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MusicBoxPete
- Dec 19, 2018
Top Albums of 2018
As 2018 winds down and you gear up for the holidays, it's time to wrap up the year here on MusicBoxPete, and I proudly present to you my picks for Top Albums of 2018. It was a banner year for a bevy of acts, with Vacationer delivering their best album to date, The Kooks, Underoath, and Arctic Monkeys returning after long absences, and the U.K.'s own As It Is and Boston Manor delivering their most ambitious efforts to date. No matter what your musical tastes are, there's somet
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MusicBoxPete
- Dec 15, 2017
Top Songs of 2017
This year was an incredibly diverse year for music, with former boyband heartthrobs, British pop-punkers, bluegrass pioneers, and upstart indie acts ruling the roost in terms of the wealth of diversity present on my favorite songs of the year. What these tracks all had in common was an emphasis being made on songwriting, and just an overall enjoyable feel on the song in particular in regards with how it made the listener feel, and applying the raw emotion of the song to perti
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MusicBoxPete
- Dec 14, 2017
Top Albums of 2017
As we approach the end of the year, it's time to take a look back at my favorite albums released this past year. This year, we saw a tremendous wealth of diversity from a plethora of artists including the debut solo album from Harry Styles, British bred pop-punkers As It Is avoiding the sophomore slump on their new release, early 00's emo legends Brand New going off into the sunset with their swan song, "Science Fiction", and Neck Deep releasing probably their greatest album
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MusicBoxPete
- Dec 22, 2016
Top Music News Stories of 2016
Wrapping up our year end review with a look back at the top music newsmakers of the past year. All in all, 2016 was a pretty tragic and eventful year for music, with the sudden passing of numerous music luminaries such as Prince, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, the list reads like a who's who of the past 40 years, and coupled that with the sudden loss of UK indie upstarts Viola Beach in a car accident in Sweden, it was an unexpected avalanche of tragedies that we were unprepared to
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MusicBoxPete
- Dec 21, 2016
Top Songs of 2016
Continuing my year end rundown with a look back at some of the top songs of 2016. It was a diverse and entertaining year for music for sure, with Adele dominating the sonic landscape, Justin Bieber making a triumphant return, and amazing singer-songwriters such as Vance Joy and George Ezra begin to come into their own. The new-folk movement is also in dominant shape, with The Strumbellas and The Lumineers clearly in charge and in full throttle at this very moment. Newbies lik
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MusicBoxPete
- Dec 20, 2016
Top Albums of 2016
It's that time of year where Best Of lists are being cranked out, and we kick off that yearly tradition with my rundown of the top albums of the past year. 2016 was a breakout year for some acts, including Boston Manor who arrived with their debut release "Be Nothing", Pierce The Veil continued to excite longtime fans with their new once "Misadventures", and Two Door Cinema Club went into a dance frenzy on their disco inspired effort "Gameshow" that showed the evolution of th
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