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The #OPS Best Albums of 2016 List: The Bronze Medals: 40-21

The madness begins, I stayed up until 5 a.m. putting this together Friday night. Every year, doing this almost kills me but every year I love doing it.

Okay, this is the Bronze Medals, the albums ranked 40-21 (and maybe a few bonus albums too). Albums like "Callus" by Gonjasufi, "A Moon Shaped Pool" by Radiohead, "Hooray For Me" by Vomitface and many others.

Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

Best Of 2016Joshua B. HoeDecember 3, 2016#OPS, Xylouris White, Black Peak, Cretan Luts, Gretan Lute, Tyvek, Origin Of What, Super Unison, Auto, Deathwish Inc., Naked Giants, R.I.P. EP, Miscreant Records, Summer Cannibals, Full Of It, Kill Rock Stars, Tobacco, Sweatbox Dynasty, Ghostly International, Ex-Cult, Negative Growth, In The Red Records, Sneaks, Gymnastics, Merge Records, Eva Moolchan, Chris Shaw, Powell, Sport, Cabaret Voltaire, XL Recordings, Vomitface, Hooray For Me, Help Yourself Records, Big Business, Command Your Weather, Joyful Noise Records, Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool, Violent Soho, Waco, Dine Alone Music, Deerhoof, The Magic, Polyvinyl, Polyvinyl Records, Gonjasufi, Callus, Warp, GOGGS, In The Red, De La Soul, and the Anonymous Nobody..., AOI, Moonface & Siinai, My Best Human Face, Jagjaguwar, Controlled Bleeding, Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps, Artoffact Records, Chvad SB, Paul Lemos, Yak, Alas Salvation, Octopus Electrical, Joey Purp, iii Drops, Xenia Rubinos, Bella Union, drone folk, experimental psych, freak folk, chamber psych, garage pop, punk, post punk, indie punk, Preverb, seattle indie, indie garage rock, indietronica, bay area hip hop, fluxwork, outsider house, Chris and Cosey, Indie Punk, sludge metal, stoner metal, post-doom metal, stoner rock, post-metal, doom metal, drone metal, permanent wave, alternative rock, garage rock, melancholia, indie rock, rock, australian alternative rock, pop-punk, noise rock, bay area indie, noise pop, experimental rock, neo-psychedelic, lo-fi, nu gaze, wonky, bass mucis, hip hop, east coast hip hop, alternative hip hop, hardcore hip hop, industrial, industrial rock, experimental ebm, alt-indie rock, Mothers, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, Grand Jury Music, brooklyn indie, lo star, preverb, avantgarde metal, Rip It Up And Start Again, Simon Reynolds, Subrosa, For This We Fought The Battle of the Ages, Daymare Recordings, Big Ups, Before A Million Universes, Exploding In Sound RecordingsComment

I Hate Maroon 5 - "Rockist" Or Right?

I hate Maroon 5 - not personally - just the music. Does this make me a "Rockist" or just right?

I am asking my followers or visitors to read my argument and vote here by leaving a comment or on the Twitter Poll pinned to my profile.

This new feature will generally appear every Wednesday and I will report on the final voting every week. Enjoy!

Playlist: Contorted Devil Submarine

Every Thursday I post a new Spotify Playlist.

This week's playlist includes the Gore Gore girls, Savages, Swell Maps, Black Eyes, The Jesus and Mary Chain and many others (including Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio).

This week's trivia question: Where are "Life Without Buildings" from?

My Open Letter To "The Demon"

Gene Simmons decided to let his grumpy old demon out in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Lowlights: He doesn't find hip-hop music melodic, thinks Rock music is dead, and wants Lady Gaga to get off the stripper pole.

Here is my response to "grumpy old Demon" Gene Simmons

Josh's Digital Bin #8

Hard to believe it has been 8 weeks of this feature already. In some ways, this is probably my favorite part of the blog.

This week my digital bin includes: The Modern Folk, Big Ups, Fake Boyfriend, Dame, and Stella Diana

Enjoy!

Josh's Digital BinJoshua B. HoeMarch 15, 2016Dame, Charm School, Fake Boyfriend, Mercy EP, The Modern Folk, Modern Folk II, Big Ups, Before A Million Universes, Stella Diana, AthenaComment