2016 Shows

Another new year of music. At this point, I'm OCD tracking acts I've seen. For the shows I've attended, I'll list the bands I saw. If I didn't list an opening band, it's because I didn't see them. 

All shows in Portland unless otherwise noted.

2016 Shows:

1/6 - Patti Smith
1/18 - Langhorne Slim
1/31 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2/1 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3/4 - Ratking, Animal Collective (Seattle, WA)
3/5 - Animal Collective
3/17 - Breaking Benjamin
3/20 - Slayer
3/22 - Bruce Springsteen
3/29 - Iggy Pop/Josh Homme
4/11 - Iron Maiden (Tacoma, WA)
4/12 - The Residents 
4/15 - Paul McCartney
4/16 - Anderson Paak
4/17 - Parov Stelar
4/23 - Black Mountain
4/25 - M83
4/26 - M83
5/18 - Andrew Bird
5/25 - Mac DeMarco
5/27 - Telekinesis, Oh Wonder, Bayonne, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Andra Day, Vince Staples, Wolf Alice, Yeasayer, Disclosure, Chet Faker (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
5/28 - Tamaryn, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Lord Huron, M. Ward, Digable Planets, Shannon & the Clams, M83, Preoccupations, Vic Mensa, Major Lazer, Tycho (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
5/29 - Deep Sea Diver, Fauna Shade, Autolux, Wimps, Savages, Tacocat, Yo La Tengo, Leon Bridges (acoustic set), Mac DeMarco, Alabama Shakes, Allen Stone, The Cure, Big Grams (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
5/30 - Borns, Titus Andronicus, Grimes, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Sufjan Stevens, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Florence & the Machine, Caribou, Jamie XX (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
6/22 - Gaythiest, The Pack A.D.
7/23 - Hollywood Vampires (Jacksonville, OR)
8/10 - Jackson Browne (Troutdale, OR)
8/12 - Guns N' Roses (Seattle, WA)
8/31 - Russian Circles
9/1 - Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Father John Misty
9/4 - Wilco
9/13 - Black Sabbath
9/21 - Sigur Ros
10/2 - Pennywise
10/7 - Brian Wilson
10/24 - Opeth
11/2 - NOFX
11/25 - Car Seat Headrest

My Top 50 Albums of 2015

I listened to 91 2015 releases. Here is my top 50:

1. Lord Huron - Strange Trails
2. Titus Andronicas - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
3. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
4. Jamie xx - In Colour
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
6. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
7. Battles - La Di Da Di
8. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
9. Grimes - Art Angles
10. Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
11. Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
12. Miguel - Wildheart
13. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
14. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
15. Destroyer - Poison Season
16. BORNS - Dopamine
17. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down
18. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
19. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
20. Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
21. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
22. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
23. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
24. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
25. Tame Impala - Currents
26. Beach House - Depression Cherry
27. The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ
28. Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album
29. Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
30. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
31. Chelsea Wolf - Abyss
32. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
33. King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream
34. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
35. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
36. Baroness - Purple
37. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
38. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
39. Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges & Claws
40. Four Tet - Morning / Evening
41. Best Coast - California Nights
42. Swerverdriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You
43. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
44. Blur - The Magic Whip
45. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
46. Thundercat - The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
47. Bjork - Vulnicura
48. Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
49. Floating Points - Alaena
50. Wilco - Star Wars