Best Songs of 2025: KSUT DJ & Staff Picks

KSUT Overall Plays
As recorded by Spinitron

• Sierra Hull, Boom (27 spins)
• Caamp, Let Things Go (17 spins)
• James Bay feat. Jon Batiste, Sunshine In The Room (17 spins)
• Lucy Dacus, Ankles, (17 spins)
• 5) ALO, Blank Canvas, (16 spins)
• Current Swell, I Got Mine, (16 spins)
• St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Sushi & Coca Cola, (16 spins)
• 8) Galactic & Irma Thomas, Where I Belong, (15 spins)
• Sharon Van Etten, Idiot Box, (15 spins)
• Taylor Rae, Cologne, (15 spins)

Chris Aaland
Development & Music Director, Music Blend Host
Tales of the New West Host

• Wet Leg, Catch These Fists
• I’m With Her, Wild And Clear And Blue
• Natalie Price, Monday & Tuesday
• Tyler Childers, Nose On The Grindstone
• Jason Isbell, Ride To Roberts
• Molly Tuttle, That’s Gonna Leave A Mark
• My Morning Jacket, Time Waited
• Maggie Rose & Grace Potter, Poison In My Well
• Sam Fender, People Watching
• Stillhouse Junkies, The Whiskey Works The Same In New York City

Tales of the New West

• Mavis Staples, Sad And Beautiful World
• Sunny Sweeney, Rhinestone Requiem
• Southern Avenue, Family
• I’m With Her, Wild And Clear And Blue
• Charley Crockett, Lonesome River
• 5B) Charley Crockett, Dollar A Day
• James McMurtry, The Black Dog And The Wandering Boy
• Joshua Headley, All Hat
• Molly Tuttle, So Long Little Miss Sunshine
• Neko Case, Neon Grey Midnight Green
• Stillhouse Junkies, The Ballad Of Charlie Avalon

Jessica Kirwan
Underwriting Director

• Hermanos Gutiérrez [Feat. Leon Bridges], Elegantly Wasted
• Jon Cleary, Just Kissed My Baby
• Say She She, Disco Life,
• Kurt Vile, Classic Love
• Ufos, Ufos
• Lettuce, Lettuce Rising to the Top
• Robert Plant, Gospel Plough
• Almost Monday, Can’t Slow Down
• Adrian Quesada & Hermanos Gutierrez, Primos
• David Byrne, T-Shirt

Jim Belcher
Morning Edition & Music Blend Host
Strange Brew Host

• David & Romany Gilmour, Between Two Points
• Lucy Dacus, Ankles
• Khruangbin, People Everywhere II
• Sting, Roxanne > Be Still My Beating Heart (Live)
• Umphrey’s McGee, Concessions
• Watson Twins, Just Like Heaven (Live)
• Kathleen Edwards, Say Goodbye, Tell No One
• Molly Tuttle, That’s Gonna Leave A Mark
• David Gilmour, Fat Old Sun (Live)
• Lettuce – Clav It Your Way

Jonathan Hunt
Membership Manager & Music Blend Host

• Maggie Rose & Grace Potter, Poison in my Well
• Caamp, Let Things Go
• Olive Klug, What To Make Of Me
• Muireann Bradley, These Days
• Sierra Hull, Boom
• ALO, Blank Canvas
• My Morning Jacket, Time Waited
• Boxmasters, Pepper Tree Hill
• Jade Bird , Save Your Tears
• Flipturn, Burnout Days

Mark Duggan
Digital Content Manager
Box of Visions Host

• Stereolab, Fed Up With Your Job
• MRCY, Man
• Waterboys, Andy (A Guy Like You)
• Gina Birch, Doom Monger
• Delines, Left Hook Like Frazier
• Banda Banda & Fatoumata Diawara, Ngeke!
• Big Thief, Incomprehensible
• Tortoise, Night Gang
• Sharon Van Etten, Idiot Box
• Ken Boothe & Jah Wobble, You Left the Water Running

Robb Brantley
Business Manager & Music Blend Host

• Lord Huron, Bag of Bones
• Wednesday, Elderberry Wine
• Wet Leg, mangetout
• Mt. Joy, In The Middle
• Maren Morris, carry me through
• Robin Davis Duo, Weed in the Butter
• Jon Batiste with Andra Day, Lean On My Love
• Kathleen Edwards, Say Goodbye, Tell No One
• Royel Otis, moody
• Sierra Hull with Aoife O'Donovan, Let's Go

Tami Graham
Executive Director, Music Blend Host
San Juan Sunrise Host

• David Byrne, Everybody Laughs
• Liz Barnez, Stay Strong
• I'm With Her, Ancient Light
• I AM SOPHIA, Thank You For The Simple Things
• Margo Price, Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
• Hermanos Gutiérrez,, Elegantly Wasted
• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Empty Trainload Of Sky
• Neko Case, Destination
• Bad Bunny, Baile INoLVIDABLE
• Florence & The Machine, One Of The Greats