Top 30 Albums Of 2022

1. Cannons - Fever Dream
2. Kavinsky - Reborn
3. Jack Johnson - Meet The Moonlight
4. Artikal Sound System - Welcome To Florida
5. Dawes - Misadventures Of Doomscroller
6. Mihali - Effection
7. O.A.R. - The Arcade
8. Stick Figure - Wisdom
9. Satin Jackets - Reunion
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
11. Marcus Mumford - (self-titled)
12. Noah Kahan - Stick Season
13. Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
14. Caamp - Lavender Days
15. Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
16. KBong - Smile With The World
17. Matisyahu - Matisyahu
18. Ben Harper - Bloodline Maintenance
19. The Dip - Sticking With It
20. Trey Anastasio - Mercy
21. Mt. Joy - Orange Blood
22. The Lumineers - Brightside
23. Goose - Dripfield
24. Surfer Girl - Sunrise
25. Ocean Alley - Low Altitude Living
26. Dirty Heads - Midnight Control
27. Young The Giant - American Bollywood
28. Mason Jennings - Real Heart
29. The White Buffalo - Year Of The Dark Horse
30. Wilco - Cruel Country

the playlist: FEB 2022

1. Kavinsky (featuring Prudence & Morgan Phalen) - "Zenith"

2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Black Summer"

3. Spoon - "Wild"

4. Bad Suns - "Peachy"

5. Jason Mraz - "Always Looking For You"

6. Brett Dennen (featuring Matt Nathanson) - "Junk Life"

7. Wild Rivers - "Stubborn Heart"

8. The Cactus Blossoms (featuring Jenny Lewis) - "Everybody"

9. Amos Lee - "See The Light"

10. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - "Chocolate Hills"

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2016

1. Phish - Big Boat
2. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
3. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Call It What It Is
4. Matt Corby - Telluric
5. Dawes - We're All Gonna Die
6. Jim James - Eternally Even
7. Brett Dennen - Por Favor
8. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
9. St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Sea Of Noise
10. Classixx - Faraway Reach
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
12. The Avett Brothers - True Sadness
13. The Head And The Heart - Signs Of Light
14. The Lumineers - Cleopatra
15. Tegan & Sara - Love You To Death
16. STS9 - The Universe Inside
17. Margaret Glaspy - Emotions And Math
18. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
19. Joseph - I'm Alone, No You're Not
20. Johnnyswim - Georgica Pond
21. Amos Lee - Spirit
22. Band Of Horses - Why Are You OK
23. White Denim - Stiff
24. Pete Yorn - ArrangingTime
25. Mason Jennings - Wild Dark Metal
26. Lissie - My Wild West
27. The Cat Empire - Rising With The Sun
28. Nahko & Medicine For The People - HOKA
29. Greg Laswell - Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet
30. the NEW DEAL - Mercury Switch

CD REVIEW: Red Hot Chili Peppers "I'm With You"

The role of lead guitarist will be played by Josh Klinghoffer. The lead guitarist spot in RHCP has been a rotating cast of character, and this is the first album with newest edition Klinghoffer. The core of the band (Keidis, Flea, and Smith) are back again and have combine with their new guitarist to create one of their three best albums (the others being "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" and "Californication"). The album is funky and bridges all eras of RHCP music from their early days in the 80's as funk rockers to their 90's era lyrical alternative to their most recent pop-edged releases of the last decade. They showcase how fun and intensity mix well together and how the message of a song sometimes isn't in the lyrics but in the music itself. There is hit after hit on this album from the debut single of "The Adventures Of Raindance Maggie" to "Factory Of Faith" and "Monarchy Of Roses." Songs like "Police Station" and "Meet Me At The Corner" are the lyrical standouts of the bunch and "Ethiopia" is just straight up funky. After having been a band in some form or another for thirty years, it's nice to see that they are essentially the same as they have always been. Despite the losses and turnovers in their musical personnel, Red Hot Chili Pepper have proven that they are rock royalty and can still make some of the best alternative rock music around. This album proves that the new chapter in their existence is going to be exciting.

New Release Tuesday

New music out today worth checking out:

• Counting Crows - August & Everything After: Live From Town Hall
• Mike Doughty - Yes And Also Yes
• Lenny Kravitz - Black & White America
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You
• Luke Temple - Don't Act Like You Don't Care