my favorite new albums released in 2025 full list: swvlswvl.tumblr.com/post/8027446...

Shelby Keefe - “Dinner and a Movie”

DeRo and Greg Kot have 5 (!) of the same top 10 albums, including #1 and #2 picks in the exact same order? How much time do these guys spend together?

End of year placements for the 2022 Japanese Breakfast album vs. this year's

2025 was the year we decisively stopped rewarding "very good indie rock act makes a very mid pop album" artists

Wednesday albums ranked: 1. Twin Plagues 2. I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone 3. Rat Saw God <<<Does the Diva Sweetly album count? It is very good! Would go here>>> 4. Bleeds 5. Mowing Leaves

have you guys ever heard a DMX album all the way through. like however much barking you can possibly conceive on 48 minutes of audio, there is more

Please treat our treasured IP like trash

It's hard to find but here is my PERSONAL list of top albums for 2025. Sign up for the NPR Music newsletter to see another 10 plus another 15 top songs this weekend www.npr.org/2025/12/11/g...

Xaviersobased at Vivarium 🫨

this was so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-x9...

I wrote about a bunch of fantastic records that didn't get much shine, and a few very deserving ones that did, for my best of 2025 list floweragain.substack.com/p/my-favorit...

"active weather pattern" is a euphemism for pain

Active weather patterns, the worst weather patterns

Shoveled a bunch of lavish praise upon This Is Lorelei in particular and Nate Amos in general

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Our favorite Milwaukee music of 2025! Dig in!

Can't blame this on the seed oils

Kicksie really learned all the right lessons from Pinkerton kicksie.bandcamp.com/track/if-you...

Not many young bands can claim to be their own genre, but Black Country, New Road is clearly its own genre now registromovil.bandcamp.com/album/deseo-...

Most albums I could slot into a clean thumbs up/thumbs down scale, but a cool thing about Geese and Cameron Winter is how they invite the whole spectrum of responses: I love some songs, can't stand others, I'm blown away or I'm irritated, I'm charmed or alienated, I'm everything.

Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...

I want to like The Studio, but every scene is shouty and manic but also somehow too slow, paced like an extended outtake that never got edited down to the good jokes

incredible rec from evan- new fan here

One specific winter sensory thing I hate it when your sleeve gets just a little bit wet, then it’s wet and cold for the rest of the day

picked this up today looking for fingerstyle guitar. truly awesome stuff :) yasminwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/acadia

Lots and lots and lots of them! In fact this title construct has a weirdly great track record

Joyous, Chilean post-rock. Try listening to this without cracking a gigantic smile, it cannot be done registromovil.bandcamp.com/track/doming...

This came to me in a dream

An update: it appears 4AD are really opening up some vaults here a bit -- just received automailouts for the Pale Saints showing that the reissue of _The Comforts of Madness_ is up on their Bandcamp site -- along with _Mrs. Dolphin_! I NEVER expected to see that resurface! Paging @catbus.phd

I regret to inform parents that tomorrow is St. Nick's

You really can’t miss it when you walk down Downer now. It’s a delight.

Wrote about candy.

we can all agree this was fun www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izmr...

satisfying! barelycivil.bandcamp.com/track/bang-s...

I wrote about a bunch of fantastic records that didn't get much shine, and a few very deserving ones that did, for my best of 2025 list floweragain.substack.com/p/my-favorit...

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Tha Carter II, an album that means something to me.

I wrote about my favorite albums of the year open.substack.com/pub/flowerag...

Probably sounds even better in 2025 than it did in 2018 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mzQ...

Anyone have any opinions on my favorite albums of 2025 assembled in some kind of order along with some honorable mentions?

Music writers, what is your favorite piece you wrote this year? Linking mine below. I love asking people this every year bc it gives me a chance to catch up on a bunch of articles I may have missed/create a place for writers to plug their work! lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...

I'm at the combination

“You can watch some Chopped, but not much Chopped” - HBO Max now

I'm teaching guitar and songwriting lessons now!! Hit me up, I'm good at music and I can help make you good at music too.

Impossible to imagine the East Side without this place. Also this leaves a huge gap in the restaurant market that I hope gets filled

this is because at Christmas as an adult you have to supply all the magic to your own family but Halloween magic production is explicitly communal

fwiw this is why Halloween is a better holiday than Christmas. Halloween does still feel fun and magical as an adult

Torn between publishing a personal EOY list soon, mostly to give some love to a lot of albums that haven't been part of the convo at all, and waiting a few weeks to digest more recommendations and come up with more accurate rankings. It's a coin toss?

THIS is how I learned there's a new Cusp album? (Really enjoyed their 2023 album, excited to hear the new one from a few months ago I missed) pitchfork.com/features/lis...