Spotlighting Twin Cities' Music from the Basement Up.
It’s 2025, and maybe it’s old school of us at this point, but no AI was used to write these reviews. All of these reviews are sincere and straight from our hearts. Maybe they’re not the most eloquent reviews you’ll find, but it’s real people caring about real local artists. And with that out of the way, on to our favorite Albums of 2024! There are some new artists as well as familiar favorites from previous years. Support these artists!
Read MoreEvery year I say I'm going to start this project long before I actually do. 2024 was just full of so many great Minnesota projects that I couldn't stop listening long enough to sit down and write about them. The honorable mentions list contains a lot of artists I really wanted to write full reviews of, but just ran out of time and words. Let's hope 2025 has as many awesome projects.
Read MoreSo the hardest part of writing year end reviews is finding unique descriptions that ultimately just mean "this album fucking rocks, check it out!" All of these albums fucking rock, and you should check them out. Hopefully we were able to explain the essence of these projects a bit more than such a surface level glance. While we do one last look back at 2023, consider joining us on February 24th to help us celebrate doing this for 5 YEARS! We are having a gig to benefit She Rock She Rock at Eagles 34. Check out the poster at the bottom of the article.
Read More2023 can best be described as hectic. So much happened in the last year and so much amazing music was released. It was an impossible feat trying to keep up with it all. The writers at Melodic Noise Media did our best, these are just a few of our favorite EPs released by the Minnesota music scene in 2023.
Read MoreOnce more, we are looking back at our favorite Minnesota releases of 2022. The hardest part of this project is always trying to think of new ways to say “This album fucking slaps, check it out.” So definitely check out the Honorable Mentions as well, because I just ran out of ways to compliment these amazing albums.
Read MoreMost people have already moved on, but we are taking one last look at 2022. There was far too much local music released to manage to listen to it all, but we did our best. This isn't a best of list, and these aren't in any order, these are simply our favorite projects released by Minnesota artists in 2022.
Read MoreThe Minnesota music scene made it through 2021. We didn’t see as many live gigs as we wanted, but we did our best with livestream concerts. Shows were back again in the summer, then they weren’t again onces winter started rolling in. I think 2022 will be a better year for Minnesota music, but before we get to that, one last look back at our Favorite Albums of 2021.
Read More2021 is in the rearview mirror, and while it may have been another terrible year for the world, it was an excellent year for Minnesota music. Here is a list of some of our favorite EPs of the year. As with any list, there are obviously things we missed, but we did our best to listen to as much as possible. Enjoy and let us know what your favorites were and what we missed.
Read MoreMusic helped us all get through 2020, and while 2021 is off to a rocky start, Twin Cities musicians have proven that they can still put out great albums, even when the rest of the world is falling apart. Here are out favorite albums from 2020.
Read MoreTo quote Keith Harris, final music editor for City Pages, “I too have noticed it was a hard year.” Music has made the suffering this year more bearable, even though it was one of the hardest-hit industries. It would be truly impossible to try and list all of the projects we’ve enjoyed this year, but here are just a few of our favorites.
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