+ Songs of the Year 2020
Songs of the Year! Music from Jazzmyn Red, Atwater Punx, Knock Over City, Dead Star Cult, The Shang Hi Los, Motel Black, Phil Cambra and the Space Cadets, Universal Traveler, Corner Soul, Parlour Bells, Pillbook, The Devil’s Twins, Salem Wolves, Set Fire, Cave In, Caspian, STL GLD, Eldridge Rodriguez, Trailer Swift, Song of the Year: Adi Sun – Bella Sun Lever (see list of full forty)
Here’s to 2021! The Thank Yous:
Coleman Rogers Photography for supporting and sponsoring the show | colemanrogersphotography.com
Joel and On the Town on WMFO
Kristen and Bumblebee Radio
Bridget, JJ, Erin, Oliver, Jamie, Erin and the ONCE Virtual Venue team. More OVV events to come.
Barbara Walsh for handling local listings
Thanks Amy’s show List for sharing your list
& everyone who has sent music to the show
Goodbye 2020. No one likes you.
Save Mass Stages, savemastages.org
BE TV is coming. Watch for the Henley Row All-Stars tonight at 9:30
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Songs of the Year 2020
Jazzmyn Red – We Gon Make It from REDvolution, August 2020
-exactly what we needed and when we needed it
Atwater Punx – Ghost Town
-from debut, The Flea Draws Blood, May 2020
–family duo of Stacy Jones and Kristen Wagner Jones made a pandemic record
Knock Over City – Edging
-from Dungeon Module 420, January 2020
Dead Star Cult – Always There
-also appears on KSB2020 for DCF Wonderfund
The Shang Hi Los – Sway Little Player from Kick It Like A Wicked Bad Habit, due January 2021
Motel Black – Evening Standard
-from a series of singles the band released at the tail end of the year
Phil Cambra and the Space Cadets – Expectations
Universal Traveler – Second Best
Chris Johnson (Summoner, Deafhaven, Doomriders) made music this year as Universal Traveler
Corner Soul – Downtown from Emergency Faith, November 2020
Parlour Bells – The Ballad of Felix Moncla from Survival of the Patient: The Antibody Sessions, May 2020
Pillbook – We’ll Just Stare, May 2020
The Devil’s Twins – Bad Karma, November 2020
Salem Wolves – Titanium from Never Die!!!, September 2020
Set Fire – No Quarter
-they recorded their exquisite Led Zeppelin cover this year, September 2020
Cave In – Moonlight Mile
-The band gave us a Rolling Stones cover they recorded at their respective homes in Ipswich, Salem, Cambridge MA, and Brooklyn NY, May 2020
Caspian – Flowers of Light from On Circles, January 2020
Top of my Record of the Year list; like all touring bands, 2o2o was a brutal one for Caspian. They do have new tour dates listed for Fall 2021
STL GLD – My Block, August 2020
Eldridge Rodriguez – Your Dead Boyfriend from Slightest of Treason, February 2020
Trailer Swift – Nothing New from You Are Not What You Do, October 2020
Song of the Year:
Adi Sun – Bella Sun Lever, July 2020
MORE
The Grownup Noise – Lonely Days
Shea Rose – Black Boys On Mopeds
Lord Felix – Bad Bwodie
Kristian Montgomery and the Winterkill Band – American Fire
Jerry Lehane – Kiss My Tattoo
Samuel Johnson – Blue Jeans
Home Despot – Ultra Violence
The Sheila Divine – Melancholy, MA
Bryan Porter Hinkley – No Time
Erica Mantone – Maybe It’s Me
Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys with Ghost of the Machine – Battle Witches
Jenne Halstead – Heart Light
Circus Trees – Wasted Air
Micah Howeson – Heel
Airport – Slow Fade
This Bliss – U Wanna Be
Oldsoul – Like No Surprise
Pregame Rituals – Reasonable Doubt
Luxury Deathtrap – Better This Way
Austin Bullock – Part Of Me
This week’s SOTW
1/ Mister Vertigo – Indie Nerd Strikes Again
2/ Eye Witness – Artemis
3/ Kristian Montgomery and the Winterkill Band – Don’t Call Me Baby
4/ Roser – Nice, Guy
5/ DearBones – I, Lucifer
Taking a short break, see you in January 2021!
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