The Best New Releases I Heard in 2016: Q3 | Willie Edward Smith
The synthesis of it all grooves and rocks like the past, the present, and the future had a stiff drink and lost track of time.
The synthesis of it all grooves and rocks like the past, the present, and the future had a stiff drink and lost track of time.
Andrew Bird has long been a master of all things vintage, but on Are You Serious, he plays Time Lord.
The Now became my focus for 2016. I had no clue what that would mean going forward.
These were my top shows of 2016, ranked in order of awesomeness.

These are the top 10 songs that make me stop what I’m doing and listen/dance/sing along/all of the above.
Olly Murs’ 24 HRS and Adam Lambert’s The Original High reveal the more mature side of each singer.
Note to all musicians: You can’t follow Andy Grammer, so don’t even try.
Olly Murs’ “Private” is perhaps my favorite song of the past half-decade, not just this year. Absolute pop perfection.

Any song that references The Rocky Horror Picture Show gets high marks from me.
There are albums in my Top 10 and there are those in my Honorable Mentions; these are songs from neither of those lists.
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