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AC/DC helped close out the year with Power Up, which was recorded by the surviving members of the band’s classic Back in Black lineup. The album was dedicated to late guitarist Malcolm Young, who died in 2017. Unfortunately, the pandemic didn’t allow for every planned 2020 album to drop this year. Foo Fighters‘ 10th studio effort was set to arrive sometime this year to coincide with the band’s 25 anniversary, but ended getting pushed to 2021. The record, titled Medicine at Midni...

What will you remember the most about 2020? Better question: Do you want to remember 2020? We can’t blame you if you don’t. It’s been a very bad year for many reasons. In the world of music, this year saw the widespread cancelation of concerts due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the deaths of many beloved musicians (including but not limited to Neil Peart, Andy Gill, Pop Smoke, Kenny Rogers, Joe Diffie, Bill Withers, Adam Schlesinger, John Prine, Florian Schneider, Tony Allen, Little Richar...

The Best Albums Of 2020 Dec. 29, 2020 8:49 a.m. Before we get to the best albums of 2020, I want to highlight the most unexpectedly delightful song of the year, “I Wonder What’s Inside Your Butthole.” Lisa Rieffel dropped her daughter Jolees inspired, inquisitive song about the mysteries of the human digestive system in May 2020, at a time when many people had just started to process the fact that the pandemic was going to disrupt life for much more than a few months. It was...

KXT’s Favorite Albums of 2020 Where to even begin for this year? First of all, you’ve made it this far. Pat yourself on the back, because little did you know, you’re made of stronger stuff than you thought. That’s worth celebrating. Second, COVID has yet to put a damper on the creative spirit, and right up there with our heroes working the front lines of the pandemic, we are grateful to our favorite musicians for saving this oft-dreadful year from being a complete wash. 2020’s musical...

Music Business Worldwide December 22, 2020 Photo credit: Neil Krug MBW’s World’s Greatest Managers series profiles the best artist managers in the global business. This time, we speak to Jodie Regan, manager of Kevin Parker aka Tame Impala, and Pond amongst others – and the founder of Spinning Top Music. The World’s Greatest Managers is supported by Centtrip, a specialist in intelligent treasury, payments and foreign exchange – created with the music industry and its needs in mind. M...

The 50 albums that saved us from 2020 Updated Dec 20, 2020; Facebook Share What’s left to say? For many of us, 2020 was the worst year of our lives. No need to list all the reasons why. But even as the pandemic snarled just about every aspect of our lives to a screeching halt, music somehow endured. In fact, it was a supremely good year for album releases, due in some part to musicians being kept from touring and allowed ample time to create from home. This year we had gargantuan surprises,...

Verdict: The Fab One Rating: Paul McCartneys two previous all-solo albums arrived at pivotal moments. The first, 50 years ago, was a rough-and-ready affair made as the Beatles were falling bitterly to pieces. The second, in 1980, came as his next band, Wings, were crumbling. Now we have McCartney III, made in rockdown as Macca was quarantining with family members in Sussex. This was to have been the year he returned in triumph to Glastonbury: instead he found himself writing songs alone on gui...

What TV show did I not binge. I loved Baron Noir, another French. That was really, really good. I liked Star Trek, the latest one. And Succession. That said, every time I start binge-watching things I look at all the books that I haven’t read in my library and it makes me feel really bad. It’s like, what am I doing with my life?” Which album got you through 2020. That’s the hardest question. I think the thing that perked me up the most was this Columbian electro album, but for me to...

, his latest solo effort on which he not only penned every song, but sang and played every single instrument. He’s recorded as a one-man band before, on his first solo album, the controversial McCartney — which he made in secret in the months leading up to the Beatles dissolution — and his second, 1980’s McCartney II, which he released right before his second band, Wings, called it quits .  McCartney had risen to fame as a team player and an integral part of a band, which made McCa...

In February, Australian artist Kevin Parker released The Slow Rush, the first album from his psych-rock project Tame Impala since 2015’s critically adored Currents. While Interscope chairman/CEO John Janick knew fan anticipation alone would translate into strong album streams and sales, he also knew getting the rollout strategy right would be tricky: The famously reclusive Parker shies away from most self-promotion, which has earned him plenty of devoted fans — but also poses a marketing ...