Dan's Top Ten Albums Of 2024:

Floating Points - Cascade
Rich Ruth - Water Still Flows
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers OST
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
High Vis - Guided Tour
Office Dog - Spiel
Omni - Souvenir
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God

5 all time favorite albums

Hüsker Dü – “Zen Arcade”
Brian Eno – “Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)”
The Replacements – “Tim”
Sisters of Mercy – “Floodland”
New Order – “Low-Life”

The manager of the ragtag Fingerprints team, Dan Pearson is a total movie nerd who enjoys curating the store’s expansive film section. Dan co-hosts a movie-themed podcast with co-worker Andrew Diehm dubbed “2002: A Film Odyssey.”

Will's Top Ten Albums of 2019

1. The Comet Is Coming "Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery"
2. Mispyrming "Algleymi"
3. Purple Mountains "Purple Mountains"
4. Carter Tutti Void "Triumvirate"
5. Gong Gong Gong "Phantom Rhythm"
6. Murg "Strävan"
7. Earth "Full Upon Her Burning Lips"
8. Jambinai "Onda"
9. Black Midi "Schlagenheim"
10. Kim Gordon "No Home Record"

5 all time favorite albums

Manchester Orchestra – “Mean Everything to Nothing”
Thrice – “Vheissu”
Thursday – “Full Collapse”
Copeland – “Beneath the Medicine Tree”
Between the Buried and Me – “Colors”

Brandon is a Long Beach native, former touring musician and avid concert goer with extensive vinyl, tour shirt and tour poster collections. He has been a reporter and photojournalist in the city for nearly a decade — with the Long Beach Business Journal/Long Beach Post from 2016 to 2024 before co-founding the Long Beach Watchdog in 2024 with other former Post staffers. You can see his work at lbwatchdog.com or @lbwatchdog and @brandon_e_photography on Instagram.

Frank's Top Ten Albums of 2021:

Durand Jones and The Indications Private Space
Hasaan Ibn Ali Retrospect In Retirement Of Delay: The Solo Recordings
Flying Lotus Yasuke
Adrian Younge The American Negro
V/A People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Songbook
V/A Jazz Is Dead Volume 10 - The Remixes
V/A Cuba: Music And Revolution Volume 2
Mndsgn Rare Pleasure
Melissa Carper Daddy's Country Gold
Damu The Fudgemunk Conversation Peace

Megan's Top Albums from 2022

White Lung Premonition
Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever
The Linda Lindas Growing Up
Wet Leg Wet Leg
First Aid Kit Palomino
Orville Peck Bronco
Otoboke Beaver Super Champon
Beach Bunny Emotional Creature
Plains I Walked With You A Ways
The Beths Expert In A Dying Field

Megan makes "counterfeit cacti" aka crocheted plants and other fun stuff for sale 

William's Top Albums of 2021

A TIE between Conny Frischauf Die Drift and Vanishing Twin Ookii Gekkou
Sault Nine (actually he recommends their ENTIRE CATALOG!)
Archie Shepp, Raw Poetic, and Damu the Fudgemunk Ocean Bridges
Grouper Shade
Exek Good Thing They Ripped Up The Carpet
E*Vax E*Vax
His Name Is Alive Hope Is A Candle
John Carroll Kirby Septet
Madlib & Kieran Hebden Sound Ancestors
Gel Set Tone Invasion

5 all time favorite albums

Amy Winehouse – “Back to Black”
Mazzy Star – “So Tonight That I Might See”
Interpol – “Antics”
Jeff Buckley – “Grace”
Air – “Moon Safari”

5 all time favorite albums

Jack White – “Lazaretto”
Phoebe Bridgers – “Punisher”
“The Royal Tenenbaums” O.S.T.
The Doors – “The Doors”
Gorillaz – “Plastic Beach”

Gaia is a student at Cal State Long Beach studying music education and is a classically trained cellist in the university’s symphony orchestra. She enjoys live music and goes to shows as often as possible.

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5 all time favorite albums

Rush – “A Farewell to Kings”
Lamp – “Genso”
Digable Planets – “Blowout Comb”
Sufjan Stevens – “Illinois”
Beach Boys – “Pet Sounds”

5 all time favorite albums

SOPHIE – “OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES”
FKA twigs – LP1
SBTRKT – “SBTRKT”
Miquel – “All I Want Is You”
bôa – “Twilight”

5 all time favorite albums

Madvillaiin – “Madvillainy”
Pink Floyd - “A Saucerful of Secrets”
The Avalanches - “Since I Left You”
Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night”
Crystal Castles - “Crystal Castles”

David's Top Ten Albums of 2024:

Geordie Greep - The New Sound
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Soul Makossa
Melt Banana - 3+5
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Aurora - What Happened To The Heart?
Floating Points - Cascade
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy
Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head
Prison Affair - EP 4

5 all time favorite albums

Green Day - Insomniac
Superdrag - Head Trip in Every Key
The Eels - Electroshock Blues
NOFX – “War on Errorism”
St. Vincent – “St. Vincent”