Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2017
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2017
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N - FIVE new studio albums!)
2 (Thee) Oh Sees / OCS / Damaged Bug (John Dwyer) USA (N - one album apiece by Oh Sees, OCS and Damaged Bug)
3 Sonic Youth / Lee Ranaldo / Thurston Moore USA (N - solo albums from Lee & Thurston)
4 Neil Young Canada (N - archival release and collaboration with Promise Of The Real)
5 Ty Segall USA (N - album and an EP)
6 Can Germany (N - compilation of 7" single mixes)
7 Frank Zappa USA
8 (Sandy) Alex G USA (N)
9 Pink Floyd UK (N - releasing separate pieces of last year's mammoth box set)
10 Parliament-Funkadelic USA
11 Moon Duo USA (N - two albums)
12 OOIOO / SAICOBAB (Yoshimi) Japan (N - debut by SAICOBAB, reissues)
13 Woods USA (N)
14 Chuck Berry USA (N - his final album, featuring his first new songs since 1979)
15 Charles Bradley USA
16 The Byrds USA
17 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band USA
18 Deerhoof USA/Japan (N)
19 Ariel Pink USA (N)
20 The Monkees / Mike Nesmith USA/UK
21 Hampton Grease Band USA
22 Steely Dan USA
23 The Feelies USA (N)
24 Laetitia Sadier / Stereolab France/UK (N)
25 Jimi Hendrix USA
26 Faust Germany (N)
27 Once & Future Band USA (N)
28 Husker Du / Grant Hart USA (N - Husker Du box set of early material)
29 Guru Guru Germany
30 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK (N - new Crosby album)
31 Wolf People UK (N)
32 The Black Angels USA (N)
33 Liars Australia (N)
34 The Striped Bananas USA (N)
35 Guided By Voices USA (N - two albums)
36 Grateful Dead USA
37 Earthling Society UK (N)
38 75 Dollar Bill USA (N)
39 Sun Araw USA (N)
40 The Beatles UK
41 Nina Hagen Germany
42 James Brown USA
43 Wand USA (N)
44 Melvins USA (N)
45 Peaking Lights USA (N)
46 Dungen Sweden (N)
47 David Bowie UK (N - posthumous EP)
48 Fairport Convention / Sandy Denny UK
49 Kurt Vile USA (N - collaboration with Courtney Barnett)
50 Amon Duul II Germany
51 Dinosaur jr. USA
52 Parquet Courts USA (N - collaboration with Danielle Luppi)
53 Wire UK (N)
54 Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel USA (N)
55 Curtis Mayfield USA
56 Sly & The Family Stone USA
57 Flo & Eddie USA
58 Jefferson Airplane USA
59 Big Brother & The Holding Company USA
60 Thundercat USA (N)
61 Joni Mitchell Canada
62 Killdozer USA
63 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings USA (N - posthumous release)
64 Wood Chickens USA (N)
65 Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas USA (N - Captain Beefheart tribute)
66 Duds UK (N)
67 Miles Davis USA
68 The Allman Brothers Band USA
69 Bob Dylan USA (N)
70 Black Sabbath UK
71 Goose Creek Symphony USA
72 The Luck Of Eden Hall USA
73 Three Man Army / Gun UK
74 T. Rex UK
75 Promise Of The Real USA (N - new album and collaboration with Neil Young)
76 Buddy Miles USA
77 Santana USA/Mexico
78 The Moody Blues UK
79 All Them Witches USA (N)
80 Gypsy USA
81 Purling Hiss USA (N)
82 Wishbone Ash UK
83 NEU! Germany
84 Uncle Acid & the deadbeats UK (N - reissue of first album)
85 ORB Australia (N)
86 Madura USA
87 Ten Wheel Drive USA
88 Metallica USA
89 5-Track USA (N - EP)
90 A Tribe Called Quest USA
91 Bobby Conn USA
92 Deep Purple UK
93 Four Tet UK (N)
94 The Doors USA
95 Jade Warrior UK
96 The Guess Who Canada
97 Mondo Drag USA (N)
98 Strawberry Alarm Clock USA
99 The Velvet Underground USA/UK (Wales)
100 Six Organs of Admittance USA (N)
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 The Fall UK (N)
102 The Claypool-Lennon Delirium USA (N - EP)
103 Courtney Barnett USA (N - collaboration with Kurt Vile)
104 Black Oak Arkansas USA
105 Rare Earth USA
106 Rush Canada
107 Squarewave USA
108 Graham Central Station USA
109 Butthole Surfers USA
110 The Suns of Thyme Germany (N)
111 Alice Cooper USA (N)
112 The Sword USA (N - live album)
113 The Zombies / Argent UK
114 Daryl Hall & John Oates USA
115 The Stooges / Iggy Pop USA
116 Gang of Four UK
117 Triptides USA (N)
118 Camper Van Beethoven USA
119 Moby Grape USA
120 Queen UK
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