Top 10 Debut Albums
- Shame – Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans)
- Soccer Mommy – Clean (Fat Possum)
- Snail Mail – Lush (Matador)
- Lapel – Periphery (S/R)
- Tash Sultana – Flow State (Mom + Pop)
- Miya Folick – Premonitions (Interscope)
- serpentwithfeet – Soil (Secretly Canadian)
- Superorganism – Superorganism (Domino)
- Tom Misch – Geography (Beyond the Groove)
- Post Animal – When I Think of You in a Castle (Polyvinyl)
Top 10 Local Releases
- Shannon and the Clams – Onion (Nonesuch)
- Elder Brother – Stay Inside (Pure Noise)
- DonCat – Preservation of the Spirit (Marble Eye)
- Pllush – Stranger to the Pain (Father/Daughter)
- Tanukichan – Sundays (Company)
- Lapel – Periphery (S/R)
- Madeline Kenney – Perfect Shapes (Carpark)
- Rose Droll – Your Dog (Father/Daughter)
- Jay Stone – Calibration of an Altered Mind (West Grand)
- Fine Points – Take Shape (Dine Alone)
Top 10 Local Shows (Non-festival)
- Jeff Rosenstock – Great American Music Hall, 2/22
- Noah Gunderson – Sweetwater Music Hall, 2/24
- Fleet Foxes – The Greek Theatre, 4/20
- Courtney Barnett – August Hall, 5/6
- We Are Scientists – The Chapel, 7/10
- Geographer – The Fillmore, 7/28
- Foxing – Bottom of the Hill, 9/19
- Lapel – Cafe du Nord, 10/11
- Boy Genius – Fox Theater, 11/27
- Nine Inch Nails – Bill Graham Civic, 12/4
