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The Year In Music: 2025

Tue. December 30, 2025 9pm - 12am (KAFM Grand Junction)

It’s a look back at The Year In Music, which I should do every year but in practice only every seven years or so. There is never a shortage of good music to fill an hour or two or three, and I can safely claim that if your head’s on straight and you’re listening to the right sources, every year is the best year in music so far.

It’s a look back at <strong>The Year In Music</strong>, which I should do every year but in practice only every seven years or so. There is never a shortage of good music to fill an hour or two or three, and I can safely claim that if your head’s on straight and you’re listening to the right sources, every year is the best year in music so far.
SongArtistNotes
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Margaret Glaspy
Originally from Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Deadhead
Foxwarren
Get up and get bouncing
Imagination
BRONCHO
As seen in SLC
Believer
Peel Dream Magazine
With a glorious shimmer
Sweet Danger
Obongjayar
Silky smoose
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Pateando culos
Los Pirañas
How’s your cumbia ska?
Obsession
Des Demonas
My new obsession
Life's a Zoo
Guerilla Toss
Hectic vs. frantic
Too Much Baby
Audio Book Club
Got the electric sweats
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Need
Sprints
Hit those sirens
1 800-Call-Me-Back
Mhaol
Ring a ding
unpopular parts of a pig
Mclusky
Straight outta Wales
CPR
Wet Leg
Be still my beating heart
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Princess Road Surgery
Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles
Expansive sounds
So Much Better
Dean Johnson
A haunting voice
The Hole
Sir Chloe
It goes deep
Bad Apple
Los Straitjackets
Sans Lowe
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Sweet Lettuce
Lord Nap
What does it mean?
True Believer
Art d'Ecco
Delicious menace
Doom Pays
The Dears
Insistent chromatics
Call You Back
Forth Wanderers
More phone stuff
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The Hives Forever Forever the Hives
The Hives
Anthemic indeed
Dorien Kregg
Post Animal
Unknown subject
Shoplifter
Ty Segall
Will be prosecuted
Football
Youth Lagoon
Number one earworm
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The False Economy
Soulwax
It’s all building up
Canada Dry
Matt Berry
Swinging hard
Everybody Says I Love You
Flyte
Somewhat of a lullaby
Pánico (Cuelga al DJ) [feat. Mexican Institute of Sound, D. Albarn, Los Pream, N. Zinner & Montana Kinunu Ntunu]
Africa Express
De los Esmiths.
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Company Car
Snõõper
Shotgun!
I Got Cracked
Vundabar
And all shattered
Agnus Dei
The Last Dinner Party
Let’s get operatic
Tear Pusher
YHWH Nailgun
Grinding nicely
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One More Shadow (human language Remix)
Goat
Feel the pulsing
Song for J.J.
Drop Nineteens
Pulsating lights
Dead Silence
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
We are all devolving
Hagen Im Garten
Snapped Ankles
Caught between the hammer and the anvil
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Dub Inspector
Adrian Sherwood
Graded A+
Consulate Case
Surprise Chef
Got it figured out
Puaj
Salin
It’s a groove
Trust Device
Jonny Greenwood
The sounds have synced up
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Electrified Teenybop!
Stereolab
It’s all the rage
Funk Kraut
Zombie Zombie
The plant is Viking
Sweet Babe
La Femme
Getting a good thumping
Civilians
Clark
Making whoopee
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apple green ufo
Andy Bell
So far away
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