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07. Trevor Beld Jimenez – Wild Blues Yonder This album from Trevor Beld Jimenez is one of those great albums which could easily slip through the cracks.  Jimenez, who hails from Riverside, CA. writes light and breezy California style pop.  If he’d been around during the early to mid 70’s he would have fit right…

08. Fightmilk – No Souvenirs It could easily be understood if No Souvenirs didn’t make it onto this list.  It was only released less than a month ago, giving it very little time to get fairly digested.  However, after listening to it the first time through, I immediately knew that I wanted to keep listening…

09. Healees – Coin De L’ceil Healies are another one of my “off the beaten path” artists who put out a terrific album in 2024.  As one might expect with a album titled Coin De L’ceil, Healees are a Paris based foursome that create beautiful floating dreamscapes with a mix of jangly guitars combined with…

10. The Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend It took three years for The Umbrellas to release the follow up to their excellent eponymous debut and Fairweather Friend proves that it was well worth the wait.  Right from the get go with the upbeat and bouncy opening track of “Three Cheers!” with the baritone vocals of guitarist…

11.  Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death This one should really be considered a 10A rather than 11 because if it killed me not to include Society Of Rockets in my top 10 then, not including Everything Is Love and Death absolutely rips my heart out.  EIL&D tends to be a harder rocking album…

12.  Society Of Rockets – Tough Trip Through Paradise Damn, I really love these San Francisco pop rockers and it killed me to have to drop them out of my top 10 this year.  Tough trip Through Paradise offers up exactly what one would expect from The Society.  This album makes me think of what…

13.  Late Bloomer – Another One Again More heartland punk rock, this time from Charlotte, NC.  Opening up with the slow burner, “Self Control”, Another One Again is a bit of a roller coaster ride as the band seems to have made a tracking sequencing choice to alternate slower more introspective tunes with hard rockers. …

14.  Liquid Mike – Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot  Pure unadulterated heartland rock and roll.  Garage punk from the suburbs of Detroit.  Songs about the stupid shit we all did in high school all performed at a breakneck pace, 13 songs in a mere 23 minutes.  So if you like you RnR in the vein of Superchunk,…

16.  Pearl Jam – Dark Matter A return to form for Eddie and the crew.  The best studio effort from these guys since Backspacer back in 2009