Best of 2015: Top Talent from Tacoma
Tacoma. Another year, another note on music from the spear point of resource extraction. Tacoma is success and failure in a mad bundle, but the city never fails to be an engine for awesome talent.
Tacoma. Another year, another note on music from the spear point of resource extraction. Tacoma is success and failure in a mad bundle, but the city never fails to be an engine for awesome talent.
“Earplugs,” I say to the dad next to me asking if his kid can get right in the front, as said kid nervously jams his tiny fingers into his tiny ears in fear that it might be too loud. But this kid is going for it, wanting to be right next to the stage where all the action is.
Today we’re excited to premiere a dubby remix of Real Don Music’s “Smoke By Day” by cerebral psych-soul group Richie Dagger’s Crime. If you dig big 70’s R&B grooves and synth-y dub textures you will love this.
Forty-four contributors weighed in on this, our list of favorite albums of 2015, offering up 108 nominees. Here are the twenty-four that topped the list.
One of the problems of editing a music website but only staying current on music but always being behind on TV but behind by a couple years is that I have to trust in the other smart/weird people who sent in their votes. As history would have it, it’s a trustworthy bunch of pop culture fanatics.