PopMatters' 70 Best Albums of 2019

Antonio Poscic, Nick Malone, Jonathan Frahm, Adrien Begrand, Sean McCarthy, Justin Cober-Lake, Hans Kim, Steve Horowitz, Colin McGuire, Mick Jacobs, Brice Ezell, Linnete Manrique, Chris Ingalls, Paul Carr, Adriane Pontecorvo, Ian Mathers, Jordan Blum, A. Noah Harrison, Cole Waterman, Dave Heaton, Rod Waterman, Jessica Suarez, Callum Bains, Adrien Begrand, Elisabeth Woronzoff, Antonio Poscic, Spyros Stasis, Jennifer Makowsky, Evan Sawdey, Jacob Uitti, Sarah Zupko, Quentin B. Huff, Rich Wilhelm, Daniel Bromfield, Chris Conaton & Scott Elingburg

From forward-looking electronic and experimental to new approaches in the ever-evolving R&B scene, from hip-hop and punk to rock and pop, 2019 bestowed an embarrassment of musical riches upon us.

Addded Dec 9, 2019

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The Singles Jukebox

The Singles Jukebox: Aretha Franklin

Jonathan Bogart, Edward Okulicz, Ian Mathers, Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa, Jer Fairall, Stephen Eisermann, Julian Axelrod, Jacob Sujin Kupperman, Pedro João Santos, Anthony Easton, Jonathan Bradley, Nortey Dowuona, Rebecca Gowns, Alfred Soto, Mallory O'Donnell & Kat Stevens

Aretha Franklin was one of the pillars of the modern world. There were other soul singers, other musicians who brought the music of the Black midcentury church into the worlds of rhythm & blues, pop, and rock and roll; but there were none who so demanded, with such unmatched authority, to be heard. And not only to be heard, but to be respected.

Addded Aug 20, 2018

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Tom Petty

Anaïs Mathers, Jonathan Bogart, Rebecca Gowns, Thomas Inskeep, Ian Mathers, Anthony Easton, John Seroff, Josh Langhoff, Jessica Doyle & Gin Hart

He was the unlikeliest of pop stars in the hairsprayed and shoulder-padded MTV era, a thin-lipped, stringy-haired Florida ne'er-do-well whose thin, scouring-pad voice sang anthemic highway-ready pop choruses about the feelings you wish you didn't have and the bad decisions you have to learn to live with.

Addded Oct 9, 2017

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