2015 In Review: It’s All A Blur – Top 10 Albums, Songs & Concerts

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I guess that’s my favorite picture of the year.  Walking like a zombie with Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone of The Zombies!

2015 In Review: Top 10 Albums, Songs & Concerts – Happy New Year!

Before the lists, here’s 3 more of my fave pix from the past 12 months.  Warren Haynes, Me & Brian Ritchie and Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, and Albert Hammond Jr…

Warren Haynes Thumb w femmes AHJ

Top 10 Songs
  Artist Song  
1. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats S.O.B.  
2. Courtney Barnett Pedestrian at Best  
3. Don’t Wanna Fight Alabama Shakes  
4. Pretty Pimpin’ Kurt Vile  
5. Laura Marling False Hope  
6. Mark Ronson featuring Kevin Parker Daffodils  
7. Best Coast Heaven Sent  
8. Saun & Starr Look Closer  
9. Gary Clark jr Grinder  
10. Beck Dreams  
Top 10 Albums
  Artist Album  
1. Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think & Sometimes I Just Sit  
2. Laura Marling Short Movie  
3. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats s/t  
4. Tame Impala Currents  
5. Sleater-Kinney No Cities To Love  
6. Gary Clark Jr The Healing  
7. Leon Bridges Coming Home  
8. The Charlatans Modern Nature  
9. Built To Spill Untethered Moon  
10. Algiers s/t  
Top 13 Concerts
 1  Dinosaur Jr. w/guests                                                      12/5 Bowery Ballroom  
 2  Sleater-Kinney                                                                   12/12 King’s Theater  
 3  |Jerry Lee Lewis                                                                  12/16 BB King’s Blues Club
4 Bettye LaVette 1/28 Cafe Carlyle  
5 Eric Clapton 5/3 Madison Square Garden  
6 The Zombies 10/9 Society for Ethical Culture  
7 U2 7/10 Madison Square Garden  
8 AmericanaFest w Watkins Family, Fiona Apple etal 8/8 Damrosch Park  
9 Van Morrison 6/19 Forest Hills Stadium  
10 Steely Dan 10/17 Beacon Theater  
11 Robert Plant 9/18 Hammerstein Ballroom  
12 Violent Femmes 5/19 Rough Trade  
13 Josh Ritter 10/22 Rough Trade  
Top 10 NYC Albums
1 Albert Hammond Jr Momentary Masters  
2 Son Little s/t  
3 Josh Ritter Sermon on the Mount  
4 The Lone Bellow Then Came the Morning  
5 Warren Haynes & Railroad Earth Ashes & Dust  
6 Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy  
7 James Maddock The Green  
8 Jesse Malin New York Before the War  
9 San Fermin Jackrabbit  
10 Twin Danger s/t  
 

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