For my final live show here at 1621 W.Broad St, I’ll blow out my favorite tracks of 2025.
It was a very fertile year for pop music (by POP Goes The World’s standards, at the very least) as I recognized a new genre emerging which I started calling “Post Pop” as I started recognizing new songs expanding on all the elements of pop, power pop, punk, post punk, grunge, indie pop, and art pop dragging pop music, kicking and screaming, into the second half of the third decade of the new millennium.
Happy holidays and happy new year, and we’ll see you in 2026 at 1806 E Main St.!
The Boojums "Wings of Fire" from The Boojums (2025)
The High Frequencies "Tonite and Every Nite" from The High Frequencies (2025)
Sloan "So Far Down" from Based on the Best Seller (2025)
Superchunk "No Hope" from Songs in the Key of Yikes (2025)
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Bobby Conn "Never Felt Better" from Bobby's Place (Side One) - EP (2025)
Fishbone "Racist Piece of Shit" from Stockholm Syndrome (2025)
Crack Fox "Deep Groove (gimmie that 45)" from The Capitol City Confidential e.p. (split with Flannel) - EP (2025)
Vienna Vienna "God Save The Queens" from God Save The Queens - Single (2025)
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Cyan Pools "Keratin Sheath" from Ecstatic Visions (2025)
Technopolice "Hellastic Mr Pox" from Chien De La Casse (2025)
Sprints "Need" from All That Is Over (2025)
Lifeguard "France And" from Ripped and Torn (2025)
Glándula "Amigo De Verdad" from Amigo De Verdad - Single (2025)
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Mustard Service "Going Nowhere" from Vice City Magic (2025)
The Happy Fits "Everything You Do" from Lovesick (2025)
The Tisburys "Forever" from A Still Life Revisited (2025)
The Parlophonics "Better Day" from Better Day - Single (2025)
The Vapors "It Gets Better" from Wasp in a Jar (2025)
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The Melody Chamber "Memories Of Fall" from The Melody Chamber (2025)
Wormburner "Maryann" from Last of the Winter Light (2025)
Danny Carney Chainsaw Symphony "Crook of Love" from Scorpio Rising (2025)
Geese "100 Horses" from Getting Killed (2025)
Sharp Pins "I Can't Stop" from Radio DDR (2025)
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Bar Italia "Rooster" from Some Like It Hot (2025)
Water From Your Eyes "Life Signs" from It's A Beautiful Place (2025)
Forth Wanderers "7 Months" from The Longer This Goes On (2025)
SKORTS "Eat Your Heart Out" from Incompletement (2025)
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Lùlù "Lùlù" from Lùlù (2025)
Geoff Palmer "BYE BYE BABY" from Kodak Flash (2025)
Janus 4-14 "I Never Wanna See You Again" from Blue to Infinity (2025)
The Wellingtons "Sad Today" from Baby Moon (2025)
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Firefriend "Kill Switch" from Fuzz (2025)
Autos "Drive" from Autos - EP (2025)
Guided By Voices "Lucy's World" from Thick Rich And Delicious (2025)
Coloraclips "This Charming Man" (2025)