SLUG Mag’s Top 5 Albums of 2013
Year-End Top 5
Nate Abbott – Community Development Executive/Distro
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Nails – Abandon All Life
Sigur Rós – Kveikur
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Carl Acheson – Office Intern/Writer
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Kanye West – Yeezus
Phosphorescent – Muchacho
Run The Jewels – Self-Titled
Odesza – My Friends Never Die EP
Ischa B. – Senior Staff Writer/ Marketing
MiNX – 13
MiNX – Golden
Grossstadtgeflüster – Oh, Ein Reh!
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Katie Bald – Copy Editor/Writer/Fact Checker
One Direction – Midnight Memories
Jay-Z – Magna Carta… Holy Grail
Kanye West – Yeezus
2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II: #METIME
Katy Perry – Prism
Robin Banks – Illustrator
The Circulars – Self-Titled
The History Of Apple Pie – Out Of View
Veronica Falls – Waiting for Something to Happen
First Times – Mono Mono Ep
Peach Kelli Pop – Self-Titled II
Brad Barker – Ad Designer
AFI – Burials
Pixies – EP1
Placebo – Loud Like Love
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)
John Barkiple – Photographer
Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady
will.i.am – #willpower
Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up!
Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go
Icona Pop – THIS IS…ICONA POP
James Bennett – Senior Staff Writer
Man or Astro-Man? – Defcon 5…4…3…2…1
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Octopus Project – Fever Forms
The Hold Steady – The Bear and the Maiden Fair 7”
William Tyler – Impossible Truth
Paden Bischoff – Ad Designer
Queens of the Stone Age – … Like Clockwork
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Deltron 3030 – Event II
Baths – Obsidian
Pelican – Forever Becoming
Angela H. Brown – Editor
SubRosa – More Constant Than The Gods
The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Pharmakon – Abandon
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Matt Brunk – Writer/Marketing
Anchoress – Set Sail
Defeater – Letters Home
Visitors – Nova EP
Real Friends – Put Yourself Back Together
Off With Their Heads – Home
Phil Cannon – Illustrator/Distro
Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
Clutch – Earth Rocker
Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Elvis Costello and The Roots – Wise Up Ghost
Carla Bruni – Little French Songs
Dylan Chadwick – Senior Staff Writer/Illustrator
Magic Circle – Self-Titled LP
The Rival Mob – Mob Justice LP
Superchunk – I Hate Music
Milk Music – Cruise Your Illusion LP
Violent Future – Self-Titled EP
Gilbert Cisneros – Photographer
Baby Ghosts – Ghost in a Vacuum
Polytype – Basic//Complex
Elway – Leavetaking
Kanye West – Yeezus
Lake Island – Outermost
Kate Clark – Marketing
The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Cosmonauts – Persona Non Grata
Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
Washed Out – Paracosm
Junip – Self-Titled
Melissa Cohn – Photographer
letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
Night Verses – Lift Your Existence
Apollo – We Must Be Feeling The Full Moon
Bring Me The Horizon – Sempiternal
Fall Out Boy – Save Rock and Roll
Kate Colgan – Web Developer
Black Milk – No Poison No Paradise
First Light – Fallacy Fantasy
Ill Bill – The Grimy Awards
Moe Pope & Rain – Let the Right Ones In
Natti – Still Motion
Weston Colton – Photographer
CocoRosie – Tales of a GrassWidow
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Classixx – Hanging Gardens
Holy Ghost! – Dynamics
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Alex Cragun – Copy Editor/Writer
Old Wounds – From Where We Came Is Where We’ll Rest
Baby Gurl – A Name And A Blessing
The Appleseed Cast – Illumination Ritual
Kavinsky – OutRun
Pharmakon – Abandon
Perrylayne Deker-Tate – Videographer
Bonobo – The North Borders
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Odezsa – My Friends Never Die EP
Big K.R.I.T. – King Remembered In Time
Billy Ditzig – Action Sports Sponsorship Sales/Writer
Kanye West – Yeezus
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
Kid Cudi – Indicud
2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime
Lil Wayne – Dedication 5
Jeff Dixon – Copy Editor
Disclosure – Settle
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Late Night Alumni – The Beat Becomes A Sound
Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
Thy Doan – Ad Designer
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
The Civil Wars – Self-Titled
Nicholas Dowd – Ad Designer
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
Foals – Holy Fire
Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Specter At The Feast
Paul Duane – Photographer
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing
Gold Fields – Black Sun
Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the Sun
RUSH – Vapor Trails (Remixed)
Anberlin – Devotion
Candida Duran – Videographer
OK Ikumi – 10/13
Ty Segall – Sleeper
White Lies – Big TV
Kool A.D. – 63 + 19
The Airborne Toxic Event – Such Hot Blood
Dusk – Illustrator/Distro
Run The Jewels – Self-Titled
The Patriarch – Deniro Farrar
Kanye West – Yeezus
Isaiah Toothtaker – ILLMATIC 2
Isaiah Toothtaker – Nothing
Scott Farley – Writer
Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
Bastions – Bedfellows: The Bastard Son
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
A Wilhelm Scream –Partycrasher
AFI – Burials
Kamryn Feigel – Writer
Disclosure – Settle
Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
Various Artists – Balance Presents Guy J
The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Claude VonStroke – Urban Animal
Lexie Floor – Videographer
Poliça – Shulamith
Lindi Ortega – Tin Star
Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
There Is No Mountain – Self-Titled
John Ford – Community Development Executive/Senior Staff Writer/Copy Editor/Distro
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
SubRosa – More Constant Than the Gods
David Bowie – The Next Day
Sound City Players – Sound City: Real to Reel
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Brinley Froelich – Writer
Kurt Vile – Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze
my bloody valentine – m b v
Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
Lightning Dust – Fantasy
TOKIMONSTA – Half Shadows
Peter Fryer – Senior Staff Writer
Run The Jewels – Self-Titled
Witherscape – The Inheritance
Anamanaguchi – Endless Fantasy
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Power Trip – Manifest Decimation
Justin Gallegos – Writer
Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is the Devil
King Krule – 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Tomorrows Tulips – Experimental Jelly
Fuzz – Self-Titled
Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
D. Bradford Gambles – Illustrator
Justin Bieber – Believe (Acoustic)
New Kids On the Block – 10
Michael Bublé – To Be Loved
Backstreet Boys – In a World Like This
Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
Kendal Gillett – Writer
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Otep – Hydra
Bad Religion – True North
Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
Active Child – Rapor EP
Henry Glasheen – Senior Staff Writer
Atlantean Kodex – The White Goddess
Solstice – Death’s Crown is Victory EP
Summoning – Old Mornings Dawn
Argus – Beyond the Martyrs
Sulphur Aeon – Swallowed by the Ocean’s Tide
Gregory Gerulat – Writer
Emiliana Torrini – Tookah
Grave Babies – Crusher
Mammoth Grinder – Underworlds
Shannon and the Clams – Dreams in the Rat House
Kanye West – Yeezus
Steven Goemaat – Writer
The Front Bottoms – Talon of the Hawk
August Burns Red – Rescue & Restore
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Man Overboard – Heart Attack
Talib Kweli – Prisoner of Conscious
Granato – Distro Manager
SubRosa – More Constant Than the Gods
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die
The Uncluded – Hokey Fright
Dessa – Parts of Speech
Hank 3 – Brothers of the 4X4
Traci Grant – Copy Editor
The GazettE – Beautiful Deformity
Kim Jaejoong – WWW
Xia Junsu – Incredible
Miyavi – Self-Titled
F.T. Island – Rated FT
Timo H. – Writer
The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
Vangelis – Blade Runner OST (Remastered)
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
Tropic Of Cancer – Restless Idylls
Alpay – Yekte (Reissue)
Taylor Hale – Writer
Vampire Weekend –Modern Vampires of the City
Moonface – Julia with Blue Jeans On
A$AP Ferg – Trap Lord
Califone – Stitches
Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Trevor Hale – Writer
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
The Bronx – IV
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die
Low – The Invisible Way
Ryan Hall – Senior Staff Writer
Earn – Hell on Earth
Cousins – Bathhouse LP
Akron/Family – Sub Verses
Mike Shiflet – The Choir, the Army
Kanye West – Yeezus
Samuel Hanson – Writer
Lantern – Below
Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love is the Devil
Western Lows – Glacial
True Widow – Circumambulation
Mideau – Self-Titled
Sean Hennefer – Illustrator
Deltron 3030 – Event II
Deerhunter – Monomania
The Bronx – IV
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
Wire – Change Becomes Us
Dean O Hillis – Writer
Alison Moyet – The Minutes
Erasure – Snow Globe
Pet Shop Boys – Electric
The Mynabirds – Generals: Remixed
Madonna – MDNA World Tour
Nate Housley – Writer
Iceage – You’re Nothing
Crash Of Rhinos – Knots
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Savages – Silence Yourself
Cody Hudson – Senior Staff Writer
Kanye West – Yeezus
Baths – Obsidian
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP
Chandler Hunt – Marketing
Polyenso – One Big Particular Loop
STRFKR – Miracle Mile
Dance Gavin Dance – Acceptance Speech
Drake – Nothing Was the Same
True Widow – Circumambulation
Kahle G. Jackett – Ad Designer
Kanye West – Yeezus
King Chip – 44108
Dirt First – Compilation Volume 2
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Johnny Polygon – The Nothing
LeAundra Jeffs – Writer
Radiation City – Animals In The Median
Foxygen – We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
Foals – Holy Fire
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
Joshua Joye – Lead Designer
Cult Of Luna – Vertikal II
Russian Circles – Memorial
Integrity – Suicide Black Snake
SubRosa – More Constant Than the Gods
Full Of Hell – Rudiments Of Mutilation
Megan Kennedy – Senior Staff Writer/Photographer
Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
Protest The Hero – Volition
TesseracT – Altered State
Old Wounds – From Where We Came Is Where We’ll Rest
Anchoress – Set Sail
Cody Kirkland – Digital Content Coordinator/Senior Staff Writer/Copy Editor
Danny Brown – Old
Atoms For Peace – Amok
Yo La Tengo – Fade
King Tuff – Was Dead
The Circulars – Self-Titled
Tim Kronenberg – Community Development Executive/Writer/Distro
STRFKR – Miracle Mile
Islands – Ski Mask
Pickwick – Can’t Talk Medicine
Juicy J – Stay Trippy
Bad Religion – True North
Nick Kuzmack – Writer
King Khan & The Shrines – Idle No More
The Booze – At Maximum Volume (Reissue)
Golden Singles Records – The Clash Goes Jamaican
Las Kellies – Total Exposure
Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – 14th & Nowhere
Ashlee Mason – Writer
my bloody valentine – m b v
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Washed Out – Parcosm
Tig Notaro – Live
Kia McGinnis – Writer
James Blake – Overgrown
Washed Out – Paracosm
Widowspeak – The Swamps EP
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP
Ben Melini – Photographer
AFI – Burials
Dropkick Murphys – Signed and Sealed in Blood
Transplants – In a Warzone
The Old Firm Casuals – For the Love of It All…
Bad Religion – True North
Esther Meroño – Managing Editor
my bloody valentine – m b v
Wavves – Afraid of Heights
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Vaadat Charigim – The World Is Well Lost
The Circulars – Self-Titled
Rachel Miller – Copy Editor
Woodkid – The Golden Age
Depeche Mode – Delta Machine
Front Line Assembly – Echogenetic
KMFDM – Kunst
The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
CJ Morgan – Writer
Bibio – Silver Wilkinson
Wavves – Afraid of Heights
Bullets & Belles – Be Glad
Born Ruffians – Birthmarks
Deer Tick – Negativity
Dan Nailen – Soundwaves From The Underground Host
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
Jason Isbell – Southeastern
Meat Puppets – Rat Farm
Mistress Nancy – Writer/Distro
Covenant – Leaving Babylon
Kevorkian Death Cycle – God Am I
Front Line Assembly – Echogenetic
Die Sektor – (-)existence
Informatik – Playing With Fire
Eric Norris – Writer
Dropkick Murphys – Signed and Sealed in Blood
Flatbush Zombies – Better Off Dead Mixtape
Two Cow Garage – The Death of the Self-Preservation Society
Iron Maiden – Maiden England ’88
Bad Religion – True North
Amanda Nurre – Writer
Josh Ritter – The Beast in Its Tracks
Alela Diane – About Farewell
The Avett Brothers – Magpie and the Dandelion
Austin Lucas – Stay Reckless
Keaton Henson – Birthdays
Adam Okeefe – Distro
Covenant – Leaving Babylon
Blondes – Swisher
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Suede – Bloodsports
Angela Sunny Oliver – Copy Editor
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Fierce Bad Rabbit – The Maestro and the Elephant
Dresses – Sun Shy
Fitz and the Tantrums – More Than Just A Dream
The Men – New Moon
James Orme – Senior Staff Writer
JD Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers – Wild Moon
Deke Dickerson – Echosonic Eldorado
Nikki Hill – Here Is
Bad Religion – True North
Swinging Utters – Poorly Formed
Alexander Ortega – Editorial Assistant
Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed
Galactic Cannibal – We’re Fucked
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Cornered By Zombies – Hury Up And Wait
Holograms – Forever
Liz Phillips – Copy Editor
Man Man – On Oni Pond
Polytype – Basic//Complex
Recondite – Ec10
Bonobo – The North Borders
Glasser – Interiors
Chad Pinckney – Design Team
Run the Jewels – Self-Titled
letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
Balance and Composure – The Things We Think We’re Missing
Night Verses – Lift Your Existence
Gold Fields – Black Sun
Karamea Puriri – Marketing Manager
Pharmakon – Abandon
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Daughter – If You Leave
CocoRosie – Tales of a GrassWidow
Polytype – Basic//Complex
Lenny Riccardi – Design Team
Mina Knock – The Vista EP
KiD CuDi – Indicud
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Steve Richardson – Writer
Bleached – Ride Your Heart
Soviet Soviet – Fate
The Thermals – Desperate Ground
Drew Danburry – Becoming Bastian Salazar
Holograms – Forever
Mike Riedel – Writer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
David Bowie – The Next Day
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Torres – Self-Titled
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Amanda Rock – Writer
Queens of the Stone Age – … Like Clockwork
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Mason Rodrickc – Design Team
Bombadil – Metrics of Affection
Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
David Huntsberger – Explosion Land
Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Branches
Braids – Flourish // Perish
Darcy Russell – Writer
Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
Tomahawk – Oddfellows
Tyler, the Creator – Wolf
Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite – Get up!
Julia Sachs – Writer
Flux Pavilion – Blow The Roof EP
Major Lazer – Free The Universe
Kanye West – Yeezus
Krewella – Get Wet
Little Boots – Nocturnes
Michael Sanchez – Writer
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
Eureka The Butcher – Music For Mothers
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension
Lance B. Saunders – Writer
ON AN ON – Give In
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
Christian Schultz – Writer
Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt
The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
CHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe
The Circulars – Self-Titled
Robin Sessions – Photographer/Office Intern
Daughter – If You Leave
Braids – Flourish // Perish
STRFKR – Miracle Mile
Wavves – Afraid of Heights
Dream Panther – Beyoncé’s Child
Gavin Sheehan – Office Coordinator/SFTU Producer/Senior Staff Writer
Light/Black – Self-Titled
SubRosa – More Constant Than the Gods
Mideau – Self-Titled
Famous Relatives – Electric Signals
Searching For Celia – White Flag
Allison Shephard – Writer/Copy Editor
Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Daughter – If You Leave
Washed Out – Paracosm
Deer Tick – Negativity
Grouplove – Spreading Rumours
Talyn Sherer – Photographer
Cage the Elephant – Melophobia
Dirty Heads – Home – Phantoms of Summer: The Acoustic Sessions
The Green – Hawai’i ‘13
Funeral For A Friend – Conduit
MGMT – Self-Titled
Rheanna Sonnichsen – Writer
Deltron 3030 – City Rising From the Ashes EP
Spindrift – Ghost of the West
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
Julia Holter – Loud City Song
Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
Logan Sorenson – Photographer
The Fratellis – We Need Medicine
Arctic Monkeys – AM
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Moshe Kasher – Live in Oakland
Crash Kings – Dark of the Daylight
Shawn Soward – Copy Editor
Sigur Rós – Kveikur
L’anarchiste – The Traveler
Ellie Goulding – Halcyon Days
Capitol City – In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Alex Springer – Writer
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
HAIM – Days Are Gone
Phosphorescent – Muchacho
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
Forest Swords – Engravings
Stakerized! – Writer
The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Superchunk – I Hate Music
Eels – Wonderful, Glorious
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Quasi – Mole City
Jamie Stott – Writer
Iration – Automatic
The Naked and Famous – In Rolling Waves
Tim McGraw – Two Lanes of Freedom
Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
Katchafire – Best So Far
ThatGuyGil – Photographer
Family Force 5 – ReAnimated
Mindless Self Indulgence – How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence
Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods
GWAR – Battle Maximus
KiD CuDi – Indicud
Steve Thueson – Illustrator
RVIVR – The Beauty Between
Caves – Betterment
Radioactivity – Self-Titled
Crusades – Perhaps You Deliver This Judgement With Greater Fear Than I Receive It
Paint it Black – Invisible
Benjamin Tilton – Writer
Bastille – Bad Blood
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
Major Lazer – Free the Universe
Surfer Blood – Pythons
Kongos – Lunatic
Kelli Tompkins – Ad Designer
Laura Mvula – Sing To The Moon
Mala Rodríguez – Bruja
Juana Molina – Wed 21
Savages – Silence Yourself
Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
Xkot Toxsik – Distro
The KVB – Immaterial Visions
Anika – Self-Titled EP
The Moths – Self-Titled
Michael Biggs – Gold
The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
Ben Trentelman – Senior Staff Writer
my bloody valentine – m b v
The Julie Ruin – Run Fast
Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Maria Valenzuela – Copy Editor
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Self-Titled
Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Lorde – Pure Heroine
30 Seconds to Mars – Love Lust Faith + Dreams
Childish Gambino – Because The Internet
Rebecca Vernon – Copy Editor
In Solitude – Sister
Wolvserpent – Perigaea Antahkarana
Corrections House – Last City Zero
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Integrity – Suicide Black Snake
Ricky Vigil – Senior Staff Writer
Run the Jewels – Self-Titled
Night Birds – Born to Die in Suburbia
Modern Life is War – Fever Hunting
SubRosa – More Constant Than the Gods
Crusades – Perhaps You Deliver This Judgement With Greater Fear Than I Receive It
Jake Vivori – Photographer/Action Sports Sponsorship Sales
We Came As Romans – Tracing Back Roots
Daughter – If You Leave
Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal
Juicy J – Stay Trippy
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Laikwan Waigwa-Stone – Copy Editor
Float the Boat – Basement Tsunami
Librarian of Babel – Shaky Trade and the Last Crusade Set Break
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
Various Artists – Les Misérables Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition)
Skrillex – Leaving EP
Devin Wakefield – Ad Designer
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Ylvis – The Fox
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Various Artists – The Great Gatsby Soundtrack
The Clash – The Clash Hits Back
Mame Wallace – Writer
Tamar Braxton – Love and War
Boys Noize – Go Hard EP
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
Major Lazer – Free the Universe
The Lonely Island – The Wack Album
Catie Weimer – Social Media Coordinator
Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory and Injury
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Shannon and the Clams – Dreams in the Rat House
Bryer Wharton – Senior Staff Writer
Cultes Des Ghoules – Henbane
Profanatica – Thy Kingdom Cum
Devin Townsend – The Retinal Circus
The Obliterate Plague – The Wrath of Cthulhu
Cerekloth – In the Midst of Life We Are in Death
Andy Wright – Photographer
Devendra Banhart – Mala
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors to Peace & Magic
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
Sean Zimmerman-Wall – Senior Staff Writer
Pretty Lights – A Color Map Of The Sun
Dizzee Rascal – The Fifth
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Talib Kweli – Prisoner of Conscious
Jay Z – Magna Carta… Holy Grail