In my new interview with Stephen of Stephen Sol & the 7, we talk about the band’s new album Live at the Manor Tree, playing DC’s Union Stage, and much more.
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Djo Tops the Spotify Charts
Djo, the project by actor Joe Kerry (Steve from Stranger Things) has the new number one song on Spotify’s Global Charts.
The track originally came out on his 2022 album, Decide, but has since been released as a standalone single after gaining some traction. Now, the song is sitting pretty at #1 on Spotify’s Global Chart with 6.5 million streams—but it’s not the first time it’s enjoyed the view. “End of Beginning” went viral on TikTok in 2024, which saw it reach the milestone for the first time. It’s also #1 on the U.S. Spotify Chart with 1.38 million streams.
Beau Burchell Talks With KillerTube
Beau Burchell of Saosin recently sat down with KillerTube.
Read More “Beau Burchell Talks With KillerTube”Tracking Down Deftones’ Cover Model
Jenkem tracked down the cover model on Deftones’ Around the Fur 28 years later.
Read More “Tracking Down Deftones’ Cover Model”Hit the Lights on New Podcast
Nick Thompson of Hit the Lights is the latest guest on the Chris DeMakes a Podcast, discussing “Bodybag.”
Good Charlotte to Guest on New “Bedroom Posters”
To celebrate their upcoming tour dates together, Yellowcard and Good Charlotte will team up on a new version of “Bedroom Posters” due out on January 16th.
Read More “Good Charlotte to Guest on New “Bedroom Posters””Joyce Manor – “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives” Video
Joyce Manor have shared a video for “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives.”
Read More “Joyce Manor – “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives” Video”Jimmy Kimmel Cuts Back Musical Guests
Jimmy Kimmel will be reducing the musical guests to only twice per week:
Multiple sources familiar with the matter say Kimmel music producer Jim Pitt had informed them in the past several weeks about the move, though none who spoke with THR say they were given any reason on the decision. The ABC late night show is not expected to get shorter, another source familiar with the matter says. […] The decrease is the latest below to a late night TV ecosystem that has already been cutting down on music in the past several years. NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, for example, rarely if ever features musical guests on the show now, and the show lost its Fred Armisen-fronted house band in 2024 due to budget cuts. Meanwhile, even before the news of the show’s cancellation, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert‘s musical guest inclusion had waned as well, and the cancellation takes an entire show off the board for artist features.
Knowing about, posting about, and staying up late to watch musical guests on late shows was a staple of my teenage years. This sucks.
Chorus.fm’s Top 30 Albums of 2025
I had to re-read how I introduced this feature the past few years to make sure I didn’t repeat myself. But, here we are again at the start of a new year and it’s the best time to recap our favorite albums of 2025. Below you’ll find the contributor best of 2025 list with blurbs written by the staff talking about why we loved these albums. Each album title links to a streaming page so you can check out anything you may have missed. There’s also a playlist featuring a song from every album on this list, and a few staff members have shared their individual lists and some commentary in their blogs.
The final list is the combination of ten contributors and represents what each of these individuals liked most over the past year. It’s really that simple. So, before commenting something negative or mean, please think about the people behind the lists and the time spent putting together something that’s supposed to be fun and represent what the contributors to this website enjoyed the most over the past twelve months.
As always, thanks for spending 2025 with us, and I hope you find something new to check out and love.
Note: Check the bottom of this post for links to individual contributor lists.
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Albums is the player that cares as much about your music library as you do.
Made by music-obsessed solo developer Adam Linder, Albums provides the best alternative to the built-in Music app on Apple platforms for true music lovers, now available on macOS as well as iOS! Relive the glory days of the iPod with album shuffle, and use robust tagging and filtering options to build the album collections of your dreams—you can even tag music not in your library to check out later. Beyond playback and organization, Albums is packed with features to enrich your musical life; the Release Feed keeps track of new and upcoming music from artists and record labels in your library; the app tracks your play history and generates regular listening reports, like Adam’s 2025 Listening Report, attached to this post; and the Insights tab offers dozens of personalized collections to help you experience your library in a new way.
Albums is deeply integrated with Apple platform features, including comprehensive Shortcuts support, a first-class CarPlay app, and interactive widgets. It is available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. With over six years of iterative improvement on the App Store, the app is the best it’s ever been—and only getting better. When you’re ready to level up your music-listening experience, download Albums on the App Store. If you’re looking for something a little different, you can also check out Adam’s chaotic neutral music-discovery app, Univershuffle, which shuffles all of the music on the Apple Music catalog. Seriously!
Read More “Albums – The Music Player That Cares About Music”Jason Tate’s Top Albums of 2025
Why hello here, it looks like it’s time for yet another best of list.
You can subscribe to my newsletter if you’re interested in a weekly rundown of the music and other entertainment I consume, and the staff compiled best of 2025 list can be found here.
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I spent a huge amount of time and emotional energy in 2025 going back through the back pages of my own music listening history. The My Life In 35 Songs series, which I launched in March and wrapped on my 35th birthday in November, provided space on this website every week for me to gush about the music that shaped who I am. It was a massive commitment, and it left little time for any other type of music writing. But it also served as a stirring reminder of how important a good song or a great album can be. For those of us on this website, music doesn’t stop being formative or emotionally resonant just because we got beyond those teenage years of self-discovery and first-time experiences. On the contrary, if you give yourself over to it, music can continue to be a true companion for your entire life.
With that thought in mind, I dove into compiling my best-of-the-year list for 2025 with as much enthusiasm and excitement as I’ve ever brought to a year-end list before. My Life In 35 Songs felt freeing and invigorating because the structure of it gave me permission to be 100 percent honest – not only about the music I’ve loved, but also about life experiences that had previously felt too raw or too private to share. I wanted to bring that energy to this list – to try to tune out any kind of popular consensus and zero in on the albums that felt vital to me. The resulting list has a bunch of albums you’ll surely recognize, but also a few I haven’t seen on a single other list so far. Just like My Life In 35 Songs, it feels true to who I am and to the life I lived this year.
That life was as confounding as ever in 2025 – a year that saw America go fascist, that saw seemingly every industry embrace the scourge of generative AI, and that saw me bristling against a growing number of indicators that I am simply not that young anymore. Along the way, though, I found a lot of records that did make me feel young again, or that gave me hope and light amidst the growing darkness. Here are a few dozen of them.
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Another year has come and gone, but the tunes will remain. And what a year it was! 2025 thrilled with key reunions of bands like The Starting Line, Yellowcard, and Motion City Soundtrack, while some solo albums from Hayley Williams, Luke Spiller, and Taylor Acorn all made their way onto top spots in my personal list. In this blog, I’ve hyperlinked to my past work on this site in ’25, and added in some new blurbs if I didn’t get around to writing about the record during the year. I hope everyone had a peaceful and relaxing holiday season, and 2026 seems poised to be just as strong in the music front.
Read More “Adam Grundy’s Top Albums of 2025”Garrett Lemons’ Top Albums of 2025
It’s been an interesting year around these parts. Like always, music, books, and television has played an integral part of how I cope with the daily stress of life, the added stress of the world we live in, and just in general with how I interact with those around me. I don’t have all that much to say, but if you know who I am from being around Chorus and AbsolutePunk for the last twenty years, here’s some things that I found to be class this year.
Read More “Garrett Lemons’ Top Albums of 2025”Trevor Graham’s Top Albums of 2025
End of the year – you know what time it is.
A wise man named Smash (but it’s Dr. Mouth to you) once said “the years start coming and they don’t stop coming”. He was so right for that. 2025 felt a decade long, but also it’s already December again. What’s that about? Not a fan!
Some real bullshit in the world this year, dude! I know it’s not what you came here to read about, so I won’t get into it. But if life feels more and more like circling the drain these days, I get it, and implore you to hang in there. Yes, Dr. Mouth, our world is also on fire – but every now and then we get a One Battle After Another. Or go to Red Rocks for the first time. Or compete in a parallel parking contest. Or watch stand up comedy in a park on a summer afternoon. And it’s like, oh shit, life is pretty tight actually!
Wonderful year in music though – it was tough narrowing down to 50 selections. Can you believe I did it? Applause break please. My fun little annual project at the end of every year is to count down my list over the course of a week on Instagram stories – it’s not the ideal platform for something like that, but I like to think of it as an exercise in concise (and very casual) writing since there’s a limit on space for text. Below you’ll find my favorite albums of the year, with all of those little blurbs. If you don’t care about any of that, scroll to the bottom of this page for a screenshot of the list in its entirety.
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