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Does Anyone Listen to These New Music Playlists? Just Wonderin’!

5 great new local songs, 5 new songs from everywhere else, and 1 crime against humanity.

Great Gully Boys and Sucky Smurfs in This Week’s New Music Playlists

5 great new local songs, 5 new songs from everywhere else, and 1 piece of irredeemable garbage.

This Week’s Best New Songs Are About Pussy, Priests, Mud, and Nosebleeds

5 great new local songs, 5 new songs from everywhere else, and 1 piece of irredeemable trash.

February 12, 2025

Lotta Sex—Good, Bad, and With Bruno Mars—in This Week’s Best New Music Playlists

5 great new local songs, 5 great new songs from everywhere else, and 1 song that just plain sucks.

January 28, 2025

Are You Ready for the First New Music Playlists of 2025?

5 new local songs, 5 songs from everywhere else, and 1 song that just sucks.

January 13, 2025

The 40 Best Songs of 2024 (More or Less)

Plus 200 other songs from Minnesota and elsewhere on the year's final playlists.

December 20, 2024

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.

December 6, 2024

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.

September 18, 2024

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.

August 28, 2024

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.

July 29, 2024