2023
Albums:
1. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us (Run For Cover)
2. Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit (Run For Cover)
3. Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity (Run For Cover)
4. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista)
5. boygenius - The Record (Interscope)
6. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power (Funeral Plant Collective)
7. Code Orange - The Above (Blue Grape Music)
8. Blink-182 - One More Time... (Columbia)
9. Jesus Piece - ...So Unknown (Century Media)
10. Morgan Wade - Psychopath (RCA/Ladylike)
Honorable Mentions:
The Features - The Mahaffey Sessions 1999 (yk)
Margo Price - Strays (Loma Vista)
EPs:
1. Webbed Wing - Right After I Smoke This... (Memory Music)
2. Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine (Flatspot)
3. Balance & Composure - Too Quick To Forgive (Memory Music)
4. In Loving Memory... - A Gentler Sun (self released)
5. One Step Closer - Songs for the Willow (Run For Cover)
Shows:
1. Balance & Composure - Far Out Lounge, Austin, TX - 11/4/23
2. Superheaven - Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL - 10/13/23
3. The Envy Corps - GDP Fest at Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA - 4/15/23
4. In Loving Memory..., Black Market Fetus - The Botanical Center, Des Moines, IA - 9/8/23
5. Webbed Wing - Wooly's, Des Moines, IA - 3/5/23
Films:
1. Oppenheimer
2. May December
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. Barbie
5. Infinity Pool
TV:
1. Loki - Season 2 (Disney+)
2. Dave - Season 3 (FXX/Hulu)
3. Reservation Dogs - Season 3 (FX/Hulu)
4. The Last of Us (HBO/Max)
5. The Bear - Season 2 (FX/Hulu)
Favorite Songs playlist:
"I Want To Start a Religion with You" - Fireworks
"The News" - Paramore
"Sure Could Use a Friend" - Webbed Wing
"Psychic Dance Routine" - Scowl
"The Mask of Sanity Slips" - Code Orange
"Radio (feat. Sharon Van Etten)" - Margo Price
"Got You (In My World Now)" - Steve Marino
"Savior Mode" - Balance & Composure
"Dance the Night" - Dua Lipa
"Over" - CHVRCHES
"Show Me How" - Foo Fighters
"Be On Your Way" - Daughter
"An Offering to the Night" - Jesus Piece
"Think Less" - Militarie Gun
"Chosen to Deserve" - Wednesday
"Tangled in Joy" - Temple of Angels
"Satanist" - boygenius
"Sunshine" - Teenage Wrist
"Alanis" - Morgan Wade
"Funeral Flowers" - Closet Witch
"Going to Die" - Fiddlehead
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2022
Albums:
1. Angel Olsen - Big Time (Jagjaguwar)
2. Counterparts - A Eulogy For Those Still Here (Pure Noise)
3. Soul Blind - Feel It All Around (Other People)
4. Tegan & Sara - Crybaby (Mom + Pop)
5. Looming - Anybody’s Baby (No Sleep)
6. No Devotion - No Oblivion (Velocity/Equal Vision)
7. Nikki Lane - Denim & Diamonds (New West)
8. Parker Gispert - Golden Years (Normaltown)
9. Elizabeth Moen - Wherever You Aren’t (self released)
10. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)
EPs:
1. Hazel English - Summer Nights (self released)
2. Tigers Jaw - Old Clothes (Hopeless)
3. Speedway - Paradise (Revelation)
4. Morgan Wade - Acoustic Sessions (Ladylike/Arista)
5. END/Cult Leader - Gather & Mourn split (Closed Casket Activities/Deathwish)
Shows:
1. CHVRCHES - Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln, NE - 6/15/22
2. Code Orange - Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, IA - 3/28/22
3. Japanese Breakfast - 80/35, Des Moines, IA - 7/8/22
4. Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, MUNA - Hinterland, St. Charles, IA - 8/7/22
5. Stars Hollow - xBk, Des Moines, IA - 3/17/22
Films:
1. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2. X
3. The Batman
4. Clerks 3
5. Pearl
Honorable Mention:
Barbarian
TV:
1. Peacemaker (HBO)
2. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)
3. The Bear (FX/Hulu)
4. The White Lotus - Season 2 (HBO)
5. Reservation Dogs - Season 2 (FX/Hulu)
Honorable Mention:
The Offer (Paramount+)
Favorite Songs playlist:
“Pressure Cooker” - Dazy & Militarie Gun
“A Sky Deep and Clear” - No Devotion
“Big Time” - Angel Olsen
“New Beginning” - Automatic
“I Become Heavy” - New German Cinema
“Whispers of Your Death” - Counterparts
“Faded” - Nikki Lane
“Ready For Love” - Wiz Khalifa & Girl Talk
“Long, Long Year” - Chris Shiflett
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World feat. Perfume Genius” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Softly” - Arlo Parks
“Fight” - Ian Sweet
“Run” - Morgan Wade
“In the In Between” - Soul Blind
“Stuck Inside Someone Else’s Dream” - Parker Gispert
“I Can’t Stand Busy People feat. Woolworm” - Militarie Gun
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2021
Albums:
1. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness (Run For Cover)
2. Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me (Hopeless)
3. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence (Glassnote/EMI)
4. Webbed Wing - What’s So Fucking Funny? (Memory Music)
5. Morgan Wade - Reckless (Ladylike/Thirty Tigers)
6. Turnstile - GLOW ON (Roadrunner)
7. Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (Capitol)
8. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions (Matador)
9. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
10. Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight (RCA/Roswell)
Honorable Mentions:
Luna Shadows - Digital Pacific (+1)
One Step Closer - This Place You Know (Run For Cover)
EPs:
1. In Lieu - Edible (self released)
2. Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead To the Gun I & II (Alternatives/Convulse)
3. Potty Mouth - 1% Happier (Get Better)
4. Salt Creek - Our Own World (Tooth & Nail)
5. Soul Blind - Third Chain (Other People)
Shows:
1. Fiddlehead, Militarie Gun - Chi Town Futbol, Chicago, IL - 11/5/21
2. Chris Stapleton, Nikki Lane - Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, IA - 8/19/21
3. Modern Life Is War, Closet Witch - Village Theatre, Davenport, IA - 12/3/21
Films:
1. Eternals
2. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City
3. Spencer
4. The Suicide Squad
5. Nomadland
Honorable Mention:
Fear Street Trilogy
TV:
1. WandaVision (Disney+)
2. Dave - Season 2 (FXX)
3. Loki (Disney+)
4. Midnight Mass (Netflix)
5. Joe Pera Talks With You - Season 3 (Adult Swim)
Honorable Mention:
Mare of Easttown (HBO)
Favorite Songs playlist:
Foo Fighters - “Making a Fire”
Japanese Breakfast - “Be Sweet”
Tigers Jaw - “Lemon Mouth”
Turnstile - “Holiday”
CHVRCHES - “Violent Delights”
Luna Shadows - “god.drugs.u”
Julien Baker - “Heatwave”
Kings Of Leon - “The Bandit”
Touché Amoré - “Hard To Explain”
Morgan Wade - “Wilder Days”
Kacey Musgraves - “easier said”
Fiddlehead - “Down University”
Better Off - “No Drama”
In Lieu - “Anymore”
Salt Creek - “Lock the Doors”
Silk Sonic - “Leave the Door Open”
Linda Susan - “i do what i want”
Webbed Wing - “Need You Around”
Soul Blind - “Third Chain”
Militarie Gun - “Ain’t No Flowers”
Halsey - “honey”
MUNA - “Silk Chiffon” feat. Phoebe Bridgers
Potty Mouth - “Contessa Barefoot”
Modern Life Is War - “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
Makthaverskan - “Maktologen”
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2020
Albums:
1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (Dead Oceans)
2. Code Orange - Underneath (Roadrunner)
3. HUM - Inlet (Earth Analog)
4. Touché Amoré - Lament (Epitaph)
5. Hazel English - Wake UP! (Polyvinyl)
6. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain (Pure Noise)
7. Narrow Head - 12th House Rock (Run For Cover)
8. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (Warner)
9. Chris Stapleton - Starting Over (Mercury)
10. New Found Glory - Forever + Ever x Infinity (Hopeless)
Honorable Mentions:
The Strokes - The New Abnormal (RCA/Cult)
Snarls - Burst (Take This To Heart)
EPs:
1. Gouge Away - Consider (Deathwish)
2. Linda Susan - Home Recordings Vol. 1 (Criminalized)
3. Holy Fawn - The Black Moon (Triple Crown)
Shows:
1. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Gabe’s, Iowa City, IA - 3/10/20
2. Elizabeth Moen - The Outer Space, Oskaloosa, IA - 2/29/20
3. Kevin Burt - The Outer Space, Oskaloosa, IA - 2/8/20
4. Good Devils, Hollowtree - The Castle, Ottumwa, IA - 2/15/20
Livestreams:
1. Code Orange - Underneath Record Release Show
2. Touché Amoré - Lament Record Release
3. Parker Gispert - 5 Sundays, 5 The Whigs records
4. Taylor Madison/Webbed Wing - Live from his practice space
Films:
1. 1917
2. Tenet
3. The Hunt
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. Just Mercy
Honorable Mention:
The Devil All the Time
TV:
1. High Fidelity (Hulu)
2. Dave (FXX)
3. The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
4. The Right Stuff (Disney+)
5. The Real Bros of Simi Valley - Season 3 (Facebook Watch)
Honorable Mention:
Three Busy Debras (Adult Swim)
Originally posted on December 18th, 2020.
Favorite Songs playlist:
Touché Amoré - “Come Heroine”
Four Year Strong - “Get Out of My Head”
HUM - “Desert Rambler”
Phoebe Bridgers - “ICU”
Snarls - “Walk In the Woods”
Charmer - “Wolf Fang Fist”
Halsey, Alanis Morissette - “Alanis’ Interlude”
Into It. Over It. - “Courtesy Greetings”
Gouge Away - “Consider”
Dua Lipa - “Cool”
Hazel English - “Waiting”
Code Orange - “Autumn and Carbine”
Hayley Williams - “Over Yet”
Some Stranger - “Speak In Code”
Narrow Head - “Yer’ Song”
Forest Green - “In Waves”
Chris Stapleton - “You Should Probably Leave”
The Strokes - “Ode to the Mets”
Rick & Morty - “Snake Jazz”
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2019
Albums:
1. Potty Mouth - SNAFU (Get Better)
2. Webbed Wing - Bike Ride Across the Moon (self released)
3. The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger (Third Man)
4. Better Off - Reap What You Sow (self released/No Sleep)
5. Tegan & Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You (Sire)
6. Jade Bird - Jade Bird (Glassnote)
7. Stay - iwillneveraskyouto (self released)
8. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds (Pure Noise)
9. Counterparts - Nothing Left to Love (Pure Noise)
10. In Lieu - Hatemail (self released)
Honorable Mentions:
Pine - Pine (No Sleep)
Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center (Dead Oceans)
EPs:
1. Dream Ritual - Trips Around the Sun (self released)
2. MIRSY - Permanent For Now (self released)
3. Fiddlehead - Get My Mind Right (Run For Cover)
4. Salt Creek - If You Were There (self released)
5. Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam (Deathwish)
Honorable Mention
Creeks - Summer Demo (self released)
Shows:
1. Balance and Composure - Final Show, The Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA - 5/11/19
2. New Found Glory - Wooly’s, Des Moines, IA - 11/7/19
3. Kacey Musgraves, Jade Bird - Hinterland Fest, St. Charles, IA - 8/2/19
4. Ox Fest - Sioux City, IA - 3/2/19
5. Salt Creek - The Gallery House, Des Moines, IA - 7/17/19
Films:
1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
3. Polar
4. The Irishman
5. Spider-Man: Far From Home
TV:
1. The Righteous Gemstones (HBO)
2. The Mandalorian (Disney+)
3. Joe Pera Talks With You - Season 2 (Adult Swim)
4. Unidentified (History)
5. Rick and Morty - Season 4 (Adult Swim)
Originally posted on December 19th, 2019.
Favorite Songs playlist:
Webbed Wing - “Door Creaks Open”
SeeYouSpaceCowboy - “Self Help Specialist Ends Own Life”
Potty Mouth - “Plastic Paradise”
The Raconteurs - “Help Me Stranger”
Jade Bird - “Uh Huh”
In Lieu - “Probably” (not on YouTube playlist)
Charli XCX - “Cross You Out” feat. Sky Ferreira
Tegan & Sara - “Keep Them Close ‘Cause They Will Fuck You Too”
Fiddlehead - “Get My Mind Right”
Frail Body - “Your Death Makes Me Wish Heaven Was Real”
Sheer - “Glimpse”
Stars Hollow - “Tadpole” (not on YouTube playlist)
Salt Creek - “Electricity Is Humming”
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2018
Albums:
1. Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind (Run For Cover)
2. Chvrches - Love Is Dead (Glassnote/Goodbye)
3. Wax Idols - Happy Ending (Etruscan Gold)
4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour (MCA)
5. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar (Deathwish)
6. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises (Dirty Hit/Interscope)
7. Tancred - Nightstand (Polyvinyl)
8. Now, Now - Saved (Trans-)
9. Jesus Piece - Only Self (Southern Lord)
10. Basement - Beside Myself (Fueled by Ramen)
Honorable Mentions:
Petal - Magic Gone (Run For Cover)
Closet Witch - Closet Witch (Sassbologna)
EPs:
1. boygenius - boygenius (Matador)
2. Grave School - Strange Routine (self released)
3. Forest Green - Nothing Is Special (No Sleep)
4. Counterparts - Private Room (Pure Noise)
5. Agent Blå - Medium Rare (Kanine)
Honorable Mention:
MIRSY - Thoughts I’ve Kept Inside (self released)
Shows:
1. Lorde - Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, IA - 3/25/18
2. CHVRCHES - Hinterland Fest, St. Charles, IA - 8/3/18
3. Tigers Jaw, The Sidekicks - Slowdown, Omaha, NE - 10/11/18
4. Phoebe Bridgers, Closet Witch - 80/35 Fest, Des Moines, IA - 7/6/18
5. Paramore - The Armory, Minneapolis, MN - 7/5/18
Films:
1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Halloween (2018)
3. Black Panther
4. Ant Man & The Wasp
5. Bohemian Rhapsody
TV:
1. Joe Pera Talks With You (Adult Swim)
Originally posted on December 20th, 2018.
Favorite Songs playlist:
Fiddlehead - “Spousal Loss”
Grave School - “Strange Routine”
Kacey Musgraves - “High Horse”
Wax Idols - “Too Late”
Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey - “The Middle”
Modern Life Is War - “Feels Like End Times”
Tancred - “Something Else”
boygenius - “Ketchum, ID”
Petal - “Magic Gone”
Now, Now - “Drive”
Pale Waves - “Eighteen”
* one unknown song is missing.
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2017
Albums:
1. Looming - Seed (No Sleep)
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In the Alps (Dead Oceans)
3. Lorde - Melodrama (Universal)
4. Paramore - After Laughter (Fueled by Ramen)
5. Daddy Issues - Deep Dream (Infinity Cat)
6. Neaux - Chain Up the Sun (The Native Sound)
7. Code Orange - Forever (Roadrunner)
8. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Sorry Is Gone (ATO)
9. Agent Blå - Agent Blue (Kanine)
10. Makthaverskan - III (Run For Cover/Luxery)
Honorable Mentions:
Daisyhead - In Case You Missed It (No Sleep)
Tigers Jaw - Spin (Black Cement)
EPs:
1. Hazel English - Just Give In/Never Going Home 2xEP (Polyvinyl)
2. END - From the Unforgiving Arms of God (Good Fight)
3. Gouge Away - Swallow b/w Sweat (Secret Voice)
4. Sheer - Psychic Quarry (The Native Sound)
5. Milk Teeth - Be Nice (Roadrunner)
Honorable Mention:
Pine - Pillow Talk (No Sleep)
Shows:
1. Kings Of Leon - First Tennessee Park, Nashville, TN - 9/29/17
2. Touché Amoré, Basement, Wax Idols - Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN - 4/5/17
3. Tancred - Cheer Up Charlie’s/SXSW, Austin, TX - 3/16/17
4. Balance & Composure, Daisyhead - River City Jam, Covington, KY - 8/26/17
5. Everest, Nicole Atkins - Basement East, Nashville, TN - 1/27/17
6. Phoebe Bridgers - TOMS House/SXSW, Austin, TX - 3/17/17
7. Looming, Slingshot Dakota - Cafe Coco, Nashville, TN - 3/11/17
8. New Found Glory - Basement East, Nashville, TN - 7/20/17
9. Chris Stapleton - Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN - 10/14/17
10. Paramore, Best Coast - The Ryman, Nashville, TN - 10/17/17
Films:
1. Logan
2. Dunkirk
3. Baby Driver
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
5. Wonder Woman
Originally posted on December 18th, 2017.
Favorite Songs playlist:
Hazel English - “That Thing”
Lorde - “Perfect Places”
Phoebe Bridgers - “Smoke Signals”
Tigers Jaw - “June”
Looming - “Waves”
Code Orange - “Bleeding In the Blur”
Jessica Lea Mayfield - “Meadow”
Gouge Away - “Swallow”
Neaux - “LUV”
Priests - “No Big Bang”
Jake Clarke - “Always On My Mind”
Bleached - “Can You Deal?”
Chris Stapleton - “Either Way”
Seaway - “Day Player”
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2016
Albums:
1. Tegan & Sara - Love You To Death (Warner Bros)
2. Touché Amoré - Stage Four (Epitaph)
3. Kings Of Leon - WALLS (RCA)
4. Tancred - Out of the Garden (Polyvinyl)
5. Departures - Death Touches Us From the Moment We Begin To Love (No Sleep/Holy Roar)
6. Balance & Composure - Light We Made (Vagrant)
7. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me (Total Treble)
8. Fear of Men - Fall Forever (Kanine)
9. Moose Blood - Blush (Hopeless/No Sleep)
10. Milk Teeth - Vile Child (Hopeless)
Honorable Mentions:
White Lies - Friends (BMG/PIAS)
Mudcrutch - 2 (Reprise)
EPs:
1. Turnstile - Move Thru Me (Pop Wig)
2. Luna Shadows - Summertime (self released)
3. G.L.O.S.S. - Trans Day of Revenge (self released)
4. Cellars - Cellars (Rhed Rholl)
5. Moseley - Moseley (self released)
Honorable Mention:
The Strokes - Future. Present. Past. (Cult)
Shows:
1. Kings Of Leon - Ascend Amphitheatre, Nashville, TN - 10/06/16 (played WALLS in full)
2. Moose Blood - Subterranean, Chicago, IL - 7/16/16
3. Fear of Men - Kaiju, Louisville, KY - 11/09/16
4. Beach Slang/Potty Mouth/Dyke Drama - The High Watt, Nashville, TN - 5/15/16
5. Balance and Composure - The Masquerade in Hell, Atlanta, GA - 10/15/16
Films:
1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
3. Deadpool
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Arrival
Originally posted on December 19th, 2016.
Favorite Songs playlist:
Tegan & Sara - “Stop Desire”
The Thermals - “Thinking of You”
Tancred - “Poise”
Luna Shadows - “Hallelujah California”
Touché Amoré - “Displacement”
Milk Teeth - “Burger Drop”
Fear of Men - “Trauma”
Turnstile - “Fuck Me Blind”
Against Me! - “Boyfriend”
Potty Mouth - “Smash Hit”
My Iron Lung - “Damage”
Kings Of Leon - “WALLS”
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2015
Albums:
1. Title Fight - Hyperview (Anti-)
2. Superheaven - Ours Is Chrome (Sideonedummy)
3. Best Coast - California Nights (Harvest)
4. The Story So Far - The Story So Far (Pure Noise)
5. Turnstile - Nonstop Feeling (Reaper)
6. Chvrches - Every Open Eye (Glassnote)
7. Better Off - Milk (Equal Vision)
8. Counterparts - Tragedy Will Find Us (Pure Noise)
9. Adventures - Supersonic Home (Run For Cover)
10. Pentimento - I, No Longer (Bad Timing)
Honorable Mentions:
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom & Pop/Milk)
Looming - Nailbiter (No Sleep)
EPs:
1. Daddy Issues - Can We Still Hang? (Infinity Cat)
2. Wild Ones - Heatwave (Topshelf)
3. Koji - Fury (No Sleep)
4. G.L.O.S.S. - Demo (self released)
5. Sundance Kid - Happiness/Uncertainty (self released)
Honorable Mention:
Remiss - Unsought (self released)
Shows:
1. Moose Blood – Vans Warped Tour, Nashville, TN – 7/1/15
2. Title Fight – The Wrecking Ball at The Masquerade in Hell, Atlanta, GA – 8/9/15 (midnight show)
3. Chvrches – Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN – 10/27/15
4. HUM – Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN – 8/7/15
5. Makthaverskan – SXSW, House of Vans at The Mohawk, Austin, TX – 3/19/15
Films:
1. The Martian
2. Avengers – Age of Ultron
3. Jurassic World
4. Ant-Man
5/Honorable Mention. Comet (2014)
Originally posted on December 17th, 2015.
Favorite Songs playlist:
Title Fight - “Dizzy”
Best Coast - “Jealousy” (not on YouTube playlist)
Daddy Issues - “Creepy Girl”
The Story So Far - “How You Are”
Courtney Barnett - “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)”
The Sidekicks - “Jesus Christ Supermalls”
Hundredth - “Break Free”
Wild Ones - “Heatwave”
Turnstile - “Drop”
Kacey Musgraves - “Are You Sure” feat. Willie Nelson
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2014
Albums:
1. Moose Blood - I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time (No Sleep)
2. Xerxes - Collision Blonde (No Sleep)
3. Fear of Men - Loom (Kanine)
4. Fireworks - (Oh,) Common Life (Triple Crown)
5. Code Orange - I Am King (Deathwish)
6. The Whigs - Modern Creation (New West)
7. Tigers Jaw - Charmer (Run For Cover)
8. New Found Glory - Resurrection (Hopeless)
9. To The Wind - Block Out the Sun and Sleep (Pure Noise)
10. PVRIS - White Noise (Velocity/Rise)
EPs:
1. Nest - Hadal (Broken Circles)
2. Dream Ritual - Dream Ritual (6131)
3. Bonesetters - Figure It Out (Rhed Rholl/In Store)
4. Basement - Further Sky (Run For Cover)
5. Adventures/Pity Sex - Split (Run For Cover)
Shows:
1. Kings Of Leon - Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN - 2/7/14
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - The Ryman, Nashville, TN - 2/4/14
3. Foo Fighters - The Ryman, Nashville, TN - 10/31/14
4. Balance & Composure - Zydeco, Birmingham, AL - 9/16/14
5. Xerxes - The Stone Fox, Nashville, TN - 11/4/14
Films:
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Lucy
Originally posted on December 18th, 2014.
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2013
Albums:
1. Balance & Composure - The Things We Think We’re Missing (No Sleep)
2. Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull (RCA)
3. Daylight - Jar (Run For Cover)
4. Better Off - (I Think) I’m Leaving (Blood & Ink/6131)
5. Ivy League TX - Transparency (6131)
6. Modern Life Is War - Fever Hunting (Deathwish)
7. The Virgins - Strike Gently (Cult)
8. The Weeks - Dear Bo Jackson (Serpents & Snakes)
9. Polar Bear Club - Death Chorus (Rise)
10. Man Overboard - Heart Attack (Rise)
Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order):
Altars - Something More (Facedown)
Koji - Crooked In My Mind (Run For Cover)
Maps For Travelers - Change Your Name (No Sleep)
Moor Hound - Stifled Spirit (Rhed Rholl/Viva La)
Paramore - Paramore (Fueled By Ramen)
Sombear - Love You In the Dark (Trans-)
The Story So Far - What You Don’t See (Pure Noise)
The Swellers - The Light Under Closed Doors (No Sleep)
Tancred - Tancred (Topshelf)
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob (Warner Bros)
Tiny Moving Parts - This Couch Is Long and Full of Friendship (Kind Of Like)
To The Wind - Empty Eyes (Pure Noise)
Touché Amoré - Is Survived By (Deathwish)
White Lies - Big TV (Harvest)
The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (Hopeless)
EPs:
1. Title Fight - Spring Songs (Revelation)
2. Survival Soundtrack - What You Wanted To Say (self released/Hang In There)
3. Pretty Ugly - Space Ghost (Rhed Rholl)
4. Adventures - Clear My Head With You (No Sleep)
5. Remiss - I Can’t See In Color Anymore (Hang In There)
6. Kitten - Like A Stranger (Elektra)
7. Departures/Moose Blood - Split (No Sleep/Fist In the Air)
8. Balance & Composure/Braid - Split (No Sleep/Polyvinyl)
9. Gunther Doug - Gunther Doug (Rhed Rholl)
10. The Here and Now - Born To Make Believe Part 1 (Black Numbers)
Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order):
Cloakroom - Infinity (Run For Cover)
Daisyhead - I Couldn’t Face You (self released/Spartan)
Koji - Matters (The Native Sound)
Pet Symmetry - Two Songs... (Asian Man)
Some Stranger - Some Stranger (Robotic Empire)
Their/They’re/There - Analog Weekend (Polyvinyl/Topshelf)
Touché Amoré/Pianos Become the Teeth - Split (Deathwish/Topshelf)
Xerxes - Would You Understand? (No Sleep)
Originally posted on December 27th, 2013.
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2012
Albums:
1. Now, Now - Threads (Trans-)
2. Basement - Colourmeinkindness (Run For Cover)
3. Title Fight - Floral Green (Sideonedummy)
4. Daytrader - Twelve Years (Rise)
5. The Tower & The Fool - How Long (Run For Cover)
6. The Whigs - Enjoy the Company (New West)
7. Such Gold - Misadventures (Razor & Tie)
8. Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm (Run For Cover)
9. Forever Came Calling - Contender (Pure Noise)
10. Make Do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved (Rise)
Honorable Mentions (chronological order):
Cheap Girls - Giant Orange (Rise)
Xerxes - Our Home Is a Deathbed (No Sleep)
The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds (Red Scare/Really)
Pomegranates - Heaven (Broken Circles)
Slingshot Dakota - Dark Hearts (Topshelf)
Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love//Return To Dust (Deathwish)
EPs:
1. Adventures - Adventures (No Sleep)
2. Kitten - Cut It Out (Atlantic)
3. Daylight - The Difference In Good and Bad Dreams (Run For Cover)
4. Secret Plot To Destroy the Entire Universe - Montauk (Kat Kat)
5. Seaway - Seaway (self released)
Films:
1. Django Unchained
2. The Avengers
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Looper
5. Resident Evil: Retribution
Originally posted on December 28th, 2012.
Favorite Songs from all of the Releases above:
“Prehistoric” - Now, Now
“Covet” - Basement
“Make You Cry” - Title Fight
“Letter To a Former Lover” - Daytrader
“How Long” - The Tower and The Fool
“Gospel” - The Whigs
“Locked Out of the Magic Theater” - Such Gold
“Don’t Die On Me Now” - Hostage Calm
“Ides” - Forever Came Calling
“Desert Lily” - Make Do and Mend
“Ruby” - Cheap Girls
“Tide/This Place Is a Prison” - Xerxes
“1940′s Fighter Jet” - The Sidekicks
“Surfing the Human Heart” - Pomegranates
“May Day” - Slingshot Dakota
“Flowermouth (The Leech) - Code Orange Kids
“I Feel So Sure” - Adventures
“Japanese Eyes” - Kitten
“Damp” - Daylight
“The Montauk Project” - Secret Plot To Destroy the Entire Universe
“Sabrina the Teenage Bitch” - Seaway
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2011
Releases:
1. Balance & Composure - Separation (No Sleep)
2. Title Fight - Shed (Sideonedummy)
3. Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here (Run For Cover)
4. Fireworks - Gospel (Triple Crown)
5. Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me (Deathwish)
6. Man Overboard - Man Overboard (Rise/Lost Tape Collective)
7. Into It. Over It. - Proper (No Sleep)
8. Daytrader - Last Days of Rome (Run For Cover)
9. Former Thieves - The Language That We Speak (No Sleep)
10. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing (Hopeless/No Sleep)
Honorable Mentions:
Various Artists - Mixed Signals (Run For Cover)
The Strokes - Angles (RCA)
The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt (Pure Noise)
White Wives - Happeners (Adeline)
This Time Next Year - Drop Out of Life (Equal Vision/No Sleep)
White Lies - Ritual (Fiction)
Our Life Story - I’d Rather Change Than Stay the Same (Barrett)
Originally posted on December 27th, 2011.
Favorite songs from all of the Releases above:
“Galena” - Balance & Composure
“Where Am I?” - Title Fight
“Yoke” - Basement
“Teeth” - Fireworks
“Method Act” - Touché Amoré
“Picture Perfect” - Man Overboard
“Midnight: Carroll Street” - Into It. Over It.
“Death Means Nothing To Men Like Me” - Daytrader
“Trust Fund Kids” - Former Thieves
“Don’t Let Me Cave In” - The Wonder Years
“Distress Signal” - Tigers Jaw
“Life Is Simple In the Moonlight” - The Strokes
“Mt. Diablo” - The Story So Far
“Hungry Ghosts” - White Wives
“Last Call” - This Time Next Year
“Bad Love” - White Lies
���Growing Pains” - Our Life Story
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2010
Releases:
1. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown (RCA)
2. The Whigs - In The Dark (ATO)
3. Balance & Composure/Tigers Jaw - Split (Run For Cover/No Sleep)
4. Transit - Keep This To Yourself (Run For Cover)
5. Daylight - Dispirit (Six Feet Under)
6. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm (Run For Cover)
7. Man Overboard - Real Talk (Run For Cover/Lost Tape Collective)
8. Basement - Songs About the Weather (City of Gold/Lost Tape Collective)
9. Into It. Over It./Koji - IIOI/KOJI Split (No Sleep)
10. The Wonder Years - The Upsides (No Sleep/Run For Cover)
Honorable Mentions:
Stay Ahead of the Weather - We Better Get Goin’ If We’re Gonna (No Sleep)
Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds (Run For Cover)
Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World (Decaydance)
Originally posted on December 31st, 2010.
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