It's time for our annual countdown of the top local releases of the year, as determined by a count of spins by all of our WXDU DJs.
Numbers 68-36 are being counted down Sunday 12/27 from 4-6 p.m, and numbers 35-1 will be counted down on Sunday 1/3, again from 4-6 p.m.
Unfortunately, there isn't enough airtime to count down all 124 releases, so here are the lower 56:
69: Polyorchard: Color Theory in Black and White
70: Lowland Hum: Lowland Hum
71: Patois Counselors: Patois Counselors 7"
72: No Love Dogs//Wolves 7"
73: Bandway: Buddies
74: Elephant Micah: Where in Our Woods
75: Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends: Nobody's Darlin'
76: Lack: Atemporal
77: American Aquarium: Wolves
78: Monologue Bombs: Single
79: Ruscha: 2015 EP
80: 6 String Drag: Roots Rock N Roll
81: Boneslinger: Boneless Cuts
82: Dogs Eyes: 2015 EP
83: Mandolin Orange: Such Jubilee
84: Terrace Heater: Harris Teeter
85: AL Riggs and The Inconveniences: And I You
86: Alpha Cop: Acid Cop
87: Magnolia Collective: Coldest Winter
88: Songs from the Road Band: Traveling Show
89: Tashi Dorji: Appa
90: Villages: Procession Acts
91: Canine Heart: Sounds Live on the Moon
92: Greg Hawks: What Goes Around
93: Weedeater: Goliathan
94: Lost Trail: One Day We'll All Walk Outside and Stare Up at the Blameless Sky and Wait for Something to Happen
95: Malcolm Holcombe: The RCA Sessions
96: Patrick Gallagher: Entomochore
97: Ugly Americans: Panopticon
98: Wes Tirey: Journeyer/Forward, Melancholy Dream
99: Family Bike: Everything You Own is Anagrammed
100: Honeycutters: Me oh My
101: Mac McCaughan: Non-Believers
102: Suppressive Fire: Hellwraith
103: The Bastages: Scavenger Birdsongs
104: Alright: 7"
105: Barrett Brooks: Solitary Americana
106: Eldritch Horror: Untouched by the Sun
107: Ella Bertram: Shiny & Brite
108: Eric + Erica: 7"
109: Irata: Sweet Loris
110: ISS: ISS
111: Noctomb: Obulus for Charon
112: Tellico: Relics and Roses
113: Michael Rank & Stag: Horsehair
114: Necrocosm: Damnation Doctrine
115: Raymond Fairchild: King of the Smoky Mountain Banjo Players
116: The Malpass Brothers: The Malpass Brothers
117: Dogbane: When Karma Comes Calling
118: Schooner/Can't Kids: Split 7"
119: Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow is My Turn
120: Temperance League: The Night Waits
121: The Old One-Two: Foxbones
122: Rob Nance: Signal Fires
123: Josh Moore: Parted Ways
124: Sinfonietta Fukushima: Sinfonietta Fukushima