Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound (CoS) is an independently owned Chicago-based online magazine[3] featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook micro-site, which serves as an online database for music festival news and rumors. In 2019, Consequence of Sound launched Consequence of Sound Radio, a 24/7-hour, 365-day online radio station on TuneIn.

Consequence of Sound

Type of site	Music and film and television news and reviews
Available in	English
Owner	Consequence Holdings, LLC
Created by	Alex Young (Founder & Publisher)[1]
Editor	Michael Roffman (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief)[1]
URL	consequenceofsound.net
Alexa rank	11,409 (April 2020)[2]
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	2007
Current status	Active

The website takes its name from the Regina Spektor song, "Consequence of Sounds".[4]

Influence

Consequence of Sound is listed as one of the most influential music websites by Technorati.[5] In 2010, About.com ranked CoS the year's best music blog, based on "Technorati rankings and the online buzz throughout the year".[6] In the Spring of 2014, Style of Sound calculated that Consequence of Sound charted as the second most influential music blog.

In 2009, CoS reported that Paul McCartney and The Killers would headline the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival prior to its lineup announcement.[7]

Annual Report

Top 50 Albums

Year	Artist	Album	Top 5 Albums	Ref.
2008	TV on the Radio	Dear Science	Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend The Hold Steady – Stay Positive Portishead – Third Okkervil River – The Stand Ins	[8]
2009	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Passion Pit – Manners The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	[9]
2010	Vampire Weekend	Contra	Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Gorillaz – Plastic Beach Titus Andronicus – The Monitor	[10]
2011	St. Vincent	Strange Mercy	Bon Iver – Bon Iver Shabazz Palaces – Black Up PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Foo Fighters – Wasting Light	[11]
2012	Frank Ocean	Channel Orange	Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel… Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory Swans – The Seer	[12]
2013	Kanye West	Yeezus	Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City My Bloody Valentine – m b v CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze	[13]
2014	The War On Drugs	Lost in the Dream	Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else Caribou – Our Love	[14]
2015	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell Grimes – Art Angels Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete Tame Impala – Currents	[15]
2016	Beyoncé	Lemonade	Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book David Bowie – Blackstar Frank Ocean – Blonde Anohni – Hopelessness	[16]
2017	Lorde	Melodrama	Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. Ryan Adams – Prisoner Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory Slowdive – Slowdive	[17]
2018	Mitski	Be the Cowboy	Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer Saba – Care for Me Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth Pusha T – Daytona	[18]
2019	Billie Eilish	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?	Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow Jamila Woods – Legacy! Legacy! Angel Olsen – All Mirrors Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next	[19]

Top 50 Songs

Year	Artist	Song	Top 5 Songs	Ref.
2009	Phoenix	"1901"	Animal Collective – "Summertime Clothes" Passion Pit – "Sleepyhead" Grizzly Bear – "Two Weeks" Phoenix – "Lisztomania"	[20]
2010	Kanye West	"Power'"	LCD Soundsystem – "Dance Yrself Clean" The Black Keys – "Tighten Up" Vampire Weekend – "Cousins" Katy Perry – "Teenage Dream'"	[21]
2011	Bon Iver	"Holocene'"	Tyler, the Creator – "Yonkers" M83 – "Midnight City" Beyoncé – "Countdown" tUnE-yArDs – "Bizness"	[22]
2012	Frank Ocean	"Thinkin Bout You"	Japandroids – "The House That Heaven Built" Passion Pit – "I'll Be Alright" Grimes – "Genesis" Usher – "Climax"	[23]
2013	Lorde	"Royals"	Kurt Vile – "Wakin on a Pretty Day" Kanye West – "New Slaves" Daft Punk – "Get Lucky" Phosphorescent – "Song for Zula"	[24]
2014	Future Islands	"Seasons (Waiting on You)"	Cloud Nothings – "I'm Not Part of Me" Against Me! – "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" Flying Lotus – "Never Catch Me" Sia – "Chandelier"	[25]
2015	Kendrick Lamar	"Alright"	Tame Impala – "Let It Happen" Jamie xx – "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" Kurt Vile – "Pretty Pimpin" Grimes – "Realiti"	[26]
2016	Beyoncé	"Freedom"	Kanye West – "Ultralight Beam" Car Seat Headrest – "Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales" ANOHNI – "4 Degrees" David Bowie – "I Can't Give Everything Away"	[27]
2017	Kendrick Lamar	"HUMBLE."	Lorde – "Green Light" Portugal. The Man – "Feel It Still" SZA – "Love Galore" Migos – "T-Shirt"	[28]
2018	Kendrick Lamar	"All the Stars"	Ariana Grande – "God Is a Woman" Janelle Monáe – "Make Me Feel" Cardi B – "I Like It" Kanye West – "Ghost Town"	[29]
2019	Sharon Van Etten	"Seventeen"	Billie Eilish – "Bad Guy" Lizzo – "Juice" Tyler, the Creator – "Earfquake" Strand of Oaks – "Weird Ways"	[30]

Artist and Band of the Year

Year	Artist	Ref.	Band	Ref.
2010	Kanye West	[31]	The Roots	[32]
2011	James Blake	[33]	Foo Fighters	[34]
2012	Frank Ocean	[35]	Death Grips	[36]
2013	Kanye West	[37]	Arcade Fire	[38]
2014	Run the Jewels	[39]	The War on Drugs	[40]
2015	Kendrick Lamar	[41]	Tame Impala	[42]
2016	Chance the Rapper	[43]	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	[44]
2017	Lorde	[45]	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	[46]
2018	Janelle Monáe	[47]	Pearl Jam	[48]
2019	Billie Eilish	[49]	Tool	[50]

Top 25 Films

Year	Film	Top 5 Films	Ref.
2014	Under the Skin	Nightcrawler Boyhood Whiplash The Grand Budapest Hotel	[51]
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road	The Look of Silence Inside Out Sicario The Revenant	[52]
2016	Moonlight	Green Room Manchester by the Sea The Handmaiden La La Land	[53]
2017	Blade Runner 2049	The Florida Project Dunkirk Call Me by Your Name Lady Bird	[54]
2018	Hereditary	Eighth Grade BlacKkKlansman Paddington 2 If Beale Street Could Talk	[55]
2019	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood	Midsommar Parasite Her Smell 1917	[56]

Performance, Filmmaker and Composer of the Year

Year	Performance	Ref.	Filmmaker	Ref.	Composer	Ref.
2014	Jenny Slate	[57]	Dan Gilroy	[58]	Mica Levi	[59]
2015	Michael Shannon	[60]	George Miller	[61]	Disasterpeace	[62]
2016	Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes	[63]	Kenneth Lonergan	[64]	Cliff Martinez	[65]
2017	Vicky Krieps	[66]	Denis Villeneuve	[67]	Hans Zimmer	[68]
2018	Toni Collette	[69]	Spike Lee	[70]	John Carpenter	[71]
2019	Elisabeth Moss	[72]	Quentin Tarantino	[73]	Daniel Lopatin	[74]

Top 25 TV Shows

Year	TV Show	Top 5 TV Shows	Ref.
2016	Stranger Things	Broad City Atlanta Halt and Catch Fire The Night Of	[75]
2017	Twin Peaks	Halt and Catch Fire Nathan for You Alias Grace Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	[76]
2018	The Americans	Atlanta Killing Eve Pose Barry	[77]
2019	Succession	Fleabag Stranger Things Russian Doll Chernobyl	[78]

TV Performance and Showrunner(s) of the Year

Year	TV Performance	Ref.	Showrunner(s)	Ref.
2017	Rachel Bloom	[79]	Mark Frost and David Lynch	[80]
2018	Billy Porter	[81]	Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg	[82]
2019	Maya Hawke	[83]	Jesse Armstrong	[84]

Comedian of the Year

Year	Comedian	Ref.
2013	Marc Maron	[85]
2014	Cameron Esposito	[86]
2015	Aziz Ansari	[87]
2016	Bill Maher	[88]
2017	Nathan Fielder	[89]
2018	John Mulaney	[90]
2019	Jenny Slate	[91]

Top 100 Ever

Category	Artist	Album/Song	Top 10	Ref.
Album	The Beatles	Abbey Road	The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds The Clash – London Calling Michael Jackson – Thriller The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Talking Heads – Remain in Light Radiohead – OK Computer	[92]
Song	The Beach Boys	"God Only Knows"	Talking Heads – "Once In a Lifetime" Bob Dylan – "Like a Rolling Stone" Michael Jackson – "Man in the Mirror" The Beatles – "A Day in the Life" The Velvet Underground – "Sister Ray" The Rolling Stones – "Sympathy for the Devil" Aretha Franklin – "Respect" The Notorious B.I.G. – "Juicy" Radiohead – "Idioteque"	[93]
Singers	Michael Jackson		Billie Holiday Freddie Mercury Aretha Franklin James Brown Whitney Houston Roy Orbison Amy Winehouse Robert Plant Björk	[94]
Soundtracks	Saturday Night Fever		The Graduate The Bodyguard Super Fly Dazed and Confused American Graffiti Above the Rim The Harder They Come Trainspotting 2001: A Space Odyssey	[95]

References

1. "About Us". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
2. "Consequenceofsound.net Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
3. Ulaby, Neda (December 29, 2014). "Mary Timony Brings 'Understated Swagger' To Ex Hex". NPR. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
4. Kaye, Ben (September 8, 2016). "Regina Spektor premieres stirring new song "Black and White"". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
5. "Music Blogs". Technorati. October 19, 2011. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013.
6. "Best Blogs 2010 - Top 10 Best Blogs of 2010". About.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013.
7. Ching, Albert (January 23, 2009). "Paul McCartney at Coachella?". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013.
8. "The Top 100 Albums of 2008". CoS Year-End Report: The Top 100 Albums. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
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11. "Top 50 Albums of 2011". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
12. "Top 50 Albums of 2012". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
13. "Top 50 Albums of 2013". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
14. "Top 50 Albums of 2014". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
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21. "CoS Year-End Report: The Top 50 Songs of 2010". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
22. "Top 50 Songs of 2011". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
23. "Top 50 Songs of 2012". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
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27. "Top 50 Songs of 2016". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
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30. "Top 50 Songs of 2019". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
31. "Artist of the Year: Kanye West". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
32. "Artist of the Year: The Roots". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
33. "Artist of the Year: James Blake". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
34. "Artist of the Year: Foo Fighters". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
35. "Artist of the Year: Frank Ocean". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
36. "Artist of the Year: Death Grips". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
37. "Artist of the Year: Kanye West". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
38. "Artist of the Year: Arcade Fire". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
39. "Artist of the Year: Run the Jewels". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
40. "Band of the Year: The War on Drugs". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
41. "Artist of the Year: Kendrick Lamar". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
42. "Band of the Year: Tame Impala". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
43. "Artist of the Year: Chance the Rapper". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
44. "Band of the Year: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
45. "Artist of the Year: Lorde". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
46. "Band of the Year: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
47. "Artist of the Year: Janelle Monáe". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
48. "Band of the Year: Pearl Jam". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
49. "Artist of the Year: Billie Eilish". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
50. "Band of the Year: Tool". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
51. "Top 25 Films of 2014". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
52. "Top 25 Films of 2015". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
53. "Top 25 Films of 2016". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
54. "Top 25 Films of 2017". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
55. "Top 25 Films of 2018". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
56. "Top 25 Films of 2019". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
57. "Performance of the Year: Jenny Slate". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
58. "Filmmaker of the Year: Dan Gilroy". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
59. "Composer of the Year: Mica Levi". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
60. "Performance of the Year: Michael Shannon". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
61. "Filmmaker of the Year: George Miller". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
62. "Composer of the Year: Disasterpeace". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
63. "Performance of the Year: Moonlight". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
64. "Filmmaker of the Year: Kenneth Lonergan". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
65. "Composer of the Year: Cliff Martinez". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
66. "Performance of the Year: Vicky Krieps". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
67. "Filmmaker of the Year: Denis Villeneuve". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
68. "Composer of the Year: Hans Zimmer". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
69. "Performance of the Year: Toni Collette". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
70. "Filmmaker of the Year: Spike Lee". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
71. "Composer of the Year: John Carpenter". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
72. "Performance of the Year: Elisabeth Moss". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
73. "Filmmaker of the Year: Quentin Tarantino". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
74. "Composer of the Year: Daniel Lopatin". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
75. "Top 25 TV Shows of 2016". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
76. "Top 25 TV Shows of 2017". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
77. "Top 25 TV Shows of 2018". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
78. "Top 25 TV Shows of 2019". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
79. "TV Performance of the Year: Rachel Bloom". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
80. "Showrunners of the Year: Mark Frost and David Lynch". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
81. "TV Performance of the Year: Billy Porter". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
82. "Showrunners of the Year: Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
83. "TV Performance of the Year: Maya Hawke". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
84. "Showrunner of the Year: Jesse Armstrong". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
85. "Comedian of the Year: Marc Maron". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
86. "Comedian of the Year: Cameron Esposito". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
87. "Comedian of the Year: Aziz Ansari". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
88. "Comedian of the Year: Bill Maher". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
89. "Comedian of the Year: Nathan Fielder". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
90. "Comedian of the Year: John Mulaney". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
91. "Comedian of the Year: Jenny Slate". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
92. "Consequence of Sound's Top 100 Albums Ever". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
93. "Top 100 Songs Ever: 50-1". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
94. "The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
95. "The 100 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved November 28, 2017.

External links

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