KRCL's Best of the Year...So Far

  • June 2, 2025
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It's hard to believe we are halfway through the year, already. Here's an eclectic list with some of the music that's been on repeat for many of our DJs. 

Brian Kelm, host of Red, White & Blues
Tommy Castro / Closer To The Bone (Alligator 2-7-25)
Dean Zucchero / Song For The Sinners (Pugnacious 2-21-25)???
Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd (Thirty Tigers 3/21/25)
Janiva Magness / Back For Me (Blue Elan 3-28-25)??
Tony Holiday / Keep Your Head Up (Forty Below 4-18-25)
Terry Hanck / Grease To Gravy (Little Village 6-13-25)
D.K. Harrell / Talkin’ Heavy (Alligator 6-20-25) 

Courtney, host of Afternoon Delight
Deep Sea Diver / Billboard Heart
Erika de Casier / Lifetime
Green tea Peng / Tell Dem It’s Sunny
High. / Come Back Down
Japanese Breakfast / For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Michi / Dirty Talk
Momma / Welcome to My Blue Sky
Perfume Genius / Glory
Stereolab / Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Viagra Boys / Viagr Boys

Ebay, host of The Afternoon Show, New Music Monday and Friday Soul Party
Bon Iver / Fable, Sable
Deep Sea Diver / Billboard Heart
Lucius / Lucius
Maribou State / Hallucinating Love
Panda Bear / Sinister Grift
Sault / 10
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory / Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble / Gemini
Tunde Adebimpe / Thee Black Boltz
Yukimi / For You

Eugenie, host of The Afternoon Show with Women Who Rock
Lucius / Lucius
Sunny War / Armageddon in a Summer Dress
Galactic and Irma Thomas / Audience with the Queen
Valerie June / Owls, Omens and Oracles
The Weather Station / Humanhood
Deep Sea Diver / Billboard Heart
Talia Keys / From the Ashes * Local Release *
Japanese Breakfast / For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Tune-Yards / Better Dreaming 
Boyfriend / In The Garden

Gavin Dahl, General Manager & Host of Bubbling Up Tuesday 7-10pm
Top 10 Albums of 2025 So Far (chronological by release date):
Teddy Roxpin, Smile High, Felty / The Obstacle Is The Path
Maribou State / Hallucinating Love
Mereba / The Breeze Grew A Fire
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek / Yarin Yoksa
Kayla Scintilla / Tales from the Path, Pt. 1
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble / Gemini
Talia Keys / From The Ashes
Son Little & Eric Krasno / Roll Mega
Reuben James / Big People Music
RUMTUM / Glue of Everything

Jamie G host of Afternoon Delight 
Viagra Boys / viagr aboys
Pigs x 7 / Death Hilarious
Chime Oblivion / Chime Oblivion
MIEN / MIIEN

Ricky Vigil, co-host of Rude Awakening
Viagra Boys / viagr aboys
The Taxpayers / Circle Breaker
Tropa Magica / Para Bailar y Tripiar
Clipping / Dead Channel Sky
Cheekface / Middle Spoon
Superworld / Surefire
Catbite / Doom Garden
Teen Mortgage / Devil Ultrasonic Dream
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs / Death Hilarious
Video Dave / Old Chicago Stadium

Troy Mumm, host of Across the Tracks
Sweet Megg / Never Been Home
Sonia Leigh / Songs About Ghosts
Sterling Drake / The Shape I'm In
Mattie Schell / Everything Means Nothing
John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff / The Return of...
James Cook / Texican Velvet
Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters / Good Morning Sunshine
Pug Johnson / El Cabron
Olivia Ellen Lloyd / Do It Myself
Taylor Rae / The Void 
Valerie June / Owls, Omens and Oracles
JD Clayton / Blue Sky Sundays
A. Lee Edwards / Interpreting Heart Sounds
Matt Anderson / The Heart and the Rose

 

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