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…
| 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 | |