More End of The Year Stuff

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Review: Robert Jon & the Wreck’s single-“Who Can You Love“-Release date December 13, 2022 Multi-Grammy award winner Don Was doesn’t just go on to produce anybody, unless he [...]

You're going to want to check out these underrated records ASAP.

As 2022 comes to a close, Atwood Magazine recognizes the music that had the greatest impact on our lives. From Alisa Amador, Baby Queen, and Horsegirl, to Johnny Hunter, Rachel Chinouriri, and TOLEDO, here are our top artist discoveries of 2022!

Anniversary editions (from Norah Jones and Neil Young), a dive into the hip-hop underground (via C.V.E.) and rediscovered live jazz (from Elvin Jones and Charles Mingus) arrived in 2022.

In September, the shit really hit the fan(s). Brittany Aldean, wife of country star Jason Aldean and owner of her own fashion brand, posted a video of herself getting her hair and makeup done, and she punctuated it with some transphobic bullshit. She thanked her parents for not changing her gender when she went through her tomboy phase. Pushback was swift and merciless. Country singers Cassadee Pope and Joy Olakodun called Aldean out on her ignorance, but the most damning response came from Maren Morris, who tweeted, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.” In response, the former tomboy complained to Fox News, and non-country person Tucker Carlson slapped Morris with the sickest burn he could come up with: “lunatic country music person.”

During a year in which the aftershocks of the COVID lockdown were still reverberating, jazz artists continued to create some dazzling art, on stage and in the studio. Following are JAZZIZ critics’ selections of the best recordings of the past 12 months (roughly from September 20, 2021 to October 15, 2022). Each critic’s number-one selection

The year's best music-related reads include bios and memoirs associated with Chuck Berry, Charlie Watts, Bob Dylan, Eagles, plus much more!

For me, there are few things more enjoyable than a good, old-fashioned whodunnit. Or a good, new-fashioned whodunnit. I say it a lot on this website, but, to me, the best thing that can happen in a…

The English-language debut of the late French author's second novel reinforces her revival — and her influence on women writing with brutal frankness.

Cometh the season.