s House of Righteous Music (KHoRM)
3 Will Johnson/Paul Otteson; November 16; KHoRM
4 Ewert and the Two Dragons/Trapper Schoepp/Corey Hart; September 25; The Frequency
5 Eef Barzelay/Dietrich Gosser; September 21; KHoRM
6 Josh Rouse/Field Report; June 14; City Winery, Chicago
7 Walter Salas-Humara/The Wooldridge Brothers; June 5; Shitty Barn, Spring Green
8 The Features/Traveling Suitcase; June 8; Crunchy Frog, Green Bay
9 David Dondero/Marty Finkel; November 12; KHoRM
10 Chuck Prophet; May 19; KHoRM
11 Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders; October 10; City Winery
12 Zeus/Ponderosa; April 19, 2013; The Beat Kitchen, Chicago
13 Robbie Fulks with the Pussycat Trio (two shows); February 16, KHoRM
14 Ha Ha Tonka; June 19; Wood House Concerts, St Louis
15 Andre Williams & the Goldstars; August 21; KHoRM
16 Purgatory Hill/Ian Moore; August 10; Hitching Post, Sturgeon Bay
17 Bob Mould Band/American Rebels; June 16; Grandma’s Sports Bar, Duluth
 18 Casey Neill & the Norway Rats/The Sparrow & the Sky; October 19: KHoRM
19 Americanarama with Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket & Richard Thompson; July 9, 2013; Bayfront Park, Duluth
20 Spring Standards/You Won’t; November 9; The Frequency
all venues Madison unless otherwise noted


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