I was posting my favorite music of 2020 and realized I never posted for the previous year. I don’t have a lot of notes but here goes anyway…
Favorites
- Bob Mould – Sunshine Rock
- Tacocat – This Mess is a Place
- Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won’t Hold
- Ex Hex – It’s Real
- Swervedriver – Future Ruins
- That dog – Old LP
- Sneaks – Highway Hypnosis
- DIIV – Deceiver
- Dream Syndicate – These Times
- Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY!
- Wilco – Ode to Joy
Notable
- Ages and Ages – Nothing Serious EP
- Black Marble – Bigger Than Life
- Blaha – The Calming Room
- Michael Chapman – True North
- Elvis Costello & the Imposters – Purse EP
- DIIV – Deceiver
- Robert Forster – Inferno
- girlpool – What Chaos is Imaginary
- Guided by Voices – Zeppelin over China
- Honeyblood – In Plain Sight
- Juliana Hatfield – Weird
- International Teachers of Pop – s/t
- Kills Birds – s/t
- Cate Le Bon – Reward
- Jenny Lewis – On the Line
- Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited
- The National – I Am Easy to Find
- Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
- Panda Bear – Buoys
- Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs
- Quiet Company – On Corners & Shapes EP
- Sacred Paws – Run Around the Sun
- Sebadoh – Act Surprised
- Laura Stevenson – The Big Freeze
- Superchunk – Acoustic Foolish
- Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls
- TOY – Happy in the Hollow
- Twilight Sad – It Won’t Be Like This All the Time
- William Tyler – Goes West
- Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
The year in concerts
- Bob Mould at Metro
- Robyn Hitchcock at SPACE
- Spiritualized at Vic Theater
- Tacocat at Lincoln Hall
- Kevin Morby at Thalia Hall
- Superchunk at Thalia Hall
- Yo La Tengo at SPACE
- Swearin’ and Mike Krol at Lincoln Hall
- Sleater-Kinney at Riviera Theater
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