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Hey there, my name is Patrick and these are my faves of 2025.
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Music:
1. Mekons – Horror
2. Various Artists – Notes From the Underground Vol. 2: Denver
3. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner – The Music of Anthony Braxton
4. Lambrini Girls – Who Let the Dogs Out
5. Amanda Shires – Nobody’s Girl
6. Todd Snider – High, Lonesome and Then Some.
7. Swans – Birthing
8. Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith – Splash
9. Superchunk – Songs in the Key of Yikes
10. Fieldwork – Thereupon
11. The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
12. Mdou Moctar – Tears of Injustice
13. The Ex – If Your Mirror Breaks
14. Marshall Allen – New Dawn
15. Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Movies on Blu-ray:
1. Él (Criterion)
2. Killer Of Sheep (Criterion)
3. Night Moves (Criterion)
4. No Home Movie (Icarus)
5. Babe / Babe: Pig In The City (Kino)
6. Winchester '73 (Criterion)
7. Hard Boiled (dlx) (Shout Factory)
8. Shrouds (Janus Contemporaries)
9. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Criterion)
10. Born In Flames (Criterion)
11. The Cat (88 Films)
12. Park Lanes (Second Run)
13. Sorcerer (Criterion)
14. He Who Gets Slapped (Flicker Alley)
15. Je t'aime, je t'aime (Radiance)
16. Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe (Arrow box set)
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Hey there, my name is Abbey and these are my top things of 2025.
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Vinyl:
1. Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend
2. Ashnikko – Smoochies
3. Ariana Grande / Cynthia Erivo – Wicked: For Good
4. The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow
5. Lady Gaga – Mayhem
6. Kali Uchis – Sincerely
7. Renee Rapp – Bite Me
8. Cardi B – Am I the Drama?
Movies:
1. Sinners
2. Wicked: For Good
3. The Monkey
4. The Conjuring: Last Rites
5. Mickey 17
6. Final Destination: Bloodlines
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Hey there, my name is Adam and these are my faves of 2025.
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the usual semi-eclectic mix of old and new.
1. BEAT – Neon Heat Disease: Live in Los Angeles
2. Chicago Underground Duo – Hyperglyph
3. Cymande – Cymande (reissue)
4. Alabaster DePlume – A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
5. Depeche Mode – Black Celebration (and various other reissues)
6. Bob Dylan – Bootleg Series Vol.18: Through the Open Window
7. Geese – Getting Killed
8. Grateful Dead – Blues for Allah (50th Anniversary)
9. Guerilla Toss – You're Weird Now
10. Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon
11. Hüsker Dü – 1985: The Miracle Year
12. Makaya McCraven – Off the Record
13. Osees – Abomination Revealed At Last
14. Pavement – Pavements OST
15. Phish – LP on LP 05/06
16. Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd at Pompeii
17. Prince – Around the World in a Day (deluxe reissue)
18. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief Live Recordings
19. Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
20. Rose City Band – Sol y sombra
21. Say She She – Cut & Rewind
22. Slowdive – Souvlaki (reissue)
23. SML – How You Been
24. Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film
25. The Third Mind – Right Now!
26. Tortoise – Touch
27. Various – Roots Rocking Zimbabwe (Analog Africa No.41)
28. Various – Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain
29. Frank Zappa – One Size Fits All (50th Anniversary)
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Hey there, my name is Amy and these are my top sounds of 2025.
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1. Huremic – Seeking Darkness
2. Erika De Casier – Lifetime
3. Djrum – Under Tangled Silence
4. Gyrofield – Suspension of Belief (EP)
5. BRUIT ≤ – The Age of Epheremality
6. Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
7. Snakes With Human Traits – Found Myself Here
8. Tropical Fuck Storm – Fairyland Codex
9. TRAKA – Aptid
10. Geese – Getting Killed
11. 256 Pi – Real Life and Postcard Use
12. Sudan Archives – THE BPM
13. FKA Twigs – Eusexua
14. Dijon – Baby
15. Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound
16. Cosmic Ear – Traces
17. Daniel Brandt – Without Us
18. Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
19. Deftones – Private Music
20. YHWH Nailgun – 45 Pounds
21. Nourished By Time – The Passionate Ones
22. Snakes With Human Traits – Sun’s In My Eyes
23. Julek ploski – Give Up Channel
24. Jefre Cantu-Ledesema – Gift Songs
25. Maruja – Tír na nÓg
26. SY/N – Life Anew
27. Hesse Kassel – La Brea
28. Pink Siifu – BLACK’!ANTIQUE
29. FKA Twigs – Eusexua Afterglow
30. Dean Blunt & Elias Ronnenfelt – Lucre (EP)
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Howdy! My name is Anna Lathem and these are my top albums of 2025… In no particular order, but also kinda a little bit in a particular order.
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Hayley Williams – Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Taylor Swift – The Life of a Showgirl
Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Lady Gaga – Mayhem
Lorde – Virgin
Durand Jones & the Indications – Flowers
Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter
Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend
CMAT – Euro-Country
Olivia Dean – The Art of Loving
Prince and the Revolution – Around The World In A Day (40th Anniversary Edition)
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blake britton - 2025
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1. chime oblivion - chime oblivion
2. sudan archives - the b.p.m.
3. clipse - let god sort ‘em out
4. kali malone & drew mcdowell – magnetism
5. brìghde chaimbeul – sunwise
6. joshua redman - words fall short
7. geese - getting killed
8. wednesday – bleeds
9. lael neale - altogether stranger
10. fka twigs - eusexua
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Hey there, my name is Brian A and these are my faves of 2025.
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1. Superchunk – Songs in the Key of Yikes
2. John Howie – The Return Of…
3. The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie
4. L.A. Witch – Doggod
5. Sloan – Based On The Best Seller
6. Lightheaded – Thinking Dreaming Scheming
7. Jesse Daniel – Son Of The San Lorenzo
8. The Minus 5 – Oar On, Penelope!
9. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska ‘82
10. Various Artists – I Wanna Be A Teen Again: American Power Pop 1980-1989
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Ahoy-hoy, this is B-Y with the things that have been sizzlin' the skillet in '25...
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1. Raveonettes – Pe'Ahi II
2. Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives – Space Junk
3. Les Big Byrd – Kattguld-Pnkslm Singles Volume 1
3. All Seeing Dolls – Parallel
4. Tappa Zukie – In Dub
5. Babe Rainbow – Slipper Imp & Shakaerator
6. Nils Frahm – Paris
7. Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
8. Dead Meadow – Voyager To Voyager
9. The Hives – The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
10. Liminanas – Faded
11. Osees – Abomination Revealed At Last
12. Neil Young – Oceanside Countryside
13. Public Enemy – Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025
14. Barrington Levy – Bounty Hunter
15. Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Trash Classic
16. Clarence White – Melodies From A Byrd In Flyte: 1963-1973
17. Adrian Sherwood – Collapse Of Everything
18. King Gizz – Phantom Island
19. Third Mind – Right Now!
20. Sessa – Pequena Vertigem De Amor
21. Nils Frahm – Night
22. Adrian Quesada – Vol.2 Boleros Psicodelico
23. Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts – Talkin' To The Trees
24. L.A. Witch – Doggod
25. Slick Rick – Victory
To the Hound, The Squirrel and The Sparrow - Jeg elsker dere, fortsett a rocke og rulle!!!!
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Hey there. I’m Chris Bjork and this is a list of my top 10 favorite albums that came out this year. 2025 was packed with lots of superb music so it was a little tough in narrowing it down, but that is a good thing. The top 3 is in order and then in no particular order after that. 😊
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1. Artist: Goon Album: Dream 3
2. Artist: Biche Album: B.I.C.H.E
3. Artist: Freckle Album: Freckle
Artist: Spilly Cave Album: Sixty-Four
Artist: Triptides Album: Shapeshifter
Artist: Thee Oh Sees Album: ABOMONATION REVEALED AT LAST
Artist: Population ii Album: Maintenant Jamais
Artist: Teen Mortgage Album: Devil Ultrasonic Dream
Artist: Cory Hanson Album: I Love People
Artist: Leo Blomov Album: Blomovinho
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Hi, my name is Chris McLaughlin and these are my top albums of the year.
My buddy and I have a thing where every time we are trying to introduce one another to a band we ask “Three word description?” From that you choose three words that you feel encapsulate the sound of the record. I will do the same for you all here, but I cheat cause 3 words is never enough. Note: FFO = For Fans Of
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1. Ditz - Never Exhale
Atmospheric, groovy, quiet/loud. Genre: Post punk/post hardcore. FFO: Model/Actriz, Disappears
2. YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds
Dizzying, strange, DRUUUUUMS. Genre: Uhhhh idk, noise rock/experimental? FFO: Battles, Death Grips
3. Little Barrie and Malcom Catto - Electric War
Snakey, tasteful, immaculate guitar work. Genre: Krautrock/psych rock. FFO: CAN, Neu
4. TRAKA - APTD
Dark, mechanical, inhuman. Genre: Dubstep (but good)/Drum&bass. FFO: JK Flesh, Burial
5. Sudan Archives - The BPM
Sensual, playful, DANCEFUL. Genre: Neo soul/Deep house. FFO: FKA Twigs, Santigold
6. Good Morning - The Accident
Sweet, warm, youthful. Genre: indie rock/slacker rock. FFO: Mac Demarco, Kurt Vile
7. Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Dissonant, melancholic, chaotic. Genre: Blackgaze/sad ppl shit. FFO: Deafheaven, Oathbreaker
8. Cosmic Ear - Traces
Cinematic, sprawling, improvisational. Genre: Free jazz/jazz odyssey. FFO: Ornette Coleman, Lounge Lizards
9. Mambele - BAOBAB
Sunshine-y, funky, Africa. Genre: Beat tape/afro-everything. FFO: Baaba Maal, Francis Bebey
10. Puce Moment - Sans Soleil
Foreboding, lonely, meditative. Genre: Japanese horror/dark ambient. FFO: Akira Yamaoka, The Haxan Cloak
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Hello, Denver! My name is Eric, and despite the state of the world right now, it was still a great year for music. Here are 30 of my favorite music releases from 2025:
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1. Rose City Band: Sol Y Sombra (1/24)
2. The Motet: Love Time (1/14)
3. Cymande: Renascence (1/31)
4. moe.: Circle Of Giants (1/31)
5. Phish: LP on LP Vol. 5 & 6 [vinyl] (2/7)
6. Sure Fire Soul Ensemble: Gemini (3/28)
7. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious (4/4)
8. Dead Meadow: Warble Womb (4/22)
9. Femi Kuti: Journey Through Life (4/25)
10. Goose: Everything Must Go (4/25)
11. Pelican: Flickering Resonance (5/16)
12. Stereolab: Instant Holograms On Metal Film (5/23)
13. Black Moth Super Rainbow: Soft New Magic Dream (6/6)
14. Frankie & The Witch Fingers: Trash Classic (6/6)
15. North Mississippi Allstars: Still Shakin' (6/6)
16. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island (6/13)
17. Steve Gunn: Music For Writers (8/15)
18. Deftones: private music (8/22)
19. Phish: The Siket Disc [vinyl] (9/5)
20. Say She She: Cut & Rewind (10/3)
21. Tame Impala: Deadbeat (10/17)
22. Hail The Sun: cut. turn. fade. back. (10/24)
23. Seefeel: Pure Impure (Expanded EPs Edition) (10/24)
24. Tortoise: Touch (10/24)
25. Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight (11/7)
26. Phish: Slip, Stitch & Pass [vinyl] (11/7)
27. Antibalas: Hourglass (11/21)
28. Phish: Undermind [vinyl] (11/21)
29. Snarky Puppy w/ Metropole Orkest: Somni [vinyl] (11/21)
30. Umphrey’s McGee: Blueprints (11/21)
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Hi, I'm Ethan Griggs, I am JustOneGuy™, and here is my alphabetically organized B/O 2025 list:
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Antibalas - Hourglass
Ata Kak - Batakari
Ms Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head
Alex G - Headlights
Geese - Getting Killed
Guerilla Toss - You're Weird Now
Cory Hanson - I Love People
Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist
Lady Gaga - MAYHEM
Kendrick Lamar - GNX (came out right after last year's list was due)
MIKE - Showbiz!
Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer
Osees - ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST
Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
Adrian Quesada - Boleros psicodélicos II
Rosalía - LUX
Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Sudan Archives - The BPM
Tame Impala - Deadbeat
Water From Your Eyes - It's a Beautiful Place
Wet Leg - moisturizer
Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal (came out after last year's list was due)
Wolf Alice - The Clearing
Reissues:
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima (remastered CD reissue)
Cymande - Cymande (remastered CD reissue)
Freedy Johnston - Can You Fly (remastered reissue)
Sly & the Family Stone - The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967
Yo La Tengo - Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (LP reissue)
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Hi, my name is Jon Linskey, and these are my top things of 2025:
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CD:
1 - Daniel Avery - Tremor
2 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer
3 - Sectra - Through The Static
4 - Cronos Compulsion - Lawgiver
5 - Primitive Man - Observance
6 - Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
7 - Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
8 - Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2
9 - Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love
10 - Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of Everything
Vinyl:
1 - Sister Nancy - One, Two (LONG Overdue Reissue)
2 - Starkey - Vacuum State
3 - GDP & Fatboi Sharif - Endocrine
4 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves
5 - Mike Jones - Who Is Mike Jones? (Reissue)
6 - Eightball & MJG - On Top Of The World (Reissue)
7 - Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearls Un-Insides (Reissue)
8 - Intensive Care & The Body - Was I Good Enough?
9 - Commodo & Gantz - 89! Gloom
10 - Burial - Comafields / Imaginary Festival
Movies:
1 - The Thing (Universal 4k)
2 - Shin Godzilla (Shout Factory 4k)
3 - Spawn (Arrow 4k)
4 - The Mask (Arrow 4k)
5 - The Cat (88 Films 4k)
6 - Yongary (Vinegar Syndrome 4k)
7 - Until The Light Takes Us (Factory 25 Blu Ray)
8 - Dirty Work (Vinegar Syndrome 4k)
9 - Prophecy (Kino Lorber 4k)
10 - 964 Pinocchio (Media Blasters 4k)
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Hey there, my name is Josh and these are my faves of 2025.
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CD:
1. Fib – Heavy Lifting
2. Shox – Shox
3. Water From Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place
4. Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon
5. Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
6. Dutch Interior – Moneyball
7. Guided By Voices – Universe Room
8. Bonnie Prince Billy – Purple Bird
9. Wombo – Danger In Fives
10. Barbara – So This Is Living
Vinyl:
1. Water From Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place
2. Shox – Shox
3. Barbara – So This Is Living
4. Packaging – Packaging
5. Bonnie Prince Billy – Purple Bird
6. Guided By Voices – Universe Room
7. Dutch Interior – Moneyball
8. Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
9. Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon
10. Wombo – Danger In Fives
Movies:
1. Friendship
2. One Battle After Another
3. Weapons
4. Frankenstein
5. Highest To Lowest
6. The Men In My Basement
7. Conjuring IV
8. Sinners
9. The Substance
10. Roofman
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Hey there, my name is Keegan and these are my faves of 2025.
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Vinyl:
1. Kenny Barron – Sunset To Dawn
2. Beta Band – Three E.P.s
3. Pharoah Sanders – Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
4. Scratch Acid – Box Set
5. Andrew Hill – Andrew!!!
6. Grachan Moncur III – Some Other Stuff
7. Sam Rivers – A New Conception
8. Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
9. Descendents – Milo Goes To College
10. Sleep – Sleep’s Holy Mountain
Movies:
1. Wages of Fear
2. Sorcerer
3. Straight, No Chaser
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Creepshow 2
6. Carlito’s Way
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Drugstore Cowboy
9. Night Moves
10. Full Metal Jacket
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Hey there, my name is Maggie and this is my favorite stuff of 2025.
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Music
1. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
2. Lorde – Virgin
3. Wednesday – Bleeds
4. Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl
5. Chameleons - Arctic Moon
Movies
1. Frankenstein (d. Guillermo del Toro)
2. Caught Stealing (d. Darren Aronofsky)
3. Eddington (d. Ari Aster)
4. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (d. Mary Bronstein)
5. Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (d. Bruce David Klein)
6. Bugonia (d. Yorgos Lanthimos)
7. Together (d. Michael Shanks)
8. Mickey 17 (d. Bong Joon-ho)
9. The Phoenician Scheme (d. Wes Anderson)
10. Weapons (d. Zach Cregger)
11. The Long Walk (d. Francis Lawrence)
12. Friendship (d. Andrew DeYoung)
13. One Battle After Another (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
14. The Shrouds (d. David Cronenberg)
15. Sinners (d. Ryan Coogler)
16. Bring Her Back (d. Danny & Michael Philippou)
17. Presence (d. Steven Soderbergh)
18. The Smashing Machine (d. Benny Safdie)
19. Companion (d. Drew Hancock)
20. Roofman (d. Derek Cianfrance)
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Hi there my name is Molly and these are my top things of 2025
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Albums
1. Sudan Archives - THE BPM
2. FKA TWIGS – Eusexua
3. Ata Kak – Batakari
4. Pink Lady Monster - Ponk (local)
5. Patrick Cowley - Hard Ware
6. Sextile - Yes, Please
7. Madonna - Veronica Electronica
8. Brutalismus 3000 - Goodbye Salo The Remixes
9. Rosalia – Lux
10. Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys
11. Supreme Joy - 410,757,864,530 Dead Carps (local)
12. Hunx & His Punx - Walkout on this World
13. Pixel Grip - Percepticide: The Death of Reality
14. Rico Nasty – Lethal
15. CMAT - Euro-Country
16. Lady Gaga – Mayhem
17. Wednesday – Bleeds
18. Kathryn Mohr - Waiting Room
19. Model/Actriz – Pirouette
20. Baxter Dury – Allbarone
21. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green
22. Air - Virgin Suicides Redux
23. FKA TWIGS - Eusexua Afterglow
DVD RELEASES
1. The Substance
2. Bottoms
3. Weapons
4. Eyes Without a Face (criterion release)
5. Chungking Express (criterion release)
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Quinn’s 19 new albums I listened to, mostly on the highway:
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Pink Siifu - BLACK’!ANTIQUE
Jonathan Richman - Only Frozen Sky Anyway
Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of Everything
Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore - Lost In The Crowd
Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Purple Bird
Kelela - In The Blue Light (Live at The Blue Note, mentions while onstage having seen Amel Larrieux at the same venue and calls her a “legend”)
Little Simz - Lotus
Cory Hanson - “I Love People”
Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
Huremic - Seeking Darkness
Marshall Allen - New Dawn
Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith - Splash
Geese - Getting Killed
Rico Nasty - Lethal
Pulp - More
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds
Squid - Cowards
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Hello my name is Reggie and these are my faves of 2025
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1 Brutalismus 3000 Goodbye Salo 04/04/25
2 Patriarchy Manual For Dying 11/05/25
3 Pixel Grip Percepticide: The Death Of Reality 10/17/25
4 Lady Gaga Mayhem 03/07/25
5 Sextile Yes, Please 05/02/25
6 Kap Bambino No Domination 03/14/25
7 Marina Princess Of Power 06/27/25
8 Kneecap O.S.T. 02/28/25
9 Model/Actriz Pirouette 05/02/25
10 Debby Friday Starrr Of The Queen Of Life 08/01/25
* Sleigh Bells Bunky Becky Birthday 05/09/25
* Garbage Let All That We Imagine Be The Light 05/30/25
* Alison Goldfrapp Flux 08/15/25
* Heartworms Glutton For Punishment 02/07/25
* Sudan Archives The BPM 10/17/25
* Aya Hexed! 05/23/25
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hi! i'm robin and these are my favorite things of 2025 in no particular order :)
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- chat pile & hayden pedigo - in the earth again
- wednesday - bleeds
- agriculture - the spiritual sound
- ethel cain - perverts
- ichiko aoba - luminescent creaturesneve
- deafheaven - lonely people with power
- cameron winter - heavy metal
- backxwash - only dust remains
- ragana & drowse - ash souvenir
- haley heynderickx & max garcia conover - what of our nature
- spellling - portrait of my heart
- black country, new road - forever howlong
- planning for burial - it's closeness, it's easy
- bon iver - sable, fable
- viagra boys - viagr aboys
- model/actriz - pirouette
- swans - birthing
- ethel cain - willoughby tucker, i'll always love you
- geese - getting killed
- adrianne lenker - live at revolution hall
- big thief - double infinity
- la dispute - no one was driving the car
- anna von hausswolff - iconoclasts
- danny brown - stardust
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Hi there! My name is Sam Seymour and these are my top albums of 2025:
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Wednesday - Bleeds
Wet Leg - moisturize
Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars
Greg Freeman - Burnover
They Are Gutting a Body of Water - Lotto
Geese - Getting Killed
Royel Otis - Hickey
The Velveteers - A Million Knives
Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
Tiny Tomboy - Psychic Scar
Coral Grief - Air Between Us
Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place
Quinn Cicala - Gold
The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong
Benjamin Booker - Lower
Bartees Strange - Horror
Barbara - So This Is Living
Alex G - Headlights
Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky
Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up
Sprints - All That is Over
Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
Perfume Genius - Glory
Blondshell - If You Asked For a Picture
Dijon - Baby
Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal
Sir Chloe - Swallow the Knife
Rocket - R is For Rocket
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Hello my name is Scott and these are my top 30 VINYLS/Albums of 2025
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1. MIKE – SHOWBIZ
2. Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
3. Hayden Pedigo – I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away
4. Armand Hammer – Mercy
5. Cory Hanson – I Love People
6. Wednesday – Bleeds
7. Billy Woods – Golliwog
8. Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love
9. Open Mike Eagle – Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
10. Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
11. YHWH Nailgun – 45 Pounds
12. Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes
13. Frog – 1000 Variations On The Same Song
14. Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
15. Winter – Adult Romantix
16. Buddy Ross – K Were Here
17. Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
18. Water From Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place
19. Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
20. Freddie Gibbs &The Alchemist – Alfredo 2
21. Tyler The Creator – Don’t Tap The Glass
22. Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out
23. Viagra Boys – Viagr Aboys
24. S.G. Goodman – Planting By The Signs
25. Lucy Dacus – Forever Is A Feeling
26. Bruiser Wolf – Potluck
27. Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
28. Cheekface – Middle Spoon
29. The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie
30. Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up
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30 years ago (can it really be that
long?) John Prine released one of his best-ever albums, Lost Dogs and Mixed
Blessings. I remember at the original Twist & Shout location on South
Pearl Street that we needed to order and re-order the album because Prine was
definitively back with this album. But where had he even gone? Nowhere really –
he just kept being himself and releasing album after album of good-to-great
material from his classic 1971 debut John Prine (which every single time
we play it here people ask if it’s a Best Of record) right on up to
1991’s excellent The Missing Years. There were hiccups, sure – a longer
gap than usual after he left Atlantic in 1975 before his 1978 Asylum debut,
then another pause after three albums for Asylum, deciding he wanted to control
his own fate and founding his own label Oh Boy, where he put out every album he
made for the rest of his life at his own pace.
After
the first two albums on Oh Boy did reasonably well – artistically great, but
not as commercially kick-ass as he wanted – Prine waited nearly five years to
start a new album. He discussed the idea with his then-manager of enlisting fan
Howie Epstein, of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, to produce a new album and Epstein
enthusiastically dove in, bringing half of the Heartbreakers with him (and
Petty himself – along with a slew of other famous Prine fans – to sing backing
vocals). The result, The Missing Years, a great collection of songs
that’s undergirded by his divorce that happened in the interim – check “All the
Best” for possibly the kindest and yet most final separation songs you’ll ever
hear. And many said between a five-year absence and a saved-up batch of great
tunes that Prine was “back” with this album, with critic David Fricke even
noting later that he felt the songs were the equal of those on John Prine.
I think it’s great, but not quite John Prine – after all, what is? Lost
Dogs and Mixed Blessings is, that’s what is.
For me, this one’s hands-down the
best one since his debut. It doesn’t hurt that it’s the first Prine album I
really dug into – this is the one that got me into the debut rather than the
other way around – but I think back to all those folks making us need to
reorder box after box of the album and I don’t think I’m the only one who
thinks it’s in the upper echelon of his catalog. There was a Christmas album in
the interim and a great two-disc collection for the CD era to catch people up –
that probably helped boost this one too – but it’s really boosted by the songs.
Second time out, Epstein and Benmont Tench have really dialed in their work
with Prine, and Epstein knows how push Prine in just the right direction to
decorate the album with hooks. Take “Lake Marie,” which became a concert staple
performed in (I believe) every single live show I saw from Prine afterward, or
“Ain't Hurtin' Nobody,” a (slightly) more grown-up version of the debut’s
“Illegal Smile.” Check the way his divorce still haunts him seven years later
on “Humidity Built the Snowman” – and probably the way “Day Is Done” and “This
Love is Real” announce his burgeoning relationship with his new manager Fiona
Whelan, who’d be named Fiona Prine by the end of 1996. Revel in his goofy sense
of humor bordering on the surreal on “Leave the Lights On” and “He Forgot That
It Was Sunday,” and his jabs at the overwhelmingly consumerist world on “Quit
Hollerin’ At Me.” Enjoy guests from Marianne Faithfull to Waddy Wachtel
livening up their respective bits. Enjoy the bonus tracks, five alternate
versions and the completely prev-unrel “Hey Ah Nothin” on the deluxe CD reissue. And I’ll leave the
rest of the discovery to you. Top to bottom, he doesn’t have a better album. You
ain’t gonna catch me saying this is his best, I swear, because the debut and
maybe the next one, In Spite of Ourselves, are basically just as good,
but neither one is better than this.
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Patrick
Brown
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Every year at the absolute hottest
time of year, hundreds of indie record store folks from the around the country
– and sometimes the world – descend on New Orleans’ French Quarter for the
annual “RSD Summer Camp” a conference of independent record stores, indie and
major labels, artists, and vendors. These are the people who came up with the
idea of Record Store Day and have guided it throughout its existence based on
what we’ve observed that works (or doesn’t!) and on feedback from customers
about both the event and what works in stores throughout the year. Every year
we come away brimming with ideas from the dozens of great record stores we get
to hang with there – in the conference rooms, around the hotel, and less
officially, out and about over dinners and drinks in the Quarter and elsewhere
in the Big Easy. We always come home exhausted (and full) from the long days,
but it’s worth it every time. If anything, I wish it could be longer – there’s
never enough time with the folks we really want to hang with, meet new folks,
and get actual face time with our industry partners; before we know it it’s
Friday and we’re on a plane back home.
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This year was something special
because the coalition of stores that Twist & Shout is part of, the
Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) celebrated their 30 th
anniversary (in style, I might add!). CIMS was formed in a very different
time, 1995, when a group of like-minded stores fought with the industry at
large against things like Best Buy’s loss-leadering of CDs, huge chain stores
receiving special discounted pricing and exclusive products, and the like – with
chain stores often cashing in on artists who broke through at our stores. CIMS
consists of some of the best record stores in the country: Waterloo Records in
Austin, Music Millennium in Portland, Record Archive in Rochester, Electric
Fetus in Minneapolis, and many more (you can see the full list of their amazing stores and find out more about them HERE). As the retail landscape has changed, the
stores of CIMS have continued to modify our approaches to whatever challenges
the industry tossed up, with one of the chief successes being the Record Store
Day event itself. But CIMS alone didn’t do this – within a few years of CIMS
forming, another coalition sprung up: the Dept. of Record Stores (DORS -
featuring such heavies as Bull Moose in the northeast, Graywhale in SLC,
Reckless in Chicago, Zia in the southwest, and others which you can find the details for HERE) appeared to do work in a
similar vein. Soon after followed the Alliance of Independent Media Stores
(AIMS – with Atlanta’s Criminal Records, Austin’s End of an Ear, Grimey’s in
Nashville, Seasick in Birmingham, and of course many more which you can learn more about HERE), furthering the
spread of the seed that CIMS planted that although all the independent stores
in the country retain their own identity, we are all working toward the same
goals. Flash forward to 2021, when another coalition joined into the fray –  | | Candid group pic |
Forever A Music Store (FAMS), focusing on Black-owned music stores like DBS
Sounds outside Atlanta, Offbeat in Jackson MS, VIP Records in Long Beach, and
of course, many more (details HERE again). All these stores ultimately chose to invite non-coalition
stores into the mix too – again, affiliated or no, we’re all working toward the
same goal and as part of the same industry.
If there’s one thing that’s clear
to me every time we go to this, it’s this: each of these stores retain their
own personality, their own flavor, reflecting the tastes and interests of the
owners and staff of course, but also of the region and the customers. We’re all
different, but all ultimately engaged in the same kind of community-oriented
efforts to connect with customers over a shared love of music and culture in a
personal and direct way in an increasingly mechanized and dissociative world.
Music and art heal and sustain us all, and THAT is what independent record
stores bring you, and that goes for all the stores mentioned above as well as
every indie store here in Denver and beyond – Wax Trax, Black & Read, Chain
Reaction, Angelo’s, Invincible Vinyl, Drop To Pop, Recollect, City Records,
Sold Out, Records On Main, and outside of the metro area Paradise Found in
Boulder, Leech Pit in the Springs, Absolute Vinyl in Longmont, All Sales and
Driver 8 and Bizarre Bazaar in Fort Collins, and so on. We’re all working
different facets of the same goal – keeping our communities less homogenized,
unique, and locally-focused. It’s always flowing through my mind when people
ask me if I’m concerned about the number of other stores in town, to which I
always answer “No, the more the merrier – every one that opens is good for the
health of the independent music industry and culture.”
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So it was incredibly validating
this year at Summer Camp to be shown this reel, from Ben at YELLOW RACKET RECORDS in Chattanooga TN, putting
the words that have long bounced around my head on the topic into a fantastic
short reel on the subject, which you can watch in-full HERE. Go visit them if you’re passing through Chattanooga
and say hi to Ben and tell him you saw his video. Check out all these Coalition
sites and see where the best indie stores are wherever you’re traveling. Do a
quick online search anyway even if you don’t see one in a coalition, because
there are an estimated 1500 independent record shops in the U.S. alone, there’s
almost certainly one nearby, and they’re all worth visiting to help keep the
uniqueness of our cities alive. And with the current construction along the
Colfax corridor wreaking havoc on many small businesses, this is on my mind a
lot these days – keep this principle in mind as you consider who you’re
supporting in every realm, not just record stores. Shopping local makes a
difference in the makeup of the landscape and keeps our city, and every city,
more interesting places to live, work, and have fun.
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Hello, my name is Patrick Brown and these are my top things of 2024.
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Best music 2024:
1. Lux Quartet (Myra Melford, Allison Miller, Dayna Stephens, Scott Colley) - Tomorrowland
2. Vijay Iyer Trio - Compassion
3. Wussy - Cincinnati Ohio
4. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
5. Sunny Five (Tim Berne, David Torn, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff & Marc Ducret) - Candid
6. Various Artists - Congo Funk!: Sound Madness From the Shores of the Mighty Congo River 1969 - 1982
7. Serengeti - KDIV
8. Brandon Ross Phantom Station - Off the End
9. Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
10. Laetitia Sadier - Rooting for Love
11. Richard Thompson - Ship to Shore
12. ØKSE - ØKSE
13. Laurie Anderson - Amelia
14. Wayne Shorter - Celebration Volume One
15. Peter Brötzmann / Toshinori Kondo / Sabu Toyozumi - Complete Link
16. Alan Braufman - Infinite Love Infinite Tears
17. Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko - Bamako*Chicago Sound System
18. Tomeka Reid Quartet - 3+3
19. Vinicius Cantuaria - Psychedelic Rio
20. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
Best Blu-ray releases 2024:
1. About Dry Grasses
2. Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968-1978
3. All The Beauty & The Bloodshed
4. Black God, White Devil
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Monster
7. Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
8. The Poetry of Lee Chang-Dong: Four Films
9. Ousmane Sembene: Three Revolutionary Films
10. Yakuza Graveyard
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Hello, my name is Abbey B and these are my favorite things of 2024.
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Top albums:
1. Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
2. Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
3. Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
4. Kali Uchis – Orquídeas
5. Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine
6. Megan Thee Stallion – Megan
7. Tyla – Tyla
8. Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
9. Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady
10. Sofi Tukker – Bread
Top movies:
1. Deadpool and Wolverine
2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
3. The Substance
4. Smile 2
5. Trap
6. Longlegs
7. Speak No Evil
8. A Quiet Place Day One
9. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
10. Abigail
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Adam Reshotko’s Music I enjoyed in 2024. Presented alphabetically in a modest attempt at subverting hierarchies.
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Music:
1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (reissue)
2. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
3. Can - Live in Paris 1973
4. Chat Pile - Cool World
5. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
6. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip to the Moon
7. Goat - Goat
8. Kim Gordon - The Collective
9. Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Edition
10. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope
11. Sean Ono Lennon - Asterisms
12. Rob Mazurek - Live at Adler Planetarium
13. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
14. Ron Miles - Old Main Chapel
15. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
16. Phish - The Spectrum '97
17. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
18. Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears
19. Various - Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Analog Africa No. 38)
20. Various - Spiritual Jazz 16: Riverside, Etc.
21. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
22. Jack White - No Name
23. Yin Yin - Mount Matsu
24. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Early Daze
25. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary Edition
26. Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention - Whisky a Go Go, 1968
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Hello, my name is Amy Goodall and these are my top CDs and records of 2024.
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1. Bladee – Cold Visions
2. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
3. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
4. Quadeca – Scrapyard
5. Loidis – One Day
6. Actress – Statik
7. Slift – Ilion
8. Seefeel – Everything Squared
9. Geordie Greep – The New Sound
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
11. Ritchie – Triple Digits
12. Unskilled Labor – Kapital Won
13. Sheffner – Tumult
14. Jack White – No Name
15. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
16. Iglooghost – Tidal Memory Exo
17. Mount Kimbie – The Sunset Violent
18. Skee Mask – Resort
19. Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
20. Ben Frost – Scope Neglect
21. Floating Points – Cascade
22. Mount Eerie – Night Palace
23. Snakes With Human Traits – Break Odyssey
24. Jamie XX – In Waves
25. Tapir – The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain
26. James Devane – Searching
27. Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud
28. KUČKA – Can You Hear Me Dreaming?
29. Kelly Lee Owens – Dreamstate
30. Gerycz/Powers/Rolin – Activator
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Howdy! My name is Anna Lathem and these are my top albums of 2024! In no particular order, but also kinda a little bit in a particular order.
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1. Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
2. Charli XCX – brat
3. Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
4. Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (The Black Dog)
5. X – Smoke & Fiction
6. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers (Original Score)
7. Brittany Howard – What Now
8. Leon Bridges – Leon
9. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes
10. IDLES – TANGK
11. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
12. John Grant – Art of the Lie
13. Gracie Abrams – The Secret of Us
14. Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
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blake; 2024
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1. nala sinephro - endlessness
2. mermaid chunky - slif slaf slof
3. kali malone - all life long
4. arooj aftab - night reign
5. clairo - charm
6. chelsea wolfe - she reaches out to she reaches out to she
7. charli xcx - brat
8. king hannah - big swimmer
9. kim gordon - the collective
10. st. vincent - all born screaming
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Hello, my name is Brian Albright and these are my top things of 2024:
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New Music:
1. Ducks Ltd. – Harms Way
2. Muscadine Bloodline – Coastal Plain
3. X – Smoke & Fiction
4. Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend
5. Jesse Daniel – Countin’ the Miles
6. Redd Kross – Redd Kross
7. Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days
8. Chime School – The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel
9. Fu Manchu – The Return of Tomorrow
10. The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know
Reissues/Collections:
1. Johnny Cash – Songwriter
2. Various Artists – Twisted Dream Machine: The Paisley Underground
3. Kay Adams – Little Pink Mack
4. Roger McGuinn/Chris Hillman/Marty Stuart – Sweetheart of the Rodeo 50th Anniversary
5. The Cowsills – Global
6. Dwight Twilley – Twilley
7. Thompson Twins – Into the Gap 40th Anniversary
8. Various Artists – One In A Row: The Willie Nelson Songbook
9. Young Fresh Fellows – Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest
10. Various Artists – Pour A Little Sugar On It: The Chewy, Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966 - 1971
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Hi, my name is B-Y and all that jazz…
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…in no order…
1. X - Smoke and Fiction
2. Orquesta Akokan - Caracoles
3. Les Big Byrd - Diamonds, Rhinestones & Hard Rain
4. Those King Gizzard Rascals - Flight b741
5. Slift - Ilion
6. Suffrajettes - Easy As Pie
7. Glass Beams - Mahal
8. The Third Sound - Most Perfect Solitude
9. ‘Sup Q…
10. La Luz - News of the Universe
11. The Raveonettes - Sing
12. Hermanos Gutierrez - Sonido Cósmico
13. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Texicali
14. Hank Williams III - Risin’ Outlaw (1st LP reissue in forever)
15. Sonic Boom / Panda Bear - Reset Mariachi EP
16. Tord Gustavsen - Seeing
17. Gum - Ill Times
18. Prince Far I - Cry Tuff Chants On You
19. Neil & The Horse - Fuckin’ Up
20. Juan Almeida - Fantasia
21. Elephant Stone - Back Into the Dream
22. A Place To Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
23. Amyl & the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
24. The Flatlanders - All American Music
25. Oh Sees - SORCS 80
26. Keep your heads up
27. Keep your heart open
28. Keep the Green Chile hot!
29. Keep Chooglin’ (Squirrel)
30. Support Winchell’s Donuts - especially the new decked out one on 78th and Sheridan, they are the shit!
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Hello, my name is Chris McLaughlin and these are my top albums of 2024
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1. Oranssi Pazuzu – Muutautuja
2. Drahla – angeltape
3. Maruja – Connla’s Well (EP)
4. Folly Group – Down There!
5. Chat Pile – Cool World
6. Champagne Dub – Rainbow
7. Kim Gordon – The Collective
8. Vince Staples – Dark Times
9. Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
10. Careen – Cycle 3 (EP)
11. Charli xcx – Brat
12. Thou – Umbilical
13. Ka – The Thief Next to Jesus
14. MIZU – Forest Scenes
15. Head Portals – A Lesson in Object Permanence
16. Delasi – Audacity of Free Thought (EP)
17. Tyler, the Creator – CHROMAKOPIA
18. Girls in Synthesis – Sublimation
19. Yin Yin – Mount Matsu
20. Cowboy Sadness – Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1
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Hello, my name is Eric Curley and these are my top things of 2024
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So much great new music this year, folks! Thanks to all for your love and support to the store this year. Happy holidays and happy listening! ~ Eric
SLIFT: ILION (1/19)
YIN YIN: Mount Matsu (1/19)
Orgōne: Chimera (2/9)
Ghost Funk Orchestra: A Trip To The Moon (2/23)
Khruangbin: A La Sala (4/5)
Guster: Ooh La La (5/17)
RJD2: Visions Out Of Limelight (6/14)
Prefuse 73: New Strategies For Modern Crimes Vols. 1 & 2 (6/28)
Washed Out: Notes From A Quiet Life (6/28)
Kiasmos: II (7/5)
Phish: Evolve (7/12)
Oneida: Expensive Air (7/19)
Wand: Vertigo (7/26)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Flight b471 (8/9)
Ray LaMontagne: Long Way Home (8/16)
Lotus: How To Dream In Color (8/16)
Jon Hopkins: Ritual (8/30)
Tycho: Infinite Health (8/30)
Deftones: B-Sides & Rarities [reissue] (9/6)
Molchat Doma: Belaya Polosa (9/6)
Floating Points: Cascade (9/13)
Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (9/13)
Lady Blackbird: Slang Spirituals (9/13)
Ezra Collective: Dance, No One's Watching (9/27)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head) (10/4)
GOAT [Self-Titled] (10/11)
BADBADNOTGOOD: Mid-Spiral (10/25)
VINYL-ONLY:
deadmau5 vinyl debuts & reissues
Dave Matthews Band vinyl debuts: Some Devil (5/3) & Listener Supported (11/15)
Phish reissues: Round Room (2/2) & Billy Breathes (10/18)
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Ethan's Alphabetically Organized Best of 2024
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New:
Charli XCX - brat
Chime School - The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (physical release coming 02/2025)
Cola - The Gloss
Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
Jamie xx - In Waves
Kishi Bashi - Kantos
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent
Omni - Souvenir
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
J Mascis - What Do We Do Now
Lætitia Sadier - Rooting for Love
The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS
Vacations - No Place Like Home
Wand - Vertigo
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
Reissues/Remasters/Things that aren't "new":
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel
The Beatles - The US Albums in Mono
Broadcast - both Collected Demos compilations
Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity (2024 RTI vinyl repressing)
Galaxie 500 - Uncollected Noise New York '88-'90
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paul McCartney & Wings - One Hand Clapping
The Rolling Stones - Live at Racket - NYC (Record Store Day 2024)
Todd Rundgren - all RSD reissues
Stereolab - Little Pieces of Stereolab: A Switched On Sampler
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Harrison’s Top 30 Products I Consumed This Year Which Made Me Desire To Continue
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Joey Valence & Brae - No Hands
Charli xcx - brat
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
Queef Jerky - absolute madness
Cheekface - It’s Sorted
Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack
E L U C I D - Revelator
Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus
Unskilled Labor - Kapital Won
Yeat - 2093
Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
death’s dynamic shroud & galen tipton - You Like Music
JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life For You
Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
Nxworries - Why Lawd?
Chat Pile - Cool World
Amyl & The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Extra Kool & Time - The Grimies
Cupcakke - Dauntless Manifesto
CENSORED dialogue - Pyrex Housecat
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Chief Keef - Almighty So 2
Megan Thee Stallion - MEGAN
Bruiser Wolf - My Story Got Stories
Kim Gordon - The Collective
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Hello, my name is Jack Brown and these are my top things of 2024.
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1. Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen APM
2. The The – Ensoulment
3. JD McPherson – Nite Owls
4. The Mavericks – Moon and Stars
5. Floating Points – Cascade
6. Bug – Machines I-V
7. Four Tet – Three
8. Nails – Every Bridge Burning
9. Prince Far I – Cry Tuff Chants On U
10. Creation Rebel – High Above Harlesden
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Hello my name is Jon and these are my top things of 2024.
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CD:
1. The Body – The Crying Out of Things
2. Pharmakon – Maggot Mass
3. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
4. Jamie XX – In Waves
5. Chat Pile – Cool World
6. Charli xcx – Brat
7. Uniform – American Standard
8. The Bug – Machines I-V
9. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
Vinyl:
1. The Bug – I -V 5LP set
2. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II 4LP set
3. Jamie XX – In Waves
4. Nina Sinephro – Endlessness
5. God Is War – Boogeyman Inc.
6. Sophie – Sophie
7. A Place to Bury Strangers – Synthesizer
8. Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan – Scraping the Divine
9. Project Pat – Mista Don’t Play: Everythang’s Workin’
10. Skinny Pimp – Vol. 1
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Hello, my name is Kris DiBenedetto and these are my top vinyl things of 2024
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1. The Spectral Voice – Sparagmos LP (Dark Descent Records)
2. Septage – Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms LP (Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
3. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere LP (Century Media)
4. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World LP (Fiction)
5. Invertebrates – Sick to Survive LP (Beach Impediment)
6. Swallowed – Lunarterial LP reissue (Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
7. Charli xcx – Brat LP (Atlantic Records)
8. Rudimentary Peni – Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric LP reissue (Sealed Records)
9. Broadcast – Distant Call collection LP (Warp)
10. Broadcast – Spell Blanket collection LP (Warp)
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Hello, my name is Maggie Cranson and these are my top things of 2024
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Music:
1. Charli xcx – Brat
2. Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
3. Tierra Whack – World Wide Whack
4. Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me
5. Beyonce – Cowboy Carter
6. The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
7. Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
8. Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us
9. Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
10. Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine
Movies:
1. The Zone of Interest (d. Jonathan Glazer)
2. Challengers (d. Luca Guadagnino)
3. The Anatomy of a Fall (d. Justine Triet)
4. Blink Twice (d. Zoë Kravitz)
5. Anora (d. Sean Baker)
6. The Substance (d. Coralie Fargeat)
7. Trap (d. M. Night Shyamalan)
8. I Saw the TV Glow (d. Jane Schoenbrun)
9. Rebel Ridge (d. Jeremy Saulnier)
10. Heretic (d. Scott Beck / Bryan Woods)
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Hello, my name is Quinn Theis and these are my top albums of 2024
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1. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
2. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
3. Clairo - Charm
4. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Fuckin Up
6. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
7. Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter
8. Grandaddy - Blue Wav
9. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves
10. Charli xcx - Brat
11. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
12. Vijay Iyer Trio - Compassion
13. Einstürzende Neubauten - Rampen (apm: Alien Pop Music)
14. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
15. Wadada Leo Smith/Amina Claudine Myers - Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lakes, Paths and Gardens
16. Unskilled Labor - Weaponized Incompetence
17. The Flatlanders - All American Music
18. Bela Fleck - Rhapsody In Blue
19. Mercury Rev - Born Horses
20. Hermeto Pascoal - Pra Voce, Ilza
21. Jlin - Akoma
22. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
23. Drahla - angeltape
24. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice
25. Geordie Greep - The New Sound
26. Orquesta Akokan - Caracoles
27. Laurie Anderson - Amelia
28. Chat Pile - Cool World
29. Mong Tong - Mongkok Duel
30. The The - Ensoulement
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Reggie's Top Ten 2024
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1. Allie X – Girl With No Face (02/23/24)
2. Kneecap – Fine Art (06/14/24)
3. Noga Erez – Vandalist (09/20/24)
4. Sofi Tukker – Bread (08/23/24)
5. Last Dinner Party – Prelude To Ecstasy (02/02/24)
6. Jamie xx – In Waves (09/20/24)
7. Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism (05/03/24)
8. Charli xcx – Brat (06/07/24)
9. Lip Critic – Hex Dealer (05/17/24)
10. Fat Dog – Woof (09/06/24)
Honorable Mentions:
* John Grant – Art Of The Lie (06/14/24)
* Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out (02/16/24)
* TR/ST – Performance (09/13/24)
* Geneva Jacuzzi – Triple Fire (08/23/24)
* Bones UK – Soft (09/13/24)
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hello, i’m robin! these are my favorite releases of 2024 in no particular order!
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Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
Mount Eerie – Night Palace
Haley Heynderickx – Seed of a Seed
Chat Pile – Cool World
Xiu Xiu – Arp Omni/Veneficium
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Charli xcx – brat
The Smile – Wall of Eyes
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Horse Jumper of Love – Disaster Trick
Jpegmafia – I Lay Down My Life For You
Midwife – Killdozer
Iron & Wine – Light Verse
A Place to Bury Strangers – Synthesizer
Bright Eyes – Five Dice, All Threes
Geordie Greep – The New Sound
Your Arms Are My Cocoon – Death of a Rabbit
Machine Girl – MG Ultra
Tyler, The Creator – Chromakopia
Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight
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Hey my name is Sam Seymour and these are my top listens of 2024!
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MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Clairo - Charm
Friko - Where We’ve Been, Where We Go
King Hannah - Big Swimmer
Royel Otis - Pratts & Pain
Heavy Heavy - One of a Kind
Sprints - Letter to Self
Jack White - No Name
Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
Being Dead - Eels
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water
Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns
Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Peach Pit - Magpie
Meatbodies - Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
J Mascis - What Do We Do Now
Pond - Stung
The Smile - Cutouts
Fontaines D.C. - Romance
Crumb - Amama
La Luz - News of the Universe
Brittany Howard - What Now
Ginger Root - Shinbangumi
Black Keys - Ohio Players
Illuminati Hotties - Power
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Hello, my name is Scott and these are my top things of 2024
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1. Charli XCX - Brat
2. Geordie Greep - The New Sound
3. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
4. Chat Pile - Cool World
5. Previous Industries - Service Merchandise
6. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
7. E L U C I D - Revelator
8. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
9. Armand Hammer - BLK LBL
10. MGMT - Loss of Life
11. King Hannah - Big Swimmer
12. Cheekface - It's Sorted
13. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
14. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
15. Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN
16. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
17. Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something
18. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
19. Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia
20. Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2
21. Floating Points - Cascade
22. Clairo - Charm
23. The Smile - Cutouts
24. Jamie XX - In Waves
25. Jesse Welles - Hells Welles
26. Bruiser Wolf - My Story Got Stories
27. Blu & Evidence - Los Angeles
28. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
29. Westside Gunn and DJ DRAMA - Still Praying
30. Joey Valence and Brae - No Hands
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Yo It’s Ed the Worm (Toni) and these are my top albums of 2024.
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1. Mannequin Pussy – I’ve Got Heaven
2. Amyl and the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness
3. Kim Gordon – The Collective
4. Gouge Away – Deep Sage
5. Dehd – Poetry
6. Chat Pile – Cool World
7. Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal
8. Enumclaw – Home In Another Life
9. Tyler the Creator – Chromakopia
10. The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
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Travis Harris’ ethically sourced top 30 for 2024
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Albums:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild Horses
Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight
Kim Gordon - The Collective
Holiday Sidewinder - The Last Resort
Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Reissues:
Can - Live in Paris 1973/Live in Aston 1977
Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Souvenirs
Joe Henderson - Power to the People
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: ‘77
Movies:
Favorite new movies so far are Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Bertrand Bonello’s La Bête [The Beast] (which had a limited 2023 release but we’re counting it for the wide). Here is a tiny fistful of physical releases I’ve annoyed everyone about.
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968-1978 (1968-1978) dir. Chantal Akerman [Blu-Ray; Criterion Collection]
Body Double (1984) dir. Brian De Palma [UHD; Sony]
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (1969-1972) dir. Shigehiro Ozawa & Eiichi Kudo [Blu-Ray; Radiance Films]
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) dir. Martin Scorsese [UHD; Paramount Presents]
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials (1913-1918) dir. Louis Feuillade [Blu-Ray; Eureka! The Masters of Cinema Series]
Happiness (1998) dir. Todd Solondz [UHD; Criterion Collection]
Matinee (1993) dir. Joe Dante [UHD; Shout Factory]
Nothing is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (1961-1965) dir. Luis Buñuel [Blu-Ray; Radiance Films]
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone [UHD; Paramount Presents]
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1976) dir. Peter Weir [UHD; Criterion Collection]
Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa [UHD; Criterion Collection]
ShawScope Vol. 3 (1967-1983) dir. Various [Blu-Ray; Arrow Video]
Southern Comfort (1981) dir. Walter Hill [UHD; Vinegar Syndrome]
The Terminator/Aliens/The Abyss/True Lies (1984-1994) dir. James Cameron [UHD; MGM & 20th Century Fox]
The Warriors (1979) dir. Walter Hill [UHD; Arrow Video]
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Yasmin’s top ten records (vinyl) of 2024
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1. Willie Nelson – The Border
2. Haruomi Hosono – Hosono House Revisited
3. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
4. George Strait – Cowboys & Dreamers
5. Nubya Garcia – Odyssey
6. Charli xcx – Brat
7. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
8. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico
9. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
10. Gouge Away – Deep Sage
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