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Former Hear Nebraska writers Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke make their picks for the best albums and songs of Nebraska's 2015. Managing editor Andrew Stellmon moderates.

Andrew Stellmon, Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review McCarthy Trenching's new record, "More Like It." The Omaha folk duo's fifth outing is available now on Sower Records. Buy it digitally or on vinyl here: https://mccarthytrenching1.bandcamp.com/releases

Andrew Stellmon and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review Anna McClellan's debut solo album, "Fire Flames." It's available now via the Portland-based tape label Majestic Litter. Buy it here: http://www.majesticlitter.com/store/music/anna-mcclellan-fire-flames-cassette-download/

Andrew Stellmon and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review Big Harp's third record, "Waveless." It's out now on Majestic Litter. Buy it here: http://www.majesticlitter.com/store/

Andrew Stellmon and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review The Good Life's "Everybody's Coming Down." It's the Tim Kasher-led band's first LP in eight years, out now on Saddle Creek Records. Buy it here: http://saddle-creek.com/thegoodlife/

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon review Digital Leather's "All Faded," out this week on FDH Records. Buy it here: https://fdhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-faded

Andrew Stellmon and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review the long-awaited political punk record of Desaparecidos. "Payola" is out June 23 on Epitaph Records. Buy it here: http://epitaph.com/artists/desaparecidos/release/payola

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon review blét's debut full-length, "Borrowed From The Breeze." Buy it here: http://blet.bandcamp.com/

Album review by Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon. Hop Along comes to Omaha's Slowdown on June 4. Buy it here: http://saddle-creek.com/hopalong/

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon review Icky Blossoms' sophomore record, "Mask." Buy it here: http://saddle-creek.com/ickyblossoms/

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon review "Alligators Years," Twinsmith's sophomore record. It's out May 2015 on Saddle Creek Records. Buy it here: http://saddle-creek.com/twinsmith/

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon review "Party All Night," the new album from Omaha's John Klemmensen and The Party. It was recorded at Omaha's famed Rainbow Studios with Mark Goodwin.

Buy "Lurid Glow" here: https://reptarmusic.bandcamp.com/album/lurid-glow "Above all, maybe Lurid Glow feels difficult to nail down because albums this fun and experimental rarely feel also so musically gorgeous and sincere." —Jacob Zlomke

Happy Simon Joyner Day. With the release of the Nebraska songwriter’s 13th album, “Grass, Branch and Bone” today on Woodsist Records, we’ve packaged together a feature interview and album review podcast. First, we talk to Joyner about chasing impossible greatness and and what the artistic endgame is for the Omahan with an international cult following. Then, our podcasters discuss the warmth and stunning lyricism of what could be Joyner’s finest album to date. photo by Marco Meyer

Hear Nebraska's Jacob Zlomke and Chance Solem-Pfeifer review the latest Kill County record, "Broken Glass In The Sun." Buy it here: http://killcounty.bandcamp.com/

The 2014 "Best Of" for Hear Nebraska's Chance Solem-Pfeifer (managing editor) and Jacob Zlomke (staff writer).

Sam Martin’s long-awaited solo album finds the former Capgun Coup frontman writing more skillfully than ever, across 15 new songs that, perhaps above all, kind of like themselves. Listen to our review of “A Notion In An Ocean” here. It's a new episode of "On The Record." Hear Nebraska's Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review the new record by Sam Martin.

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Jacob Zlomke review Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers' sophomore album, "Living By The Minute." Buy it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/living-by-the-minute/id941243967

Chance Solem-Pfeifer, Jacob Zlomke and Andrew Stellmon review Lars & Mal's debut record. Buy it here: https://larsandmal.bandcamp.com/releases

Jacob Zlomke, Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Andrew Stellmon review Bus Gas' third album, out in 2014 on Spring Break Tapes. Buy it here: http://www.springbreaktapes.com/bus-gas-snake-hymns/