2021: DJ Top Tens

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Radio Boise DJs have poured over their playlists and constructed their Top Ten lists for 2021. Some are composed of albums, some of individual tracks. What you are guaranteed is that each selection provides the highest possibility that you will enjoy it. To own these albums or tracks yourself, please support local record stores and online services that pay artists.

CZ
Pancake Jams, Thursday 9am-12pm
Aaron Frazer – Introducing. . .
Blood Cultures – Luno
Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers
Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space
Havana Swim Club – Havana Swim Club
Helado Negro – Far In
Molly Burch – Romantic Images
Munya – Voyage to Mars
Nation of Language – A Way Forward
Small Black – Cheap Dreams

Dave Morris
Radio Debu, Sunday 7am-9am
NRBQ – Dragnet (Omnivore)
Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)
Motrik – Moon: The Cosmic Electrics of MOTRIK (Jealous Butcher)
Various – Rocksteady Got Soul (Souljazz)
Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying (Single Lock)
Ike & Tina Turner – You Are My Sunshine (Good Time)
James McMurtry – The Horses and the Hounds (New West )
Charley Crockett – Music City USA (Son Of Davy)
Various – A Sweet Relief Tribute to Joey Spampinato
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Teenage Gizzard (ATO)

DJ CHess
Range Life, Tuesday 7-9 pm
Sympathy for Life (Parquet Courts)
Old Friends New Friends (Nils Frahm)
Big Appetite (Liars)
Actually, You Can (Deerhoof)
Monument (Portico Quartet)
The Wind (Balmorhea)
The Tunnel and the Clearing (Colleen)
As the Love Continues (Mogwai)
Lost Futures (Marisa Anderson, William Tyler)
Blind Date Party (Bill Callahan, Bonnie Prince Billy)
Forfolks (Jeff Parker)

DJ Kevin
For Good Or For Awesome, Friday 5-7pm
A.G. Cook & Charli XCX – Xcxoplex – Apple vs 7G (PC Music)
LVL1 & Racky Ripper – LVCKY – Single (Self-released)
Rosalía feat. Tokischa – Linda – Single (Sony)
Tirzah – Send Me – Colourgrade (Domino)
Wilma Vritra – Shallow Grave, Radio Edit – Single (Bad Taste)
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – THE SERVER IS IMMERSED – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH (Saddle Creek)
Bachelor feat. Jay Som & Palehound – Anything at All – Single (Polyvinyl)
Wet feat. Blood Orange – Bound – Letter Blue (Other Exotica)
Magdalena Bay – Chaeri – Mercurial World (Luminelle)
Stunned – Carrion Bird – Holiday Bazaar (988334 Records DK)

DJ Pole-erd
The Daft Manifesto, Tuesday 5-7pm
Aquarian Blood – Bending the Golden Hour
Lewsberg – In Your Hands
Motrik – MOON: the CosmicElectrics of MOTRIK
Normil Hawaiians – Dark World (79-81)
April Magazine – If the Ceiling Were a Kite: Vol. 1
SUUNS – The Witness
Tangled Shoelaces – Turn My Dial – M Squared Recordings and more, 1981-84
Madlib – Sound Ancestors
Magic Roundabout – Up
Writhing Squares – Chart for the Solution

DJ Steve
The Agenda, Saturday 5-7pm
Hellbent – Autoheart, O/R Records
There Will Be Tears – VINCINT, Vincint Cannady
In Defense of My Own Happiness – Joy Oladokun, Amigo Records
Another Life – Rae Isla, INSRGNT ARTS
IMMEDIATELY Remixes – Perfume Genius, Matador Records
So Gay So Dramatic – Bright Light Bright Light, YSKWN!
if I could make it go quiet – girl in red, world in red
Collapsed in Sunbeams – Arlo Parks, Transgressive Records
Changephobia (Extended Edition) – Rostam, Matsor Projects
Wary + Strange – Amythyst Kiah, Rounder Records

Doctor Fresh
Sunday Sound System, Sunday 2-4pm

Grant Olsen
It’s Now Right Now, Wednesday 7-10pm
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band – Tezeta (Reissue)
Juana Molina – Segundo (21st Anniversary)
Laura Nyro – Go Find The Moon: The Audition Tape
Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – She Walks In Beauty
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Superwolves
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime
Nick Delffs – Childhood Pastimes
Nite Jewel – No Sun
Suburban Lawns – Suburban Lawns (Reissue)
Xenia Rubinos – Una Rosa

Jake Hite
Heavier Than Thou, Saturday 1-3am
Ghorot – Loss Of Light -Inverse Records
Darkthrone – Eternal Hails – Peaceville
Grave Miasma – Abyss of Wrathful Deities – Dark Descent
Electric Wizard – L.S.D. – Creep Purple Promotion
Mayhem – Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando – Century Media
Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning – Profound Lore
Yob – Atma (Reissue) – Relapse
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – The Magnetic Ridge – Psychedelic Salad Records
Ghastly – Mercurial Passages – 20 Buck Spin
Paysage D’Hiver – Geister -Kunsthall Produktionen

John McCarthy
Jazz Beyond the Sky, Wednesday 9am to noon
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – I Told You So
Helen Sung with Harlem Quartet – Quartet +
Brent Jensen – More Sounds Of A Dry Martini
Jon Batiste – WE ARE
Emmet Cohen – Future Stride
Bill Charlap Trio – Street of Dreams
Alex Brown – The Dark Fire Sessions
Idit Shner _ Live At The Jazz Station
Gerry Gibbs – Songs From My Father
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

“kid” yoshida
Country Jesus, Monday 10pm-12am
Sawtooth Monk – Peregrination (self-released)
Adia Victoria – A Southern Gothic (Atlantic)
Sunny War – Simple Syrup (Hen House Studios)
Charlie Parr – Last of the Better Days Ahead (Smithsonian Folkways)
Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying (Single Lock)
Thought Partner – Work Cake (Wild Ambitions/Crass Lips)
Psychic Graveyard – Veins Feel Strange (Deathbomb Arc)
Secnd Best – No Indigo (self-released)
Lilac – Lilac (self-released)
IDLES – CRAWLER (Partisan)

Kristin Wildly
Up In Your Mind Flowers, Friday 9-11pm
Magic Castles – Lost Dimension
Triptides – Hand Of Time
Wurld Series – Nap Gate
Hooveriii – Control
Lumerians – Transmission Overture
Flavor Crystals – The Dawn Again
Fomies – The Endless Joke
Black Mountain – Echoes
Sweeping Promises – Pain Without a Touch
TV Priest – Decoration

Liam
London Calling, Wednesday 3 – 5am
Idles – Crawler
Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
Drug Store Romeos – The world within our Bedrooms
The Coral – Coral island
Squid – bright green fields
Easy life – Life’s a beach
The Lathums – How beautiful life can be
James – All the colours of you
Blanketman – National trust
El Michels Affair meets Liam Bailey – Ekundayo inversions

Matty F
For Good or For Awesome, Friday 5-7pm
Shire T, Maribou State – Burnin’ Jungle
Nation of Language – Across That Fine Line
Yasmin Williams – Juvenescence
Bleachers – How Dare You Want More
Babe Rainbow – California
Margo Cilker – Tehachapi
Big Thief – Certainty
Orions Belte – Bean
TORRES – Hug From a Dinosaur
Hamilton Leithauser, Kevin Morby – Virginia Beach

Mike Markley
Kettle of Fish, Friday 6-8am
Crypt – Night Beats, Outlaw R&B
How High – The Record Company, How High
Black Myself – Amythyst Kiah, Wary + Strange
Move On – William The Conqueror, Maverick Thinker
Paddle to the Stars – The Dip, Paddle to the Stars
Anna Maria – Robert Jon & the Wreck, Shine a Light on Me Brother
Does Anyone Know – Jesse Roper, Does Anyone Know
Nickels and Dimes – Woods, Nickels and Dimes
Waste My Time – Valeree, it’s fine, i’m fine
Far Away Across The Sea – Sierra Ferrell, Long Time Coming

Nichole Marie
The Rapture, Tuesday Noon-3pm
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue (Single)
The Districts – I Want to Feel I All (Single)
Dope Lemon – Rose Pink Cadillac (Rose Pink Cadillac)
Slothrust – Once More for the Ocean (Parallel Timeline)
Pip Blom – Keep it Together (Welcome Break)
Amyl and the Sniffers – Hertz (Comfort to Me)
Hana Vu – Aubade (Public Storage)
Gilligan Moss – Special Thing (Gilligan Moss)
Smokey Brights – Honey Eye (Single)
Free Creatures – Inviting You In (Single)

Norman Davis
The Juke Joint, Monday 5-8pm; Swing State, Saturday 5-7am
SOULFUL FEMME IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
MARIA MULDAUR LET’S GET HAPPY TOGETHER
JASON RICCI & JOE KROWN CITY COUNTRY CITY
DUFFY BISHOP I’M GONNA DO WHAT I WANT
GARY MOORE HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET
DIANA KRALL THIS DREAM OF YOU
GUY KING JOY IS COMING
KINGFISH 662
JIM WALLER BIG BAND BUCKET LIST
ELVIN BISHOP & CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE 100 YEARS OF BLUES

Sadie Mayhem
Femme Fatale, Saturday 5-7pm
Adult Mom – Driver
Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Beach Bunny – Blame Game EP
Blood Lemon – Blood Lemon
Colleen Green – Cool
La Luz – La Luz
Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader
Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness
Sleigh Bells – Texis
Snail Mail – Valentine

Tansey
The Chowdah, Wednesday Noon-3pm
Tonstartssbandht – Petunia
Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St Louis, MO (12/10/1971) [Live] Reigning Sound – A Little More Time With Reigning Sound
Chicos De Nazca – Dreamers
Matt Berry – The Blue Elephant
Foshe, Bentley – Parlour Cucina
Syl Johnson – Tripping On Your Love
Liam Kazar – Due North
Stephen Malkmus & Von Spar – Can’s Ege Bamyasi
Sprit Award – Lunatic House
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