Madison Beer, locket ⭐️❌❌❌❌ Madison Beer has released a new album. Her name has always sounded like a counterpart to the Samuel Adams beer to me. Like, a James Madison beer or something. I don’t know. That’s probably just me. But anyways… Every once in a while I’ll listen to an album from an artist that I know very little about, and by the end, I don’t know anything more about them than I did going in. That is not good. That is the mark of a bad album.  You want an artist’s personality, at least, to come through on...

Zach Bryan, With Heaven on Top ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❌ Zach Bryan is back with a new album, and boy howdy is it a behemoth. 25 songs clocking in at 1 hour and 18 minutes. That is a lot. But surprisingly, for how long this album is, it moves at a clip. The track list flows very nicely, and it keeps you engaged. Could there have been some self editing? Yes. Are there songs that sound a bit like other songs? Yes. But for the most part he handled this unwieldy 25 song beast very well. Now, the songs themselves are great. A...

Joost, Kleinkunst ⭐️⭐️❌❌❌ Joost has released a new album. If you don’t know who Joost is, don’t worry, I didn’t know either. He makes meme music. I don’t think I’ve ever had an existential crisis while listening to an album before this one. It made me realize that at 28, I am getting old. I’m definitely not the target demographic for this. I have aged out of internet meme culture. I am unc now.  There are some parts that are funny, even to my old decrepit sense of humor. And the music will have you moving. But, yeah… I’m gonna...

Happy New Year! This December has been really bad as far as music goes. It’s usually a sparse release schedule, but my God… There has been absolutely nothing these past two weeks.