#XPN5050: 2018

For fifty weeks this year, we’re celebrating the music of a specific year every Saturday on WXPN. We’ll be choosing the years randomly; for this week’s #XPN5050, Stephen Kallao is putting the musical spotlight on the year 1983.

Ready to feel nostalgic for…four months ago? This week on the #XPN5050, we revisit the music from 2018 that you loved at the time, and still love…because the time wasn’t all that long ago. Brandi Carlile, Kacey Musgraves, Janelle Monae, Hop Along, Lucy Dacus, Leon Bridges and more.

Mitski’s in the mix with “Nobody,” and Childish Gambino will appear with “This Is America.” We’ll also spotlight music that maybe you missed by The 1975, and The Interrupters…or music that you couldn’t possibly have missed, like Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow.”

As for our usual reminiscences of movies and television…

Take a listen to the music of 2018 in the Spotify playlist below.