I bought 220 new songs this year (way more than last year) including 4 albums, Every Open Eye/Chvrches, Beneath the Skin/Of Monsters and Men, Song Spells #1/Sea Wolf, Art Angels/Grimes



2015 songs on heavy rotation (* indicates top 5)

*Flesh Without Blood - Grimes 
*Leave a Trace - Chvrches *Happy - Marina and the Diamonds
*True Confessions - Blondfire
*Breaker - DeerhunterThe Shade - MetricLightning Strike - A Silent FilmGrey Days - Chesea Wolfe1998 - Chet Faker feat. BanksTrip Switch - Nothing but ThievesI of the Storm - Of Monsters and MenBody Talk - FoxesHiding - Florence and the MachineHigh - Zella DayStep Brother City - Someone Still Loves You Boris YeltsinStrange Hellos - TORRESGreek Tragedy - The WombatsLittle Wanderer - Death Cab for CutieBegin Again - Purity RingThe Labyrinth Song - Asaf AvidanWhite Lies - Milo GreeneA Beginning Song - The Decemberists My Least Favorite Life - Lera LynnEmpty Gold - HalseyBlame it on Me - George Ezra
Anything - TOPS
Too Late to Say Goodbye - Cage the Elephant
Water Slides - Mew
Molecules - Atlas Genius
I Feel It - Avid Dancer


Favorite finds from previous years (* indicates top 5)
*Algiers - The Afghan Whigs (2014)Cecilia and the Satellite - Andrew McMahon (2014)*Black Soap - Ex Cops (2014)
Go - Grimes (2014)*Lover - In the Valley Below (2014)Black Mambo - Glass Animals (2014)* Lover, Where Do You Live? - Highasakite (2014)Zigzagging Toward the Light - Conor Oberst (2014)Lust and Lies - The Ramona Flowers (2013)*Teen Idle - Marina and the Diamonds (2012)
Sun - Two Door Cinema Club (2012)
Hold On - Alabama Shakes (2012)My Secret Friend - IAMX (2010)
Christmas Won't Be the Same Without You - Plain White Ts (2009)I Don't Believe You - The Magnetic Fields (2004)
August - Rilo Kiley (2001)



Live Music in 2015
+ Alt J with Wolf Alice (Feb 7) in Offenbach, Germany

+ Rachael Yamagata (Feb 20) in Frankfurt, Germany

+ Sea Wolf (May 21) in Frankfurt, Germany

+ Of Monsters and Men with Highasakite (July 1) in Frankfurt, Germany

+ Death Cab for Cutie with Twin Shadow (Sept 19) in Columbus, Ohio

+ Landmark Festival in DC (Sept 27) with Chvrches, George Ezra, TV on the Radio, Lord Huron, Houndmouth, In the Valley Below

+ Deerhunter (December 17) in Columbus, Ohio


I'd love to hear about your favorite music of the year - share with me!!