TK’S TOPs of 2016

Here are our favorite releases and shows from the past year for those keeping score at home.  Also, expect some new music from TK in 2017.  The music will be as fun as it is challenging.  Emotional too.

Andy’s Top 10 Albums of 2016

  1. Mikey Erg – Tentative Decisions
  2. Ned Garthe Explosion – Flashlight Tan
  3. Deftones- Gore
  4. Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
  5. Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me
  6. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Commandments According To…
  7. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
  8. Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate
  9. Drive-By Truckers – American Band
  10. Shovels and Rope – Little Seeds

Jake’s Top 10 Albums of 2016

  1. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (I wish I could give higher than #1 for this one)
  2. Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next?
  3. Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
  4. Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits
  5. Thee Oh Sees – Odd Entrances
  6. Moonface – My Best Human Face
  7. Dragonforce – Killer Elite
  8. Ned Garthe Explosion – Flashlight Tan
  9. Bib Tucker & The Liars Club – A Demonstration
  10. Sword – Low Country

Ty’s Top 25 Albums of 2016

  1. Kevin Morby – Singing Saw
  2. King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard – Nonagam Infinity
  3. LUH. – Spriritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
  4. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
  5. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
  6. White Lung – Paradise
  7. Anohni – Hopelessness
  8. The Commons – Loteria Tribal
  9. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
  10. Woods – City Sun Eater in the River of Light
  11. Y La Bamba – Ojos del Sol
  12. The Outfit – The Outfit
  13. Orkesta Mendoza – iVamos a Guarachar!
  14. Moonface – My Best Human Face
  15. YG – Still Brazy
  16. Martha – Blisters in the Pit of my Heart
  17. Lemon Twigs – Do Hollywood
  18. Jamila Woods – Heavn
  19. Sidestepper – Supernatural Love
  20. Kissing Party – Winter in the Pub
  21. Money Chicha – Echo en Mexico
  22. William Tyler – Modern Country
  23. Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
  24. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
  25. GOAT – Requiem

Ty’s Best Shows of 2016

  • Iron Maiden – Palacio de Los Deporte, Mexico, DF
  • Rancid – Flogging Molly Cruise, Bermuda Triangle
  • Oddisee – Knitting Factory, Treefort Music Festival, Boise, Idaho
  • Sigur Ros – Ellie Caulkins, Denver, CO
  • The Vernes – New Planet, Philadelphia, PA
  • L.O.R. – Ophelia’s – Faceman’s 100 Year Storm
  • Wheelchair Sports Camp Album release – Ophelia’s, Denver, CO
  • Chicharron – Honky Tonk Hodge Podge – Colfax Tavern, Cold Beer, New Mexico
  • Kaddish – Book Yr Anne Fest, Buskers, Dundee,  Scotland
  • Mana – Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado
  • Courtney Barnett – Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO

Tim’s Top 10 of (mostly) 2016

1. Western Settings “Yes, it is”
2. Direct Hit! “Wasted Mind”
3. Mystery Jets “Curve of the Earth”
4. Mutual Benefit “Skip a Sinking Stone”
5. American Analog Set “The Golden Band” and “Know by Heart”
6. Dead Bars various eps.
7. Desolation Wilderness “New Universe”
8. Lake Mary – Complete Discography
9. Tristeza “Spine and Sensory”
10. Hang Rounders “Bring your sister”