the playlists
The 40 Best Songs of 2024 (More or Less)
Plus 200 other songs from Minnesota and elsewhere on the year's final playlists.
Year End Lists? Too Soon! We’re Still Finding New Music.
10 great new local songs, 10 great songs from everywhere else, and one total dud.
Perverted Proclivities in Piscataway? Time for This Week’s Best New Music Playlists.
5 great new local songs, 5 great songs from everywhere else, and 1 total dud.
Motion City Soundtrack Returns and Yung Gravy Goes Country in This Week’s New Music Playlists
10 great new local songs, 10 great new songs from everywhere else, and 1 real stinker.
This Week’s Best New Songs Include a MN Superproducer Taking Center Stage and an Americana Hero Pretending to Be Someone Else
5 great new local song, 5 great new songs from everywhere else, and one real stinker.
This Week’s Best New Songs Are About Shirts, Vibrators, Sharks, and, Well, Other Things Too
5 great new local songs, 5 great new songs from everywhere else, and 1 real stinker.
The Best Songs of 2024 (So Far)
Here are the 90 best local tracks of the past six months, plus the best 90 tracks from everywhere else. Oh, and Eminem, sorry.
The Playlists (Belatedly!) Return With Haunted Corn Mazes, Horny Pop Stars, and One Dreadful Talking Heads Cover
10 great new local songs, 10 new songs from everywhere else, and 1 song that really sucks.
Drake’s Ass and Macklemore’s Back in This Week’s Best New Songs
5 great new local songs, 5 great new songs from everywhere else, and the week's worst new song.
The Playlists: Let’s Listen to 20 Great New Songs—And 1 Lousy Old One
A special expanded edition of our weekly new music playlists.
