I discovered a lot of interesting music this year, most of it outside the mainstream. Glad there’s still new music out there in the styles and genres I appreciate most. My favorites, in no particular order: Slowdive – Everything Is Alive – The shoegaze stalwarts continue their comeback with another strong album. The band adds…
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Top Ten Albums of 2022
A lot of great music this year; most of my favorites are styles that are out-of-fashion right now, but I’m just glad there’s artists out there still producing everything from old school hip-hop to guitar-based, dream-pop. My favorites, in no particular order: Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa – Twenty five years and ten albums…
Top Ten Albums of 2021
I enjoyed a wide variety of interesting new music in 2021. My favorites, in no particular order: Turnstile – Glow On – The bounds of hardcore punk rock were pretty well defined by its originators in the early 80s. It clearly hasn’t been easy to innovate in such a rigid genre — there hasn’t been…