This was a difficult year, as the flow of good music increased exponentially from 2021. All those COVID themes (lockdowns, isolation, etc) continued, but artists had more time to produce more material, and make it sound even better. I could’ve easily made a top 100 this year, but I’ll stop at 50 (after my traditional 25). A lot of notables came in late this year, and many others I listened to earlier in the year didn’t stick in my head as much. Note, a few of these did not get an official review but I will do a mini-review of these. In addition, I also removed a few big major label artists (i.e. Elvis Costello) that really came through because they already get plenty of promotion, and I’ll post on that very soon.
- Amoeba Teen
- The Airport 77s
- Dungeon of Skeletons
- John Larson & The Silver Fields
- Dave Scarbrough
- Sloan
- Extra Arms
- Emperor Penguin
- Maple Mars
- The Well Wishers
- The Speedways
- Uni Boys
- The Happy Fits
- Nick Piunti
- Bird Streets
- Tamar Berk
- Lannie Flowers
- Fuzzbubble
- Chris Lund
- Eytan Mirsky
- Dot Dash
- The Cheap Cassettes
- Dave Cope and the Sass
- Seth Swirsky
- The Split Squad
- Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard
- Shake Some Action
- Crossword Smiles
- More Kicks
- The Nervous Eaters
- Kai Danzberg
- Chris Church
- Tom Curless
- Phil Angotti
- Dowling Poole
- The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness
- Young Guv
- The Bye Bye Blackbirds
- Phil Thornalley
- Dan Isreal
- Gymnasium
- The Mike Bell Cartell
- Goodman
- Action City
- Self-Cut Bangs
- Geoff Palmer
- Phil Yates & The Affiliates
- The Cleaners From Venus
- Cheap Star
- Speedfossil