The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio Players | The Black Keys | Nonesuch | Alternative Rock |
| 2 | 106 Miles to Chicago | The B. Christopher Band | Guitar One | Surf |
| 3 | Tigers Blood | Waxahatchee | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 4 | South of Here | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Stax | Roots Rock |
| 5 | A LA SALA | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 6 | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again | The Decemberists | YABB | Alternative Rock |
| 7 | Trail of Flowers | Sierra Ferrell | Rounder | Roots Rock |
| 8 | Bright Future | Adrianne Lenker | 4AD | Alternative Rock |
| 9 | Can We Please Have Fun | Kings of Leon | LoveTap | Alternative Rock |
| 10 | News of the Universe | La Luz | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 11 | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin | Suki Waterhouse | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 12 | JPEG RAW | Gary Clark Jr. | Warner | Roots Rock |
| 13 | Hackney Diamonds | The Rolling Stones | Polydor | Roots Rock |
| 14 | Rhumba Country | Pokey LaFarge | New West | Soft Rock |
| 15 | Manning Fireworks | MJ Lenderman | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 16 | Resurrection | Los Lonely Boys | BMG | Roots Rock |
| 17 | Snapshots from the Second Floor | The B. Christopher Band | Guitar One | Surf |
| 18 | One of a Kind | The Heavy Heavy | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 19 | Two Rivers Back | The B. Christopher Band | Guitar One | Surf |
| 20 | Romance | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 21 | Nite Owls | JD McPherson | New West | Roots Rock |
| 22 | Good Together | Lake Street Dive | Concord | Alternative Rock |
| 23 | Be Right Here | Blackberry Smoke | 3 Legged | Roots Rock |
| 24 | Charm | Clairo | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 25 | Unreal Unearth | Hozier | Columbia | Alternative Rock |
| 26 | Cartwheel | Hotline TNT | Third Man | Alternative Rock |
| 27 | Peacemaker | Vera Sola | City Slang | Alternative Rock |
| 28 | Stellar Evolution | Aaron Lee Tasjan | Blue Elan | Roots Rock |
| 29 | Frankie V and the Lonely Club | Frankie V and the Lonely Club | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 30 | Ship to Shore | Richard Thompson | New West | Roots Rock |
| 31 | What Now | Brittany Howard | Island | Alternative Rock |
| 32 | Mood Swings | Marcus King | Republic | Roots Rock |
| 33 | Only God Was Above Us | Vampire Weekend | Columbia | Alternative Rock |
| 34 | Parallel Realms | STRFKR | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 35 | Weathervanes | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern | Roots Rock |
| 36 | Happiness Bastards | The Black Crowes | Silver Arrow | Pop Rock |
| 37 | Woodland | Gillian Welch and David Rawlings | Acony | Roots Rock |
| 38 | Light Verse | Iron & Wine | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 39 | Revelations | Sarah Shook & the Disarmers | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 40 | Hole in My Head | Laura Jane Grace | Polyvinyl | Alternative Rock |
| 41 | Homemade | Cody Dickinson | Strong Place | Roots Rock |
| 42 | Moment of Truth | The Red Clay Strays | Thirty Tigers | Roots Rock |
| 43 | All Born Screaming | St. Vincent | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 44 | Back to Moon Beach | Kurt Vile | Verve | Alternative Rock |
| 45 | Songs of a Lost World | The Cure | Polydor | Alternative Rock |
| 46 | Echo the Diamond | Margaret Glaspy | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 47 | Big Top | Frankie V and the Lonely Club | VSM | Roots Rock |
| 48 | Festival Eyes | Lillie Mae | s||c | Roots Rock |
| 49 | Lucky for You | Bully | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 50 | Alone at Sea | Jeff Plankenhorn | Blue Corn | Roots Rock |
| 51 | Critterland | Willi Carlisle | Signature Sounds | Roots Rock |
| 52 | The Devil Always Collects | Brian Setzer | Surfdog | Rockabilly |
| 53 | X's | Cigarettes After Sex | Spanish Prayers | Alternative Rock |
| 54 | Dr. Dog | Dr. Dog | We Buy Gold | Alternative Rock |
| 55 | Cutouts | The Smile | Self Help | Alternative Rock |
| 56 | No Name | Jack White | Third Man | Alternative Rock |
| 57 | Pour It out into the Night | The Revivalists | Concord | Roots Rock |
| 58 | The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We | Mitski | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 59 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma | Roots Rock |
| 60 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | 6 Ace | Roots Rock |
| 61 | Five Dice, All Threes | Bright Eyes | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 62 | Dotr | LP Giobbi | Counter | Alternative Rock |
| 63 | Nobody Owns You | Joan Osborne | Womanly Hips | Roots Rock |
| 64 | 100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions | Blitzen Trapper | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 65 | Evergreen | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 66 | More Love | FreeWorld | Swirldisc | Roots Rock |
| 67 | Spiel | Office Dog | New West | Alternative Rock |
| 68 | What Do We Do Now | J Mascis | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 69 | The 4th Album | The Record Company | Round Hill | Alternative Rock |
| 70 | Strange Burden | Font | Acrophase | Alternative Rock |
| 71 | Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen) | Yannis & The Yaw | Transgressive | Alternative Rock |
| 72 | Crooked Boy | Ringo Starr | UMe | Rock & Roll |
| 73 | Halo | Bakar | Black Butter | Alternative Rock |
| 74 | Jenny from Thebes | The Mountain Goats | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 75 | Wild God | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Play It Again Sam | Alternative Rock |
| 76 | Still + Bright | Amythyst Kiah | Rounder | Roots Rock |
| 77 | Stories from a Rock and Roll Heart | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 | Roots Rock |
| 78 | Wild Birds Warble | Jubal Lee Young | 7 Bridges Ent. | Roots Rock |
| 79 | Heart is the Hero | The Wood Brothers | Honey Jar | Rock |
| 80 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry | Roots Rock |
| 81 | Strangers No More, Vol. 2 | Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors | Tone Tree | Roots Rock |
| 82 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 83 | Mantras | Katie Pruitt | Rounder | Roots Rock |
| 84 | Into the Blue | Aaron Frazer | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 85 | Viva Hinds | Hinds | Lucky Number | Alternative Rock |
| 86 | Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here | Friko | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 87 | Letter to Self | Sprints | City Slang | Alternative Rock |
| 88 | The Universal Fire | Jeffrey Foucault | Fluff and Gravy | Roots Rock |
| 89 | Glasgow Eyes | The Jesus And Mary Chain | Fuzz Club | Alternative Rock |
| 90 | Untame the Tiger | Mary Timony | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 91 | Flight B741 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 92 | Everybody Needs a Hero | Orla Gartland | New Friends | Alternative Rock |
| 93 | The Last Perfect Performance | Paul Bibbins | Self-Release | Classic Rock |
| 94 | Boeckner! | Boeckner | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 95 | Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs | BMG | Roots Rock |
| 96 | Rough Time | Derrick Dove & the Peacekeepers | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 97 | Say Less | Raul Malo | Mono Mundo | Soft Rock |
| 98 | SHINBANGUMI | Ginger Root | Ghostly International | Pop Rock |
| 99 | TexiCali (feat. the Guilty Ones) | Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 100 | Frog in Boiling Water | DIIV | Fantasy | Alternative Rock |
| 101 | Coyote | Dylan LeBlanc | ATO | Roots Rock |
| 102 | Times Have Changed | Charlie Mars | Foxgate | Roots Rock |
| 103 | Sweet Critters | Caleb Caudle | Missing Piece | Roots Rock |
| 104 | Down There! | Folly Group | So Young | Alternative Rock |
| 105 | Something is Working Up Above My Head | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone | Alternative Rock |
| 106 | Ten Small Fractures | Human Drama | Bob Frank Ent | Alternative Rock |
| 107 | TANGK | IDLES | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 108 | Eyeball | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers | Lunaria | Alternative Rock |
| 109 | EELS | Being Dead | Bayonet | Alternative Rock |
| 110 | Revelator | Phosphorescent | Verve | Alternative Rock |
| 111 | One of These Days | Cris Jacobs | Soundly | Roots Rock |
| 112 | Starlight Tour | Rod Picott | Welding Rod | Roots Rock |
| 113 | This Far South | Tommy Prine | Nameless Knight | Alternative Rock |
| 114 | Up on Gravity Hill | Metz | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 115 | Daniel | Real Estate | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 116 | Dark Matter | Pearl Jam | Monkeywrench | Alternative Rock |
| 117 | Just Like That... | Bonnie Raitt | Redwing | Roots Rock |
| 118 | Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Southeastern | Roots Rock |
| 119 | Picasso's Villa | Anders Osborne | Missing Piece | Roots Rock |
| 120 | Lighthouse | Francis of Delirium | Dalliance | Alternative Rock |
| 121 | Changes All the Time | James Bay | Mercury | Alternative Rock |
| 122 | Change is Now: a Tribute to the Byrds | Christian Parker | Sub Cat | Roots Rock |
| 123 | On the Blind Side | Ray Bonneville | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 124 | Late Night Polaroids | Bruce Hughes | Broke Dick | Pop Rock |
| 125 | Final Summer | Cloud Nothings | Pure Noise | Alternative Rock |
| 126 | Searching for Strawberries: the Story of Jongo Bongo | Rare Americans | Crooked City | Alternative Rock |
| 127 | Starcatcher | Greta Van Fleet | Lava | Classic Rock |
| 128 | Hold Fast | Stuart Hamm | Guitar One | Progressive Rock |
| 129 | I Got Heaven | Mannequin Pussy | Epitaph | Alternative Rock |
| 130 | Ill Times | GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith | p(doom) | Alternative Rock |
| 131 | Where’s My Utopia? | Yard Act | Island | Alternative Rock |
| 132 | Simple Things | The Band of Heathens | BoH | Roots Rock |
| 133 | Movie of the Week | Shakey Graves | Dualtone | Alternative Rock |
| 134 | Trash and Glamour | Bad Mary | Dead Pill | Punk Rock |
| 135 | Souvenir | Omni | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 136 | Mimi | Corridor | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 137 | EELS TIME! | Eels | Play It Again Sam | Alternative Rock |
| 138 | Bloodline Maintenance | Ben Harper | Chrysali | Roots Rock |
| 139 | Between Time | Steve Louw | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 140 | Desert Pavement | Ismay | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 141 | Strut of Kings | Guided By Voices | GBV Inc | Alternative Rock |
| 142 | My Method Actor | Nilufer Yanya | Ninja Tune | Alternative Rock |
| 143 | The Way of the World | T Bear | Quarto Valley | Roots Rock |
| 144 | I Ain’t Ever Growing Up Vol. II | Tom Ciurczak | Ludlow FTC | Roots Rock |
| 145 | What's Wrong with New York? | The Dare | UMG | Alternative Rock |
| 146 | Paradise Breakdown | Randall Bramblett | Strolling Bones | Roots Rock |
| 147 | Horror | Bartees Strange | 4AD | Alternative Rock |
| 148 | Fronzoli | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | What Reality? | Psychedelic |
| 149 | Shopping Cart | Carter Brady | Self-Release | Alternative Rock |
| 150 | Half Divorced | Pissed Jeans | Sub Pop | Alternative Rock |
| 151 | The Collective | Kim Gordon | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 152 | The Moon is in the Wrong Place | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound | Alternative Rock |
| 153 | Disenchantment at a Distance | Paul Bibbins | Self-Release | Classic Rock |
| 154 | Fat Cat Silhouette | Oliver Wood | Honey Jar | Roots Rock |
| 155 | Precious Dream | Hot Garbage | Mothland | Psychedelic |
| 156 | Get Behind the Wheel | Eilen Jewell | Signature Sounds | Roots Rock |
| 157 | Lonesome Highway | Rainy Eyes | Royal Potato | Roots Rock |
| 158 | Everything is Alive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 159 | Live at the Shamrock Lounge | Dustin Arbuckle & the Damnations | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 160 | Black and Gold | Thundermother | AFM | Hard Rock |
| 161 | Yard | Slow Pulp | Anti | Alternative Rock |
| 162 | Patterns in Repeat | Laura Marling | Chrysalis | Alternative Rock |
| 163 | Bando Stone & the New World | Childish Gambino | RCA | Pop Rock |
| 164 | All My Friends | Aoife O'Donovan | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 165 | The Beginning of the End | The Pleasures | MGM | Roots Rock |
| 166 | Old Cane Back Rocker | Darrell Scott | Soundly | Roots Rock |
| 167 | Wall of Eyes | The Smile | XL Recordings | Alternative Rock |
| 168 | Head of Pomegranate | Flamingods | The Liquid Label | Alternative Rock |
| 169 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 170 | Zuma 85 | Allah-Las | Innovative Leisure | Alternative Rock |
| 171 | Footprints | John Michael Hersey | Self-Release | Roots Rock |
| 172 | Underwater over There | Unwed Sailor | Current Taste | Alternative Rock |
| 173 | Expensive Air | Oneida | Joyful Noise | Alternative Rock |
| 174 | Lapse | Idaho | Arts & Crafts | Alternative Rock |
| 175 | 1 | bby | Glassnote | Alternative Rock |
| 176 | Million Voices Whisper | Warren Haynes | Fantasy | Roots Rock |
| 177 | God Games | The Kills | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 178 | Poetry | Dehd | Fat Possum | Alternative Rock |
| 179 | Bite Down | Rosali | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 180 | Little Songs | Colter Wall | Black Hole | Roots Rock |
| 181 | Little Rope (Deluxe) | Sleater-Kinney | Loma Vista | Alternative Rock |
| 182 | Howdies All Around | The Howdies | Normalltown | Roots Rock |
| 183 | What Occurs | Islands | Elf | Alternative Rock |
| 184 | Tracksuit Formal | Aris Paul Band | Red Caiman Media | Roots Rock |
| 185 | The Land That Time Forgot | Chuck Prophet | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 186 | Stung! | Pond | Spinning Top | Psychedelic |
| 187 | Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO | Juliana Hatfield | American Laundromat | Pop Rock |
| 188 | Interplay | Ride | Wichita | Alternative Rock |
| 189 | Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells | Big State | Big Beard | Roots Rock |
| 190 | Good Time | DAIISTAR | Fuzz Club | Alternative Rock |
| 191 | The Future is Our Way out | Brigitte Calls Me Baby | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 192 | Evolve | Phish | UMG | Rock |
| 193 | Sunshine | The Black Moods | STEELHORSE | Alternative Rock |
| 194 | 1-800 FANTASY | Blk Odyssy | EARTHCHILD | Alternative Rock |
| 195 | Melt into You | Gurf Morlix | Crankbait Music | Roots Rock |
| 196 | No Gods No Masters | Garbage | Infectious | Alternative Rock |
| 197 | The Breaks | Suuns | Joyful Noise | Alternative Rock |
| 198 | This House is Made of Corners | Brigitte Calls Me Baby | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 199 | New American Language (Remastered) | Dan Bern | Grand Phony | Roots Rock |
| 200 | Hits and Misses | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
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