Tag: year in review

  • That’s right.


    That’s right.

  • My favorite music of 2022


    Lots of good stuff this year. Here’s a playlist: ## My very favorites Additionally, here are a few albums and singles I wanted to call special attention to. They’re presented alphabetically becasue I’ve choosen to ditch the “best of” framing I often go with; I’m not writing music criticism here, and I have no editor…

  • My favorite albums of 2021


    Once again, I pushed myself to listen to lots of new music this year. A full six of my top ten records were by artists who are either new or new to me… seven if you count Aeon Station, who are technically a “new” band. That’s pretty good, I think! Here’s a playlist: 10. Dan…

  • Best of 2020 (The Albums)


    I’ve done some sort of year end, “best of” list as long as I can remember. This probably hasn’t been the “best” year of music over that span, but it certainly has been the most important, to me. We’ve all had a trying year, to put it mildly. These are the albums that helped get…

  • Ten Years in 17 Bullet Points


  • I never bothered to make a Best of …


    I never bothered to make a Best of 2019 music list, which is something I’ve done since my teenaged years, but I did make a “best beers I had for the first time in 2019” list, so there’s that.

  • Twenty Nineteen


    2019 was a rough year. I doubt I’m the only one who feels this way, for reasons personal, professional and/or political. In the intrest of focusing on the positive and shining a light towards more of what I want in 2020, here are two achievements that defined my 2019: My first hires as a manager…

  • My year in music, 2018


    **My 2018 in music can be best summed up in five words: “Bark Your Head Off, Dog.”** Hop Along’s third album took a moment to get lodged in my brain, but once it did, it was a force of nature. I can’t recall the last time a new record took over my life like this,…