This feature is really born out of my own music playlists… I thought I would take my latest current playlist and break it down to music that was published in 2013 and limit it to 50 songs. Also, the songs have to be off of albums that came out in 2013 (not singles released in 2013 for albums that debuted in 2012). My only other restriction was limiting it to no more than one song per artist. Oh, and no covers… Included is a lot of music that I enjoy that likely include artists that some readers have never heard of, so hopefully this will result in some people finding new music and new artists. The songs are not ranked in an order of preference, but more in a flowing, playlist style. In any event, 2013 is a great year for new music…
The Top 50 Best Songs of 2013 (so far…)
Below is my suggested playlist for new music in 2013 (run time 3 hours 37 minutes):
| SONG TITLE | ARTIST | |
| 1 | Heaven and All | R. Levon Been, Dave Grohl & Peter Hayes |
| 2 | R U Mine? | Arctic Monkeys |
| 3 | BAGBOY | PIXIES |
| 4 | Are You Satisfied? | Reignwolf |
| 5 | Sacrilege | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| 6 | Shut Up | Savages |
| 7 | Adelaide | Meg Myers |
| 8 | Goons (Baby, I Need It All) | Mona |
| 9 | Stompa | Serena Ryder |
| 10 | Ways To Go | Grouplove |
| 11 | Hellbent | New Order |
| 12 | Welcome To My World | Depeche Mode |
| 13 | Broken Record | Little Boots |
| 14 | I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) | Icona Pop |
| 15 | Hurricane | MS MR |
| 16 | Dance Bear | Snakadaktal |
| 17 | Honey | CSS |
| 18 | Set Me Free (Feel My Pain) | Charli XCX |
| 19 | Black Out Days | Phantogram |
| 20 | Fever Dream | Young Summer |
| 21 | Tiff (feat. Justin Vernon) | Policia |
| 22 | The Light (feat. Rachael Dadd) | Tythe |
| 23 | One Girl / One Boy | !!! |
| 24 | All the Love | AM & Shawn Lee |
| 25 | Get Lucky (Radio Edit) [feat. Pharrell Williams] | Daft Punk |
| 26 | Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu) | Janelle Monae |
| 27 | Imagine It Was Us | Jessie Ware |
| 28 | Latch (feat. Sam Smith) | Disclosure |
| 29 | All You’re Waiting For (feat. Nancy Whang) | Classixxx |
| 30 | On My Own (12″ Version) | Zero 7 |
| 31 | Copy of A | Nine Inch Nails |
| 32 | Evil Eye | Franz Ferdinand |
| 33 | Like A Stranger | Kitten |
| 34 | Animal | Berlin |
| 35 | Thursday [feat. Example] | Pet Shop Boys |
| 36 | Ghosts and Creatures | Telekinesis |
| 37 | Need U (100%) [feat. A*M*E*] | Duke Dumont |
| 38 | Come Walk With Me | M.I.A. |
| 39 | Right As Rain | Alison Moyet |
| 40 | Over the Love | Florence + The Machine |
| 41 | Let Us Move On (feat. Kendrick Lamar) | Dido |
| 42 | Christopher Street | Tanya Donelly |
| 43 | Counting Stars | OneRepublic |
| 44 | California | Mazzy Star |
| 45 | Last Desire | Coves |
| 46 | Moto | Sky Larkin |
| 47 | Purple Yellow Red and Blue | Portugal. The Man |
| 48 | Howl | Beward of Darkness |
| 49 | Hate The Taste | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
| 50 | Together | The xx |
Streaming-only (not available for download), I would also include:
Christine and The Queens Remixx by Mike D, via Humberto Vs The New Reactionaries (stream on SoundCloud).
I would be interested in hearing about new music from 2013 not on this list, and that other people enjoy… I only hear what I find, so I’m sure there is a lot of great new music out there that I have not heard.
Jason DeBord