This doesn’t include every album I heard or reviewed in 2019. But it does have almost everything I thought was worth remembering. I’d call that a good start. To find reviews or listen to the music, cut and paste the artist and title into the search box at the top of the page.
Africa Express | EGOLI
Airbourne | Boneshaker
Art Alexakis | Sun Songs
All Eyes West | Like Lightning
The Allman Betts Band | Down to The River
The Allman Brothers Band | Fillmore West ’71
American Football | American Football (LP3)
Amyl & The Sniffers | Amyl & The Sniffers
Angel | Risen
Anyway Gang | Anyway Gang
Joseph Arthur | Come Back World
Asomvel | World Shaker
The Atom Age | Cry ’Til You Die
The Avett Brothers | Closer Than Together
Avicii | Tim
Babymetal | Metal Galaxy
Bad Juice | Stack-O-Lee And Ten Other American Tales
Bad Religion | Age of Unreason
Balthazar | Fever
The Band | The Band: 50th Anniversary Edition
Sara Bareilles | Amidst The Chaos
Rayland Baxter | Good Mmornin
Bayside | Interrobang
Beast Coast | Escape From New York
The Beasts | Still Here
Beat Circus | These Wicked Things
The Beatles | Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
The Beatles | The Singles Collection
Beautiful Dudes | Radio
Bedouin Soundclash | Mass
Begonia | Fear
Better Oblivion Community Center | Better Oblivion Community Center
Beyonce | Homecoming: The Live Album
Beyonce | The Lion King: The Gift
Biffy Clyro | Balance, Not Symmetry Soundtrack
Big Band of Brothers | A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band
Big Star | Live on WLIR
Binary Canary | iterative system
Ryan Bingham | American Love Song
The Bird & The Bee | Interpreting The Masters Volume 2: A Tribute to Van Halen
Jade Bird | Jade Bird
Bison Machine | Seas of Titan
The Black Keys | ‘Let’s Rock’
Black Midi | Schlagenheim
Black Mountain | Destroyer
James Blake | Assume Form
The Blue Butter Pot | Let Them Talk
Bones UK | Bones UK
Bon Iver | i,i
Glenn Branca | The Third Ascension
Brockhampton | Ginger
Broken Social Scene | Let’s Try the After Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Danny Brown | uknowhatimsayin¿
James Brown | Live at Home With His Bad Self
Gena Rose Bruce | Can’t Make You Love Me
The Budos Band | V
Le Butcherettes | bi/MENTAL
David Byrne | American Utopia on Broadway: Original Cast
Bywater Call | Bywater Call
JJ Cale | Stay Around
Captain Cheesebeard | Deadwood
Cassius | Dreems
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Ghosteen
Chai | Punk
Tanika Charles | The Gumption
Charly Bliss | Young Enough
The Chemical Brothers | No Geography
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF | Last Punk Standing
Chinatown Slalom | Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
City and Colour | A Pill For Loneliness
Gary Clark Jr. | This Land
Claypool Lennon Delirium | South of Reality
Clinic | Wheeltappers & Shunters
clipping. | There Existed An Addiction To Blood
Leonard Cohen | Thanks For the Dance
Marc Cohn & Blind Boys of Alabama | Work To Do
Coldplay | Everyday Life
Lloyd Cole | Guesswork
Combo Chimbita | Ahomale
The Comet is Coming | Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Alice Cooper | Breadcrumbs EP
William Patrick Corgan | Cotillions
Co. Townes | Van Zandt
The Cranberries | In The End
Crobot | Motherbrain
Crossed Keys | Saviors
Sheryl Crow | Threads
Rodney Crowell | Texas
Jim Cuddy | Countrywide Soul
Madison Cunningham | Who Are You Now
Miley Cyrus | She is Coming
Daddy Long Legs | Lowdown Ways
Davina & The Vagabonds | Sugar Drops
Miles Davis | Rubberband
Jesse Dayton | Mixtape Vol. 1
Dead Soft | Big Blue
Death Cab For Cutie | The Blue EP
Lana Del Rey | Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Deerhunter | Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Deflore & Jaz Coleman | Party in the Chaos
Luther Dickinson & Sisters of the Strawberry Moon | Solstice
Diiv | Deceiver
Dizraeli | The Unmaster
Doll Skin | Love is Dead And We Killed Her
Down By Law | Quick Hits Live In Studio
Down ’n’ Outz | This Is How We Roll
The Dream Syndicate | These Times
Karly Driftwood | Too Mean to Die
The Drippers | Action Rock
Drivin N Cryin | Live the Love Beautiful
Nico Duportal & The Sparks | Dog, Saint & Sinner
Bob Dylan | Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15
Eagles of Death Metal | Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote
Justin Townes Earle | The Saint of Lost Causes
Steve Earle & The Dukes | Guy
Billie Eilish | When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Elbow | Giants of All Sizes
Robert Ellis | Texas Piano Man
Emil Bulls | Mixtape
The Eminent Stars | Bumpin’ On
Brian Eno | Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks Extended Edition
Micah Erenberg | Love Is Gonna Find You
ESSi | Vital Creatures
Exhumed | Horror
Perry Farrell | Kind Heaven
Fat White Family | Serfs Up!
Feet | What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham
Sam Fender | Hypersonic Missiles
FIDLAR | Almost Free
Filthy Friends | Emerald Valley
Craig Finn | I Need a New War
Fitz & The Tantrums | All The Feels
FKA Twigs | Magdalene
Flaming Lips | King’s Mouth: Music and Songs
The Flesh Eaters | I Used To Be Pretty
Flying Luttenbachers | Shattered Dimension
Fontaines D.C. | Dogrel
Neal Francis | Changes
Kinky Friedman | Resurrection
Frontier Folk Nebraska | Freaks
Ezra Furman | Twelve Nudes
Liam Gallagher | Why Me? Why Not.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Black Star Dancing EP
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | This Is The Place EP
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Wait & Return EP
Rory Gallagher | Blues
Gang Starr | One Of The Best Yet
Gatecreeper | Deserted
GA-20 | Lonely Soul
Evangeline Gentle | Evangeline Gentle
The Get Up Kids | Problems
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib | Bandana
Gino and the Goons | Rip It Up
The Giraffes | Flower of the Cosmos
Girlfriend Material | Cool Car
Gloo | A Pathetic Youth
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra | I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This
Kim Gordon | No Home Record
GospelbeacH | Let It Burn
GosT | Valediction
Grateful Dead | Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991
Grey Hairs | Health & Social Care
Guided By Voices | Warp and Woof
Guided By Voices | Sweating the Plague
Guided By Voices | Zeppelin Over China
Gum Takes Tooth | Arrow
Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between
Guitar Wolf | LOVE&JETT
half•alive | Now, Not Yet
Glen Hansard | This Wild Willing
Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police
Juliana Hatfield | Weird
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders | Get the Money
Hearing Things | Here’s Hearing Things
The Heavy | Sons
Jimi Hendrix | Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
Joe Henry | The Gospel According to Water
The Highwomen | The Highwomen
The Hold Steady | Thrashing Thru the Passion
Hollywood Vampires | Rise
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes | Cypress Grove
Hot Lunch | Seconds
Brittany Howard | Jaime
Chrissie Hynde With The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble | Valve Bone Woe
Ikebe Shakedown | Kings Left Behind
Imperial Wax | Gastwerk Saboteurs
Institute | Readjusting the Locks
INUS | Western Spaghettification
Iron Kingdom | On The Hunt
The Jackets | Queen of The Pill
Jade Jackson | Wilderness
Seth James | Good Life
Olivia Jean | Night Owl
Jimmy Eat World | Surviving
Hobo Johnson | The Fall of Hobo Johnson
Danko Jones | A Rock Supreme
Durand Jones & The Indications | American Love Call
Norah Jones | Begin Again
Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind | CollectiV
Rickie Lee Jones | Kicks
Julie’s Haircut | In The Silence Electric
Muito Kaballa | Everything is Broke
Kacy & Clayton | Carrying On
Keane | Cause & Effect
Kele | 2042
The Kernal | KERN! LIVE!
Will Kimbrough | I Like it Down Here
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Infest The Rat’s Nest
King Nun | Mass
King Salami and the Cumberland Three | Kiss My Ring
Michael Kiwanuka | Kiwanuka
The Kokomo Kings | Fighting Fire With Gasoline
Erik Koskinen | Burning the Deal
Kryptos | Afterburner
Labrinth | Euphoria Original Score
Labrinth | Imagination & The Misfit Kid
Lagwagon | Railer
Dany Laj & The Looks | Everything New is New Again
Lambchop | This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)
Miranda Lambert | Wildcard
Mark Lanegan Band | Somebody’s Knocking
LCD Soundsystem | Electric Lady Sessions
Ada Lea | What We Say in Private
Ben Lee | Quarter Century Classix
Lee Harvey Osmond | Mohawk
Left Lane Cruiser | Shake and Bake
Jenny Lewis | On the Line
Lightning Dust | Spectre
Lil Peep | Everybody’s Everything
Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul | Summer of Sorcery
Lizzo | Cuz I Love You
Nils Lofgren | Blue With Lou
Long Ryders | Psychedelic Country Soul
Dan Luke & The Raid | Out Of The Blue
Corb Lund | Cover Your Tracks
Jeff Lynne’s ELO | From Out Of Nowhere
Madonna | Madame X
Jesse Malin | Sunset Kids
Stephen Malkmus | Groove Denied
Post Malone | Hollywood’s Bleeding
Marceese | 100,000 Years
Wynton Marsalis | Bolden: Original Soundtrack
Jimbo Mathus | Incinerator
Mattiel | Satis Factory
The Mavericks | Play The Hits
Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana | Tall, Dark & Handsome
Cass McCombs | Tip of the Sphere
Eamon McGrath | Guts
Chuck Mead | Close to Home
Meat Puppets | Dusty Notes
Medicine | Scarred for Life
The Mekons | Deserted
Menzingers | Hello Exile
Freddie Mercury | Never Boring
Buddy & Julie Miller | Breakdown On 20th Ave. South
Steve Miller Band | Welcome to The Vault
Mini Mansions | Guy Walks Into A Bar…
Midland | Let It Roll
The Minus 5 | Stroke Manor
Daniel Martin Moore | Never Look Away
Allison Moorer | Blood
Van Morrison | Three Chords & The Truth
Mötley Crüe | The Dirt Soundtrack
Motörhead | 1979
Bob Mould | Sunshine Rock
Mounties | Heavy Meta
Georgia Anne Muldrow | Vweto II
Muse | Simulation Theory
Kacey Musgraves | The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show
The National | I Am Easy to Find
Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real | Turn Off The News (Build a Garden)
Willie Nelson | Ride Me Back Home
The New Pornographers | In The Morse Code of Brake Lights
Jeb Loy Nichols & Westwood All-Stars | June Is Short, July Is Long
Niggght | Violent Delicacy
Nightstalker | Great Hallucinations
Harry Nilsson | Losst and Founnd
Northern Pikes | Forest of Love
North Mississippi Allstars | Up and Rolling
No Sugar | Rock’n’Roll Isn’t Boring, It’s You
NRBQ | Turn On, Tune In
Karen O & Danger Mouse | Lux Prima
Oh Sees | Face Stabber
The O’Jays | The Last Word
J.S. Ondara | Tales of America
Parlor Snakes | Disaster Serenades
Particle Kid | Window Rock
Joel Paterson | Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles
Orville Peck | Pony
Pink Floyd | The Later Years 1987-2019
Los Pirañas | Historia Natural
Pixies | Beneath the Eyrie
The Police | Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings
Iggy Pop | Free
Mike Posner | A Real Good Kid
Sarah Potenza | Road to Rome
Grace Potter | Daylight
Pretty Vicious | Beauty of Youth
Priests | The Seduction of Kansas
Prince | Originals
Prince | 1999 Super Deluxe Edition
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | And Now For the Whatchamacallit
PUP | Morbid Stuff
Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains
Queen Zee | Queen Zee
The Raconteurs | Help Us Stranger
Robert Randolph & The Family Band | Brighter Days
Reay | Reay
Redd Kross | Beyond the Door
Refused | War Music
R.E.M. | Monster 25th Anniversary Edition
The Replacements | Dead Man’s Pop
Jessica Rhaye | Just Like A Woman: The Songs of Bob Dylan
Rheostatics | Here Come the Wolves
Keith Richards | Talk is Cheap 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Robbie Robertson | Sinematic
Chris Robinson Brotherhood | Servants of the Sun
The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Maddie Ross | Never Have I Ever
Royal Trux | White Stuff
Bobby Rush | Sitting On Top of The Blues
Luther Russell | Medium Cool
Saigon Soul Revival | Họa Âm Xưa
Hunt Sales Memorial | Get Your Shit Together
Sampa the Great | The Return
Sasami | Sasami
Scattered Clouds | Take Away Your Summer
School of Language | 45
Sebadoh | Act Surprised
Ty Segall | First Taste
DJ Shadow | Our Pathetic Age
The Sh-Booms | The Blurred Odyssey
Sheer Mag | A Distant Call
The Shivas | Dark Thoughts
Shotgun Jimmie | Transistor Sister 2
Shotgun Sawyer | Bury the Hatchet
Simply Red | Blue Eyed Soul
Sturgill Simpson | Sound & Fury
Skarbø Skulekorps | Skarbø Skulekorps
Slipknot | We Are Not Your Kind
Slowthai | Nothing Great About Britain
Snarky Puppy | Immigrance
Todd Snider | Cash Cabin Sessions Vol. 3
Snoop Dogg | I Wanna Thank Me
Solange | When I Get Home
Son Volt | Union
Omar Souleyman | Shlon
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith | Mummer Love
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith | The Peyote Dance
Spiral Stairs | We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | Capitol Theatre, Passaic, N.J. | September 19, 1978
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | Winterland 12/15/78 & Winterland 12/16/78
Bruce Springsteen | Asbury Park ’96
Bruce Springsteen | Western Stars
Bruce Springsteen | Western Stars: Songs From The Film
Leeroy Stagger | Strange Path
Chris Stamey & The ModRec Orchestra | New Songs For The 20th Century
Mavis Staples | Live in London
Mavis Staples | We Get By
Allen Stone | Building Balance
Strand of Oaks | Eraserland
Stray Cats | 40
Steel Panther | Heavy Metal Rules
Sum 41 | Order in Decline
Summer Cannibals | Can’t Tell Me No
Surfer Blood | Covers
Swans | Leaving Meaning
Taylor Swift | Lover
Garry Tallent | More Like Me
Tedeschi Trucks Band | Signs
Tegan & Sara | Hey, I’m Just Like You
Kate Tempest | The Book of Traps and Lessons
Drew Thomson Foundation | Drew Thomson Foundation
Those Pretty Wrongs | Zed For Zulu
Throwaway | What?
Tinariwen | Amadjar
Titus Andronicus | An Obelisk
Tom Of England | Sex Monk Blues
Tool | Fear Inoculum
The Trash Bags | The Trash Bags
Tropical Fuck Storm | Braindrops
Tanya Tucker | While I’m Livin’
Jeff Tweedy | Warmer
U.K. Subs | Subversions II
Vampire Weekend | Father of the Bride
Sharon Van Etten | Remind Me Tomorrow
Various Artists | Blinded By The Light Soundtrack
Various Artists | Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits
Various Artists | If You’re Going To The City: A Sweet Relief Tribute To Mose Allison
Various Artists | Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 Vol. 1 & 2
Various Artists | Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Various Artists | The Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12
Various Artists | The Music of Red Dead Redemption II
Various Artists | Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Soundtrack
Jimmie Vaughan | Baby, Please Come Home
Adia Victoria | Silences
Vivian Girls | Memory
Volbeat | Rewind, Replay, Rebound
Waax | Big Grief
Weezer | Weezer (The Black Album)
Weezer | Weezer (The Teal Album)
Leo “Bud” Welch | The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name
Los Wembler’s de Iquitos | Visión del Ayahuasca
Kanye West | Jesus is King
John Paul White | The Hurting Kind
White Collar Sideshow | I Didn’t Come Here to Die
Whitehorse | The Northern South Vol. 2
The Who | Who
Wilco | Ode To Joy
The Wildhearts | Renaissance Men
The Wildhearts | Diagnosis EP
Ronnie Wood With His Wild Five | Mad Lad: A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry
Hawksley Workman | Median Age Wasteland
Wu-Tang Clan | Of Mics and Men (Music From The Showtime Documentary Series)
Charli XCX | Charli
XXXTentacion | Bad Vibes Forever
Yak | Pursuit of Momentary Happiness
Thom Yorke | Anima
Pete Yorn | Caretaker
Neil Young | Tuscaloosa
Frank Zappa | Halloween ’73
Frank Zappa | Hot Rats Sessions
Frank Zappa | Orchestral Favorites 40th Anniversary
Frank Zappa | Zappa in New York 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
