- Weezer
- Turn blue, The Black Keys
- Her Majesty, the Decemberists
- Within and without, Washed Out
- The Nashville sound, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
- Modern vampires of the city, Vampire Weekend
- 19, Adele
- Sunshine state of mind, We the Kings
- Naked, Talking Heads
- Naive, Andy Grammer
- Finding it hard to smile, Lovelytheband
- It's blitz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- The 2nd law, Muse
- American utopia, David Byrne
- The bitter truth, Evanescence
- Blurryface, Twenty One Pilots
- First blood, Nobunny
- Silverball, Barenaked Ladies
- Save rock and roll, Fall Out Boy
- Ceremonials, Florence + The Machine
- Salad days, Mac Demarco
- Dreams in the rat house, Shannon and the Clams
- Destroyer of the void, Blitzen Trapper
- Heights, Walk the Moon
- Weezer
- Make yourself, Incubus
- Black hours, Hamilton Leithauser
- Believers never die, greatest hits, Fall Out Boy, V. 2
- Gorilla manor, Local Natives
- Boxes, the Goo Goo Dolls
- De Stijl, the White Stripes
- Daddy's home, St. Vincent
- Heart of nowhere, Noah and the Whale
- Pacific daydream, Weezer
- The slow rush, Tame Impala
- Deer Creek Canyon, Sera Cahoone
- The year of magical drinking, Apex Manor
- 180/365, OK Go
- Lighthouse, David Crosby
- Everything hits at once, the best of Spoon
- Concrete and gold, Foo Fighters
- Southeastern, Jason Isbell
- Death by rock and roll, Pretty Reckless
- Up to now, Snow Patrol
- A moon shaped pool, Radiohead
- A different kind of fix, Bombay Bicycle Club
- Optica, Shout Out Louds
- All the light above it too, Jack Johnson
- --Something to be, Rob Thomas
- Smart Bar, Chicago 1985, Sonic Youth