Lists

Here are our 50 favorite releases of 2017. Please give these records a listen. We promise they're worth it.

Founding editor Henderson lays out his top 20 releases of the year.

Editor Eli Enis ranks his 10 favorite debut records of the year.

Editor Eli Enis writes about his five favorite EP's of 2017.

Editor Eli Enis writes about his 10 favorite songs of 2017. He'd love you to @ him about his choices.

Here's the first installment of our two-part most anticipated of 2017 list. We're expecting great things from music this year to momentarily distract us from, or perhaps enlighten us to, pretty much everything else going on in the world.

The Alternative staff list and discuss their top 25 albums of the year including Frank Ocean, Crying, PUP, and more.

From Peaer to Kanye, The Alternative staff weighs in on #50-26 of their Top 50 albums of 2016.

Check out Nick's 10 favorite albums of the year including releases from Sumac, TTNG, and the final release from the legend David Bowie.

Henderson's top 20 albums of the year. Including Prince Daddy and The Hyena, Pinegrove, Strange Ranger, Danny Brown, LKFCCT and many more.

Riley lays out his 50 favorite songs from 2016 covering a wide range of genres and including tracks from Secret Space, Kanye West, Into It Over It, Danny Brown and many more!

Strange Ranger, Car Seat Headrest, Teen Suicide, Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Danny Brown and more are among Editor Eli Enis' favorite albums of the year.

The amount of music I have been exposed to this year has been almost overwhelming. I spent a good portion of this year letting myself wander the United States and finding music that emotionally struck a vein in me. It’s been difficult, but this list has been created to what I listened to the most this year, and still enjoy to this day. I am about to get a giraffe tattoo’d on me, enjoy.

Ethan lays out his 5 favorite records of the year including albums from Left and Right, Chance The Rapper, Whitney and more.

Ryan writes about his favorite albums from 2016 including records from ROMP, A Tribe Called Quest, Jeff Rosenstock and more!