Halfway through 2023 and I am a little worried. While there still has been some tremendous albums, you do have to dig a little bit for the gems. Below are playlists for my favorite albums and songs so far of 2023.

My Favorite Albums of 2023

My Favorite Songs of 2023

Gunna-A Gift & A Curse

Killer Mike-MICHAEL

Sigur Rós-ÁTTA

Origami Angel-The Brightest Days

Ben Howard-Is It?

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard-PetroDragonic Apocalypse

On today's ep I spotlight 8 new records out today

Christine and the Queens-PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE
Janelle Monáe-The Age of Pleasure

Niall Horan-The Show

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit-Weathervanes

Jenny Lewis-Joy'All

feeble little horse-Girl with Fish

Youth Lagoon-Heaven Is a Junkyard

On this episode I dive into my reaction to the 2004 Music Documentary "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster"

On this episode of the show, I dive into the March 2023 album releases.

Bands/Artists Covered:

Fever Ray

Macklemore

Lana Del Rey

6LACK

Miley Cyrus

The New Pornographers

Manchester Orchestra

Navy Blue

Meet Me @ The Altar

100 gecs

Fall Out Boy

slowthai

Yves Tumor

boygenius

JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown

Welcome to The Music Rabbit Hole! The show where we take a brief journey down the "fans also like" feature in Spotify to discover new bands/artists. For this special episode, we look back at 18 albums that were released in February and provide some thoughts and ratings.

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Favorite Songs of 2023 (so far) playlist

Shania Twain "Queen of Me"

Gracie Abrams "Good Riddance"

Skrillex "Don't Get Too Close" 

Andy Shauf "Norm"

Skrillex "Quest For Fire"

Rebecca Black "Let Her Burn"

Hamish Hawk "Angel Numbers"

shame "Food for Worms"

Anna B Savage "in/FLUX"

Quasi "Breaking the Balls of History"

RAYE "My 21st Century Blues"

Logic "College Park"

BigXthaPlug "AMAR"

Paramore "This Is Why"

Screaming Females "Desire Pathway"

Caroline Polachek "Desire, I Want To Turn Into You"

Young Fathers "Heavy Heavy"

This series takes a deeper dive into albums of important cultural significance, music experimentation, or just plain great records. 

On today's episode I spotlight The National's 4th studio album: Boxer

Link to the Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2pwNkShhY1uip80rLMHUgX?si=Nd317UZiQOWexIusUUtLdw

Link to my Albums You Need to Listen To Before You Die Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0eamCLlTmP4I144XgcX8xp?si=b99d654ee1bf4094

For the Youtube Video Version go to: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMusicRabbitHole/featured

Welcome to The Music Rabbit Hole! The show where we take a brief journey down the "fans also like" feature in Spotify to discover new bands/artists. For this special episode, we look back at 20 albums that were released in January and provide some thoughts and ratings.

The show instagram: https://instagram.com/the_musicrabbithole?utm_medium=copy_link

Youtube Video:

Favorite Songs of 2023 (so far) playlist

Biig Piig "Bubblegum"

Kota the Friend "Lyrics to GO, Vol. 4"

Lapsley "Cautionary Tales of Youth"

Sam Smith "Gloria"

Oddisee "To What End"

The Murder Capital "Gigi's Recovery"

Monday Night "Good Company"

Circa Waves "Never Going Under"

Julia Wolf "Good Thing We Stayed"

Juni Harbel "Carvings"

Billy Nomates "Cacti"

Samia "Honey"

Margo Price "Strays"

The Arcs "Electrophonic Chronic"

Gaz Coombes "Turn The Car Around"

King Tuff "Smalltown Stardust"

Rozi Plain "Prize"

what is your name? "beyond old names, everyone's songs"

Joesef "Permanent Damage"

Lil Yachty "Let's Start Here."