Here are 28 albums from 2025 you need to hear, described in one sentence

The stack of records never gets smaller. Our attention span never gets bigger.

May 29 • 

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In April: A concert recap, an essay, a poem and a Record Store Day story

A four-part blog on Kendrick, SZA, Fust, Charli, turning 24 and meeting the vinyl shoppers who camped 16 hours in Davenport for the 'Wicked' soundtrack

May 11 • 

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April 2025

The music nerd's NFL Mock Draft

A draft board and an Album of The Year ranking are basically the same thing, if you really think about it

Apr 23 • 

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March 2025

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt

Meandering thoughts on 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' 'Flow,' the new Pynch single 'The Supermarket' and finding connection

Mar 4 • 

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February 2025

How are you doing? Have you listened to these 10 great albums from 2025?

1) My best 2) Yes. And you should, too

Feb 23 • 

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The new Winona Fighter album doesn't have any love songs

Pop-punk songwriter Coco Kinnon talked with Sounds Great about the Nashville punk scene, "I Think You Should Leave" and never writing love songs.

Feb 14 • 

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Q&A: Michigander on meeting Sylvan Esso, buying a Costco Guys endorsement and releasing their debut self-titled album

Jason Singer of Michigander has been releasing music for a decade. The timing is finally right for a debut album.

Feb 7 • 

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January 2025

Cut The Kids in Half: How a pair of teenage brothers wrote one of 2025's first great indie rock records

'What We Became,' the debut from Boston rockers Cut The Kids in Half, is out now

Jan 31 • 

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Good is the enemy of great and so am I

Confessions of a former teenage rapper.

Jan 11 • 

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The music fan's guide to the NFL Playoffs

Do you know more about Kacey Musgraves than Luke Musgrave? Is Dan Campbell just the guy from The Wonder Years to you? This is your NFL Playoffs primer.

Jan 6 • 

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December 2024

The Top 50 albums of 2024, and a resolution for 2025

50: yungatita - Shoelace & A Knot

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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July 2023

A eulogy for an Optima; Or, an ode to sad music

Been thinking a lot about my affinity for listening to music in cars, and why more often than not, the songs are sad. This essay is somewhat scattered…

Jul 25, 2023 • 

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