24 Things I LIked in 2024

 1. Hail Murray! The Bay Are Punk Photography of Murray Bowles 1982-1995

 

2. The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression/Rule by Deception

 

3. Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) - Passage du Desir

 4. High Vis - Guided Tour

5. Pardoner - Paranoid in Hell

 

6. A Different Man

 

7. Planet on a Chain - Culture of Death

 

8. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

 

9. Kriegshög - Love and Revenge

10. Gloom Forever

11. The Circulators - Insufficient Fun

 

12. Chime 

13. Stress Eater - Everybody Eats!

14. Greg Foat - The Glass Frog

15. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

16. Speed Plans - DUI

17. Nosferatu

 

18. The Beast

 

19. Charles Lloyd - The Sun Will Still Be There Tomorrow

 

20. The Substance

 

21. Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood

 

22. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

 

23. Trap 

 24. Problems - Beg for Release

23 Things I liked in 2023

 

Ambrose Akinmusire (solo) at Grace Cathedral - 2/9/2023 

(photo by David Becker)

 

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
(US release date was in 2023, leave me alone)

Nuovo Testamento - Love Lines 

Home Front - Games of Power 

 

Succession - Season 4 

 

Pardoner - Peace Loving People

 

Through the Looking Glass at Fairyland - 9/16/2023

 

Stingray - Fortress Britain

 

The Government - "Fight The Tide"

 

Greg Foat & Ayo Salawu - Interstellar Fantasy

 

Dream Scenario 

 

The Hope Conspiracy - "Confusion/Chaos/Misery"

Replacements - Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)

 

Spellling & The Mystery School 

 

Killers of the Flower Moon 

 

Planet on a Chain - Boxed In 

 

The Boy & The Heron

 

Neil Young (solo) at the Greek Theatre - 7/15/2023

(photo by Joey Martinez)

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Theater Camp

Castillo - Pleasure and Pain

 

Infinity Pool

 

Asteroid City