Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2011
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2011
1 Neil Young / CSNY / Buffalo Springfield Canada (N - archival concert release)
2 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention USA (N - posthumous releases)
3 Guzzo Pinc / The Longsleeves / Los Zombies / Deathcock USA (N - with The Longsleeves and Los Zombies)
4 Parliament / Funkadelic USA
5 Sonic Youth / Thurston Moore USA (N)
6 Sun Araw USA (N - two albums and more cassettes)
7 Van Der Graaf Generator UK (N)
8 The Grateful Dead USA (N - more concert archives)
9 Miles Davis USA
10 Spectrum UK
11 Daughters Of The Sun USA (N - also solo cassettes and reissue of first album)
12 Jimi Hendrix USA (N - posthumous release)
13 Lunar Dunes UK (N)
14 Peaking Lights USA (N)
15 The Black Angels USA (N - reissue of early EP's)
16 Meat Puppets USA (N)
17 Moon Duo USA (N)
18 Jefferson Airplane USA
19 Baby Woodrose / Dragontears Denmark (N - reissues)
20 Pink Floyd UK (N - deluxe reissues)
21 The Beatles UK
22 High Wolf / Annapurna Illusion France (N - albums under both names)
23 The 13th Floor Elevators / Roky Erikson USA
24 White Hills USA (N - also assorted limited edition releases)
25 Solus 3 UK (N)
26 5-Track USA (N - web singles & EP's)
27 The Feelies USA (N)
28 The Black Lips USA (N)
29 White Fence USA (N)
30 Caravan UK
31 The Moody Blues UK
32 Black Tempest UK (N)
33 MV & EE USA (N)
34 Lumerians USA (N)
35 KISS USA
36 Hot Tuna USA (N - first studio album in almost 20 years!)
37 Black Sabbath UK
38 The Byrds USA
39 Sly & The Family Stone USA
40 Grand Funk Railroad USA
41 XTC / The Dukes of Stratosphear UK
42 Akron/Family USA (N)
43 Blue Oyster Cult USA
44 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Pavement USA (N)
45 Graveyard Sweden (N)
46 Mike Watt USA (N)
47 The Isley Brothers USA
48 Second Family Band USA (N - cassettes)
49 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band USA
50 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK
51 Can Germany
52 Nektar UK/Germany
53 Flower Travellin' Band Japan
54 King Crimson UK
55 Fela Kuti Nigeria
56 Emerson Lake & Palmer UK
57 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group / The Mars Volta USA (N - using ORLG name these days)
58 Scott Walker USA/UK
59 Sun Ra USA
60 Yes UK
61 Traffic USA (N)
62 Bardo Pond USA (N - album from late 2010 actually)
63 Grails USA (N)
64 Eric Burdon & The Animals UK
65 Joan Of Arc USA (N)
66 Brian Eno UK (N)
67 The Fiery Furnaces / Eleanor Friedberger USA (N - solo albums by Eleanor & Matthew)
68 Cranium Pie UK (N)
69 Black Moth Super Rainbow USA
70 Magma France
71 Psychedelic Horseshit USA (N)
72 Donovan UK-Scotland
73 Wire UK (N)
74 Thee Oh Sees USA (N - two albums)
75 Jonathan Richman / The Modern Lovers USA (N - another late 2010 album)
76 Spirit / Randy California USA
77 The Luck Of Eden Hall USA (N - two albums)
78 John Coltrane USA
79 Faust Germany
80 BeBop Deluxe UK
81 Residual Echoes USA
82 Earthling Society UK (N)
83 Genesis UK
84 Boris Japan (N - three new albums!)
85 Jade Warrior / July UK
86 Rotary Connection USA
87 Ash Ra Tempel Germany
88 The Incredible String Band UK
89 The Hanna Barbarians USA (N)
90 Mr. Free & The Satellite Freakout USA (N)
91 Master Musicians Of Bukkake USA (N)
92 Redbone USA
93 Patti Smith USA (N - greatest hits compilation)
94 James Brown USA
95 Sonny Sharrock USA
96 Earth Wind & Fire USA
97 Herbie Mann USA
98 Cheer-Accident USA (N)
99 Wooden Shjips USA (N)
100 Hawkwind UK
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Konono Nš1 Dem. Rep. of Congo
102 Jex Thoth / Sabbath Assembly USA
103 MC5 USA
104 Wolf People UK
105 Glow (formerly Neotopia) UK
106 Budgie UK-Wales
107 Yuck UK (N)
108 Edgar Broughton Band UK
109 Rocket From The Tombs USA (N)
110 Fusioon Spain (N - reissue from 1970's
111 The Grand Astoria Russia (N)
112 Radio Moscow USA (N)
113 The Guess Who Canada
114 Three Man Army UK
115 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Australia (N - collection of singles & rarities)
116 Hush Arbors USA
117 Beady Eye UK (N)
118 Smoke Fairies UK (N)
119 The Budos Band USA
120 Joni Mitchell Canada
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