Music Recommendations

Southern California is more than just unoriginal surf rock these days. Dreamy grunge pop shows itself in this week's Way Out West band.

The Alternative staff list and discuss their top 25 albums of the year including Frank Ocean, Crying, PUP, and more.

From Peaer to Kanye, The Alternative staff weighs in on #50-26 of their Top 50 albums of 2016.

The winners of our 4th annual The Alternative Music Awards. Categories are: Best Debut, Best Non-LP, Most Underrated and Album of the Year.

Check out Nick's 10 favorite albums of the year including releases from Sumac, TTNG, and the final release from the legend David Bowie.

Henderson's top 20 albums of the year. Including Prince Daddy and The Hyena, Pinegrove, Strange Ranger, Danny Brown, LKFCCT and many more.

Riley lays out his 50 favorite songs from 2016 covering a wide range of genres and including tracks from Secret Space, Kanye West, Into It Over It, Danny Brown and many more!

The amount of music I have been exposed to this year has been almost overwhelming. I spent a good portion of this year letting myself wander the United States and finding music that emotionally struck a vein in me. It’s been difficult, but this list has been created to what I listened to the most this year, and still enjoy to this day. I am about to get a giraffe tattoo’d on me, enjoy.

Ethan lays out his 5 favorite records of the year including albums from Left and Right, Chance The Rapper, Whitney and more.

Ryan writes about his favorite albums from 2016 including records from ROMP, A Tribe Called Quest, Jeff Rosenstock and more!

Chris's favorite albums this year included records from You Blew It!, Old Gray, and Bon Iver. His list includes a nice mix of pop, punk, emo and indie. Take a look.

Songs by Car Seat Headrest, LVL Up, Japanese Breakfast, Bellows, Brand New, and Childish Gambino are among editor Eli Enis' favorites of the year.

Check out our 6 nominees for each of our 4 awards (Album of the Year, Best Non-LP, Most Underrated, and Best Debut Record)!!

Culture Abuse, letlive, Two Inch Astronaut, Jeff Rosenstock, Pup, Dikembe, and Everytime I Die are among Steven's favorite records of the year.

Riley writes about his top albums of the year including records from Kanye West, Jimmy Eat World, Car Seat Headrest, Andy Shauf and many many more.