Some talented Minnesota college students have been contributing to our Local Current blog. Here are their picks for the best songs of the year. Share your picks before voting closes at 11:59 p.m. on December 25!

Ben Bartenstein (Macalester College)

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros -- Better Days
Flume -- Sleepless feat. Jezzabell Doran
Phosphorescent -- Song For Zula
Vampire Weekend -- Step
Zach Sobiech -- Clouds
Lonesome Dreams -- Lord Huron
Until the Morning -- Akron/Family
Holding Onto You -- twenty one pilots
Youth -- Daughter
Bastille -- Pompeii

Selena Carlson (Augsburg College)

The Avett Brothers -- February Seven
Dr. Dog -- Broken Heart
HAIM -- The Wire
The Head and the Heart -- Shake
Jake Bugg -- Lightning Bolt
Jeremy Messersmith -- Tourniquet
Laura Marling -- Where Can I Go
Lorde -- Royals
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis -- Thrift Shop feat. Wanz
Volcano Choir -- Byegone

Kayla Culver (Concordia College)

Daft Punk -- Get Lucky
Frank Turner -- The Way I Tend To Be
Local Natives -- You and I
Lorde -- Royals
Motion City Soundtrack -- Inside Out
New Politics -- Harlem
Phoenix -- Entertainment
The Strokes -- All The Time
Tegan and Sara -- Shock to Your System
Vampire Weekend -- Diane Young

KT Lindemann (University of Minnesota — Morris)

(in order)
1. Couldn't Be Your Friend -- Tegan and Sara
2. CHVRCHES -- Gun
3. Janelle Monae -- Dance Apocalyptic
4. Waxahatchee -- Brother Bryan
5. TV On The Radio -- Mercy
6. Frankie Lee -- East Side Blues
7. Haim -- Don't Save Me
8. Savages -- She Will
9. Dessa -- Warsaw
10. Lizzo -- Faded

Best new artist: Waxahatchee

Best video: Lorde - "Tennis Courts"

Best concert: Savages at the Triple Rock in July (the First Ave show made the City Pages list, but this one was really incredible, too. Very intimate. Jehnny Beth snatched a guy's iPhone and tossed it across the stage).

Top 10 albums of 2013:

1. Savages - Silence Yourself
2. No Age - An Object
3. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
4. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
5. The Julie Ruin - Run Fast
6. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
7. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
8. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
9. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
10. Paramore - Paramore

Cody Lynch (CSB/SJU)

Atmosphere -- Bob Seger
Billie Joe and Norah -- Long Time Gone
Dawes -- Someone Will
Elvis Costello and The Roots -- Walk Us Uptown
Laura Marling -- Master Hunter
Trampled By Turtles -- Codeine
Valerie June -- Workin' Woman Blues
Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song) -- Oscar Isaac, Marcus Mumford
Let Nas Down -- J. Cole
College -- Rogue Wave

Luke Muyskens (CSB/SJU)

Black Joe Lewis -- Come To My Party
Booker T. -- Sound The Alarm feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Caroline Smith -- Magazine
CHVRCHES -- Gun
Daughter -- Still
Greg Grease -- Black King Cole
Har Mar Superstar -- Lady, You Shot Me
Low -- Plastic Cup
Polica -- TIFF
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Sacrilege

Best New Artist - Lizzo

Best Video - Tickle Torture - Forgotten

Best Concert - Fiona Apple at the O'Shaughnessy Theatre

Best Albums:
Low - The Invisible Way
Pony Bwoy - Pony Bwoy
Marijuana Deathsquads - Oh My Sexy Lord
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Demon Queen - Exorcise Tape

Paul Schmitt (St. Mary's University of Minnesota)

Arctic Monkeys -- Do I Wanna Know?
Black Joe Lewis -- Come To My Party
Cage The Elephant -- Spiderhead
Dr. Dog -- The Truth
Foals -- My Number
Lorde -- Royals
Night Moves -- Colored Emotions
Radiation City -- Foreign Bodies
Vampire Weekend -- Step
Vampire Weekend -- Unbelievers