Albums from the previous year don’t turn to dust at the stroke of Midnight on New Year’s Eve, so why rush a love letter to the best albums and artists of 2022 — here is your playlist for an epic 2023.
Keith Creighton
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Keith is a music correspondent for Popdose and an advocate on women's empowerment, gender identity and gender liberation issues. He is a monthly new music contributor to the Planet LP Podcast and is a marketing writer by day for Sudden Monkey.
Once again, the Aging Hipster presents 50 or so amazing albums from the year that was, 2021 — a retro-leaning list of artists you probably actually heard of (if you’re over 40).
Cashville is a debut album with the ambition and potential of ‘Appetite for Destruction’, amped up with the crackling, euphoric and unpredictable energy of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and White Stripes, further brightened by Dolly Parton style charm and sincerity.
Into every generation, a band is born to slay. They will stand against the forces of division, boredom, and overall ‘meh’. They are Volk, and they’re here to rock you.
Exquisite vocals, rich with emotion; lyrics open to a variety of interpretations; and a band performance mixed with plenty of room to breathe mark Brielle Brown’s winning debut single.
“If a revolution means building a society with equal rights and respect for all, then I’m all in.”
While neither act sounds or looks like Billie Eilish, they share a kindred spirit of authenticity and sonic adventure.
“Our CD box sets make perfect little time capsules that fit neatly on my shelves and are far more acceptable to my wife than eighty 7″ singles scattered across the living room.”
Jupe Jupe’s sound is thoroughly modern, providing the perfect soundtrack for anyone living a John Hughes movie life in 2020.
Kim Wilde, Wendy James, Neneh Cherry and Republica’s Saffron — at first, they came to break your heart, kick your ass, and penetrate your earholes; now they’re back to finish the job with a deluxe stack of premium reissues…
Angela Perley’s dreamy mix of Americana, Country and Rock and Roll is the perfect soundtrack for long nighttime journeys between imagined gigs at the Grand Ole Opry and the Roadhouse bar in Twin Peaks.
With no offense to all those year-end lists filled with artists you’ve never heard of, this list should include lots of familiar names for listeners of a certain age…
In 2014, Popdose first premiered “Can’t Getcha Out“, an earworm single by Vancouver, BC singer/songwriter, Nat Jay. That track recalled another Canadian import, Alanis Morissette from far, far away in…
The video for “Another One Down” finds Marx doing what Cher wished she could have done for ages, turn back time.
If the names don’t immediately ring bells, their contributions to decades of American music most certainly do.
As 2019, let alone this decade, heads into the final stretch, a bumper crop of epic new releases will sprint to the finish with hopes of winding up in your…
In a wide-ranging new interview, The Ocean Blue’s David Schelzel discusses the band’s new album, what’s hiding in the archives, his supergroup with Butch Vig, and how bands can thrive in the streaming era.
For years I’ve wondered why the heck John Andrew Frederick’s indie rock collective, the Black Watch, has not enjoyed even the cult-like status of kindred spirit bands like the Chameleons,…
When it comes to the music of John Westmoreland, founder of the band that bears his surname, there’s a lot more to what meets the eye or ears. He was…
Starting this weekend, trendy music genres like trap, EDM, trance house, crunk, or whatever the hell else the kids are listening to these days will step aside while their dark…
A new French Horn Rebellion hits collection, Graduation Compilation, is out today — Popdose presents one of the set’s new songs, “Renaissance Man” featuring Lejon.
For the past two years, Grace Gaustad, 17, has been steadily building momentum on two fronts — to finish high school and launch a career in pop music. While her…
Holden Laurence, guitarist for cinematic pop darlings, The Modern Electric, will soon release his second solo album, Rewire. It promises to be essential listening for fans of The Smiths, New…
Pritchard’s melodies are usually quite hummable off the bat, but his stories can take you just about anywhere — through love and anger, darkness and light.
Beth // James is an indie folk pop duo from Austin, Texas, a city where one can imagine 70 percent of the population is a member of an indie folk pop…
In the year 2019, some 33 & 1/3 years after they started (give or take), The Reverend Horton Heat is bigger than ever. This past November, Victory Records released the…
While it’s safe to say most of us want to forget all about 2018, there are hundreds of incredible albums by stellar artists across the complete spectrum of genres that…
Popdose is proud to present the world video premiere of DR King’s new single, “Gravedigger.”