2025: DJ Top Tens

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Radio Boise DJs have poured over their playlists and constructed their Top Ten lists for 2025. 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.

Brent Heiner
Gut Feeling (coming soon)

Greet Death – Die in Love

Wombo – Danger in Fives

Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn

Coral Grief – Air Between Us

Daily Toll – A Profound Non-Event

Lung – The Swankeeper

Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film

The New Eves – The New Eve Rising

Plosivs – Yell at Cloud

SML – How You Been

Bridges

Dave Victor

Galactic and Irma Thomas – AUDIENCE WITH the QUEEN

Durand Jones and Indications – FLOWERS

Mavis Staples – SAD & BEAUTIFUL

Saint Paul and The Broken Bones – St. Paul and The Broken Bones

Curtis Harding – DEPARTURES + ARRIVALS-ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN CURT

The Meltdown (From Australia) – PRESERVERANCE

Harvey Scales + The 7 Sounds – TRYING TO SURVIVE

Booker T & The MGs, William Bell, Carla + Rufus Thomas, Wilson Picket + More – STAX REVIEW – LIVE IN 65

Annie and The Caldwells – CAN’T LOSE MY (SOUL)

Sharon Jones and The Dap King – NATURALLY – 20th ANNIVERSARY REMASTER

DJ Mark

North Mississippi Allstars – Still Shakin’ (New West Records, LLC)

Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present – Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Swamp Family Music LLC.)

Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World (Anti Records)

Samantha Fish – Paper Doll (Rounder Records)

Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch (Concord Records)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Bobby Rush – Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush Records and Ram Records)

Sly & The Family Stone – The First Family: Live at the Winchester

Cathedral 1967 (High Moon Records)

Tommy Castro and The Painkillers – Closer To The Bone (Alligator Records)

Sinners Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – (Proximity Media LLC)

Connor Selby – The Truth Comes out Eventually (Artone Label Group/Provogue)

Joe Pollard

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Shapes and Forms

Daily Toll – Time

Langkamer – Crows

Optic Sink – Glass Blocks (E/T Remix)

The Serfs – Bodies in Water

Rats On Rafts – Painting Roses

Noble Rot – Hang On

The New Eves – Red Brick

Prolapse – Swearing for Decoration

Equal Parts – The Fly

John McCarthy

Artemis – Arboresque

Charles Lloyd – Figure In Blue

Bonnie J Jensen – RISE

Terri Lynne Carrington & Christie Dashiell – We Insist 2025!

Sarah Wilson – Incandescence

Joe Farnsworth – The Big Room

Kelsey Mines – Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious

Anat Fort – The Dreamworld of Paul Motian

Ron Samson – Session 23

Billy Hart – Just

Midnight Hotdogs

Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, ‘New Threats for the Soul’, Sophomore Lounge

Jonny Davis, ‘Once was ours Forever’, Melody as Truth

Ben Kweller, ‘Cover the Mirrors’, The Noise Company

Crash Richards, ‘Sensitive Devil’, Community Music Group

Peel Dream Machine, ‘Taurus’, Top Shelf Records

Sharp Pins, ‘Balloon, Balloon, Balloon’, Perennial/K Records

Friendship, ‘Caveman Wakes Up’, Merge Records

Zachary Cale, ‘Love’s Work’, All Hands Electric

Rose City Band, ‘Sol y Sambra’, Thrill Jockey

SMG, ‘Seven Cane’, S.M.G Vol. 2

Ryan Blizzard

Jason Carter, Michael Cleveland – Carter & Cleveland

Billy Strings & Brian Sutton – Live At The Legion

East Nashville Grass – All Gods Children

Alison Krauss & Union Station – Granite Mills

Shelby Means – Shelby Means

The Onlies – You Climb The Mountain

A.J. Lee & Blue Summit – Cover To Cover Vol 1

Old And In The Way – Live At Sonoma State

Lonesome Ace Stringband – Big Wing

Bryan McDowell – Bryan McDowell

Shevahn Von T.

Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton – Live at the Legion

Durand Bernarr – BLOOM

Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers

Greensky Bluegrass – XXV

Hope Tala – Hope Handwritten

Jon Batiste – Big Money

Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell – Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at LOCK’N 2015

Wet Leg – moisturizer

Young Gun Silver Fox – Pleasure

Wayne Birt

El Leon Pardo – Viaje Sideral, AYA Records

Population II – Maintenant Jamais, Bonsound

The New Eves – The New Eve is Rising, Transgressive

Andy Boay – You Took That Walk For the Two of Us, Andy Boay

Various – All the Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985, Night School Records

Modern Nature – The Heat Warps, Bella Union

Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and the Madman, Brainfeeder

Kratzen III – 2590573 Records, DK

Orcutt Shelley Miller – Orcutt Shelley Miller, Silver Current

Prolapse – I Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face, Tapete Records