Every year here at WXNA we like to ask our DJs a simple question: what was your favorite record of the past year? Then, for your convenience, we take their responses and form them into a handy list. Below you will see an amazing collection of some of the best music from 2018 across numerous genres and styles. Like WXNA, there’s a little something for everyone.
DJ PICKS:
Heather Lose/Aging Hipster :: Fantastic Negrito “Please Don’t Be Dead”
Laurel Creech/All About Nashville :: Western Medication “Taste”
Brer Sunshine/The Black Gold Historical Society :: Blood Orange “Negro Swan”
Adam McDole/Body to Body :: Daughters “You Won’t Get What You Want”
DJ Killjoy/Cities Under Cities :: Big Ups “Two Parts Together”
DJ Rhatfink/The Continental :: Weird Al Yankovic “The Hamilton Polka”
BadN8/Coolin’ :: Marlowe (L’Orange & Solemn Brigham) “Marlowe”
DJ Rodge/Delicious Elixir :: Colter Wall “Songs of the Plains”
DJ Lauren/Different Every Time :: Anna & Elizabeth “The Invisible Comes to Us”
DJ Karl/Dizzy Spell :: Beak> “>>>”
Joe/Double Shot with Joe & Sue :: Ben de la Cour “The Hight Cost of Living Strange”
Sue Havlish/Double Shot with Joe & Sue :: The Record Company “All of This Life”
Bill Verdier/Down the Back Lane :: Ry Cooder “The Prodigal Son”
Will Orman (Popcorn Brain)/Dreambeat :: Pinkshinyultrablast “Miserable Miracles”
Chad Pelton/Dustbin Days :: Doug Paisley “Starter Home”
DJ ED/Eighties Schmeighties :: The Good, The Bad & The Queen “Merrie Land”
popGeezer/The English Breakfast :: Kasey Musgraves “Golden Hour”
Brady Brock/Fidelity High :: Fucked Up “Dose Your Dreams”
DJ Mike/Flying Lesson :: Maribou State “Kingdoms in Colour”
Natasha/The French Connections :: Clara Luciani “Sainte Victoire”
Chris Nochowicz/The Future of Jazz :: Jeff Lorber Fusion “Impact”
Hound Dog Hoover/Goin’ Down South :: Ry Cooder “The Prodigal Son
Randy Fox/Hipbilly Jamboree :: Various Artists “The Beginning of the End: The Existential Psychodrama in Country Music (1956-1974)”
Ramona Reid/Holistic Revolution :: Brandi Carlisle: “By the Way, I Forgive You”
DJ Hot Car/Hot Fudge Tuesdays :: Dear Nora “Skulls Example”
DJ Sweetbaby/Hot Fudge Tuesdays :: The Convenience “The Convenience”
DJ TravisT/I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead :: Kraus “Path”
DJ Susan/The Inconsiderate Mixtape :: Daniel Blumberg “Minus”
DJ Juan/International Echo :: J Balvin “Vibras”
Jeff Hackett/The Jazz Connection :: John Coltrane “Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album”
Drew Wilson/Loud Love Show :: Telethon “The Grand Spontaneon”
DJ Charlotte Rollerskates/The Maiden Voyager :: Jasmin Kaset & Quichenight “Tuxedo”
Jason Piffier/Melted Clock Radio :: Robyn “Honey”
Nexus/Musical Mysticism :: Kikagaku Moyo “Masana Temples”
Laura Powers/Needles+Pins :: Cable Ties “Tell Them Where to Go/Choking to Choose”
DJAK/No Remorse :: Sleep “The Sciences”
Angie/Nothin’ But the Blues :: Fantastic Negrito “Please Don’t Be Dead”
Trevor Nikrant/Our Golden Tones :: Laurel Halo “Raw Silk Uncut Wood”
Jay Millar/The Plural of Vinyl :: Lithics “Mating Surfaces”
Mike Mannix/Psych Out! :: Sunwatchers “II”
Randy Fox/Randy’s Record Shop :: The Pandoras “Hey! It’s the Pandoras”
Jammin’ James Riley/Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour :: Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis “Wild! Wild! Wild!”
blackcircle (Nekos Barnes)/theRoot :: Khruangbin “Con Todo El Mundo”
Laura Pochodylo/Runout Numbers :: Kasey Musgraves “Golden Hour”
Josh Mock/Sad Songs for Happy People :: Shame “Songs of Praise”
Michal Scatter/The Scattershot :: Des Lions Pour Des Lions “Derviche Safari”
LT/Shout, Sister, Shout! :: Yo La Tengo “There’s a Riot Going On”
Michael Roark/Slings & Arrows :: Insecure Men “Insecure Men”
DJ Anne McCue/Songs on the Wire :: Angela Perley & the Howling Moons “Homemade Vision”
Erica Schultz/Soul of the City :: The Carters “Everything Is Love”
DJ Cajun Mitch/Sounds of the Bayou :: Beach House “7”
Leslie Hermsdorfer/Studio & Stage :: The Breeders “All Nerve”
Jonathan Marx/Transmission :: Eve Maret “No More Running”
DJ Jonni Downer/The Unlistenable Hour :: Iceage “Beyondless”
Anna/Untune the Sky :: Lithics “Mating Surfaces”
Erin Mock/Wishful Thinking :: Lawrence Rothman “I Know I’ve Been Wrong, But Can We Talk?”
DJ Burch/Works Progress Radio Hour :: Amy Rigby “The Old Guys”
Dawn Kote/Yum Yum Eat’em Up :: Maggie Rose “Change the Whole Thing”
