Week 1 of my annual look back at the music year that was - dig in - it was a great one despite it all! More favorites coming on next week's show, along with some sort of write-up, and a Spotify playlist.
Here's my previously announced top 5 for 2020:
1. Tyler Keith - The Last Drag (Black & Wyatt)
2. The Electric Mess - The Electric Mess V (Soundflat)
3. The Fleshtones - Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)
4. The Fox Sisters - Bust Out! (Dive)
5. Foxycontin - This Time You're on Your Own (Sister Raygun)
Ramma Lamma / Zero Hour theme / Self
The Fox Sisters / Listen to Your Sisters / Dive Records
The Courettes / Want You! Like a Cigarette / Damaged Goods Records
The Breadmakers / Goodtime Charlie / Soundflat Records
Tyler Keith / In the Parking Lot / Black & Wyatt Records, Inc
The Ribeye Brothers / Spaceage Caveman / MainMan Records
The Ghost Wolves / Let's Go to Mars / Dirty Water Records
Dexateens / Teenager / Cornelius Chapel Records
Frontier Dan and the Hickoids / Green Door / Saustex
Turnstyles / The Snake / Black and Wyatt Records
The Electric Mess / Before the World Blows Up / Soundflat
MFC Chicken / Who Gave What to Who? / Dirty Water Records
X Ray Cat Trio / The Fiji Mermaid / Trash Wax
Red Mass / To Fall From Grace (feat. King Khan) / Label Etiquette
Mean Motor Scooter / Zombie Cops / Dirty Water
Moron's Morons / Sidewalk Service / Slovenly
Space Raft / Please Be Kind / Dusty Medical Records
Beach Patrol / Battlestar Galactica / Beach Patrol
Primitive Broadcast Service / Chameleon / Self-released
Xposed 4heads / New Wave Apocalypse / Internal Combustion
Waxing Poetics / Workers Playtime / Clairevoyant Records
Ken Fox & Knock Yourself Out / Love is in the Grave / Rum Bar
The Lurkers / The Boys in the Corner / Damaged Goods Records
FoxyContin / Alive in Interesting Times / Sister Raygun Records
The Mal Thursday Quintet / Rotting / Chunk Archives
The Fleshtones / Alex Trebek / Yep Roc
The Breakup Society / Don't Let the Hipsters Catch You Crying / Onus Records
Spanking Charlene / Burn it Down / Rum Bar/Slacker
The No-Ones / (Going Back To) Stockholm Syndrome / Yep Roc Records
The Coffin Daggers / Ringo Mura Kara / Cleopatra Records
The Blind Owls / Something About That Girl / Red Room Records
The Goldstars / Casino Reale / Mordorlorff Music
James Godwin / Down to the Valley / Self-released
The Artakees / Big Hunt / Off label records
Roman and the Rosarys / Back for More / Soul Sale/Soundflat Records
The Gruesomes / Someone Told a Lie / KOTJ
Watts / Seventeen / Rum Bar
The Plastic Pals / Plastic Pal / Polythene Records
Sin City / Big City Streets / Dirty Water
The Claudettes / Bad Babe, Losin' Touch / Forty Below Records
Dramarama / Up to Here / Pasadena Records
Theatre Royal / A Marvellous Death / Vacilando 68 Recordings Medlar Records
Imperial Sound w/ Sally Timms / Love Is Real / Pravda
Rabies Babies / Rape is Rape, Even if the Rapist is in a Band That You Like / Damaged Goods Records
The Zemblas / I Say Yeah / Dangerhouse Skylab
Possessed By Paul James / Don't Tell Me / Independent
The Forty Nineteens / Tell Me / Big Stir Records
Don Bryant / Is It Over / Fat Possum
Teen Cobra / Girl of Mine / Hidden Volume Records
Rexxx / Animal / None
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