Eastern Staff Picks
ALAINA
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Charli XCX - brat
• Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
• Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
• Chat Pile - Cool World
• The Marías - Submarine
• The Substance
• Hundreds of Beavers
• Longlegs
• Anora
• MaXXXine
ASRO
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• February - February
• Your Arms Are My Cocoon - death of a rabbit
• Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
• Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell
• Kind of Like Spitting - Soon
• The Substance
• Piece by Piece
• Look Back
• Arcane: League of legends (Season 2)
• RuPauls' Drag Race (Season 16)
BUG B.
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• VIAL - Burnout
• Caravan Palace - Gangbusters Melody Club
• Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtracks No. 4
• Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
• Wallows - Model
• Interview with the Vampire (Season 2)
• Longlegs
• Cuckoo
• Immaculate
• I Saw the TV Glow
CODY
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
• Ghost - Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Devin Townsend - Powernerd
• Melvins - Tarantula Heart
• Iron Maiden - Powerslave
• Longlegs
• Dragula (Season 6)
• Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc
• The Queen of Villains
• Ink Master (Season 16)
DAN
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Boris - Amplifier Worship (2024 Re-issue)
• Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All
• Nocturnus AD - Unicursal
• Winterfylleth - The Imperibus Horizon
• Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
DISCO STU
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy
• Hermanos Guiterrez - Sondio Cosmico
• Beachwood Sparks - Across the River of Stars
• Parlor Greens - In Green/We Dream
• Thee Sinseers - Sinseerly Yours
• Cody Jinks - Change the Game
• Kelly Finnigan - A Love Was Born
• Marcus King - Mood Swings
• Karate Boogaloo -
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ELLI
Top Movies/TV Shows
• Jershey Shore: Family Vacation (Season 7)
• Dune: Part Two
• The First Omen
• Longlegs
• Dragula (Season 6)
JACKSON
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Fit for an Autopsy - The Nothing That Is
• Tyle, The Creator - Chromakopia
• Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
• Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer
• Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• The Penguin (Miniseries)
• Demon Slayer (Season 4)
• Uzumaki (Miniseries)
• Dune: Part Two
Top Books
• Jujutsu Kaisen Vol.5
by Gege Akutami
JORDON
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Samara Joy - Portrait
• Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 2
• Keith Jarrett - The Old Country
• Mal Waldron - The Quest
• Chet Baker- In Paris
• We Live in Time
• Anora
• Dune: Part Two
• Alien: Romulus
• Salem's Lot
Top Books
• You Like It Darker by Stephen King
JULIE
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Doechii - Alligator Bites
• Nia Archives - Silence is Loud
• Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
• MF Doom - Mm..Food (20th Anniversary Edition
• Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
• The Substance
• Interview with the Vampire (Season 2)
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Venom: The Last Dance
• Alien: Romulus
KALAYE
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Clairo - Charm
• Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
• Foxing - Self Titled
• The Marías - Submarine
• Wallows - Model
• Counterparts - Haven Let Them Die
• Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
• Beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves
• The Wild Robot
• We Live in Time
MANNY
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips
• Ab-Soul - Soul Burger
• Kaytranada - Timeless
• Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
• Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
MEGAN
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Megan Thee Stallion - MEGAN: Act I & II
• Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
• NxWorries - Why Lawd?
• Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine
• Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
• Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
• Kali Uchis - Orquídeas
• Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell
• Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI
• Kublai Khan - Exhibition of Prowess
• Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo
MYKE
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips
• Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
• Vince Staples - Dark Times
• NxWorries - Why Lawd?
• Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
• Ab-Soul - Soul Burger
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
REUBEN
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
• The Cure - Sngs of a Lost World
• Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips
• Klai Uchis - Orquídeas
• The Substance
• Heretic
• Cuckoo
• Longlegs
• MaXXXine
REY
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• P.O.D. - Veritas
• Nightwish - Yesterwyde
• Lindsey Stirling - Duality
• Conan Gray - Found Heaven
• Sukekiyo - Ius Cerebri
• Taemin - Eternal
• James Bay - Changes Al the Time
• Norah Jones - Visions
• My Hero Academia (Season 7)
• Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
Top Books
• Bungo Stray Dogs: The Official Comic Anthology Vol.1 by Kafka Asagiri
RON
Top Movies/TV Shows
• Dune: Part Two
• Alien: Romulus
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• The First Omen
• The Apprentice
SOPHIE
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Cosmo Sheldrake - Eye to the Ear
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard- Flight b741
• Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
• Shigenobu Okawa & Yuta Yamaguchi - Super Mario Party Jamboree (Official Soundtrack)
• Glass Animals - I Love You So F***ing Much
• Crossing
• The Wild Robot
• Fallout (Season 1)
• Inside Out 2
• The Boy and the Heron
ZOE
Top Albums/EPs/Singles
• Wallows - Model
• Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
• Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
• Vampire Weekend - Only god Above Us
• Clairo - Charm
• We Live in Time
• Dune: Part Two
• The Wild Robot
