Reviews of albums, films, concerts, and more from the Bay Area Music and Movie Nerds
Hello! It’s your favorite procrastinating music blog here to present you with… THE LAST TOP ALBUMS OF 2023 LIST! I know everyone else is trying to be first. But the one you remember best is the last one you read, and this is probably the best list anyway. It’s also only 10 records, so you can really sink your teeth into it.
This is the text conversation I had on the morning the Sour Tour went on sale. Emerging superstar Olivia Rodrigo had announced her first ever tour and put the entire thing on sale on the same day. And rather than play venues fit for her popularity, the tour was booked as 100% underplays, and was bound to sell out immediately, creating a lifeline (gold rush?) for professional ticket sellers they have desperately needed since COVID hit the concert industry hard.
No, my sister-in-law did not get tickets that day for my niece and her best friend. The tickets would come much later. Continue reading “With 5000 phones in Phoenix: An Olivia Rodrigo Diary”
This was an intense year… It feels like we’ve lived 300 in the last 3 months, TBH. Anyways, here’s the Top 20 records of 2021 as voted by the staff at Spinning Platters. You may notice a couple of late 2020 releases here… Similar to the Grammy’s, we don’t do a typical calendar year. Instead, we do 11/20-11/19 as a year. Because, really, in those last six weeks of the year, can anyone develop an emotional connection to a record? Continue reading “Spinning Platters’ Top 20 Albums of 2021”
