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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