Pandemic or not, one thing is for sure: music’s therapeutic value is important now more than ever. And Paradise Found is here to keep your music needs satiated. While we all await the return of live concerts, there is no shortage of great new releases from 2020.
Here’s a recap of some of our favorite records so far in 2021, a preview of some upcoming releases, and more music news.
“Got a feeling ’21 is gonna be a good year,” sang Pete Townshend in Tommy… Here is a list of musical releases on the horizon for the coming year.
I can’t recall a year in which there was such an amazing amount of quality music released. Picking ten favorites was challenging and would’ve omitted many that I enjoyed. To help make sure you didn’t miss anything–and unless you’re currently homeschooling your kids, you probably have plenty of bandwidth to explore new music–here are my favorite LPs of 2020.
Quiz time: what band that was hugely successful in the seventies and eighties has turned down mega-dollars to reunite since? Need some clues? How about a buying guide to all their albums…
One of my favorite albums of 2020 so far was actually recorded in 1974: Neil Young’s Homegrown, which features seven previously-unreleased tracks and musical accompaniment from Emmylou Harris, Levon Helm, and Robbie Robertson. In honor of Homegrown, here are four more great, often overlooked albums from Young.
The live music scene might have ground to a halt, but there is still a lot of exciting new music coming out in the next few months. Here are the upcoming releases we’re most excited about in order of release date; let us know if you’d like us to hold a copy for you!
A compendium of three-dot-style news, reviews, and thoughts: 2020’s edition of Record Store Day
If you know Will, you know that “holiday” does not always rhyme with “happy”. He’s been doing these mixes for over two decades, as a holiday gift for close friends, and just now making them into Spotify lists to share more widely.
2019 was another great year for music lovers. Vinyl is expected to outsell CDs for the first time in decades, proving there’s still a market for the old-school appreciation of analog, even in an era where streaming dominates how consumers listen.