Top 100 Kosmik Artists of 2013

Based on frequency of play & total airtime on the program

(N) = released a new album in 2013
 
1   The Stark Reality USA  (N - reissue box set)
2   Meat Puppets USA  (N)
3   Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention USA
4   Black Sabbath
UK  (N)
5   Sonic Youth/Chelsea Light Moving/Body-Head/Lee Ranaldo & The Dust USA  (N - albums by 3 spin-off bands)
6   Eleanor Friedberger/The Fiery Furnaces
USA  (N)
7   Earthling Society
UK  (N)
8   White Fence USA  (N - studio and live albums)
9   Scott Walker USA/UK
10 Lumerians USA  (N)
   
11   Wolf People UK  (N)
12   Parliament/Funkadelic
USA
13   Neil Young
Canada  (N - live archive recordings)
14   Chrome
USA  (N)
15   Tom Jones
UK-Wales  (N)
16   Ty Segall/Fuzz
USA  (N - solo and new band Fuzz)
17   Charles Bradley
USA  (N)
18   Thee Oh Sees
USA  (N - new album and Singles Collection Vol. 3)
19   Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/John Cale
USA/UK-Wales
20   The Orb
UK  (N - EP with Lee Scratch Perry)
 
21   Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
USA  (N - archival recordings)
22   Grant Hart/Husker Du
USA  (N - Grant Hart album)
23   Kurt Vile
USA  (N - new album and two EP's)
24   Mystical Weapons
USA  (N - album and EP)
25   Jimi Hendrix
USA
26   Grateful Dead
USA  (N - Sunshine Daydream finally officially released)
27   Kraftwerk
Germany
28   Cave
USA  (N)
29   The Free Design
USA
30   Matmos
USA  (N)
 
31   David Bowie
UK  (N)
32   The Black Angels
USA  (N)
33   Miles Davis
USA
34   Pink Floyd
UK
35   Sly & The Family Stone
USA  (N - box set reissue)
36   James Brown
USA
37   Uriah Heep
UK
38   Brian Eno/Roxy Music
UK
39   Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
USA
40   Don Ellis
USA
   
41    Os Mutantes Brazil  (N)
42    Pere Ubu
USA  (N)
43    Daphni
Canada  (N)
44    La Machine
USA  (N)
45    Camper Van Beethoven
USA  (N)
46    David Lynch
USA  (N)
47    Quasimoto (Madlib)
USA  (N)
48    Fela Kuti
Nigeria
49    Yes
UK
50    Swans
USA
   
51    Talking Heads
USA
52    Architectural Metaphor
USA  (N)
53    The Stooges/Iggy Pop
USA  (N)
54    Van der Graaf Generator
UK
55    Six Organs of Admittance
USA
56    Pond
Australia  (N)
57    Todd Rundgren/Utopia
USA  (N)
58    Can
Germany
59    Jefferson Airplane
USA
60    The Byrds
USA
 
61    Melvins
USA  (N)
62    Akron-Family/Cy Dune
USA  (N - Akron album, Dune EP)
63    My Bloody Valentine
Ireland/UK  (N - first new album since 1991!)
64    Stereolab/Laetitia Sadier
UK/France
65    The Shaggs/Dot Wiggin Band
USA  (N - debut of the Dot Wiggin Band)
66    Budos Band/Menahan Street Band
USA
67    Crocodiles
USA  (N)
68    King Tuff
USA  (N)
69    Enoch Light
USA
70    Dr. John
USA
   
71    MV & EE
USA
72    Grand Funk Railroad
USA
73    Bob Dylan
USA
74    Boredoms
Japan
75    Steve Hillage
UK
76    Black Oak Arkansas
USA  (N)
77    The Who
UK
78    The Beatles/solo
USA  (N - new Paul McCartney album)
79    Fuck Buttons
UK  (N)
80    Fairport Convention
UK
   
81    Lothar & The Hand People
USA
82    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks/Pavement
USA
83    Larry Coryell
USA  (N)
84    Chester Thompson
USA  (N)
85    Emerson Lake & Palmer
UK
86    Steve Miller Band
USA
87    Curtis Mayfield
USA
88    Eternal Tapestry
USA
89    William Shatner
Canada  (N)
90    Love
USA
   
91    The Pixies
USA  (N - EP)
92    Glowpeople
UK
93    The Guess Who
Canada
94    Tame Impala
Australia
95    Califone
USA  (N)
96    Ducktails
USA  (N - album and EP)
97    The Isley Brothers
USA
98    The Sex Pistols
UK
99    Joni Mitchell
Canada
100  The Walking Faces
USA  (N)
   
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101   Mission Of Burma USA
102   The Zombies/Argent
UK  (N - new Zombies album!)
103   Klaatu
Canada
104   MGMT
USA  (N)
105   Motorhead
UK  (N)
106   Shuggie Otis
USA  (N - reissue)
107   Faust
Germany
108   Woods
USA
109   Mind Spiders
USA
110   The Animals
UK
 
111   Second Family Band
USA  (N)
112   Man
UK-Wales
113   Rodd Keith
USA
114   Triumvirat
Germany
115   Santana
USA/Mexico
116   Caravan
UK
117   Nisennenmondai  
Japan  (N)
118   Queen
UK
119   Sun Ra
USA
120   Karlheinz Stockhausen
Germany
      

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