Frank Kogan

And here is the Top 40 2013 Albums So Far list I put up on facebook a day later, followed by this disclaimer: "Way less hip-hop (none), K-pop (none), regional Mexican (none), dancehall (none) than my singles list so far. Way more metal. A good part of that is because of what I get paid to listen to these days, and what I get sent in the mail. I don't doubt that all of those genres have albums that would be on this list, if I actually had time to track down and hear them. I just don't know what they are, so feel free to tell me."

1. Ashley Monroe – Like A Rose (Warner Music Nashville)
2. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury)
3. Black Star Riders – All Hell Breaks Loose (Nuclear Blast)
4. Corsair – Corsair (Shadow Kingdom)
5. Mustasch – Sounds Like Hell, Feels Like Heaven (Metalville)
6. The Relatives – The Electric Word (Yep Roc)
7. Voivod – Target Earth (Century Media)
8. The Mavericks – In Time (Valory Music Co.)
9. Tom Keifer – The Way Life Goes (Merovee)
10. O.B. Buchana – Starting All Over (Ecko)
11. Pistol Annies – Annie Up (RCA)
12. Corsair – Ghosts Of Proxima Centauri (Shadow Kingdom)
13. Wayne Shorter Quartet – Without A Net (Blue Note)
14. Gary Allan – Set Me Free (MCA/Nashville)
15. Blood Ceremony – The Eldrtich Dark (Metal Blade)
16. Mothership – Mothership (Ripple)
17. Ceramic Dog – Your Turn (Northern Spy)
18. The Band Perry - Pioneer (Republic Nashville)
19. Hot Lunch – Hot Lunch (Tee Pee)
20. Teena Marie – Beautiful (Ume)
21. Lady Antebellum – Golden (Capitol Nashville)
22. Kadavar – Abra Kadavar (Nuclear Blast)
23. Manilla Road – Mysterium (Golden Road)
24. Piñata Protest – El Valiente (Saustex Media EP)
25. Five Horse Johnson – The Taking Of Black Heart (Small Stone)
26. (Various) – Twitch and Gloom: Dark Sounds From The Pacific Northwest (FlatField)
27. Shinyribs – Gulf Coast Museum (Nine Mile)
28. Clay Harper – Old Airport Road (Terminus)
29. Cauldron – Tomorrow’s Lost (Century Media/Earache)
30. Revelation – Inner Harbor (Shadow Kingdom)
31. Crime & the City Solution – American Twilight (Mute)
32. Bushman’s Revenge – Electric Komie – Live! (Rune Grammofon)
33. Stick Against Stone Orchestra – Get It All Out (MediaGroove)
34. Kill For Eden - Kill For Eden (Kill For Eden)
35. The Como Mamas – Get An Understanding (Daptone)
36. Holy Grail – Ride The Void (Prosthetic)
37. Gozu – The Fury Of A Patient Man (Small Stone)
38. Dug Pinnick – Naked (MVDaudio)
39. Hexvessel – Iron Marsh (Svart)
40. Ghost – Infestissumam (Seven Four Entertainment/Republic)