Underground Listmaker

I listened to a lot of music in 2022. Below is a list of my most-played artists of the year (taken from my last.fm). Format is: Artist  ||  Genres  ||  Top 3 most played tracks.  Comment below on your own most-listened to's. Cheers! (Artists that had fewer plays due to fewer-but-longer tracks: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Yes.) 1. Akira Yamaoka  ||  Trip Hop, Video Game Soundtrack, Electronic  ||  Theme of Laura, Waiting For You, Promise (Reprise) 2. Radiohead  ||  Alternative Rock  ||  2+2=5, Burn the Witch, How to Disappear Into Strings 3. Chelsea Wolfe  ||  Gothic Rock, Dark Folk  ||  Pale on Pale, Halfsleeper, Moses   4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  ||  Post-Punk, Alternative Rock, Punk Blues  ||  Jesus Alone, Distant Sky, Rings of Saturn 5. Portishead  ||  Trip Hop  ||  Western Eyes, Cowboys, Numb 6. Broken Social...

2022 was a spectacular year for music. From the new Radiohead side project (The Smile) to the virtually unknown debut of Shrieking Violet, 2022 turned out to be on par with 2021 in terms of diversity and brilliance in sonic craft and experimentation.  Below I rank my favorite albums of the year. The format is: Artist Name - Album Name  ||  Genre  ||  descriptors  ||  Country  ||  Rating. Scroll to the bottom for a playlist of my favorite song from each album. Hope you find something you like! Honorable mentions: Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows, Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation, Ghais Guevara - There Will Be No Super-Slave, Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong, Jack White - Fear of the Dawn, Cult of Luna - The Long Road North. 25.  Avantdale Bowling Club - Trees   ||  Jazz Rap  ||  mellow, poetic  ||  New Zealand  ||   8.5/10 24.  J...

2022 was generally fantastic, but, as always, there were some stinkers. Below are my bottom 10 least favorites of the year. The format is: Artist Name - Album Name  ||  Genre  ||  descriptors  ||  Country  ||  Rating. (Dis)honorable mentions: Interpol - The Other Side of Make-Believe, X/o - Chaos Butterfly, MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs, The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta. 10. The Boo Radleys - Keep on With Falling  ||  Pop Rock  ||  toothless, weak songwriting  ||  UK  ||  4.5/10 9. Hailey Whitters - Raised  ||  Country Pop  ||  obnoxious, hollow  ||  USA  ||  4/10 8. FKA twigs - CAPRISONGS  ||  Alternative R&B  ||  disappointing, shallow  ||  UK  ||  4/10 7. Ian Noe - River Fools & Mountain Saints  ||  Country  ||  not my thing, annoying  ||  USA  ||  4/10 6. Saba - Few Go...

Ok, ok, this is a music blog, I know. I thought it might be fun to share my favorite movies as an "off-topic" post. While I do listen to far more music than I watch t.v. or movies, there are films I consider incredibly important to me on a personal level. You'll notice a definite trend in which kinds of films I'm into; I apologize for nothing. Comment below on what movies are your favorites. Hope you enjoy the list! 100.  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)  ||  Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu  ||  Psychological Drama, Black Comedy, Satire  ||  2014  ||   4/5 99. Citizen Kane  ||  Dir. Orson Welles  ||  Drama  ||  1941  ||  4/5 98. The Grand Budapest Hotel  ||  Dir. Wes Anderson  ||  Comedy, Adventure  ||  2014  ||  4/5 97. Schindler's List  ||  Dir. Steven Spielberg  ||  Biopic, War, Period Drama  ||  1993...

Post-punk is a deviation from the more common punk rock of the 70s. It features more elaborate production than typical of the latter genre, with more attention to creating soundscapes while still keeping the angular guitar lines and rhythmic quality of punk rock. It also commonly features a more  depressive quality to the songwriting than plain punk, and, to me, is more effective. The 80s were its heyday; below are some of my favorites from that period.  The format of this list: Artist - Song  ||  Album it's from  ||  Release year. Hope you enjoy this mixtape. Cheers! Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything  ||  The Sky's Gone Out  ||  1982 Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon  ||  Ocean Rain  ||  1984 The Cure - Disintegration  ||  Disintegration  ||  1989 The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual  ||  Meat is Murder  ||  1985 The Chameleons - Second Skin  ||  Scri...