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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.
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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
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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
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How are you doing? Have you listened to these 10 great albums from 2025?
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The Top 50 albums of 2024, and a resolution for 2025
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The music fan's guide to the NFL Playoffs
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Good is the enemy of great and so am I
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Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
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Cut The Kids in Half: How a pair of teenage brothers wrote one of 2025's first great indie rock records
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Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Meandering thoughts on 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' 'Flow,' the new Pynch single 'The Supermarket' and finding connection
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How are you doing? Have you listened to these 10 great albums from 2025?
1) My best 2) Yes. And you should, too
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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.
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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.
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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
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Good is the enemy of great and so am I
Confessions of a former teenage rapper.
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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.
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