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Holly ColeS band makes an entrance at Harro East Ballroom during the Rochester International Jazz Festival, pre-pandemic, in 2015. For most of 2020, I’ve been working from a second-floor room at my house in Charlotte. Typing, doing phone interviews, waiting for a neighbor to finish mowing his lawn so I can record something for broadcast. October came and went quietly. For the first time ever, no trick-or-treaters showed up at our door on Halloween. October also marked my first...

This year’s Best Overlooked Albums list shows just how much great music is being made in the margins of the music scene. Trying to narrow this list to 30 albums overall – not to mention deciding on the 10 best – was a major challenge. But here are my picks for the best overlooked albums of 2020. Your music year won’t be complete without hearing at least some of these titles. 1.) Mothboxer, “Accelerator”: Essentially Dave Ody’s solo project, Mothboxer has been turning out albums ...