Returning to gigs, re-discovering old favorites, having both halves of Spacemen 3 release records and listening to enough new music to make a Top 20! 2022 was a great year in music.

Returning to gigs, re-discovering old favorites, having both halves of Spacemen 3 release records and listening to enough new music to make a Top 20! 2022 was a great year in music.

What a great year in music 2022 was.

After the pandemic took away the joy of going to gigs, back in August I was able to return to seeing live music and by catching Iggy Pop and joining Squid’s pogo at OFF Festival no less.

But perhaps as important is the fact that in 2022 both halves of long-time heroes Spacemen 3 released albums; Sonic Boom completed his Reset with help of Panda Bear and J. Spaceman dropped the song of the year.

Some of the highlights include…

• The Duster record, considered it gold when it was released and continues to grow on me. Surprised to see there’s still copies available. If you can, grab yours, the post-hiatus-post-pandemic album is bound to become a classic.
• Joining the #FallFriday movement came as no surprise as I’ve been consistently listening to The Fall since they got me through the quarantines of 2020.
• The re-discovery of Rowland S. Howard brilliant solo records Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes that would eventually lead me to his work with Jeffrey Lee Pierce and go down the rabbit hole with The Gun Club. 

Last year I set myself the goal of listening to more recently released records and I am so happy with the results I made a top 20.

At the beginning of the year my plan was to produce more content for Tinta en las Cintas and ended up finishing only 1 out of 3 mixtapes I wanted to share. I’m hoping remedying this will keep me busy in January. But before we jump into 2023, here’s the spotify playlist (without old Neil Young) and the 2022 Charts: