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FAVORITE MINNESOTA ALBUMS OF 2025

January 26, 2026 by Andrew Perrizo in Year End List

I’m proud of how the Twin Cities has pulled together to help and protect each other when our elected officials refuse. Because of the occupation I haven’t had the mental focus I normally have to put towards Melodic Noise Media, so I didn’t get as many reviews written as I would have liked.

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January 26, 2026 /Andrew Perrizo
John Maus, “Later Than You Think”, “Save Room”, Critterthing, “Delicate Machinery”, Unstable Shapes, “Bloodless”, Samia, “In The Light”, LAAMAR, “CHUNKADELIC”, Nur-D, “The Americana Dream”, Maygen & the Birdwatcher, “The Live Album”, Jillian Rae, “SOMETHING PROFOUND”, anni xo, “Shotgun”, Sleeping Jesus, “The Rub”, Your Smith, “Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles”, Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles, “This is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Happening Right Now”, Daguerrotypes, “Learn to Love Something” Gramma “Dime” Atomic Lights “Sure, Kyrie Nova & The Defiant, “Learn to Love Something”, Gramma, “Dime”, Atomic Lights, “Sure Why Not?”, Mouthful, “I Am Trying to Be a Pool”, ...and Ifound a way, Clover Bloom, afters, Everything Was Beautiful, Anita Velveeta, Liquid Gold, Buckls, BUCKLS, Durry This Movie Sucks, FINICK, Weekends in Purgatory, Future Babel, Cyber Sunday, Giant's Knife, At the End of All Things, Gully Boys, Halfway Down, Make It Up, In Lieu, Hooligan, KYM and the Kick, The Gift of Feeling, Meezy3, Serenity, Motion City Soundtrack, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, Poor John Candy, Negative Space, runo plum, patching, Skippy Stone, Candles, snakeworld!, welcome to snakword!
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FAVORITE MINNESOTA ALBUMS OF 2021

January 17, 2022 by Andrew Perrizo in Year End List

The 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.

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January 17, 2022 /Andrew Perrizo
rap, hip-hop, the nine-45 show, indie, rock, 2021, emo, punk, r&b, durry, Orchid Eaton, Where All Ends Meet, Lazenlow, Conditional Love: Chapters 1, Jusice Lord, Spread Luv Tape: A Point of Light, Chasinova, High Speed Cash, 26 BATS!, Portal Party, Re5ve, Medium Zach, Bad by Myself, Vial, Loudmouth, mama knoz, black. femme. masc., Acid Patch Kids, Commandeered, Ingeborg von Agassiz, Coventry Carols, Twin Tombs, 4:23, Anita Velveeta, The Motherhood of St Monica, FPA, Princess Wiko, Strange Relations Belonging, Killed by Kiwis, Unravel, Tyler Haag, aim true, Ka Lia Universe, To Be Continued, Products, Pink Puma, Lakewood Cemetary, The City, ink Puma, Metasota, RUNDMT, TV Moms, Buzz Mallory, Mama Rose, Set the Clock Down, Reed Benjamin, I of the Storm, Mijo, From Mijo, Capaciti, Mannequins
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