Sitemap - 2023 - Matt Berenson's Newsletter for Music Obsessives

Top Ten Power Pop Bands from 1970-present

Best Albums of 2023 (part 2)

Best Albums of 2023: The Final Say (Which I Have)

The two best songs of 2024 so far...

A Baker's Dozen Thanksgiving Playlist

The Best American Band of the 90s is...

Paul Westerberg's (Mostly) Underrated Solo Albums

Is Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart One of the All-Time Greats?

The Chills "Brave Words" (2023 Expanded and Remastered)

R.E.M.'s 15 albums: best to worst

Elvis Costello's Imperial Phase

Dinosaur Jr./J Mascis: I'm Loving All Over You

Frank Black Substack Shackellac

40 (of the) Best Guided by Voices Songs of the Last...4 years!

The Next BIG Thing?

Top 10 songs of the 21st century

He was a Rebel Jew: The Triumph and Tragedy of David Berman of the Silver Jews (and Purple Mountains)

The second best ever band from Liverpool is...

Top ten bands and songwriters who have released the most consistently special albums over the last ten years (2014-2023)?

If you like songs, then you will like (or love) all three albums by Cut Worms

120 Best Albums of the Last 60 Years

A.C. Newman not Alfred E. Neuman

A Panegyric for Prefab Sprout

Welcome to the Club, Johanna Samuels

The Jayhawks: An Appreciation

John Shough's "Ultra Vega"

A musical revelation and critical reappraisal...

Who is Nathan Hall?

Better Than the Beatles?

The Bees aka A Band of Bees

You Am I: The best Australian band of the 1990s

Who is Jon Langford?

The Top Two Millennial "New Dylans"

The Top 40 Sophomore Albums of the Rock 'n' Roll Era...

What is the difference between Tobin Sprout and Prefab Sprout?

The 60 Best Debut Albums of the Last 60 Years

Scott Miller: What Happened?

A-B-C-D E-zra F-urman

What band or songwriter did the best covers of other artists' songs?

Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats and Bonny Light Horseman

The Best Song You've Never Heard Before...

Thunder From Down Under

Best Albums of 2023...so far

Top 21 albums out of the UK in the 21st century so far...

Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta