Here is the first batch of my favorites from 2024!

otter petter Cobwebs

The Vapors Eyes On the Prize

Dennis Shocket and Cliff Hillis The Girls Are Back In Town

The Tisburys The Anniversaries

Jim Trainor Better Than You Do

John Larson And The Silver Fields Guilty By Association

Librarians With Hickeys Everything Will Be All Rightis the first batch to

Liquid Mike Drinking and Driving

Modern English Long In The Tooth

Nada Surf In Front of Me Now

Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Eyelids

Pernice Brothers Hey, Guitar

pete donnelly Exploding Lightbulb

Redd Kross Candy Coloured Catastrophe

Tamar Berk Good Impression

The Chesterfield Kings Fly The Astral Plane

The Jack Rubies Corrupted (FCC Warning)

Valley Lodge Hanging Around

The Call A Beautiful Lie

Rick Kingo feat Cherry Fez In Our Solitude

"Have yourself a Merry little Christmas now" - Hugh Martin

Reno Bo Christmas Time Is Coming

Ron Sexsmith Maybe This Christmas

The Dandy Warhols Little Drummer Boy

Goo Goo Dolls Let It Snow

The Raveonettes The Christmas Song

Rufus Wainwright Spotlight On Christmas

The Bradburys I Love It When It Snows!

Paul Simon Getting Ready for Christmas Day

Sun Kings Santa’s Calling

Matt Nathanson I Believe in Father Christmas

The Killers Boots

Fountains Of Wayne Valley Winter Song

Lisa Mychols Joy Is In The Giving

The Weepies All That I Want

Thrift Store Halo I Still Love Christmas

Marcy Playground Keegan's Christmas

The Hangabouts Colors of Christmas

October Elsewhere Christmas Every Day

Old 97's Gotta Love Being a Kid (Merry Christmas)

David Woodard Peace Love Merry Xmas

Jesse Malin Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Pretenders Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

In memory of Andy Blakemore

Erik Voeks Let Go Now

Low Cut Connie Are You Gonna Run?

otter petter Winnebago

Searching for Sylvia The Realist

Father John Misty She Cleans Up

Rob Moss and Skin-Tight Skin Slow Down

Andy Bopp Simplified

Even As We Speak Forgiving

Trio Da Da Da (I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha)

Soul Asylum The Only Thing I'm Missing

The Galileo 7 Not Gonna Miss You

Searching For Sylvia SEMA (Sunday Evening Misery Attack)

Phil Angotti False Alarm

The Jellybricks We’ll Be Together

Combat Road Trip

Ramones Chop Suey [Alternate Version]

pete donnelly Compass

Rob Moss and Skin-Tight Skin/SHAKE SOME I Got Lots Of Problems

Marcy Playground Gone Crazy

Searching For Sylvia Play That Song (On The Radio)

20 of my favorite Essential Digs over the years!

The B-52's Nip It In The Bud

The Cure Grinding Halt

Hoodoo Gurus Like Wow-Wipeout

Kelly Osbourne Come Dig Me Out

Peter Schilling Major Tom (Coming Home) [Director's Cut]

The Producers I Love Lucy

Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now

Ruth Ruth Uninvited

Sniff 'n' the Tears Driver's Seat

Stan Ridgway Drive, She Said

Syd Straw Future 40's (String of Pearls)

The Rings Uh-Oh (Here I Go Again)

Wire Train Chamber of Hellos

Bangs Getting Out Of Hand

Blur There's No Other Way

The Fixx Stand Or Fall

Woodentops Get it On

Live Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)

Culture Club Church Of The Poison Mind

The Dentists Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)

"Scum-bags and superstars, tell me your names ... I'll make a bet, you're both the same" - Talking Heads

Icecream Hands Picture Disc From The Benelux

Erik Voeks My Dentist

Billy Bragg The Boy Done Good

The Glad Machine I Wanna Drive (2024 Charity Single)

Steven Wright-Mark Falling Up

Redd Kross The Shaman's Disappearing Robe

The Figgs There are Never Two Alike

Nick Piunti Blame in Vain

Luscious Jackson Naked Eye

Greg Williams The Things That Make Me Happy

David Woodard We're Not Coming Back

Joe Jackson Pretty Girls

Chuck Prophet, ¿Qiensave? First Came the Thunder

Too Much Joy Unbeautiful

Talking Heads Lifetime Piling Up

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets Raincoat in the River

THE TOMS BLACK & WHITE

Material Issue If Ever You Should Fall

The Decemberists Born To The Morning

XTC My Bird Performs

"Well, here's a song I wrote when I was about a hundred and forty-four" - The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Pete Donnelly Exploding Lightbulb

Erik Voeks The Symmetry

sparkle*jets u.k. Right Idea

Old 97's Falling Down

20/20 Back to California

Deer Tick Grey Matter

Tommy Keene Tuesday Morning

The Mighty Lemon Drops My Biggest Thrill

Joe Strummer & The Latino Rockabilly War Trash City

Hayley and the Crushers Alleyways

The Chesterfield Kings If I Had To Leave

The Gold Needles I Don't Know About That

Jack Green Too Many Fools

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Still Aging

Any Trouble Another Heartache

Fountains Of Wayne Richie And Ruben

Jesse Malin & Spoon The Way We Used to Roll

KURT BAKER Inner Demons

Ed Ryan FOLLOW YOU DOWN

Aimee Mann & Michael Penn Two of Us

"... and I got a clear and able mind that sees my life going fine" - Melissa Ferrick

Myracle Brah Whisper Softly

Josh Rouse Dressed Up Like Nebraska

Tommy Keene Never Really Been Gone

Goo Goo Dolls Broadway

The Knack Terry & Julie Step Out

The Plimsouls Dangerous Book

The Connells Still Life

Superdrag Sold You An Alibi

Dada Beautiful Turnback Time Machine

Richard X. Heyman If We Should Ever Meet Again

Sloan Keep On Thinkin'

The Tragically Hip Fireworks

CAKE Let Me Go

Melissa Ferrick Everything I Need

Nick Heyward 3 Colours (bonus track)

Hole Awful

Icecream Hands Dodgy

Liz Phair Big Tall Man

Bob Mould Moving Trucks

Elliott Smith Baby Britain

R.E.M. Daysleeper

"... and they folked out with guitars around a bonfire, just singin' and clappin', man, what the hell happened? - Smashmouth

The Stems Falling From The Sky

Nada Surf Intel and Dreams

Chuck Prophet Same Old Crime
The Wallflowers Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day)

Librarians With Hickeys Everything Will Be All Right

Semisonic Little Bit of Sun

The Chesterfield Kings Crazy Days and Wild Nights

The Damnwells What You Get

Smash Mouth Walkin' On The Sun

Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Long Way Down

Ed Ryan MAKE IT HAPPEN

The Linda Lindas Lose Yourself

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets Went to a Party

Susanna Hoffs High Lonesome

Orbis Max Candy On The Hill

The Dead 60s Riot Radio

Robbers On High Street Japanese Girls

The New Pornographers Twin Cinema

OK Go Here It Goes Again

The Cure A Fragile Thing

"Ain't no fun dancing in the dark " - The Damnwells

The Tisburys The Anniversaries

Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Eyelids

Ed Ryan FINE ART TO LETTING IT GO

Chuck Prophet Wake The Dead

The Chesterfield Kings We're Still All The Same

The Beths Lying In The Sun

Lone Justice Teenage Kicks

CAKE & NOISE FOR NOW Hold You (Responsible)

Roman Holliday Stand By

The Jam Thick As Thieves

The Smiths William, It Was Really Nothing

New Musik Living By Numbers

Jim Trainor Better Than You Do

Dennis Shocket and Cliff Hillis The Girls Are Back In Town

The Popravinas The Girl Who Didn't Want To Hear Any Tunes

The Armoires You Oughta Be Cut In Half

The Damnwells Easy Tiger

Rooftop Screamers Souvenirs 

Jesse Malin & Butch Walker In the Modern World

Rick Kingo feat Cherry Fez In Our Solitude

"When you're young and you run and you're burning like a star and it's fun and it's done and it leaves you with a scar" - Jesse Malin

Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Seasick

Jesse Malin & Low Cut Connie When You're Young

Semisonic Keep Me in Motion

Ruler Drag

John Larson and The Silver Fields Whisper_to_be_Heard

Dennis Shocket and Cliff Hillis Violet Blue

DM3 Falling For You

The Romantics Poison Ivy

The Monroes What Do All The People Know

Haircut 100 Milk Film

Adam & The Ants Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios

The Junior League This Concludes Our Broadcast Day

Bill Lloyd Trampoline

Francine Trampoline

Eztv Trampoline

Greenberry Woods Trampoline

Nada Surf Second Skin

Librarians With Hickeys Spying By The Numbers

Look Park Stars Of New York

Nina Gordon The Time Comes