With the ashes of 2016 now relegated to the annals of all time greatest dumpster fires, we might peruse with somber clarity what we’ve just endured (good luck 2017!). Not all of it was bad though, and sifting through that wreckage we’ve found that we’ve been left with a hefty collection of musical gems. So we’ve asked the experts what they thought, and according to them this is the best the year gave us. Continue reading Peer Review: The Best Music Of 2016 →

2016 will forever be remembered as the brutish year that waded through the music industry with a scythe and a heavy hand. It took from us the likes of David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Sharon Jones, two thirds of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, George Michael, Glenn Frey, Merle Haggard, Maurice White, and Leon Russell. It’s the sort of year that future generations will look back on and ask, “Did it seriously start because somebody shot a gorilla?” We’ll pat them on their little heads and tell them to finish eating their soylent, while we continue to stare uncomfortably into the abyss that our lives will have become. Continue reading The Best Music Of 2016 →