Diverse and eclectic sounds, on the mellow side.
09:30 am - 12:06 pm MT
with Brian Eyster
Playlist
Diverse and eclectic sounds on the more adventurous side
12:06 pm - 3:00 pm MT
The end of 2018 is here, and our DJs are taking a look back at their favorite releases from this year. Take a look at what album releases your favorite KGNU DJs loved in 2018!
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | The Fratelli's | In Your Own Sweet Time |
| 2 | The Damned | Evil Spirits |
| 3 | Holly Cole | Holly |
| 4 | Kyle Craft | Full Circle Nightmare |
| 5 | The Interrupters | Fight the Good Fight |
| 6 | Low Cut Connie | Dirty Pictures Part 2 |
| 7 | The London Suede | The Blue Hour |
| 8 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain In Light |
| 9 | UK Subs | Subversions |
| 10 | Charming Disaster | Be My Bride of Frankenstein |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star |
| 2 | Hammock | Universalis |
| 3 | Bill Frisell | Music IS |
| 4 | acidbat + bios+a+ic | sonar waves |
| 5 | Daniel Avery | Songs for Alpha |
| 6 | Al Petteway | The Collector's Passion |
| 7 | Helena Hauff | Qualm |
| 8 | Alpturer | Odonata |
| 9 | Mondo Obscura | Focus on Black |
| 10 | entropic advance | Destroying Denver |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Cities Aviv | Raised for a Better View |
| 2 | Milo | budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies |
| 3 | JPEGMAFIA | Veteran |
| 4 | Serengeti | 6e |
| 5 | Young Fathers | Cocoa Sugar |
| 6 | Low | Double Negative |
| 7 | Ehiorobo/Tsar of Gamble | A Furnace in the Coin Fountain |
| 8 | Mothers | Render Another Ugly Method |
| 9 | Busdriver | Electricity is On Our Side |
| 10 | Zone Motif | AW/OA 014 |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Kittel & Co. | Whorls |
| 2 | Punch Brothers | All Ashore |
| 3 | The Beths | Future Me Hates Me |
| 4 | Okra Playground | Ääneni Yli Vesien |
| 5 | Simon Chrisman & Wes Corbett | Simon Chrisman & Wes Corbett |
| 6 | Anna & Elizabeth | The Invisible Comes to Us |
| 7 | David Benedict | The Golden Angle |
| 8 | Tim Hecker | Konoyo |
| 9 | Joshua Redman | Still Dreaming |
| 10 | Adrian Teacher & The Subs | Anxious Love |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Ry Cooder | The Prodigal Son |
| 2 | Bob Dylan | More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 |
| 3 | Jim White | Waffles, Triangles & Jesus |
| 4 | Neko Case | Hell-On |
| 5 | Charles Lloyd & The Marvels w/ Lucinda Williams | Vanished Gardens |
| 6 | Giant Sand | Returns to the Valley of Rain |
| 7 | Hiss Golden Messenger | Virgo Sand |
| 8 | Amy Helm | This Too Shall Light |
| 9 | Phosphorescent | New Birth in New England |
| 10 | J Mascis | Elastic Days |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Snail Mail | Heat Wave |
| 2 | Mac Miller | Swimming |
| 3 | Robyn | Honey |
| 4 | The Internet | Hive Mind |
| 5 | Bastien Keb | Midnight Nasties EP |
| 6 | Swarvy | Anti-Anxiety |
| 7 | Slum Village | The Lost Scrolls Vol. 2 |
| 8 | Pasar de la Luces | Mint Field |
| 9 | Oshun | Bittersweet Vol. 1 |
| 10 | Noname | Room 25 |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Various Artists | Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights |
| 2 | Exploded View | Obey |
| 3 | Klaus Johann Grobe | Du Bist So Symmetrich |
| 4 | High on Fire | Electric Messiah |
| 5 | Head Technician | Profane Architecture |
| 6 | Peel Dream Magazine | Modern Meta Physic |
| 7 | Film School | Bright to Death |
| 8 | Zuider Zee | Zeenith |
| 9 | The Limiñanas | Shadow People |
| 10 | Job Sifre | Het Bestaan |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Steve Spacek | Sci-Fi |
| 2 | T.R.A.C. | Life In Motion |
| 3 | Marc Mac | All Power to the People |
| 4 | Norm Talley | Norm-a-lize |
| 5 | Fatima | And Yet It's All Love |
| 6 | Selectors Assemble | Selectors Assemble Vol. 3 |
| 7 | Saxxon | Jungle Odyssey |
| 8 | Waajeed | From the Dirt |
| 9 | Kaidi Tatham | It's A World Before You |
| 10 | Various Artists | Turntables on the Hudson: 20 Year Anniversary |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| 2 | Jon Batiste | Hollywood Africans |
| 3 | Bombino | Deran |
| 4 | Anna Burch | Quit the Curse |
| 5 | Shemekia Copeland | America's Child |
| 6 | Half Waif | Lavender |
| 7 | I'm With Her/td> | See You Around |
| 8 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain In Light |
| 9 | Femi Kuti | One People One World |
| 10 | Waxahatchee | Great Thunder EP |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Everything is Recorded | Everything is Recorded |
| 2 | Wahatta | Casual High Technology |
| 3 | Sofi Tukker | Treehouse |
| 4 | Solomon Thompson | Good Damn Music |
| 5 | Morena Son | Lo Quo Traigo Yo |
| 6 | Mura Masa | Mura Masa |
| 7 | Alain Perez | ADN |
| 8 | AMMAR 808 | Maghreb United |
| 9 | Tune-Yards | I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life |
| 10 | Chris Dave & The Drumhedz | Chris Dave & The Drumhedz |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Rufus Du Sol | Solace |
| 2 | No Mana | Melted Candy EP |
| 3 | Olver Huntemann | Propaganda (Remixes Pt. 1) |
| 4 | Various Artists | Realm of Consciousness Pt. III |
| 5 | Various Artists | mau5trap '17 |
| 6 | Maksim Dark | Movement |
| 7 | Jam Blomqvist | Disconnected |
| 8 | deadmau5 | Mau5ville: Level 1 |
| 9 | Tiga & Clarian | Stay Cool & Remixes EP |
| 10 | Au/Ra & Camelphat | Panic Room |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet | Landfall |
| 2 | Oumou Sangare | Mogoya |
| 3 | Domenico Lancellotti | The Good is a Big God |
| 4 | Anandi Bhattacharya | Joys Abound |
| 5 | Marc Ribot | Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 |
| 6 | Kiran Ahluwalia | 7 Billion |
| 7 | Robert Diack | Lost Villages |
| 8 | David Byrne | American Utopia |
| 9 | Bombino | Deran |
| 10 | Opium Moon | Opium Moon |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Machine Girl | The Ugly Art |
| 2 | Girl Pusher | 911 |
| 3 | Neckbeard Deathcamp | White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers |
| 4 | ERDA | ERDA |
| 5 | HXCMIDI | Roland Sound Canvas Hardcore |
| 6 | JPEGMAFIA | Veteran |
| 7 | Lana Del Rabies | Shadow World |
| 8 | Jesus Piece | Only Self |
| 9 | Sense Fracture | In My Escape I Look For A Weapon |
| 10 | Soulja Boy | No Sleep EP |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Andy Akiho | The War Below |
| 2 | Aaron Jay Kernis | Dreamsongs/Three Concertos |
| 3 | David Lang | Writing on Water |
| 4 | Erkki-Sven Tuur | Tuur: Illuminato, Whistles and Whispers from Uluru & Symphony No. 8 |
| 5 | Steve Reich | Pulse/Quartet |
| 6 | Toshio Hosokawa | Orchestral Works - 3: Meditation, Nach dem Strurm & Klage |
| 7 | Bent Sørensen | Rosenbad - Pantomime |
| 8 | John Adams | Absolute Jest & Naive and Sentimental Music |
| 9 | Mason Bates, The Santa Fe Opera | The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs |
| 10 | Various Artists | Field Works: Initial Sounds |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Goran Bregovic | Three Letters from Sarajevo, Opus 1 |
| 2 | Ammar 808 | Mahgreb United |
| 3 | Maarja Nuut & Ruum | Muunduja |
| 4 | 3MA | Anarouz |
| 5 | Chancha Via Circuito | Bienaventuranza |
| 6 | Josh Trinidad | In November |
| 7 | Ólafur Arnalds | re:member |
| 8 | Orquesta Akoka?n | Orquesta Akoka?n |
| 9 | Deben Bhattacharya | PARIS to CALCUTTA: Men and Music on the Desert Road |
| 10 | Arat Kilo, Mamani Keita, Mike Ladd | Visions of Selam |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Anderson .Paak | Oxnard |
| 2 | Tash Sultana | Flow State |
| 3 | Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer |
| 4 | Blood Orange | Negro Swan |
| 5 | Leon Bridges | Good Thing |
| 6 | Me'Shell Ndegeocello | Ventriloquism |
| 7 | Gregory Porter | One Night Only (Royal Albert Hall) |
| 8 | The Internet | Hive Mind |
| 9 | H.E.R. | H.E.R. |
| 10 | Kamasi Washington | Heaven and Earth |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Various Artists | Puffer's Choice Vol. 2 |
| 2 | Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band | The Serpent's Mouth |
| 3 | Protoje | A Matter of Time |
| 4 | King Kong | Repatriation |
| 5 | Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix | Overdubbed |
| 6 | Monkey Marc | Yaad N Abraad EP |
| 7 | Various Artists | Ketch A Fire |
| 8 | Little Harry | Youngest Veteron |
| 9 | Dub Spencer & Trance Hill | Christmas in Dub |
| 10 | Scotty McD | Share It |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Skinshape | Filoxiny |
| 2 | Snail Mail | Lush |
| 3 | Makaya McCraven | Universal Beings |
| 4 | Vinyl Williams | Opal |
| 5 | Various Artists | Brainfeeder X |
| 6 | Felbm | Tape 2 |
| 7 | Thom Yorke | Suspiria OST |
| 8 | Nostrum Grocers | Nostrum Grocers |
| 9 | Beverly Glenn-Copeland | Beverly Glenn-Copeland |
| 10 | DJ Koze | Knock Knock |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Vanessa Collier | Honey Up |
| 2 | Tin Men | Sing With Me |
| 3 | Dr. Michael White | Tricentennial Rag |
| 4 | Playing for Change | Listen to the Music |
| 5 | Walter Wolfman Washington | My Future is My Past |
| 6 | Dexter Payne Quintet | Jazz For All |
| 7 | Marcus Miller | Laid Black |
| 8 | Tia Fuller | Diamond Cut |
| 9 | Cha Wa | Spy Boy |
| 10 | Jon Cleary | Dynamite |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Altin Gun | On |
| 2 | Animanz & Exotic Other | Exotic Other |
| 3 | Arthur Melo | Nhanderuvuçu |
| 4 | Kutiman | Don't Hold Onto the Clouds |
| 5 | Mdou Moctar & Elite Beat | Mdou Moctar meets Elite Beat in a Budget Dancehall |
| 6 | Nickodemus | A Long Engagement |
| 7 | Richmond Fontaine | Don't Skip Out On Me |
| 8 | Skinshape | Filoxiny |
| 9 | Tenderlonious & The 22archestra | The Shakedown |
| 10 | Tommy Guerrero | The Road to Knowhere |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Khalab | Black Noise 2084 |
| 2 | The Turbans | The Turbans |
| 3 | Mary Lou Newmark | Room to Breathe |
| 4 | Jupiter and Okwess | Kin Sonic |
| 5 | The Interplanetary Acoustic Team | 11 11 (Me, Smiling) |
| 6 | Reverend Freakchild | Dial It In |
| 7 | Superorganism | Superorganism |
| 8 | The Essex Green | Hardly Electronic |
| 9 | Potatohead People | Nick and Astro's Guide to the Universe |
| 10 | John Prine | The Tree of Forgiveness |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Swim Good Now | Daylight |
| 2 | Eric Phillips | One |
| 3 | Moonface | This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet |
| 4 | Son Lux | Brighter Wounds |
| 5 | Bedbug | I'll Count to Heaven in Years without Seasons |
| 6 | Mathew Lee Cothran | My First Love Mends My Final Days |
| 7 | Orchid Mantis | Yellow House |
| 8 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| 9 | Free Cake for Every Creature | The Bluest Star |
| 10 | Haley Heyndrickx | I Need to Start a Garden |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Walter Salas-Humara | Walterio |
| 2 | I'm With Her | See You Around |
| 3 | Ry Cooder | The Prodigal Son |
| 4 | Kim Richey | Edgeland |
| 5 | Chris Smither | Call Me Lucky |
| 6 | Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Downey to Lubbock |
| 7 | M. Ward | What A Wonderful Industry |
| 8 | Roseanne Cash | She Remembers Everything |
| 9 | Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Sparkle Hard |
| 10 | The Glands | Double Coda |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Nucleya | Mizra (tota Myna) (feat. Rafaar & Rashmeet Kuar) - Single |
| 2 | Tarsem Jasar | Turanator |
| 3 | Danakil, Ondubground | Danakil Meets Ondubground |
| 4 | Nightmares on Wax | Shape the Future |
| 5 | Jasmine Sandias | Sip Sip (feat. Intense) - Single |
| 6 | Sidu Moose Wala | Tochan - Single |
| 7 | Dipreet Dhilion | Chill Mode (feat. Jaggi Singh) - Single |
| 8 | Raftaar | Zero to Infinity |
| 9 | Kaur-B & Desi Crew | Engaged Jatti - Single |
| 10 | Sara Gurpal & Rajat Nagpal | Ki Mai Kalli Aa (feat. Dilpreet Dhilion & Meenakshi Choudhary) - Single |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Caroline Rose | Loner |
| 2 | Kikagaku Moyo | Masana Temples |
| 3 | Shopping | The Official Body |
| 4 | The Breeders/td> | All Nerve |
| 5 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain In Light |
| 6 | Goat Girl | Goat Girl |
| 7 | Conner Youngblood | Cheyenne |
| 8 | Idles | Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| 9 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| 10 | serpentwithfeet | Soil |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | I'm With Her | See You Around |
| 2 | Doc Watson & David Grisman | Doc & Dawg: Live at Acoustic Stage |
| 3 | Steep Canyon Rangers | Out in the Open |
| 4 | Mary Gauthier | Rifles and Rosary Beads |
| 5 | The Earls of Leicester | Live at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| 6 | Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour |
| 7 | Jonas and Jane | Sedona Rain EP |
| 8 | Old Crow Medicine Show | Volunteer |
| 9 | John Prine | The Tree of Forgiveness |
| 10 | Punch Brothers | All Ashore |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Nu Guinea | Nuova Napoli |
| 2 | Jeff Crosby | Postcards from Magdalena |
| 3 | Prince | Piano and a Microphone 1983 |
| 4 | Dizzy K. Falola | Sweet Music Volume 1 |
| 5 | Charles Bradley | Black Velvet |
| 6 | Kamasi Washington | The Choice |
| 7 | Kamaal Williams | The Return |
| 8 | The New Mastersounds | Renewable Energy |
| 9 | Jimi Hendrix | Both Sides of the Sky |
| 10 | Various Artists | Gumba Fire (Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa) |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer |
| 2 | Sixteem Jackie's | Movie Was Bad/Mascula |
| 3 | Parquet Courts | Wide Awake! |
| 4 | The Midnight Hour | The Midnight Hour |
| 5 | Brent Cowles | How to Be Okay Alone |
| 6 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Tearing at the Seams |
| 7 | Gino & the Goons | Rip It Up |
| 8 | Low Cut Connie | Dirty Pictures Pt. 2 |
| 9 | Live Percenters | Higher Vibrations |
| 10 | OBNOX | Templo Del Sonido |
| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Prince | Piano & A Microphone 1983 |
| 2 | Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf | Science Fair |
| 3 | Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami | Melodic Circles |
| 4 | Midori Takada & Lafawndah | Le Renard Bleu |
| 5 | Wayne Shorter | Emanon (w/ graphic novel) |
| 6 | Charles Mingus | Live in Detroit 1973 |
| 7 | The Regrettes | Attention Seeker EP |
Oct 16 6:15 AM MT