Year End Weekly ReccommNeds | 2013

It’s been a pleasure and an honor to write this column for JamBase and try to turn y’all onto some new music. Hopefully you’ve been following along and made a new discovery or two along the way. All of my RecommNeds picks for the year can be found in this Spotify playlist: RecommNeds 2013.

By way of wrapping up 2013, here are some fantastic JamBase-worthy artists and albums I plugged in the last 12 months that you might have missed the first time around that definitely merit a (re)listen before the last page turns on another calendar.

In alphabetical order, the Recommneds greatest hits:

Causa Sui –Europie Tide

What I said: “This is jammed out cuisine from another planet…”
RDIO
Spotify
Rhapsody

Dawn of Midi –Dysnomia

What I said: “hypnotic, engaging and powerful: a must listen”
Spotify
MOG
Rhapsody

Holydrug Couple –Noctuary

What I said: “dreamy out-of-body music that’s equal parts cowboys on the windswept prairie and outerspace voyage”
Spotify
MOG
Rhapsody

Kingsley Flood –Battles

What I said: “filled with songs that have you singing along to the second chorus after hearing just the first”
Spotify
MOG
Rhapsody

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper –Ripley Pine

What I said: “fully rockin’ out in “where have you been all my life?” mode”
Spotify
MOG
Rhapsody

Lumerians –The High Frontier

What I said: “intense, boogie-down, atom-splitting psychedelic music”

Spotify
MOG
Rhapsody

Marnie Stern –Chronicles of Marnia

What I said: “combines awe-inspiring finger-tapping guitar playing with a set of bitchin’ experimental rock and roll”
Spotify
Rhapsody
MOG

Rose WindowsThe Sun Dogs

What I said: “a revelatory mash up of sound and styles”

Spotify
MOG
Rhapsody

Schnauser –Where Business Meets Fashion
What I said: “Weird, fun and addicting, this is Zappa meets Pavement…in the sky with diamonds.”

Spotify
Rhapsody
MOG

Dustin Wong –Mediation of Ecstatic Energy

What I said: “jaw-dropping soundscapes that tickle the ear while ensnaring your brain”
Spotify
MOG

Written By: Aaron Stein