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Happy 241st birthday, United States!

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Ah, the annual halfway through the year music recap where I rarely post an end of year recap. *eyeroll* Eh… I don’t blog much anymore… regardless, here goes for my Top 10 of 2017 so far…

Artist – Album (style)

1. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Mulhy & James McAlister – Planetarium (indie rock)
2. Burning Ghosts – Reclamation (jazz metal)
3. KXM (Doug Pinnick / George Lynch / Ray Luzier) – Scatterbrain (hard rock)
4. Peter Mulvey – Are You Listening? (singer-songwriter)
5. Sexmob – Cultural Capital (jazz)
6. David Bazan – Care (indie rock)
7. Ani DiFranco – Binary (singer-songwriter)
8. Future Islands – The Far Field (indie pop)
9. Mostly Other People Do the Killing (with Steven Bernstein of Sexmob) – Loafer’s Hollow (jazz)
10. Incubus – 8 (rock)

Honorable mentions…

• Albums by Lydia Ainsworth, Alt-J, Brian Marsella Trio’s Masada Book Two, Aimee Mann, Dave Douglas’ Riverside, and Throttle Elevator Music (Kamasi Washington).
• EP – ANOHNI’s Paradise
• Live – ISIS’ Live VII: 2.25.2010
• Re-issues – Pink Floyd early years boxset(s), the Beatles Srgt. Pepper’s 50th, U2 The Joshua Tree 30th, Radiohead OK Computer 20th
• Novelty – A**l Trump’s If You Thought ********* **** Was a Lot of People, You Should Have Seen My Inauguration 5″ vinyl (in “Seth Putnam form,” shall we say).

What’s still to come in 2017…

Claypool-Lennon Delirium 12″ (RSD wider-issue), Spotlights, Antibalas, Steven Wilson, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Mogwai, Radiohead OKNOTOK (physical), Failure live vinyl, Lo Tom (David Bazan, TW Walsh & Starflyer 59 folks), Celldweller, The National, Secret Chiefs 3, Weird Al boxset, plus much more, I’m sure.

Will I continue with blogs in the future? I don’t know. :P

Dan – np: Critters Buggin – Muti -EP-