Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2015
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released new music in 2015
1 Ty Segall / Fuzz USA (N - live album, EP and Fuzz album)
2 Thee Oh Sees / Damaged Bug (John Dwyer) USA (N - new album by each)
3 Sonic Youth / solo USA
4 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention USA
5 Death USA (N - first "proper" studio album!)
6 Neil Young Canada (N - with Promise Of The Real)
7 Parliament / Funkadelic USA
8 Dungen Sweden (N)
9 Mondo Drag USA (N)
10 Ariel Pink USA
11 Wand USA (N - two albums)
12 Six Organs Of Admittance USA (N - two albums)
13 Black Mountain Canada (N - 10th anniversary reissue of debut album)
14 Melvins USA (N)
15 Pond Australia (N)
16 The Space Merchants USA (N)
17 Love USA (N - reissue)
18 Sleater-Kinney USA (N - first new album in over a decade!)
19 Koes Barat USA (N)
20 Eternal Tapestry USA (N)
21 Pink Floyd UK
22 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N)
23 Public Image Ltd. UK (N)
24 Grateful Dead USA (N - bunch more live archives)
25 Scott Walker USA/UK
26 Slayer USA (N)
27 Kurt Vile USA (N)
28 Dengue Fever USA/Cambodia (N)
29 The Fresh & Onlys USA (N - archival recordings from 2009)
30 Stereolab / Laetitia Sadier UK/France
31 Moon Duo USA (N)
32 Joni Mitchell Canada
33 Parquet Courts USA (N)
34 Beatles / solo UK
35 The Sword USA (N)
36 Of Montreal USA (N)
37 Alex G USA (N - at least two new albums)
38 Buffy St. Marie Canada (N)
39 Bob Dylan USA (N - more archives)
40 Mark McGuire USA (N)
41 Fairport Convention / Richard Thompson UK (N - Thompson solo)
42 The Band Canada/USA
43 Redbone USA
44 Jefferson Airplane USA
45 Wire UK (N)
46 Black Sabbath UK
47 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band USA
48 The Doors USA
49 Jade Warrior / July UK
50 Rush Canada
51 Children Of Leir UK (N - album and EP)
52 Country Joe & The Fish USA
53 The Byrds USA
54 Vangelis Greece
55 Buddy Miles USA
56 Brian Eno UK
57 Liars USA/Australia
58 The Feelies / Glenn Mercer USA (N - Mercer solo)
59 Motorhead UK
60 People Brothers Band USA (N)
61 John Carpenter USA (N)
62 The Amboy Dukes USA
63 Sly & The Family Stone USA
64 Speedy Ortiz USA (N)
65 Mission Of Burma USA
66 Jimi Hendrix USA
67 The Velvet Underground USA/UK(Wales)
68 White Fence / W-X (Tim Presley) USA (N)
69 Bearhug Australia (N)
70 The Pop Group UK (N)
71 Lou Barlow / Sebadoh USA (N - Barlow solo)
72 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Pavement USA
73 The Sonics USA (N)
74 Miles Davis USA
75 Kool Keith USA (N - collaboration with L'Orange)
76 Black Oak Arkansas USA
77 The Orb UK
78 Can Germany/Japan/USA
79 Robert Wyatt UK (N - old demos)
80 Judas Priest UK
81 Four Tet UK (N)
82 Kraftwerk Germany
83 Sunn O))) USA
84 Bitchin Bajas USA (N - EP and collaboration with Natural Information Society)
85 Yes UK
86 The Church Australia (N)
87 Earthling Society UK
88 Faust Germany
89 Chicago USA
90 Phil Manzanera UK
91 Budgie UK (Wales)
92 Thin Lizzy Ireland/UK
93 Traffic UK
94 Dweezil Zappa USA (N)
95 Floating Points UK (N)
96 Caravan UK
97 The Pink Fairies UK/Canada
98 Goose Creek Symphony USA
99 Suuns Canada (Quebec) (N)
100 Colorway USA (N )
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101 Lightning Bolt USA (N)
102 Tarot USA (N)
103 Prince USA
104 Royal Trux USA
105 Lucifer Germany/UK (N)
106 James Brown USA
107 (Eric Burdon &) The Animals UK
108 Curtis Mayfield USA
109 The Guess Who Canada
110 Blue Oyster Cult USA
111 Creedence Clearwater Revival USA
112 Isaac Hayes USA
113 Lighthouse Canada
114 The Stark Reality USA
115 Dust USA
116 Aphex Twin UK (N - EP)
117 Pentagram USA (N)
118 The 69 Cats USA/Finland (N)
119 Rotary Connection USA
120 Santana Mexico/USA
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