2016 had some amazing music.  So much of it I never would have discovered if it we’re for this show and WERA.  Thank you so much to everyone there and at Arlington Independent Media for allowing us to bring our favorite music to you.  See you in 2017!

( best of 2016 show )
( see also our top 25 songs of 2016 )

1  Conor Oberst – Ruminations
2  Lucy Dacus – No Burden
3  David Bazan – Blanco
4  Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
5  JPNSGRLS – Divorce
6  The Paranoid Style – Rolling Disclosure^
7  John Congelton and the nighty nite – Until the horror goes
8  Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land
9  The thermals – We disappear^
10  Regina Spektor – Remember Us to Life^
11  Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
12  Matt Pond PA – Winter Lives^
13  The prettiots – Funs Cool
14  Explosions in the sky – The wilderness
15  NOFX – First ditch effort
16  Frightened rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
17  Jeff Rosenstock – WORRY.
18  Dinosaur Jr. – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
19  Matt and Kim – We were the weirdos (EP)
20  John K Samson – Winter Wheat
21  Hallelujah the hills – A band is something to figure out^
22  Laura Gibson – Empire builder
23  Slingshot dakota – Break ^
24  The Mr T Experience – King dork approximately ^
25  La Sera – Music for Listening to Music To

 

^ Denotes an album that doesn’t have a track that placed in our top 25 songs of the year.