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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 EPS OF 2021

January 10, 2022 by Andrew Perrizo in Year End List

2021 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.

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January 10, 2022 /Andrew Perrizo
I/O the ProcessR, Phonics Vol. 2, Rap, Hip-Hop, Twain, Antoine "TWAIN" Perkins, Midwest Mayor, Philip Saint John, Sun Indigo, The Nine-45 Show, Serious Machine, Still We All, indie, rock, EP, EP of the Year, 2021, Nigel T, Left For Dead, Languid, I've Come To Terms With Who I Am, Emo, Inflict, The Fear of Losing Everything, Gully Boys, Favorite Son, Punk, SWRS, You're All But Deceased, Laska, Fader, Gramma, Supertrend, Double Grave, Echinacea, Ludu, The Devil Inside, Drey DK, Peace of Mind, EVV, Gemini, Joe Bartel, Anhedonia, Lobster Planet, I Don't Want to Die Yet, Girls Camp, It's Hip to be Sad, Tuvok The Word, Tuvok the Third, In Lieu, Edible E.P., Justin Courtney Pierre, An Anthropologist On Mars, Glass Eyes, Liminality, Nu Metal, R&B, Kuncky, POV, Nacho Suave, Ignacio EP, Durry
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