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