Doechii has donned the crown

late in the year with several top 10 lists. Drake followed up Kendrick’s legendary diss with a lawsuit, and a lawsuit. PC Music is synonymous with pop music. We have another legendary over/under featuring RXK Nephew. The secular holiday of sharing Spotify Wrapped has wrapped up. I finally caught Chuquimamani-Condori, their blend of traditional and experimental music ringing through a church.

Support artists directly, buy Chuquimamani-Condori’s album.

p.s. in a hilarious turn of events I deleted my entire film photo catalog while consolidating everything to one external hard drive. Noticed when looking for this post’s featured image.

NewDad - Under My Skin

Shoegaze is back, baby. Back big time. Nice to see a push for Irish music with NewDad, who performed brilliantly, and KneeCap, who were unforgettable.

Cerberus Shoal - Daddy as Seen from Bar Harbor

Rough Trade released a 25th anniversary of the self-titled album. Beyond the refrence to the Dog of the underworld, the album art intrigued me. Late punk. Early metal. Folk. Pinning it down has eluded me.

Two Shell - +°+gimmi it (album version)

Finally caught the shells live. They remained anonymous and transformed my appreciation of music in enclosed spaces. Made a friend from Arkansas who introduced me to Shed Theory.

Bassvictim - Alice

Alice and Alice - acoustic were 1st and 2nd respectively, on my 2024 Spotify Wrapped.

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9. With her full-length debut, Alligator Bites Never Heal (a gesture to the Florida roots of the self-proclaimed “Swamp Princess”), Doechii makes herself known as a fully realized artist, with immense technical and curatorial skill.

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“Not Like Us,” ... includes the lyrics, “Say, Drake, I hear you like ’em young, You better not ever go to cell block one.” It has gotten more than 900 million plays, according to figures listed on Spotify.

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Indeed, Cook is an integral part of Charli’s sixth album “Brat,” out June 7. His remix of her first single “Von Dutch,” featuring TikTok star turned avant-garde adjacent Addison Rae — and her instantly iconic scream — has already gone viral

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RXK Nephew give his rating on Kanye West, Charli XCX, Thanksgiving, chemtrails and more on this edition of Over/Under

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