For our first show in 2H, 2013, and our first show in our second year, and our first show with the Pirate lost for 6 weeks, we do a retrospective of the Best of 2013 So Far. In the first half of 2013 we played over 100 of the best songs that have been released this year, and we pared it down to the best of the best right here:

Devendra Banhart || Fur Hildegard von Bingen
Bombino || Amidinine
Willow Beats || Alchemy
Them Bird Things || Pachyderm Nightmare

Yeah Yeah Yeahs || Under The Earth
Radar Brothers || Bottle Song
Corduroi || Mainomai
La Femme || La femme
Unknown Mortal Orchestra || Swim and Sleep

Thee Oh Sees || Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster
How To Destroy Angels || Ice age
The Knife || A Tooth for an Eye
Redfoot || Make it Quick

Suuns || Edie's Dream
Kovacs and the Polar Bear || Dandelion
When Saints Go Machine || Infinity Killer
Buke & Gase || Contortion in Training
STRFKR || Beach Monster
Youth Lagoon || Attic Doctor
Wavves || Everything Is My Fault

Akron/Family || Sand Time
Kishi Bashi || A Sunday Smile (by Beirut)
Beck || Defriended
Keaton Henson || You
Grouper || Living Room
Weirds || Crocodile
Jacco Gardner || The Ballad of Little Jane

Helado Negro || Dance Ghost
Atoms For Peace || Reverse Running
Criminal Hygiene || Alan, I'm In Love
Lapalux || O E A

Honorable Mentions that we didn't have time for:

Javelin || Intervales Theme
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper || Bird Balloons
Baths || Worsening
Jon Hopkins || We Disappear
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down || We the Common (For Valerie Bolden)
Adam Green || Casanova
Carmen Villain || Easy