Top 100 Albums of 2013 as determined by airplay on KXCI throughout the year
| 1. Yo La Tengo | Fade |
| 2. Daft Punk | Random Access Memories |
| 3. Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost |
| 4. Portugal. The Man | Evil Friends |
| 5. Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires Of The City |
| 6. Jim James | Regions Of Light And Sound Of God |
| 7. Camper Van Beethoven | La Costa Perdida |
| 8. Eels | Wonderful, Glorious |
| 9. Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze |
| 10. Neko Case | The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You |
| 11. Jake Bugg | Jake Bugg |
| 12. Carla Morrison | Dejenme Llorar |
| 13. KT Tunstall | Invisible Empire / Crescent Moon |
| 14. Phosphorescent | Muchacho |
| 15. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros | Edward Sharpe and The Magentic Zeros |
| 16. Mavis Staples | One True Vine |
| 17. Fitz & The Tantrums | More Than Just a Dream |
| 18. Michael Franti & Spearhead | All People |
| 19. Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love |
| 20. Junip | Junip |
| 21. Amos Lee | Amos Lee: Live From The Artists Den |
| 22. Dawes | Stories Don’t End |
| 23. Washed Out | Paracosm |
| 24. The National | Trouble Will Find Me |
| 25. Laura Veirs | Warp & Weft |
| 26. Stefan George | Stefan George & the Ditchriders |
| 27. Devandra Banhart | Mala |
| 28. Man Man | On Oni Pond |
| 29. Saint Maybe | Things As They Are |
| 30. The Soul of John Black | A SunshineState of Mind |
| 31. Valerie June | Pushin’ Against a Stone |
| 32. Local Natives | Hummingbird |
| 33. Camera Obscura | Desire Lines |
| 34. Anders Osborne | Three Free Amigos |
| 35. Lila Downs | Pecados Y Milagros |
| 36. Blitzen Trapper | VII |
| 37. Chicha Dust | Live at The Dust Ballroom |
| 38. She & Him | Volume 3 |
| 39. Various Artists | The Lone Ranger Wanted – Music Inspired By The Film |
| 40. Run Boy Run | So Sang the Whippoorwill |
| 41. Various Artists | The Music Is You – A Tribute To John Denver |
| 42. Empire Of The Sun | Ice On The Dune |
| 43. Buford Pope | Matching Numbers |
| 44. Foals | Holy Fire |
| 45. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | We The Common |
| 46. Arcade Fire | Reflektor |
| 47. Slaid Cleaves | Still Fighting The War |
| 48. Amos Lee | Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers of Song |
| 49. North Mississippi All Stars | World Boogie Is Coming |
| 50. Paul McCartney | New |
| 51. Rogue Wave | Nightingale Floors |
| 52. Tedeschi Trucks Band | Made Up Mind |
| 53. Howe Gelb | The Coincidentalist |
| 54. The Head and the Heart | Let’s Be Still |
| 55. Low | The Invisible Way |
| 56. Sun Bones | SentinelPeak |
| 57. The Cordials | Not Like Yesterday |
| 58. John Fogerty | Wrote A Song For Everyone |
| 59. Natalie Maines | Mother |
| 60. Phoenix | Bankrupt |
| 61. JCBrooks & The Uptown Sound | Howl |
| 62. Billy Bragg | Tooth & Nail |
| 63. ChicoTrujillo | Gran Pecador |
| 64. Toro Y Moi | Anything In Return |
| 65. Mark Knopfler | Privateering |
| 66. Daughter | If You Leave |
| 67. Josh Rouse | The Happiness Waltz |
| 68. Steve Martin & Edie Brickell | Love Has Come For You |
| 69. Tricky | False Idols |
| 70. Sarah Jarosz | Build Me Up From Bones |
| 71. Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite | Get Up! |
| 72. Bob Marley and The Wailers | Legend Remixed |
| 73. Dr. Dog | B-Room |
| 74. NickCave & The Bad Seeds | Push The Sky Away |
| 75. Smith Westerns | Soft Will |
| 76. Howe Gelb | Dust Bowl |
| 77. David Bowie | The Next Day |
| 78. Andrew Collberg | Minds Hit |
| 79. Generationals | Heza |
| 80. Gov’t Mule | Shout! |
| 81. Los Amigos Inivisibles | Repeat After Me |
| 82. The Crackling | Mary Magdalene |
| 83. Carlos Arzate & The Kind Souls | Fly Away |
| 84. Atoms for Peace | Amok |
| 85. Night Beds | Country Sleep |
| 86. OkkervilRiver | The Silver Gymnasium |
| 87. Patti Griffin | American Kid |
| 88. The Lone Bellow | The Lone Bellow |
| 89. The Polyphonic Spree | Yes, It’s True |
| 90. Laura Marling | Once I Was An Eagle |
| 91. Buddy Guy | Rhythm & Blues |
| 92. Joshua James | From The Top Of WillametteMountain |
| 93. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper | Ripely Pine |
| 94. The Cave Singers | Naomi |
| 95. Mendoza | Alarma |
| 96. Jimmy Cliff | The KCRW Session |
| 97. JJ Grey & Mofro | This River |
| 98. Leftover Cuties | The Spark & The Fire |
| 99. The Lonely Wild | The Sun As It Comes |
| 100. Moby | Innocents |