Dean's List: 2020

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1. Hanging Tree Guitars (Music Maker Relief Foundation)
2. Run the Jewels: RTJ4 (BMG Rights Management)
3. Group Doueh & Cheveu: Dakhla Sahara Session (Born Bad '17)
4. Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)
5. Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20)
6. Backxwash: Deviancy (Grimalkin '19)
7. Billy Nomates: Billy Nomates (Invada)
8. Dramarama: Color TV (Pasadena)
9. Lori McKenna: The Balladeer (CN/Thirty Tigers)
10. Wussy: Ghosts (self-released)
11. Black Thought & Salaam Remi: Streams of Thought Vol. 2 (Human Re Sources/Passyunk Productions '18)
12. Peter Stampfel and the Bottle Caps: Demo '84 (Don Giovanni)
13. The Human Hearts: Day of the Tiles (self-released)
14. Martin Creed: Thoughts Lined Up (Telephone '16)
15. Sam Hunt: Southside (MCA Nashville)
16. Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
17. Young M.A: Herstory in the Making (M.A Music/3D '19)
18. Bktherula: Nirvana (Warner)
19. Public Enemy: What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? (Def Jam)
20. Taylor Swift: Evermore (Republic)
21. Sad13: Haunted Painting (Carpark)
22. Guiss Guiss Bou Bess: Set Sela (Helico)
23. Ashley McBryde: Never Will (Warner Music Nashville)
24. McCarthy Trenching: Perfect Game (self-released)
25. 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band: Live at Tubby's (self-released)
26. Kirby Heard: Mama's Biscuits (CDBaby '19)
27. Black Thought: Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Able (Republic)
28. Eminem: Music to Be Murdered By (Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath)
29. Hinds: The Prettiest Curse (Mom + Pop)
30. Les Amazones d'Afrique: Amazones Power (RealWorld)
31. Yonic South: Twix and Dive (La Tempesta)
32. The Chicks: Gaslighter (Columbia)
33. Black Thought: Streams of Thought Vol. 1 (Human Re Sources '18)
34. Elizabeth Cook: Aftermath (Agent Love/Thirty Tigers)
35. Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud (Merge)
36. X: Alphabetland (Fat Possum)
37. Serengeti: With Greg From Deerhoof (Joyful Noise)
38. Haim: Women in Music Pt. III (Columbia)
39. Brandy Clark: Your Life Is a Record (Warner Bros.)
40. Princess Nokia: Everything Is Beautiful (Platoon)
41. On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford (LoHi)
42. Kehlani: It Was Good Until It Wasn't (Atlantic)
43. Phoebe Bridgers: If We Make It Through December (Dead Oceans)
44. Will Butler: Generations (Merge)
45. Sunny Sweeney: Live at the Machine Shop (Aunt Daddy)
46. New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to Nola (Putumayo)
47. Dream Wife: So When You Gonna . . . (Lucky Number)
48. Hamell on Trial: The Pandemic Songs (Saustex)
49. Low Cut Connie: Private Lives (Contender)
50. Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow: In the Wake of Memories (Clermont Music)
51. City Girls: City on Lock (Quality Control/Motown)
52. Clem Snide: Forever Just Beyond (Ramseur/Thirty Tigers)
53. Chicago Farmer: Flyover Country (chicagofarmer.com)
54. Justin Farren: Pretty Free (Bad Service Badger)
55. Munson-Hicks Party Supplies: Munson-Hicks Party Supplies (Soft Launch)
56. Fontaines D.C.: A Hero's Death (Partisan)
57. Ka: Descendants of Cain (Iron Works)
58. Toots and the Maytals: Got to Be Tough (Trojan America)
59. Open Mike Eagle: Anime Trauma and Divorce (Auto Reverse)
60. Drive-By Truckers: The Unraveling (ATO)
61. No Age: Goons Be Gone (Drag City)
62. Lil Wayne: Funeral (Young Money '19)
63. Etran de l'Aïr: No. 1 (Sahel Sounds '18)
64. Westside Gunn: Pray for Paris (Griselda)
65. Hayes Carll: Alone Together Sessions (Dualtone)
66. Dawn Oberg: 2020 Revision (self-released)
67. Serengeti & Kenny Segal: Ajai (Cohn Corporation)
68. Grrrl Gang: Here to Stay! (Damnably)
69. Chad Matheny: United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobics (self-released)
70. Al Bilali Soudan: Tombouctou (Clermont Music)
71. Mannequin Pussy: Patience (Epitaph '19)

And It Don't Stop, Jan. 27, 2021

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