Best of 2024: Jon Jon’s Favorite Albums & Concerts

What a frickin’ year, right? Yikes. At least there was good music so let’s celebrate the albums, songs, and concerts we’ve loved most this year with our annual Reviler “Yearly Best of” year end wrap up. Below you can see Jon Jon’s favorite albums and concerts. 

Best National Records

Kendrick Lamar – GNX

Nilufer Yanya – My Method Actor

Schoolboy Q – Blue Lips

The Smile – Cutouts

Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80  – Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head)

Vince Staples – Dark Times

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

Black Star – No Fear of Time

Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Habibi – DreamMachine

Immanuel Wilkins – Blues Blood

SAULT – Acts of Faith

DIIV – Frog In Boiling Water

Black Thought & DangerMouse – Cheat Codes

Fourtet – Three

Best Minnesota Records

Dua Selah – I Should Call Them

Greg Grease – Mirage

Muja Messiah & Dub Sonata – Break The Stereo

The Muatas -Everything Everything Everything / Hurricane

L.A. Buckner & Big Homie – Norfside

Mally & The Last Word – The Sweetest of It All

Ant –  Collection of Sounds Vol. 1 / Collection of Sounds Vol. 2

Kavyesh Kaviraj – Fables

Soul Flower – Setlist

RRA – El Atlal ‎الأطلال

The Bad Plus – Complex Emotions

Scrunchies – Colossal

Xtina – Pheromones

Best Live Shows

PJ Harvey at The Palace – Oct 2nd 2024

Sampha at First Ave – April 6th 2024

Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few  – Dakota -June 16th, 2024