6. Hayley Williams: Petals For Armor (Music, Streaming) This albums release was one of the most interesting puzzles of 2020. Divided into three sections of five songs, Hayley Williams delivered an evolving narrative. The first two LP’s were released over the course of...
Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia (Music) If you had mentioned Dua Lipa’s name and played her most popular radio hit for me a few years back, I would have shrugged my shoulders. Her first album certainly showed her to be a promising pop star, but you could write that about...
Black Pumas Deluxe (Music) The initial release of this album somehow eluded me at the end of 2019, but the rerelease is even better. Featuring an extra 11 tracks (to go with their stellar 10 song LP), this album is unmissable for any fan of the psychedelic funk and...
I just read a statistic today that showed less than 20 of this years hit songs and albums were by women. Well, that’s a stat I just don’t understand, because almost all the music in my Top 20 list is by female artists. Not because I have anything against male artists,...
Grey Daze: Amends (Music, Streaming) When Chester Bennington took his life in the summer of 2017, I was just a few weeks from getting to see Linkin Park for the first time. I had been a fan for nearly 20 years, but it never seemed to work out. Sadly, it never will....
Rina Sawayama: Sawayama (Music, Streaming) Music has long been a revolving door, and in recent years a lot of artists seem to be revolving back to the 80’s. Which is fine. There’s another artist I will be including in my best of the year so far that borrows heavily...
Jesse Neo, a 23-year-old artist from Sydney, Australia – but now based in Los Angeles, California – reveals to us how his musical experience helped him come up with the idea for a marketplace for producers and artists to collaborate. In 2017, after self-releasing...
The Disco-Ball Dropping Dance Party with Poppy, Branch and All Their Trolls Friends Take Over The Theatre at Grand Prairie, February 7-9 DALLAS, TX (January 14, 2020) – Get ready for another hair-raising adventure when Poppy, Branch and all their Trolls friends come...
Over the course of the last six months, I have listened to a little over 200 albums that were released this year (70% by artists I’d never heard before). Many of these were easily dismissed after a few verses (some of the Metal and Rap I listened to just last night...
This category is easily the one that could sway the most from any other list you are going to read this awards season. I honestly read most of these Best of Music lists lately and was blown away by my own perceptions of the quality of these artists. This is because...