some of my favorite music from 2025: 45 EPs, singles and albums in no particular order

april june hot streak continues

tulpa record worth the wait

Levitationally good new record on Gob Nation

swedish loop

new swiss grooves

this album is tagged “not popular” on bandcamp, which i think is pretty cool

when there’s a chill in the air, it’s ‘a weather’ time

blown out akron fuzz

listened to this 40 or 500 times today

Panamanian Pop

one of the better songs about going to boston to ice skate & get hammered

🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

PMS dark feelings has a good song called “manchild” too

sometimes a cover is better than the original

Galore galore

🧿👀 googly eyes 👀🧿 👁️👁️

new england jingle jangle

cal ear is awesome, you should listen to them

rolling stone is dedicating the next 24 hours to covering april june’s Victoria Zolotukhina

2019 seablite in tacoma 💜

much respect to people mover for diy-ing the shit out of their music videos

the geese album is deeply not my shit, but that’s ok because there’s new-ish music from josie, added dimensions, april june, pelts, adults, the cords, gwenifer raymond, cal ear, tulpa, cheerbleederz, people mover, fortitude valley, lila crane, .bd. and many many other non-geese bands

gob nation having a great year

Two Bay Area legends 😍

got my rapture soundtrack ready

I’ve had the opening to this centro-matic song stuck in my head for 25 years

Nish Kumar describing why he loves @fortitudevalley.bsky.social

Brisbane’s pride and joy

new tulpa single = serotonin boost

kickball is my #1 draft pick for “most fun band to see in a dank basement”

stuck in my head

“grass widow sings to gorillas” is a perfect music video premise

debut people mover record, can’t wait

lovely album from beautiful west virginia

instant earworm from moodlighting

do yourself a favor and grab a copy of the new fortitude valley record; hooks so syrupy it’ll turn your brain into a sugarcube

indianapoliscore

beautiful gem from deepest cascadia

prolific socal teenager continues her hot streak

churning out the hits like a one woman brill building

riff + melisma

big leap forward for these wonderful freaks

this summer flake record is chockablock with jams

australia’s #1 semi-defunct grunge band

liverpool fuzz