The Twin Cities Underground

Podcasts I am currently listening to

2026-06-10T16:01:24.589-05:00

My top 10 current favorite albums of the week

2026-06-09T16:40:55.968-05:00

01. Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
AFTERLIFE by Promenade Cinema

02. Melody & Christine - Tides

03. Autumn: Chandelier
chandelier by autumn-us

04. CZARINA - Empire
Empire (Deluxe) by C Z A R I N A

05. TRAITRS - Possessor
POSSESSOR by TRAITRS

06. Belle Sisoski - ETHNOSPHERE
ETHNOSPHERE by Belle Sisoski

07. past self - Premonitions
Premonitions EP by past self

08. Promenade Cinema - Living Ghosts
LIVING GHOSTS by Promenade Cinema

09. Alhambra - Skyward Pray

10. First Contact - Earth Nation

Playlist of the week

2026-06-08T12:18:20.435-05:00

Last week I was inspired to compose a mix of Japanese metal bands. Enjoy!

Songs to check out:
01. Forever Love (X-Japan cover) by Mary's Blood
02. ANHEDONIA by DAMNED
03. Abyss Gate by Ghost Cries
04. Crybaby by Omelas
05. ritual by Necronomidol

06. Amakusa Riot by Valkyrie Zero
07. Wicked Witch by Lovebites

08. Hervest Moon by Liv Moon

Artists/bands and albums I am currently listening to in June

2026-06-07T09:25:06.300-05:00

As of 06.10.2026

Artists/Bands
Acid Arab (1x)
Alan Walker (1x)
Alhambra (1x)
Anna Fiori (1x)
ArkRoyal (1x)
Aryem (1x)
Autumn (1x)

Belle Sisoski (1x)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby (1x)
Bunny X (2x)

Camp Crush (1x)
Carla Patullo (1x)
Chernaya Rechka (1x)
Copperplate (1x)
CZARINA (4x)

Dark Chisme (1x)
DengeL (3x)

Eleanor (1x)
Eleine (4x)

First Contact (1x)
Flowerleaf (1x)

House of Harm (2x)

Ignea (2x)
Imaginary Flying Machines (1x)

Joe Hisaishi (2x)

Kat Duma (2x)
Krypteria (1x)

Lykke Li (2x)

Madeline Goldstein (1x)
Mari Kattman (1x)
Matt Blvck (1x)
Melody and Christine (2x)
Metric (1x)
Michael Oakley (1x)
Misty Mountain (2x)
Monsta X (1x)
Muna (1x)

Nini Music (1x)

Onmyo-Za (2x)

past self (1x)
Promenade Cinema (5x)

The Rope (1x)
Rolling Quartz (1x)

The Sheila Divine (1x)
Shye (1x)
Silent Elegy (1x)
SincerityGreen (1x)

Taisei Iwasaki (1x)
Traitrs (2x)

Valkyrie Zero (2x)
VNV Nation (1x)

Witch Club Satan (1x)

Zyana (2x)

Albums
Acid Arab - Trois (1x)
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1: The Rise of Drones (1x)
Alhambra - Skyward Prayer (1x)
Anna Fiori - Metztli (1x)
ArkRoyal - Clymenus (1x)
Aryem - Agnes (1x)
Autumn - Chandelier (1x)

Belle Sisoski - ETHNOSPHERE (1x)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible (1x)
Bunny X - Young & In Love (1x)
Bunny X - Love Minus 80 (1x)

Camp Crash - Bite the Bullet (1x)
Carla Partullo - Nomadica (1x)
Chernaya Rechka - Chernaya Rechka (1x)
Copperplate - Rue (1x)
CZARINA - Painted Holograms (2x)
CZARINA - Arcana (1x)
CZARINA - Empire (1x)

Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (1x)
DengeL - DengeL EP (1x)
DengeL - The Garden of Earthly Delights I (1x)

Eleanor - Downhearted (1x)
Eleine - Eleine (1x)
Eleine - Dancing in Hell (1x)
Eleine - Acoustic in Hell (1x)
Eleine - We Shall Remain (1x)

First Contact - Earth Nation (1x)
Flowerleaf - Deamerie (1x)

House of Harm - Vicious Pastimes (1x)
House of Harm - Playground (1x)

Ignea - The Sign of Faith (1x)
Ignea - Dreams of Lands Unseen (1x)
Imaginary Flying Machines - Princess Ghibli II (1x)

Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away (1x)
Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration (1x)

Kat Duma - Lullaby (2x)
Krypteria - My Fatal Kiss (1x)

Lykke Li - The Afterparty (2x)

Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body (1x)
Mari Kattman - Year of the Katt (1x)
Matte Blvck - Vows (1x)
Melody and Christine - Tides (2x)
Metric - Romanticize the Dive (1x)
Michael Oakley - Prologue (1x)
Misty Mountains - The World Needs Heroes (2x)
Monsta X - Unfold (1x)
Muna - Dancing on the Wall (1x)

Nini Music - Legends (1x)

Onmyo-Za - Ryouu Doujuu (1x)
Onmyo-Za - Yasumi Gozen (1x)

past self - Premonitions (1x)
Promenade Cinema - Exit Guides (2x)
Promenade Cinema - Dark Designs (1x)
Promenade Cinema - Afterlife (2x)

The Rope - Nightbird (1x)
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice (1x)

Shye - The Doves Came Home (1x)
Silent Elegy - Gone With the Wind (1x)
SincerityGreen - The Oceans of Dreams (1x)

Taisei Iwasaki - Scarlet (1x)
Traitrs - Horses in the Abattoir (1x)
Traitrs - Possessor (1x)

Valkyrie Zero - Valkyrie Zero (2x)
VNV Nation - Electric Sun (1x)

Witch Club Satan - Witch Club Satan (1x)

Zyana - Una Hora Tarde (1x)
Zyana - Agua Que No Regresa (1x)

Music I am currently listening to

2026-06-06T08:03:36.603-05:00

Albums
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
CZARINA - Empire
Ephemerality - Ephemerality
Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack
Matte Blvck - Vows
TRAITRS - HOrses in the Abattoir
Promenade Cinema - Living Ghosts
Social Distortion - Born to Kill
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland
CZARINA - Arcana
Feyleux - Phases
Lovebites - Outstanding Power
Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away
Azam Ali - Synesthesia
Monsta X - Unfold
Autumn - The Hating Tree
Autumn - Return to the Breath
Camp Crush - Bite the Bullet
The Sheila Divine - The Middle Ages
CZARINA - Painted Holograms
Chernaya Rechka - Chernaya Rechka
Lykke Li - The Afterparty
Metric - Romanticize the Dive
Valkyrie Zero - Valkyrie Zero
Eleine - Dancing in Hell
ArkRoyal - Clymenus
Bunny X - Young and IN Love
Dengel - The Garden of Earthly Delights I & II
Carla Patullo - Nomadica
Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
House of Harm - Playground
Shye - The Doves Came Home
Ignea - Dreams of Lands Unseen
Eleanor - Downhearted
Silent Elegy - Gone with the Wind
Anna Fiori - Metztli
Mari Kattman - Year of hte Katt
Acid Arab - Trois
Witch Club Satan - Witch Club Satan
Eleine - We Shall Remain
Kat Duma - Lullaby
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice
Misty Mountain - The World Needs Heroes
Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme

Playlists
Post-Punk/Darkwave (Bandcamp)
My Current Favorite Songs
Songs That Brings Me Joy 2.0
Dreampop and Shoegaze mix (Bandcamp)
May Mix
New Songs of 2026

My current favorite songs of the week

2026-06-05T13:27:23.765-05:00

TGIF! Here is this week's mix. Enjoy!

Songs to check out:

01. Moonlight by Promenade Cinema
02. En El Vacio by Anna Fiori
03. Smoke by Shy
04. Roseglass by House of Harm
05. Not Gon Cry by Lykke Li
06. Warm body by Camp Crush

Artists and bands I am listening to in 2026 (so far)

2026-06-04T14:57:24.252-05:00

As of 06.10.26

Top 20 most listened to albums in 2026 (as of 06.04.2026)
01. Czarina - Painted Holograms (18x)
02. Czarina - Empire (18x)
03. Czarina - Arcana (17x)
04. Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away (17x)
05. First Contact - Earth Nation (15x)
06. Monsta X - Unfold (15x)
07. Bunny X - Love Minus 80 (14x)
08. Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration (14x)
09. Bunny X - Young & In Love (13x)
10. Ghost Cries - Vrykolakas (13x)
11. Lovebites - Outstanding Power (12x)
12. Azam Ali - Synesthesia (12x)
13. Eleine - We Shall Remain (11x)
14. Hoaxed - Death Knocks (11x)
15. Kpop Demon Hunters cast - Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack (11x)
16. Snow Tha Product - Before I Crash Out (11x)
17. Carved Souls - Silent Chaos (9x)
18. Eleine - Dancing in Hell (9x)
19. Eleine - Acoustic in Hell (9x)
20. Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1 - Rise of the Drones (8x)

Artists and Bands
2D Cat (6x)

A Mighty Wind soundtrack (2x)
ACTORS (1x)
Acid Arab (1x)
After Thoughts (1x)
Aiboforcen (1x)
Aki Azuma (2x)
Akuma Dollz (1x)
Akuma (1x)
Alan Walker (9x)
Alaska Y Dinarama (8x)
Alhambra (5x)
Ali Ghamsari (1x)
Alicetopia (2x)
Angie K (2x)
Anna Fiori (2x)
Antonio Vivaldi (3x)
Arae (4x)
ArkRoyal (1x)
Arooj Aftab (1x)
Artesia (2x)
Aryem (11x)
Ashley (1x)
Assemblage23 (4x)
Autumn (3x)
Ayria (3x)
Azam Ali (12x)

Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop: 1980-1989 (1x)
Band-Maid (1x)
Basementzerofloor (1x)
Battle Beast (2x)
Belle Sisoski (7x)
Beauty 2: Music That Touches the Soul (1x)
Big Ocean (1x)
Bizhiki (1x)
Blodwen (1x)
Bloodywood (1x)
Blume (1x
Blush (2x)
Blutengel (1x)
Brandi Carlile (14x)
Brave soundtrack (1x)
The Bride soundtrack (1x)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby (8x)
BTS (3x)
Bunny X (29x)

Calaverx (1x)
Cammie Beverly (1x)
Camp Crush (1x)
Cantus (1x)
Carla Patullo (4x)
Carrellee (5x)
Carved Souls (7x)
Casino Shanghai (2x)
Cat Burns (2x)
Cathedral Bells (4x)
Charlie XCX (1x)
Chernaya Rechka (4x)
ChRockikal (1x)
Clubdrugs (5x)
Confined White (2x)
Copperplate (1x)
Cosmicdust (11x)
Curve (1x)
Cyndi Lauper (1x)
Czarina (47x)

Damian Hamada's Creatures (1x)
Darkling I Listen (2x)
Dead Can Dance (1x)
Deathless Legacy (4x)
Defacing God (1x)
Delirium Musicium (1x)
Della Mae (3x)
DengeL (6x)
D.O (1x)
Draag (1x)
Dream, Ivory (4x)
Dummy Toys (2x)

Eihwar (4x)
The Either (1x)
Ekaterina Shelevoa (1x)
Eleanor (2x)
Eleine (48x)
Emily Scott Robinson (8x)
Enya (1x)
Ephemerality (1x)
Erika de Casier (3x)
exist+trace (1x)
Exit Eden (2x)

Faith and the Muse (1x)
Fate Gear (2x)
Feyleux (9x)
Fifi Zhang (1x)
First Contact (18x)
FKA Twigs (1x)
Flowerleaf (2x)
Flora Sacchi (2x)
Florence + The Machine (1x)
The Foreign Resort (2x)
Frost (1x)

GAI (1x)
Ganavya (2x)
Garbage (1x)
Ghost Cries (20x)
girlpuppy (2x)
Grado 33 (1x)

Hagane (2x)
Hamed Nikpay (2x)
Hannah Lew (1x)
Harry Styles (1x)
Hatchie (3x)
Haunter (1x)
Her Own World (2x)
The Highwomen (1x)
Hoaxed (13x)
House of Harm (4x)

Ignea (12x)
Imaginary Flying Machines (1x)
Infinitas (2x)
Isiliel (1x)
Ist Ist (2x)

Jane Coral (6x)
Jenny on Holiday (1x)
Jessie Ware (1x)
Joe Hisaishi (38x)
Judy Collins (1x)

Kat Duma (3x)
Khusugtun (1x)
Kidburn (1x)
Kpop Demon Hunters cast (11x)
Krypteria (1x)
Kygo (1x)

L7 (1x)
Lacuna Coil (2x)
Lady Gaga (1x)
Ladytron (1x)
League of Distortion (1x)
Liberia (1x)
Life On Venus (1x)
The Lightning Kids (8x)
Lila Downs (1x)
Lillies and Remains (2x)
Liv Moon (3x)
LoFi Vibe (2x)
Loreen (5x)
LOR3L3I (3x)
Loreena McKennitt (1x)
Lovebites (8x)
The Luna Sequence (1x)
Lykke Li (5x)

Madeline Goldstein (2x)
Maenad and The Ravers (2x)
Maggie Tra (2x)
Makthaverskan (1x)
Marcelo Zarvos (1x)
Margo Price (1x)
Mari Hamada (1x)
Mari Kattman (1x)
Matt Blvck (2x)
The Mavericks (1x)
Medieaval Baebes (5x)
Melissa Bonny (3x)
Melody & Christine (2x)
Mephisto Walz 1x)
Mercury's Antennae (1x)
Metric (4x)
Michael Oakley (1x)
Miki Berenyi Trio (3x)
Mirabilis (4x)
Misty Mountain (7x)
Mitski (1x)
Molly Nilsson (2x)
Mon Rovia (1x)
Monsta X (16x)
Mondtraume (1x)
Muna (6x)
The Myriad Form (1x)
Myrkur (1x)
Mysterain (1x)

New Constellations (1x)
Neon Oni (1x)
Nightsister (1x)
Nina (1x)
Nini Music (1x)
Nite (4x)
Noah Kahan (1x)
Numori (1x)

Obsoletha (7x)
Onmyo-Za (6x)
Orchestre De Chambre Jean-Francois Paillard (1x)
Orkid (1x)
Osnova (2x)

Paradoxx (6x)
past self (13x)
Personz (1x)
Pirate Queen (1x)
Polica (1x)
Portable Rock (1x)
Promenade Cinema (15x)
Prizm (2x)
Psy'Aviah (1x)
Putumayo (1x)

Rey Rata (1x)
Risky Melody (1x)
Robyn (5x)
Rolling Quartz (2x)
Romeo Santos (3x)
Romy (1x)
The Rope (5x)
The Rose (2x)
Rubar (1x)
Rumkicks (3x)

Sabaton (1x)
Sally Dige (3x)
Sarah McLachlan (1x)
Scandal (1x)
Scarlet Slipping (1x)
Schonberg (3x)
Serenity in Murder (4x)
The Sheglapes (1x)
The Sheila Divine (1x)
She's Green (2x)
Shye (2x)
Silent Elegy (2x)
SincerityGreen (1x)
Sins of the Siren (1x)
Sleepthief (1x)
Snow Tha Product (11x)
Social Distortion (4x)
Softcult (2x)
SPC Eco (1x)
Star Cassette (3x)
Starbenders (7x)
STAYC (1x)
Steps (1x)
Steven Price (1x)
Strawberry Lust (5x)
Sunday (1994) (1x)
Synsnake (5x)
Sypha (1x)

Taisei Iwasaki (1x)
Tanya Tucker (1x)
T-ARA (1x)
Teed (3x)
Third Realm (1x)
Toal (2x)
Toonaleaves (4x)
Tracy Chapman (1x)
Traitrs (4x)
TRiDENT (1x)
Tulip (2x)
Twilight Blooming (1x)

Uuhai (7x)
Uh Huh Her (1x)
The Uncrowned (1x)
Unlucky Morpheus (1x)

ValkyrieZero (3x)
verycoybunny (7x)
Vioflesh (4x)
Visions of Atlantis (1x)
VNV Nation (2x)

Walk in Darkness (5x)
Westkust (1x)
William Orbit (1x)
Witch Club Satan (1x)
Wonho (1x)
Woosung (4x)

Xeria (2x)
XG (1x)

Yndling (1x)
Yuko Suzuhana (1x)
Yumi Zouma (1x)

Zanryupa (4x)
Zemeth (2)
Zeyne (1x)
Zilqy (3x)
Zyana (5x)

Albums and Bands
2D Cat - Salvation Will Not Come (2x)
2D Cat - Fantastic Voyage (2x)
2D Cat - Eat the Rich (2x)

Acid Arab - Trois (1x)
ACTORS - It Will Come to You (1x)
After Thoughts - Vermin of Mind (1x)
Aiboforcen - Sense & Nonsense (1x)
Aki Azuma - Oosaka Sukiyanen (1x)
Aki Azuma - 2026 The First Album (1x)
Akuma - Flowering (1x)
Alan Walker - Walkerworld 2.0 (1x)
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1 - Rise of the Drones (8x)
Alaska Y Dinarama - Diez (2x)
Alaska Y Dinarama - Deseo Carnal (3x)
Alaska Y Dinarama - No Es Pecado (2x)
Alaska Y Dinarama - Fan Fatal (1x)
Akuma Dollz - Dark Princess (1x)
Alhambra - Skyward Pray (5x)
Ali Ghamsari - Saname Nahanjar (1x)
Alicetopia - Haze of Scarlet (2x)
Angie K. - Angie K. (2x)
Anna Fiori - Metztli (2x)
Annie - Dark Hearts (1x)
Arae - Arae (4x)
ArkRoyal - Clymenus (1x)
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (1x)
Artesia - Wanderings (1x)
Artesia - Le monde d'heir (2x)
Aryem - Dangerous Paradise (6x)
Aryem - The Bird's Assembly (4x)
Aryem - Agnes (7x)
Ashley - Ablaze (1x)
Assemblage 23 - Null (4x)
Autumn - The Hating Tree (1x)
Autumn - Return to the Breath (1x)
Autumn - Chandelier (1x)
Ayria - Vicious World (3x)
Azam Ali - Elysium for the Brave (1x)
Azam Ali - Synesthesia (12x)

Band-Maid - Scooooop (1x)
Basementzerofloor - Laplace (1x)
Battle Beast - Circus of Doom (1x)
Battle Beast - Steelbound (1x)
Belle Sisoski - Ethnosphere (7x)
Big Ocean - The Greatest Battle (1x)
Bizhiki - Unbound (1x)
Blodwen - When Autumn Ends (1x)
Bloodywood - Nu Delhi (1x)
Blume - Ashes (1x)
Blush - Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever (1x)
Brandi Carlile - The Story (1x)
Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You (1x)
Brandi Carlile - Returning to Myself (12x)
Brave soundtrack (1x)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible (8x)
BTS - Arirang (3x)
Bunny X - Young & In Love (13x)
Bunny X - Love Minus 80 (15x)
Bunny X - Love Minus 80 (The Remixes) (1x)

Calaverx - Calaverx (1x)
Cammie Beverly - House of Grief (1x)
Camp Crush - Bite the Bullet (1x)
Cantus - Covers Live! (1x)
Carla Patullo - So She Howls (1x)
Carla Patullo - Nomadica (3x)
Carrellee - Carrellee (5x)
Carved Souls - Silent Chaos (9x)
Casino Shanghai - Film (3x)
Cat Burns - How to be Human (2x)
Cathedral Bells - Parallel Dreams (4x)
Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights (1x)
Chernaya Rechka - Chernaya Rechka (1x)
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland (3x)
ChRockikal - We break, you awake
Clubdrugs - lovesick (5x)
Confined White - Confined White (2x)
Copperplate - Rue (1x)
Cosmicdust - melancholy (10x)
Curve - Doppelganger (1x)
Cyndi Lauper - The Essential Cyndi Lauper (1x)
Czarina - Arcana (18x)
Czarina - Painted Holograms (19x)
Czarina - Empire (18x)

Damian Hamada's Creatures - Sinsekaimokushiroku (1x)
Darkling I Listen - From the Edge of Endless Black (2x)
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg (1x)
Deathless Legacy - Mater Larvarum (2x)
Deathless Legacy - Damnatio Aeterna (2x)
Defacing God - Darkness is My God (1x)
Delirium Musicium - Richter & Glass: Seasons (1x)
Della Mae - Magic Accident (3x)
DengeL - DengeL EP (1x)
DengeL - Promised (3x)
DengeL - The Garden of Earthly Delights (1x)
DengeL - The Garden of Earthly Delights II (1x)
D.O - Blossom (1x)
Draag - Miracle Drug (1x)
Dream, Ivory - When You Come Back I Have So Much to Tell You (4x)
Dummy Toys - The Point of No Return (2x)

Eastern Owl - Not Quite Like You (1x)
Eihwar - Hugrheim (4x)
The Either - Poetry Finale (1x)
Ekaterina Shelevoa - Fables, Act II (1x)
Eleanor - Downhearted (1x)
Eleanor - Effigy of the Flowing Tears (1x)
Eleine - Eleine (9x)
Eleine - Until the End (8x)
Eleine - Dancing in Hell (9x)
Eleine - Acoustic in Hell (10x)
Eleine - We Shall Remain (11x)
Eleine - We Stand United (8x)
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia (8x)
Enya - Dark Sky Island (1x)
Ephemerality - Ephmerality (1x)
Erika de Casier - Lifetime (3x)
exist+trace - WHO I AM (1x)
Exit Eden - Rhapsodies in Black (1x)
Exit Eden - Femmes Fatales (2x)

Faith and the Muse - The Burning Season (1x)
Fate Gear - BEST - Angelic Melodies (2x)
Fathomless Skywalker - Anthems for the Resilient (1x)
Feyleux - Phases (6x)
Feyleux - Midnight Hearts (3x)
FiFi Zhang - Fleeting Hearts (1x)
First Contact - Peacemillion (3x)
First Contact - Earth Nation (15x)
FKA Twigs - Magdalene (1x)
Floraleda Sacchi - Joe Hisaishi by Floraleda Saachi (2x)
Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (1x)
Flowerleaf - Dreamerie (2x)
The Foreign Resort - The American Dream (1x)
The Foreign Resort - Outnumberd (1x)
Frost - Melodica (1x)

GAI - Glass Angels Initiative: Code Orange (1x)
Ganavya - Nilam (2x)
Garbage - beautifulgarbage (1x)
Ghost Cries - Purgatorium (7x)
Ghost Cries - Vrykolakas (13x)
girlpuppy - Sweetness (2x)
Grado 33 - Ya Se Oculta el Sol (1x)

Hagane - Top of the Power (1x)
Hamed Nikpay - DAMAVAND (2x)
Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (1x)
Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. (1x)
Hatchie - Keepsake (2x)
Hatchie - Liquorice (2x)
Haunter - Game Boy (1x)
The Head and The Heart - The Head and The Heart (1x)
Her Own World - Tales From Another Life (1x)
The Highwomen - The Highwomen (1x)
Hoaxed - Two Shadows (3x)
Hoaxed - Death Knocks (11x)
House of Harm - Vicious Pastimes (2x)
House of Harm - Playground (2x)

Ignea - Sputnik (1x)
Ignea - The Sign of Faith (4x)
Ignea - The Realms of Fire and Death (2x)
Ignea - Dreams of Lands Unseen (5x)
Imaginary Flying Machines - Princess Ghibli II (1x)
Infinitas - Tiamat (2x)
Insun Park & Generals - Be Water, My Friend (1x)
Isiliel - Moonbow Rebellion (1x)
Ist Ist - Dagger (2x)

Jane Coral - Coral Forest (6x)
Jessie Ware - Superbloom (1x)
Joe Hisaishi - Laputa: Castle in the Sky (2x)
Joe Hisaishi - My Neighbor Totoro (1x)
Joe Hisaishi - Howl's Moving Castle (1x)
Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration (15x)
Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away (18x)
Joe Hisaishi - Departures (8x)
Judy Collins - The Very Best of Judy Collins (1x)

Kakumay - SWEET TOXIC (1x)
Kat Duma - Lullaby (3x)
Khusugtun - Tengerin Duu (1x)
Kidburn - Fooled By the Rush of Growing Up (1x)
Kpop Demon Hunters cast - Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack (11x)
Krypteria - My Fatal Kiss (1x)
Kygo - Kygo (1x)

L7 - Bricks are Heavy (1x)
Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire (2x)
Lady Gaga - Mayhem (1x)
Ladytron - Paradises (1x)
League of Distortion - Galvanize (1x)
Libera - Angel Voices (1x)
Life on Venus - Encounters (1x)
The Lightning Kids - All of Those Nights (4x)
The Lightning Kids - Love On the Edge of Desire (4x)
Lila Downs - Al Chile (1x)
Lillies and Remains - Superior (2x)
The Linda Lindas - Growing Up (2x)
Liv Moon - The Land of Spirits (3x)
LoFi Vibe - Ghibli Chill & Study (1x)
Loreen - Wildfire (5x)
Loreena McKennitt - Book of Secrets (1x)
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy (3x)
Lovebites - Outstanding Power (12x)
The Luna Sequence - Rifts Becomes Passages (2x)
Lykke Li - The Afterparty (5x)

Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body (2x)
Maenad & The Ravers - Spellbound (3x)
Maggie Tra - Family Temple (2x)
Makthaverskan - Glass and Bone s(1x)
Margo Price - Strays (1x)
Mari Hamada - Return to Myself (1x)
Mari Kattman - The Year of the Katt (1x)
Marcelo Zarvo - Kpop Demon Hunters score (1x)
Mary Chapin Carpenter - State of the Heart (1x)
Matte Blvck - Vows (2x)
The Mavericks - En Espanol (1x)
Mediaeval Babes - Undrentide (1x)
Mediaeval Baebes - The Spinning Wheel (4x)
Melissa Bonny - Cherry Red Apocalypse (4x)
Melody & Christine - Tides (2x)
Mephisto Walz - Scoundrel (1x)
Mercury's Antennae - Among the Black Trees (1x)
Metric - Romanticize the Dive (4x)
Michael Oakley - Prologue (1x)
Mirabilis - Pleiades (1x)
Mirabilis - Sub Rosa (1x)
Mirabilis - Here and the Hereafter (1x)
Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (3x)
Misty Mountain - The World Needs Heroes (7x)
Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me (1x)
Molly Nilsson - Amateur (2x)
Mon Rovia - Bloodline (1x)
Mondtraume - Lovers, Sinners, and Liars (1x)
Monsta X - The Dreaming (1x)
Monsta X - Unfold (16x)
Muna - Muna (1x)
Muna - Dancing on the Wall (6x)
The Myriad Form - The Myriad Form (1x)
Myrkur - Folkesange (1x)
Mysterain - 20206 EP (2x)

Neon Oni - Nihilism (1x)
New Constellations - It Comes in Waves (1x)
Nightsister - After Me (1x)
Nina - Synthian (1x)
Nini Music - Legends (1x)
Nite - Nite (4x)
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (1x)
Numori - Hybrid K (1x)

Obsoletha - Anemoia vol.1 (2x)
Obsoletha - Anemoia vol.2 (4x)
Obsoletha - Shenanigansia Vol.2 (1x)
Omelas - Dawn (1x)
Onmyo-Za - Ryouu Doujuu (1x)
Onmyo-Za - Yasumi Gozen (5x)
Orchestre De Chambre Jean-Francois Paillard - Pachelbel/Canon/Albinoni/Adagio (1x)
Orkid - In All of My Tomorrows (1x)
Osnova - Early Singles (2x)

Paradoxx - Iris Iris (6x)
past self - Premonitions (4x)
past self - Die Cry Hate (6x)
past self - Bedrot (4x)
Personz - Reload Best (1x)
Pirate Queen - Ghosts (2x)
Polica - Dreams Go (1x)
Portable Rock - Dance Volunteer (1x)
Prizm - Rumors in the Night (1x)
Promenade Cinema - Living Ghosts (3x)
Promenade Cinema - Dark Designs (3x)
Promenade Cinema - Exit Guides (2x)
Promenade Cinema - Afterlife (7x)
Psy'Aviah - The Xenogamous Endeavour (1x)
Putamayo - Love Songs Around the World (1x)
Putumayo - Nordic Nights (1x)

Rey Rata - Soy un cadaver (1x)
Risky Melody - The World (1x)
Robyn - Sexistential (5x)
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice (2x)
Romeo Santos - Better Late Than Never (2x)
Romy - Mid Air (1x)
The Rope - Lillian (1x)
The Rope - Nightbird (5x)
The Rose - WRLD (3x)
Rubar - Persephone's Seasons (1x)
Rumkicks - Hit a Nerve (3x)

Sabaton - Legends (1x)
Sally Dige - Holding the Sun (3x)
Sarah McLachlan - Better Broken (1x)
Scarlet Slipping - Fire in the Mist (1x)
Schonberg - Resurrection (3x)
Serenity in Murder - The First Frission of the World (1x)
Serenity in Murder - The Highest Dystopia (1x)
Serenity in Murder - Timeless Reverie (3x)
The Sheglapes - Mother (1x)
The Sheila Divine - The Middle Ages (1x)
She's Green - Chrysalis (2x)
Shye - The Doves Came Home (2x)
Silent Elegy - Gone With the Wind (2x)
SincerityGreen - The Ocean of Dreams (1x)
Sins of the Siren - Sins of the Siren (1x)
Sleepthief - Mortal Longing (1x)
Snow Tha Product - To Anywhere (2x)
Snow Tha Product - Before I Crash Out (11x)
Social Distortion - Born to Kill (4x)
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn't Grow (2x)
Star Cassette - Sound of the Universe (3x)
Starbenders - Take Back the Night (1x)
Starbenders - The Beast Goes On (7x)
STAYC - Stay Alive (1x)
Steven Price - Gravity (1x)
Strawberry Lust - Strawberry Lust (5x)
Sunday (1994) - Devotion (1x)
Synsnake - Fluxus (2x)
Synsnake - Nodes (3x)
Sypha - Bad Choices (1x)

Taisei Iwasaki - Scarlet (1x)
Tanya Tucker - While I'm Livin' (1x)
T-ARA - Winter (1x)
Teed - Always with Me (3x)
Third Realm - Escape Sequence (1x)
Toal - Ritus Ex Silenti (2x)
Toonaleaves - Ballads of Innocence and Experience (2x)
Toonaleaves - By the Tree, By the Bards (2x)
Tracy Chapman - Greatest Hits (1x)
Traitrs - Horses in the Abattoir (2x)
Traitrs - Possessors (2x)
TRiDENT - Blue Dawn (1x)
Tulip - Big Shiny Metal Tunes (2x)
Twilight Blooming - Song of the Warrior (1x)

Uh Huh Her - Common Reaction (1x)
Uuhai - Human Herds (7x)
The Uncrowned - Run Through the Night (1x)
Unlucky Morpheus - Gate of Heaven (1x)

Various Artists - The Bride (1x)
Various Artists - A Mighty Wind soundtrack (2x)
Various Artists - Beauty 2: Music That Touches the Soul (1x)
V/A - Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop: 1980-1989 (1x)
ValkyrieZero - ValkyrieZero (3x)
verycoybunny - Bunny Tale (7x)
Vioflesh - Melancolia (4x)
Visions of Atlantis - Armada - An Orchestral Voyage (1x)
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (3x)
VNV Nation - Transational (1x)
VNV Nation - Electric Sun (1x)

Walk in Darkness - On the Road to Babylon (1x)
Walk in Darkness - Gods Don't Take Calls (5x)
Westkust - Westkust (1x)
William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style (1x)
Witch Club Satan - Witch Club Satan (1x)
Wonho - Syndrome (1x)
Woosung - 4444 (4x)

Xeria - Tierra (1x)
Xeria - Fuego (1x)
XG - The Core (1x)

Yndling - Time Time Time (1x)
Yuko Suzuhana - Samurai Diva (1x)
Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost to Kindness (1x)

Zanryupa - Dream, dream, dream (4x)
Zemeth - Miren (2x)
Zeyne - AWDA (1x)
Zilqy - Vacant Throne (4x)
Zyana - Neblina (1x)
Zyana - Una Hora Tarde (3x)
Zyana - Agua Que No Regresa (1x)

Audiobook and podcasts I am currently listening to

2026-06-03T17:19:23.637-05:00

Audiobook:

Podcasts:

My top 10 current favorite albums of the week

2026-06-02T15:11:36.558-05:00

In case no one knows and has a Bandcamp account, users can now create playlists which is great because this will give Spotify and other streaming platforms a run for their $. I already created a few playlists which I will be updating a regular basis. I will also note that the playlists are automatically set to private, with every playlist I changed the private settings to public.

01. LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
Peace by Proxy by LOR3L3I

02. Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
AFTERLIFE by Promenade Cinema

03. Valkyrie Zero - Valkyrie Zero

04. Matte Blvck - Vows
Vows by MATTE BLVCK

05. C Z A R I N A - Empire
Empire (Deluxe) by C Z A R I N A

06. Autumn - Return to the Breath
return to the breath by autumn-us

07. Lovebites - Outstanding Power

08. Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body
Speaking to the Body by Madeline Goldstein

09. Ark Royal - Clymenus

10. Bunny X - Young & In Love
Young & In Love by Bunny X

Artists/Bands I listened to in May

2026-06-01T17:07:45.018-05:00

Here is my final version of the list of artists and bands I listened to in May.

Favorite artists and bands
01. Promenade Cinema
02. CZARINA
03. Lykke Li
04. Social Distortion
05. Chernaya Rechka
06. House of Harm
07. Feyleux
08. Zyana
09. Bunny X
10. LOR3L3I
11. Joe Hisaishi
12. Anna Fiori
13. Aryem
14. Ephermerality
15. Monsta X

Favorite Albums
01. Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
02. CZARINA - Arcana
03. Lykke Li - The Afterparty
04. Social Distortion - Born to Kill
05. Chernaya Rechka - Loveland
06. House of Harm - Playground
07. Feyleux - Midnight Hearts
08. Zyana - Una Hora Tarde
09. Bunny X - Young and in Love
10. LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
11. Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away
12. Anna Fiori - Metzli
13. Aryem - Agnes
14. Ephermerality - s/t
15. Monsta X - Unfold

Artists/Bands

2DCat (2x)

Actors (1x)
Alan Walker (2x)
Alicetopia (1x)
Anna Fiori (1x)
Artesia (2x)
Aryem (5x)
Autumn (1x)
Ayria (3x)
Azam Ali (4x)

Belle Sisoski (2x)
Blodwen (1x)
Brandi Carlile (1x)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby (1x)
Bunny X (5x)

Carla Patullo (3x)
Carrellee (1x)
Cathedral Bells (1x)
Chernaya Rechka (3x)
Clubdrugs (1x)
Cosmicdust (1x)
Czarina (13x)

Darkling I Listen (1x)
Deathless Legacy (1x)
Delirium Musicum (1x)
Dummy Toys (2x)

Eihwar (1x)
Ekaterina Shelevoa (1x)
Eleanor (1x)
Eleine (9x)
Emily Scott Robinson (1x)
Ephemerality (1x)
Exist Eden (1x)

Feyleux (3x)
First Contact (2x)
Flowerleaf (1x)
The Foreign Resort (1x)

Ghost Cries (2x)
Girlpuppy (1x)

Hatchie (1x)
Hoaxed (2x)
House of Harm (2x)

Ignea (2x)

Jane Coral (1x)
Joe Hisaishi (8x)

Kat Duma (1x)
Kidburn (1x)
Kpop Demon Hunters (2x)

L7 (1x)
The Lightning Kids (2x)
Lillies and Remains (1x)
Loreen (2x)
LOR3L3I (3x)
Lovebites (1x)
Lykke Li (3x)

Madeline Goldstein (1x)
Matte Blvck (1x)
The Mavericks (1x)
Metric (1x)
Miki Berenyi Trio (1x)
Misty Mountain (2x)
Mondtraume (1x)
Monsta X (9x)
Muna (4x)

New Constellations (1x)
Nina (1x)
Noah Kahan (1x)

Obsoletha (1x)
Orkid (1x)

Paradoxx (1x)
Past Self (2x)
Portable Rock (1x)
Promenade Cinema (9x)

Robyn (1x)
Rolling Quartz (1x)
The Rope (1x)
Rubar (1x)
Rumkicks (1x)

Sally Dige (1x)
Scandal (1x)
She's Green (1x)
Shye (1x)
Silent Elegy (1x)
Snow Tha Product (2x)
Social Distortion (5x)
Starbenders (1x)

Third Realm (1x)
Traitrs (2x)
Twilight Blooming (1x)

The Uncrowned (1x)

ValkyrieZero (1x)
Verycoybunny (2x)

Woosung (1x)

Xeria (2x)

Zeyne (1x)
Zyana (3x)

Albums
2DCat - Eat the Rich (2x)

ACTORS - It Will Come to You (1x)
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1: The Rise of the Drones (2x)
Alicetopia - Haze of Scarlet (1x)
Anna Fiori - Metzli (1x)
Artesia - Le monde d'heir (2x)
Aryem - The Bird's Assembly (1x)
Aryem - Dangerous Paradise (1x)
Aryem - Agnes (3x)
Autumn - The Hating Tree (1x)
Ayria - Vicious World (2x)
Azam Ali - Synesthesia (4x)

Belle Sisoski - ETHNOSPHERE (2x)
Blodwen - When Autumn Ends (1x)
Brandi Carlile - Returning to Myself (1x)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible (1x)
Bunny X - Young and In Love (2x)
Bunny X - Love Minus 80 (2x)

Carla Patullo - So She Howls (1x)
Carla Patullo - Nomadica (2x)
Carrellee - Carrellee (1x)
Cathedral Bells - parallel dreams (1x)
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland (3x)
clubdrugs - lovesick (1x)
Cosmicdust - Melancholy (1x)
CZARINA - Empire (5x)
CZARINA - Arcana (5x)
CZARINA - Painted Holograms (3x)

Darkling I Listen - From the Edge of Endless Black (1x)
Delirium Musicium - Richter & Glass: Seasons (1x)
Deathless Legacy - Damnatio Aeterna (1x)
Dummy Toys - The Point of No Return (2x)

Eihwar - Hugrheim (1x)
Ekaterina Shelevoa - Fables, Act II (1x)
Eleanor - Effigy of the Flowing Tears (1x)
Eleine - Eleine (1x)
Eleine - Until the End (2x)
Eleine - Dancing in Hell (1x)
Eleine - Acoustic in Hell (2x)
Eleine - We Shall Remain (1x)
Eleine - We Stand United (1x)
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia (1x)
Ephemerality - Ephmerality (1x)
Exit Eden - Femmes Fatales (1x)

Feyleux - Midnight Hearts (1x)
Feyleux - Phases (2x)
FIRST CONTACT - EARTH NATION (2x)
Flowerleaf - Dreamerie (1x)
The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered (1x)

Ghost Cries - Purgatorium (1x)
girlpuppy - Sweetness (1x)

Hatchie - Keepsake (1x)
Hoaxed - Death Knocks (2x)
House of Harm - Vicious Pastimes (1x)
House of Harm - Playground (1x)

Ignea - Dreams of Lands Unseen (1x)
Ignea - Sputnik (1x)

Jane Coral - Coral Forest (1x)
Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away (4x)
Joe Hisaishi - Departures (1x)
Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration (3x)

Kat Duma - Lullaby (1x)
Kidburn - Fooled By the Rush of Growing Up (1x)
Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack (2x)

L7 - Bricks are Heavy (1x)
The Lightning Kids - All of Those Nights (1x)
The Lightning Kids - Love on the Edge of Desire (1x)
Lillies and Remains - Superior (1x)
Loreen - Wildfire (2x)
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy (3x)
Lovebites - Outstanding Power (1x)
Lykke Li - The Afterparty (3x)

Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body (1x)
Matte Blvck - Vows (1x)
The Mavericks - En Espanol (1x)
Metric - Romanticize the Dive (1x)
Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (1x)
Misty Mountains - The World Needs Heroes (2x)
Monsta X - The Dreaming (1x)
Monsta X - Unfold (9x)
Mondtraume - Lovers, Sinners, and Liars (1x)
Muna - Dancing on the Wall (4x)

New Constellations - It Comes in Waves (1x)
Nina - Synthian (1x)
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (1x)

Obsoletha - Shenanigansia Vol.2 (1x)

Paradoxx - Iris Iris (1x)
past self - Bedrot (2x)
Portable Rock - Dance Volunteer (1x)
Promenade Cinema - Living Ghosts (2x)
Promenade Cinema - Dark Designs (2x)
Promenade Cinema - Exit Guides (1x)
Promenade Cinema - Afterlife (3x)

Robyn - Sexistential (1x)
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice (1x)
The Rope - Nightbird (1x)
Rubar - Persephone's Seasons (1x)
Rumkicks - Hit a Nerve! (1x)

Sally Dige -Holding the Sun (1x)
Scandal - Echo (1x)
She's Green - Chrysalis (1x)
Shye - The Doves Came Home (1x)
Silent Elegy - Gone With the Wind (1x)
Snow Tha Product - Before I Crashout (2x)
Social Distortion - Born to Kill (4x)
Starbenders - The Beast Goes On (1x)

Third Realm - Escape Sequence (1x)
Traitrs - Horses in the Abattoir (1x)
Traitrs - Possessor (1x)
Twilight Blooming - Song of the Warrior (1x)

The Uncrowned - Run Through the Night (1x)

ValkyrieZero - ValkyrieZero (1x)
Verycoybunny - Bunny Tale (2x)

Woosung - 4444 (1x)

Xeria - Tierra (1x)
Xeria - Fuego (1x)

Zeyne - AWDA (1x)
Zyna - Neblina (1x)
Zyana - Una Hora Tarde (2x)

Top 100 favorite albums 2020 - 2026

2026-05-31T13:38:53.221-05:00

Last weekend I was just thinking to myself that it was time for me to do another top 100 list. It had been ages since I posted a top 100 list. With all the great music I have been listening to in the past several years, I decided to compile a list of my favorite albums that came out between 2020 and 20206. Hope people enjoy reading this list. And no I will not apologize for enjoying kpop music 😉.

There was a lot of albums I had to leave off because I have so many albums that I love between those six years. Got a wide range of genres from pop (Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack) to post-punk.

100. past self - Bedrot
99. The Linda Lindas - Growing Up
98. Sasami - Blood on the Silver Screen
97. Black Kirin - Qian Nian
96. FIRST CONTACT - Peacemillion
95. VNV Nation - Construct
94. The Bellwether Syndicate - Vestige & Vigil
93. Aryem - Agnes
92. Belle Sisoski - ETHNOSPHERE
91. Romy - Mid Air
90. Lady Gaga - Mayhem
89. Blush - Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever
88. Cosmicdust - Melancholy
87. NoSo - Stay Proud of Me
86. Xeria - Fuego
85. Amulet - Katharsis
84. girlpuppy - Sweetness
83. Lovebites - Outstanding Power
82. Ignea - Dreams of Lands Unseen
81. House of Harm - Playground
80. Battle Beast - Circus of Doom
79. Eihwar - Hugrheim
78. Monsta X - The Dreaming
77. Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible
76. Misty Mountain - The World Needs Heroes
75. Bunny X - Young & In Love
74. Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla
73. Ghost Cries - Vrykolakas
72. Serenity in Murder - Timeless Reverie
71. Schonberg - Resurrection
70. Pirate Queen - Ghosts
69. Darkling I Listen - From the Edge of Endless Black
68. SPC ECO - Broken
67. verycoybunny - Bunny Tale
66. FIRST CONTACT - PEACEMILLION
65. Chimera - Silent Cries in the Stifling Haze
64. Ancient Myth - ArcheoNyx
63. Xeria - Tierra
62. Mustafa - Dunya
61. Assemblage 23 - Null
60. Sonicave - A Collection of Absurd Tales
59. Serenity in Murder - Reborn
58. Promenade Cinema - Exit Guides
57. Carved Souls - Silent Chaos
56. Annie - Dark Hearts
55. Muna - Muna
54. Rumkicks - Hit a Nerve
53. past self - Die Cry Hate
52. Metric - Romanticize the Dive
51. Jane Coral - Coral Forest
50. Strawberry Lust - Strawberry Lust
49. Brandi Carlile - Returning to Myself
48. Molly Nilsson - Amateur
47. Margo Price - Strays
46. Tanya Tucker - Sweet Western Sounds
45. Valkyrie Zero - Attack of the Valkyrie
44.Tulip - Big Shiny Metal Tunes
43. Feyleux - Midnight Hearts
42. Robyn - Sexistential
41. Eleine - We Stand United
40. Lovebites - Electric Pentagram
39. Toal - Ritus Ex Silenti
38. Blush - Supercrush
37. Woosung - 4444
36. The Rose - WRLD
35. Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack
34. Erika de Casier - Lifetime
33. Aryem - Dangerous Paradise
32. CZARINA - Empire
31. Omelas - Dawn
30. Eleine - We Shall Remain
29. Exit Eden - Femmes Fatales
28. Lillies and Remains - Superior
27. Myrkur - Folkesange
26. The Hu - The Gereg
25. Lykke Li - The Afterparty
24. LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
23. Carla Patullo - Nomadica
22. Promenade Cinema - Dark Designs
21. FIRST CONTACT - EARTH NATION
20. Lovebites - Judgement Day
19. Onmyo-Za - Ryouu Douju
18. clubdrugs - lovesick
17. Ghost Cries - Purgatorium
16. Eleine - Dancing in Hell
15. Sally Dige - Holding the Sun
14. Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films by Hayao Miyazaki
13. Hoaxed - Death Knocks
12. Bunny X - Love Minus 80
11. Nite by Nite
10. Snow Tha Product - Before I Crashout
09. Moon in June - Soft Romance and Soft Blue Sky
08. The Rope - Nightbird
07. Monsta X - Unfold
06. Carrellee - Carrellee
05. DengeL - Promised
04. Chernaya Rechka - Loveland
03. Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
02. Azam Ali - Synesthesia
01. CZARINA - Arcana

Music I am currently listening to

2026-05-30T08:11:01.117-05:00

Albums
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide
Lykke Li - The Afterparty
Eihwar - Hugrheim
Carla Patullo - Nomadica
Social Distortion - Born to Kill
Promenade CInema - Exit Guides
Monsta X - Unfold
Promenade Cinema - Dark Designs
Muna - Dancing on the Wall
Rubur - Persephone's Seasons
past self - Bedrot
House of Harm - Playground
Promenade CInema
CZARINA - Arcana
ACTORS - It Will Come to You
Azam Ali - Synesthesia
Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away
MOndtraume - Lovers, Sinners, and Liars
Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration
Hoaxed - Death Knocks
Valkyrie Zero - Valkyrie Zero
Kat Duma - Lullaby
Obsoletha - Shenanigansia Vol.2
Promenade Cinema - Living Ghosts
CZARINA - Empire
Carla Patullo - She She Howls
CZARINA - Painted Holograms
Cathedral Bells - Parallel Dreams
Aryem - Agnes
Feyleux - Midnight Hearts
Eleine - Acoustic in Hell
verycoybunny - Bunny Tale
Belle Sisoski - Ethnosphere
Loreen - Wildfire
House of Harm - Vicious Past Times
Zyana - Una Hora Tarde
Traitrs - Possessor
Scandal - Echo
Anna Fiori - Metzli
Zyana - Neblina
Ayria - Vicious World
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice
Eleine - Until the End

Playlists
My Current Favorite Songs
Songs That Brings Me Joy 2.0
Post-Punk/Darkwave (spotify)
May Mix
Best Songs of 2026

My current favorite songs

2026-05-29T13:04:15.328-05:00

TGIF! Here is this week's mix. Enjoy!

I have been obsessed with the UK darkwave band Promenade Cinema . Their music is so fucking good. They definitely have a presence on this week's mix. Same with House of Harm, post-punk band from Boston, MA. Got a lot of other darkwave music on this week's mix. Been discovering some great darkwave bands from Chernaya Rechka to TRAITRS in the past few weeks.

Songs to check out:
01. Stock Image Model by Promenade Cinema

02. Selfish Hunger by TRAITRS
03. Two Kinds by House of Harm
04. Heill Ooinn by Eihwar
05. Spellbound (Cinematic Mix) by Promenade Cinema
06. Coming of Age by House of Harm

Top artists this month

2026-05-28T16:48:13.515-05:00

As of 05.28.2026

I have been discovering some excellent post-punk/darkwave bands such as Promenade Cinema, Chernaya Rechka, House of Harm, LOR3L3I, and Traitrs. This year I am not listening to as much metal as I am listening to darkwave and post-punk music. Maybe that will change later on in the year but right now, I am very much all about the sounds of CZARINA, Promenade Cinema, Feyleux, Chernaya Rechka, and House of Harm. I also love me some retrowave like Bunny X, 2DCAT, and The Lightning Kids. This is where I am at in the first half of 2026.

01. Promenade Cinema
02. Aryem
03. CZARINA
04. Eleine
05. Bunny X
06. past self
07. Alan Walker
08. Muna
09. verycoybunny
10. The Lightning Kids
11.Social Distortion
12. First Contact
13. Monsta X
14. Ghost Cries
15. Xeria
16. Chernaya Rechka
17. Carla Patullo
18. Zyana
19. Metric
20. Lykke Li
21. Ignea
22. Loreen
23. Starbenders
24. Artesia
25. Kidburn
26. Lillies and Remains
27. Feyleux
28. Brigitte Calls Me Baby
29. New Constellations
30. LOR3L3I
31. Cathedral Bells
32. Emily Scott Robinson
33. House of Harm
34. Delirium Musicum
35. Belle Sisoski
36. Noah Kahan
37. Ayria
38. Misty Mountain
39. Dummy Toys
40. 2DCAT
41. Shye
42. Visions of Atlantis
43. Zeyne
44. Flowerleaf
45. Risky Melody
46. Nina
47. Robyn
48. Rubur
49. Schonberg
50. Eihwar

Podcasts I am currently listening to

2026-05-27T16:33:39.815-05:00

My top 20 favorite albums I listened to in May

2026-05-26T15:24:16.107-05:00

This year I have been listening to a lot of post-punk/darkwave music.I have been discovering some great bands in the genre from Chernaya Rechka to Promenade Cinema. I recently discovered the Boston band House of Harm.

01. Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
AFTERLIFE by Promenade Cinema

02. Monsta X - Unfold

03. Carla Patullo - Nomadica
Nomadica by Carla Patullo

04. Social Distortion - Born to Kill
Born to Kill by Social Distortion

05. LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
Peace by Proxy by LOR3L3I

06. Chernaya Rechka - Loveland
Loveland by Chernaya Rechka

07. House of Harm - Playground
Playground by House of Harm

08. Artesia - Le monde d'hier
Le monde d'hier by Artesia

09. CZARINA - Arcana
Arcana by C Z A R I N A

10. Lykke Li - The Afterparty

11. Muna - Dancing on the Wall

12. Snow Tha Product - Before I Crashout

13. Zyana - Una Hora Tarde
14. Promenade Cinema - Dark Designs
DARK DESIGNS by Promenade Cinema

15. Misty Mountain - The World Needs Heroes
The World Needs Heroes by Misty Mountain 岚之山

16. Ayria - Vicious World
Vicious World EP by Ayria

17. past self - Die Cry Hate
Die Cry Hate EP by past self

18. Aryem - Agnes

19. Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1: The Rise of Drones

20. Robyn - Sexistential

Playlist of the week

2026-05-25T13:47:06.728-05:00

Here is my playlist of my favorite songs I listened to in May. I decided to not do a Best of May because I'm lazy 😂. Enjoy!

Songs to check out:
01. Ghost Machine by CZARINA
02. Brave Enough to be Unknown by Alan Walker
03. Rituals by Promenade Cinema
04. Away Above by House of Harm
05. Gushii by Zyana
06. Strange and Absurd by Madeline Goldstein
07. Mercury by Feyleux
08. Rockets by Third Realm
09. Cecilia by Shye
10. Exogenesis by LOR3L3II

11. The Way Things Were by Social Distortion
12. Lucky Again by Lykke Li

Music I am currently listening to

2026-05-24T09:26:34.182-05:00

Albums
Lykke Li - The Afterparty
Muna - Dancing On the Wall
Monsta X - Unfold
Social Distortion - Born to Kill
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland
Carla Patullo - Nomadica
First Contact - Earth Nation
Ayria - Vicious World
Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body
Artesia - Le monde d'hier
Dummy Toys - The Point of No Return
Aryem - Agnes
Alicetopia - Haze of Scarlet
Feyleux - Phases
Joe Hisaishi- A Symphonic Celebration
Joe Hisaishi - Departures
Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away
The Mavericks - En Espanol
The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered
Snow Tha Product - Before I Crashout
Cosmicdust - Melancholy
CZARINA - Painted Holograms
Promenade Cinema - Afterlife
Flowerleaf - Dreamerie
Zyana - Una Hora Tarde
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1: The Rise of The Drones
Zeyne - AWDA
Hatchie - Keepsake
CZARINA - Arcana
New Constellations - It Comes In Waves
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
Ekaterina Shelehova - Fables, ACT II
Bunny X - Young & In Love
The Lightning Kids - All of Those Nights
Silent Elegy - Gone With the Wind
CZARINA - Empire
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia
Eleine - Until the End

Playlists
My Current Favorite Songs of 2026
My Current Favorite Songs
Post-Punk/Darkwave
My ALl Time Favorite SOngs
May Mix

My current favorite darkwave/post-punk albums/bands

2026-05-23T09:11:52.092-05:00

Yesterday was World Goth Day, on my social media accounts (Bluesky and IG) I posted a small list of my favorite goth albums. Today, I was inspired to post a more extensive list to share with my readers. The bands and albums I am featuring are current. I would be writing a fucking novel if the list included artists/bands that are no longer making music 😂.

* The new album by The Foreign Resort Endurance hasn't been released yet but I did pre-order it because the singles I have heard from the band are 100% bangers. I hope people will pre-order it to show support for the band, as well as for the other bands I just listed here.

Right now I am digging the sounds of CZARINA, Promenade Cinema, past self, Chernaya Rechka, and House of Harm. If you want any recommendations, there it is 😀.

I made playlist on YouTube of some incredible 80s Japanese Post-punk/darkwave bands whose music is not on Spotify, a year or two ago.

ACTORS - It Will Come to You

Amulet - Katharsis

Autumn - The Hating Tree

Autumn - Chandelier

Azam Ali - Synesthesia

The Bellwether Syndicate - The Night Watch

The Bellwether Syndicate - Vestige & Vigil

Carrellee - Carrellee

Chernaya Rechka - Loveland

clubdrugs - lovesick

CZARINA - Painted Holograms

CZARINA - Empire

CZARINA - Arcana

Darkling I Listen - From the Edge of Endless Black

Feyleux - Midnight Hearts

Feyleux - Phases

The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered

The Foreign Resort - Endurance

Foxlore - Noisserped (Sydney, Aus based post-punk band)

House of Harm - Playground

LEATHERS - Reckless

LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy

Mercury's Antennae - Among the Black Trees

Molly Nilsson - Amateur

Nite - Nite

Osnova - Rise the Sun

past self - Die Cry Hate EP

past self - Premontions

Peranjakan - Pelteras (Indonesian post-punk band)

Promenade Cinema - AFTERLIFE

The Rope - Lillian

The Rope - Nightbird

Sally Dige - Holding the Sun

Silence in the Snow - Ghost Eyes

Stranger Gallery - Echoes From Camden Bridge

TOAL - Ritus Ex Silenti

Vioflesh - Nostalgia

Vioflesh - Melancolia

My current favorite songs of the week

2026-05-22T15:12:34.234-05:00

TGIF! Here is this week's mix. Enjoy!

Songs to check out:
01. Never Going Back Again by Social Distortion
02. Wounds by Chernaya Rechka
03. Strange and Absurd by Madeline Goldstein
04. So Happy I Could Die by Lykke Li
05. Gushii by Zyana
06. Perfect Paradise by Bunny X
07. Cloak of Stars by LOR3L3I

08. Long Gone by Ayria

Podcasts I am currently listening to

2026-05-21T15:25:33.317-05:00

05.13.26 to 05.20

Random thoughts

2026-05-20T16:45:58.260-05:00

I decided to post something different today because it needs to be said, and that there are people that needs to be called out big time given this trash political climate.

As part of my local goth community in the Twin Cities, I find this particular FB post from the Florida goth community group .It is appalling and I condemn the participation of fascism from this ding dong to censor those speaking up for marginalized groups of people whether immigrants or trans. Everything about this particular post goes against democracy when people's voices are being removed from online groups. Against Nazis my ass. You can't be against Nazis when you are removing members of an online community for speaking out against fascism. TTBH remaining silent on the actions of the regime is enabling them. Frankly, I have no patience or tolerance for those who won't say shit about what the regime is doing to immigrants, LGBTQIA community, and healthcare access for cisgender women and trans people.

Considering the terror of the regime that subjected my home state and city to this past winter (BTW...ICE goons are still in MN, just further south or north of the metro area) or doing to trans people who have every right to exist everywhere including the goth scene, to silence the voices by removing them from online communities is not democratic and it is very much so participating in fascism. Do I need to remind white people in the goth community how fascism can harm them? Renee Good and Alex Pretti have been murdered by ICE goons. 85 year old French woman Marie-Therese Ross-Mahe was detained by ICE for 90s in Louisiana but she eventually was deported, and returned home to France and to her family which not many immigrants don't have that luxury. Some have died in one of those awful concentration camps. Staying silent is completely unacceptable. I am glad to see members of the goth and industrial scenes speaking out against the regime, especially those who lack melanin and are cisgender.

Anyhoo...I am so glad that the majority of the comments on this post has been calling out this ding dong's post. BTW...if this moron actually knew what anti-authoritarianism was, he would know that standing up against fascism is okay. Kicking people out of online groups is NOT anti-authoritarianism. Bitching about "virtue signaling" and "transprogressive" (apparently a new made up word by transphobic assholes) is essentially virtue signaling, everything about that post from that right wing clown is "virtue signaling".

My solution for idiots who don't want to discuss politics, start your own damn online goth community with strict (and ridiculous) guidelines that insists on sticking to music.

BTW...if you are the type of person who agrees with that post and that BS group Goths Against Cancel Culture and read my blog/follow my FB page, I really don't need you has a fan.

Links to check out for the idiots like that clown in the Florida Goth Community FB page, and that clown show Goths Against Cancel Culture:
Queer Origins of Punk and Industrial Rock

The Queer History of Industrial music (1975-1985)

My point? Music is and always has been political. It has been political since slave owners banned slaves from owning drums. Also, Sister Rosetta Tharpe founded the electric guitar sound in rock and roll music, a queer, Black woman.

My top 10 current favorite albums of the week

2026-05-19T17:42:36.165-05:00

01. Lykke Li - The Afterparty

02. Promenade Cinema - Afterlife

03. Social Distortion - Born to Kill

04. Carla Patullo - Nomadica

05. Delirium Musicum - Richter & Glass: Seasons

06. Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body

07. Muna - Dancing on the Wall

08. Chernaya Rechka - Loveland

09. Monsta X - Unfold

10. Zyana - Una Hora Tarde

Playlist of the week

2026-05-18T17:36:39.337-05:00

Here is a mix of my current favorite songs of 2026. Enjoy!

Songs to check out:
01. Sorrow by Chernaya Rechka
02. Eastside Girls by Muna
03. Holy Water by CZARINA
04. Rockets by Third Realm
05. Monster by Alan Walker
06. Strange & Absurd by Madeline Goldstein
07. Everything is a Lie by The Foreign Resport

2026 releases I have listened to (so far)

2026-05-17T10:45:23.338-05:00

As of 06.10.2026

2026 has been a great year for new music. I have been digging the new albums by Lykke Li, Muna, Social Distortion, Metric, Aryem, Hoaxed, Belle Sisoski, Lovebites, and Brigitte Calls Me Baby. Ladytron is so far the only band whose new album I can honestly say I straight up found it boring and uninteresting to listen to.

2D Cat - Salvation Will Not Come
2D Cat - Eat the Rich

Aki Azuma - 2026 The First Album
Akmu - Flowering
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1-Rise of the Drones
Alhambra - Skyward Pray
Anna Fiori - Metzli
Artesia - Le monde d'heir Le monde d'hier
Aryem - Agnes
Ayria - Vicious World Vicious World

Basementzerofloor - Laplace
Belle Sisoski - Ethnosphere https://bellesisoski.bandcamp.com/album/ethnosphere
Big Ocean - The Greatest Battle
The Bride soundtrack
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible https://brigittecallsmebaby.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible
BT - Arirang

Camp Crush - Bite the Bullet
Carved Souls - Silent Chaos https://carvedsouls.bandcamp.com/album/silent-chaos
Cathedral Bells - Parallel Dreams Parallel Dreams
Charlie XCX - Wuthering Height
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland Loveland
ChRockikal - We break, you awake
clubdrugs - lovesick lovesick
CZARINA - Holy Water single

Defacing God - Darkness is my God
Della Mae - Magic Accident https://dellamae.bandcamp.com/album/magic-accident
Draag - Miracle Drug

Eihwar - Hugrheim https://eihwar.bandcamp.com/album/hugrheim
Ekaterina Shelevoa - Fables, Act II
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia https://emilyscottrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/appalachia

FIRST CONTACT - Earth Nation
Floraleda Sacchi/Joe Hisaishi- Joe Hisaishi by FloraledaSacchi
Flowerleaf - Dreamerie

GAI - Glass Angels Initiative: Code Orange

Hagane - Gogensyoku
Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew Hannah Lew
Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.
Hoaxed - Death Knocks https://hoaxed.bandcamp.com/album/death-knocks

Insun Park and Generals - Be Water, My Friends
Ist Ist - Dagger https://ististmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dagger

Jenny On Holiday - Quicksand Heart
Jessie Ware - Superbloom

Ladytron - Paradises Paradises
Loreena - Wildfire
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy Peace by Proxy
Lovebites - Outstanding Power
The Luna Sequence - Rifts Become Passages https://thelunasequence.bandcamp.com/album/rifts-become-passages
Lykke Li - The Afterparty The Afterparty

Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body Speaking to the Body
Maggie Tra -Family Tra
Makthaverskan - Glass and Bones https://makthaverskan.bandcamp.com/album/glass-and-bones
Mediaeval Baebes - The Spinning Wheel https://mediaevalbaebes.bandcamp.com/album/the-spinning-wheel
Melissa Bonny - Cherry Red Apocalypse
Metric - Romanticize the Dive
Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me Nothing's About to Happen to Me
Mon Rovia - Bloodline
Muna - Dancing on the Wall
Mysterain - 2026 EP

New Constellations - It Comes in Waves
Nightsister - After Me https://nightsisterpdx.bandcamp.com/album/after-me
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

Obsoletha - Anemoia Vol.2
Orkid - In All of My Tomorrows

Personz - Reload Best
Putumayo - Love Songs Around the World

Robyn - Sexistential
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice

Scandal - Echo
The Sheila Divine - The Middle Ages
Shye - The Doves Came Home The Doves Came Home
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn't Grow https://softcult.bandcamp.com/album/when-a-flower-doesnt-grow
Social Distortion - Born to Kill Born to Kill
SPC ECO - Broken https://spceco.bandcamp.com/album/broken-lp
Starbenders - And the Beast Goes On https://sumerianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-beast-goes-on
STAYC - Stay Alive
Sypha - Bad Choices

Third Realm - Escape Sequence
Traitrs - Possessor

Uuhai - Human Heards https://uuhai.bandcamp.com/album/human-herds

verycoybunny - Bunny Tales
Vioflesh - Melancolia Melancolia

Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost to Kindness

Zyana - Agua Que No Regresa