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2026
1 Oct 2026
Before The World Blows Up: The Relatively New Records That Kept Me Cool in This Hot August Frightoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
BOUNTY! The Most Striking New Records I Discovered in July (Only Some Were That New, Though)original ↗
30 Jul 2026
June, Moon, Spoon—Goons: Living to Listen’s Midyear Sanity-Inducing, Joy-Eliciting Sweepstakesoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
Then Came the Last Day of May—And I Missed It: Favorite Slabs of Music from the Fifth Monthoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
1 May 2026
Things Are Unhinged, but Members of The Earth, Do Not Bend to The Set-Up (Living to Listen’s Favorite Records, March ’26)original ↗
1 Apr 2026
Special Surprize Throwback Post: The Reverend Wayne Coomers Gives Guilty Pleasure Advice to His Readers in The First Church of Holy Rock and Roll’s “Confessional”original ↗
2 Mar 2026
A Moment of Silence for January 2026—Then Let It Blast! Some Records (and Books) That Kept My Head Up During the Horrororiginal ↗
31 Jan 2026
It Will Not End Here: My 25 Favorite Records of 2025 (if you don’t give me any more time to think about it)original ↗
1 Jan 2026
2025
A HOLIDAY MONTH’S MEAL AND A FEW WEEKS OF LUSCIOUS LEFTOVERS: MY FAVORITE RECORDS, JANUARY 1st to DECEMBER 2nd (precisely), 2025original ↗
2 Dec 2025
Perseverance Flow (You Can Make It If You REALLY Try): My Favorite Albums, January 1st to November 1storiginal ↗
2 Nov 2025
1 Sept 2025
Death Don’t Have No Mercy: In Lieu of My Monthly List, Would You Care for My Mid-Year Francis Davis Memorial Jazz Critics Ballot?original ↗
1 Jul 2025
June, Spoon, Moon…GOONS: My Favorite Albums of 2025, January 1st to June 1st, for Chasing Them Awayoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2025
Long on Sounds, Short on Ides: The Living to Listen List, Marching Forward into The 2025ireoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2025
Amerikkkan Top 40: Some New (and Relatively New) Albums That May Help Get You Through the Morning News If You Can Stand to Read Itoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
2024
1 Dec 2024
JUNE 2024–Halfway There: 10 Newish Albums I Lived to Listen To + My 10 Favorite Jazz Albums of 2024 So Far + Encounters with Old Reggaeoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2024
2024 First Quarter Report Card: My 20 Very Favorite Newbies, My 10 Very Favorite Old Crustsoriginal ↗
1 May 2024
2023
THE SPRAWL: A Tentacular List of Really Good Records Released in 2023, Most of Which I Can Remember Listening To (November 1st Update)original ↗
1 Nov 2023
Happy Hour in Excelsior Springs: Not Feeling Tardy Delivering My Favorite Records of 2023, January 1 – September 1original ↗
2 Sept 2023
Bark Out Thunder, Roar Out Lightning–Albeit in a Small Dose: 150 Absorbing New and Old Recordings Released So Far in 2023original ↗
29 Jul 2023
“Be M’Guest”: DIG IN TO A HALF-ANNUM TREASURE TROVE — Outstanding Platters from 2023, January 1 – July 2original ↗
3 Jul 2023
More Youthful Wisdom, Passion, and Fine Writing from the Stephens College Summer Conservatory “Rock and Roll” Classoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2023
Stephens College Conservatory Ace Sophie Davis Parses the Virtues of Lewis Capaldi’s Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sentoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2023
THIS STUFF! FEELS GOOD!: 110 Truly Interesting Records We’ve Received So Far in ’23 (not bad!)original ↗
31 May 2023
“I Will Not Stop Til They Bury Me”: A Talk with American Music Scholar, Composer, and Musician Allen Loweoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2023
Lowe’s Highs: Music Scholar Crashes The 2023 Record Pull / girlgeniuses get it very together (Best New Records, Reissues, and Excavations, January 1st – April 26th)original ↗
26 Apr 2023
I do not really care if there is a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard: 55 Pretty Snazzy Records Released This Calendar Year, barely including that one, January 1 – March 28, 2023original ↗
28 Mar 2023
February Fudge: The Best Records I’ve Heard in 2023, with Exceptions Real, Imagined, and Past Due That I Allowed So I Can Invite a Top 25 + One to My Partyoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2023
Gooba Gooba Gooba Gooba, Goodbye: So Long to Huey Piano Smith, last of the New Orleans Professors, and (at long last) a 2023 Top 10.original ↗
15 Feb 2023
Five I Missed That Woulda Made The 2022 List: New Discoveries from the Year That Was (+ a 2023 Addendum)original ↗
3 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023
Views from the Campus: Students from my Freshman Composition/Pop Music Fusion Class at Stephens College, Fall 2022original ↗
11 Jan 2023
2022
YES THANK YOU: The Best of a Bounty of Absorbing, Motorvating, Challenging, Exciting Albums Gifted Us By 2022original ↗
22 Dec 2022
Special Bandcamp Friday 2022 Edition: More (and More) Touch–The Best Records I’ve Heard This Year So Far with 29 Days to Go!original ↗
2 Dec 2022
LET’S STAMP (and maybe something GOOD will happen)!–Some of the Best New (and Newly Excavated Music) from 2022original ↗
31 Oct 2022
This Art Ain’t Languishin’: Best New Album Sounds and Dug-Up Tracks, January 1 – September 29original ↗
29 Sept 2022
29 May 2022
“Groundbreaking Women in U. S. Music: A History in 150 [or so] Albums”: Greatest Hits from Two Essay Assignmentsoriginal ↗
4 May 2022
“Interpret It Well: Life in All Its Rich Musical Variety”–Best Rekkids of 2022, January 1st-April 27)original ↗
27 Apr 2022
3 Apr 2022
I Don’t Feel Tardy. I Don’t Feel Hardy. But I Feel That Wild Loneliness…. (January 1 – March 6, 2022)original ↗
6 Mar 2022
Living to Listen’s Top Albums of 2020, Part II (I refuse to admit we’re in a different calendar year–even today, which is the dawn of 2020, Part III)original ↗
3 Jan 2022
2021
No-Save* November: The Best Recordings Released in 2021 (So Far), Which I’ve Drained My Wallet For Despite Using Multiple Streaming Platformsoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2021
For Those I Love, A Burgeoning List Including Lots of Long-Playing Lyricism–Best Rekkids, January 1 – November 1original ↗
1 Nov 2021
Golden Musical Days – I’d Like to Share Them with You: Superior Slabs, January Through September 2021original ↗
30 Sept 2021
90 Degrees of Freedom Found: My Favorite Rekkid Releases of 2021, and We’re Only Halfway Thereoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2021
“Chrissie, Bar the Door”–A Gush of Recorded Matter into the LTL List: January 1st – June 1, 2021original ↗
1 Jun 2021
FINAL EDITION: Living to Listen’s Top 100 New Releases of 2020 (Plus a Top 40 of Reissues and Archival Discoveries)original ↗
8 Jan 2021
2020
Power Up! Look Out! This Dance’s About Over!: 155 Rekkids That Have Given Me Pleasure This Year When I Really, Really Needed It!original ↗
30 Nov 2020
Living to Listen’s Top Platters for 2020 (So Far): Hey, Instead of Watching Election Results, Dive into this List and Don’t Come Up Until You’ve at Least Sampled Them All!original ↗
2 Nov 2020
My Imaginary Top 100 Ballot Submitted to Rolling Stone for its “500 Greatest Albums of the Rock and Roll Era” (NEAR-FINAL DRAFT–I still haven’t even gotten off the couch to scan the stacks for insane omissions.)original ↗
1 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020
7 and 0 Is?: The Best Alblums* of The Year from Hell (so far), Cool August Day Edition (*Blame it on Don Julio)original ↗
1 Aug 2020
9 May 2020
Explosions: Music and Viruses – 65 Solid Platters to Spin or Stream, and You Have Time (January 1 – April 1)original ↗
1 Apr 2020
8 Feb 2020
6 Feb 2020
Living to Listen’s 2019 Top 25 LPs Video Playlist (plus a showcase for some rekkids that are “Late to the List”)original ↗
7 Jan 2020
2019
Inverse Proportion Theory of Musical Succor: “Records Were as Great This Year as Our World was Terrible”original ↗
22 Dec 2019