Good riddance to 2020. Here’s to 2021!
My Favorite Songs of 2020
Brandy – “(Wish You Was) Madball Baby” – The Gift Of Repetition (Total Punk Records)
ISS – “Too Punk For Heavy Metal” – 7” (Total Punk Records)
Dicklord – “Boring” – It’s Soooo Boring (Valve Records)
Moviestar – “Evel Knievel” – The Curse and The Currency of The Twenty-First Century (Bored Airline Music)
Illegal Visions – “Antifa” – South Bay Curse – The Lo-Fi Pandemic Sessions (S/R)
Cable Ties – “Tell Them Where To Go” – Far Enough (Merge Records)
Girl Friday – “Earthquake” – Androgynous Mary (Hardly Art)
MC16 – “Anti” (S/R)
Chemtrails – “Paranoiacs” – The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable (PNKSLM Recordings)
Powerslut – “Nostalgia” – Fun With Junk (S/R)
My Favorite Albums of 2020
Brandy – The Gift Of Repetition (Total Punk Records)
Kim Salmon and The Surrealists – Rantings From The Book Of Swamp (Kim Salmon)
Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Goblin Alert (Goner Records)
Flat Worms – Antartica (God?)
Mr. Wrong – Create A Place (Water Wing Records)
Gino and The Goons – Off The Rails (Big Neck Records)
Cool Greenhouse – Cool Greenhouse (Melodic Records)
Jackson Reid Briggs and The Heaters – Hammered (Grubby Publications)
All My Friends and Me – First Time (S/R)
Rubber Blanket – Our Album (Spacecase Records)
My favorite EPs of 2020
- Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice – While Aus Burns (S/R)
- Noxeema – Noxeema EP (dotx3)
- Kool and The Gang Bangers – Year Of The Kool Pt. 3 (S/R)
- CB Radio Gorgeous – EP (Thrilling Living)
- Buck Biloxi and The Fucks – Put You In The Gulag (Goodbye Boozy Records)
- Gee Tee – Atomic (Goodbye Boozy Records)
- Collective Hardcore/ Disco Junk – split (Goodbye Boozy Records)
- Names – Et Tu & The Warning (Misanthropic Agenda)
- Ray Gun – Lunkhead (It’s Trash!)
- Civic – “Radiant Eye b/w Making Time” (Flightless Records)
My Favorite Cover Songs of 2020
- Mattiel – “Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun” – Double Cover (ATO Records)
- Munlet – “El Ser Que Quiero” – Ghost Highway Recordings (Music For Gloves)
- Itchy Kitty – “Psycho Killer” – Under The Covers (Corporat Records)
- G.T.R.R.C. – “Food Fight” – G.T.R.R.C. II (G.T.R.R.C.)
- Tropical Fuck Storm featuring Amy Taylor – “This Perfect Day” – Suburbiopia 7” (Joyful Noise Recordings)
- Billiam – “Agitated” (Billiams Fan Club)
- Superchunk – “Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing” – Good Music To Avert The Collapse Of American Democracy (Good Music)
- Big Clown – “DDDDC” – Big Clown Big Mad (S/R)
- UK Gold – “Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot” – Be Gay, Do Crime! (Girlsville Records)
- Kiss Boom Bah – “Out Of Our Tree” – 7” (Sweet Time)
My Favorite Reissues of 2020
- El Pifco – “Meltdown b/w Bananas” – 7” (Metallic Rainforest)
- 14 th Wish – “I Gotta Get Rid Of You b/w 14th Wish” – 7” (Hozac Records)
- Ted Cassidy – “The Lurch/ Wesley” – 7” (Jackpot Records)
- The Generics – Cost Cutter EP (Feel It Records)
- The Prissteens – The Hound (Girlsville Rceords)
- Os Tartaros – The First Portuguese Surf-Garage Group 1964-1967 (Groovie Records)
- Whirlywirld – The Complete Studio Works 1978-80 (Hozac Records)
- The Zits – Back In Blackhead EP (Feel It Records)
- The Protagonists – 1983-1985 (Alona’s Dream Records)
My favorite Archival Realeases of 2020
- The Pathetx – 1981 LP (Third Man Records)
- Rebel Truce – The Lost Tapes EP (Green Recordings)
- Snot Puppies – TV Tantrum EP (No Matrix Records)
- Skinned Teen – Nancy Drew EP (Vague Absolutes)
- The Only Ones – Live In Chicago 1979 (Alona’s Dream Records)
- An Uneasy Peace – Speaking In Tongues EP (Dirt Cult Records)
- Red Lights – Red Lights 12” (In The Red Records)
- V/A – Brazilian Nuggets: Back From The Jungle Vol 4 (Groovie Records)
- V/A – Days Of A Quiet Sun (Feel It Records)
My Favorite Compilation Albums of 2020
- V/A – There’s Gotta Be Hope, Right? (Billiam)
- V/A – G.T.T.R.C. II (G.T.T.R.C.)
- V/A – Be Gay, Do Crime! (Girlsville Records)
- V/A – Typical Girls Volume 5 (Emotional Response Records)
- V/A – Black Lives Matter (Yeah Right!)
- V/A – Killed By Boredom – 27 Songs By Lock-Down Survivors (One Chord Wonder)
- V/A – Quarantine Age Wasteland: A Benefit for Boston's Small Venues (Quarantine Age Wasteland)
- V/A – No Gigs Does Not Have To Mean No Music (Desert Highways)
- V/A – Protest & Survive (Protest & Survive)
My Favorite Live and Virtually Live Shows of 2020
- Kim Salmon and The Surrealists – live at Rolling Stock, June 13 & 14, 2020
- Gonerfest 17 – Memphis, TN and beyond, September 24-27, 2020
- Shimane Jett Fest – Japan, September 26, 2020
- Los Dug Dugs – Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA, January 30, 2020
- Steve Nieve and friends – live from his house in France, March through present, 2020
- Chemtrails record release – June 21, 2020
- The Archaeas – record release live from Goner Records, Memphis, TN, August 14, 2020
- Memorial Day Meltdown – various locations, May 24, 2020
- Doug and Jamin – live from The Rite Spot, San Francisco, multiple days 2020
- Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus – The Knockout, San Francisco, CA, February 21, 2020
MY FAVORITE SONGS TO CELEBRATE TRUMP’S LAST YEAR
- The Owen Guns – “The Ballad of Cheeto Hitler” – Violating Community Standards (Riot Records)
- Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric – “Vote That Fucker Out” (S/R)
- Hobocop – “I’m A Troll” – Hungry Freaks In The Data Mine (S/R)
- Xylitol – “(There’s Something In Your) Void” – I’m Pretty Sure I Would Know If Reality Were Fundamentally Different Than I Perceived It To Be EP (Thrilling Living Records)
- Paris – “Baby Man Hands” – Safe Space Invader (Guerrilla Funk Recordings)
- Idles – “Grounds” – Ultra Mono (Partisan Records)
- Public Enemy – “State Of The Union (STFU)” – What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? (Enemy Records)
- Research Reactor Corp – “Big Baby” – The Collected Findings Of The Research Reactor Corporation (Erste Theke Tontraeger)
- Dick Move – “Ladies Night” – Chop! (Holiday Records)
- Psychedelic Furs – “Tiny Hands” – Made Of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
