STEAK & CAKE RECORDS

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2025

FAVORITE LOCAL ALBUMS a girl in black - self portrait of moore Konyac - Demo Disc Vol 1 Andrew Nixon James Benders - Rough Edges twobox - Recording of a Dream Root Cellar - Fermentations chocofriendz - choco archives: dizzy fall Magnificent Records - When the Rain Turns... Orange Dog Club - Some Things Are Never Gonna Change Tiny the Dream - Remix, Vol. 1 Gareth Metz - Tomorrow Jim Abramson - beat cancel ILYLIA - ILYLIA Jeff Fineberg - Improvisations and Wave-shredded experiments

BEST FILMS & TV Weapons Presence Chad Powers One Battle After Another Eephus Sing Sing Maron: Panicked 2025 French Open The Lowdown Conclave A Real Pain The Last Temptation of Christ The Report The Rehearsal Such a Pretty Little Beach Common Side Effects Goodrich David Cross: Oh Come On The Order

BEST ALBUMS Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place Kenny Segal - Kenstrumentals Vol. 5 Tyler the Creator - DON’T TAP THE GLASS Forth Wanderers - The Longer This Goes On Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak Wombo - Danger in Fives Sydney Sprague - Peak Experience Eels - Being Dead Panda Bear - Sinister Gift Broncho - Natural Pleasure Jon Hopkins - Singularity Cola - The Gloss Lola Young - This Wasn’t Meant for you Anyway Geese - Getting Killed Joey Valence & Brae - PUNK TACTICS Danny Brown - Stardust BEST SONGS

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2024

FAVORITE LOCAL ALBUMS The Source Academy Kid - Slow Down to Speed Up Tom Torrisi - Glittering Pines ENOKALYPSE - I FEEL LIKE TONY MOW the muggle - SOUL SWEAT Camoflauge Monk - Capital Gains Listening Box - Bliss Recall The Color Waves - Better Angels Diamond Revolver - Forever Adam Bronstein - Jazz ≠ Jazz Stacks Forenzo - From the Stash (Vol. 1) Neftali & Puh-geez - is something wrong? Matt Smith's Nervous System - Today and Tomorrow Too Instrumental Humans - Fragile Dr. Ooo - MAIL MAN Nerix - Jeremiah EP

FAVORITE LOCAL SONGS Maya LaMacchia - Void Justin G. - Lovestruck John Flaherty - Opening Day Surrounded by Panthers - All Quiet on the Western Front Matt Poremba - Snail is Gonna Get There Salotheboy - WDYM Spiria - The Bridge T.T.T.T. - On the Sleigh of the Damned Tortoise Hardy - When I Get That Way Tom Vayo - Wind Elite Zararus - Cotton Feels Nice

BEST FILMS

Perfect Days The Holdovers American Symphony Twisters Iron Claw We Are the Best The Assistant Late Night with the Devil Dumb Money You Hurt My Feelings Scotland, PA Network Pinocchio Leave the World Behind Knox Goes Away They Live By Night RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop Flight

BEST ALBUMS

Vince Staples - Dark Times (hip-hop) Porches - Shirt (indie) JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE (hip-hop) Coleman Hawkins Quartet - Today And Now (jazz) Sam Evian - Plunge (indie rock) Ty Segall - LoveRudiments (experimental) Fog Lake - Captain (vintage pop) Chavez - Gone Glimmering (90’s indie) Free Refills - Raw Steak Black Coffee (industrial punk pop) Happy Driving - Electric Soul Unity (post punk) Sarah Meth - Steps (experimental pop) Pixies - The Night the Zombies (the pixies) Alabaster DePlume - GOLD (???) Water from Your Eyes - Crushed by Everyone (post punk?) LOUISE - TV DATING SHOW (indie) Rosie Lowe - Lover, Other (groovy) Coco & Clair Clair - Girl  (hip hop) Cults - To the Ghosts (indie) Oscar Peterson - Work From Home (jazz)

BEST SONGS

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2023

MY FAVORITE LOCALS John Flaherty Pinch Kitten CJ1SD3AD Gabriel Wells Maya LaMacchia 4d.s Stephen Guerra Ex-Pat & Milkweed T.T.T.T L-Biz & Mythgotbeats Simularchon Listening Box Rainlamps Donutxslinger eesh Lets Become Friends... BEST FILMS Oppenheimer Inside The Killer Past Lives White Noise Howl's Moving Castle Daytrippers Kiss Me Deadly Empire of Light Ulee's Gold Sly Biosphere Armageddon Time Quarterback 3,000 Years of Longing BEST ALBUMS Tundrastomper - Less More Luge - I Love It Here, I Live Here Deerhoof - Miracle-Level Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World Wilco - Cousin Roy Ayers - Good Vibes / Bad Vibes Kai Campos - City Planning Butter 08 - Butter 08 Eiafuawn - Birds on the Ground Mos Def - Black on Both Sides Pixies - Doggerel Slow Pulp - Yard JW Francis - Dream House Grace Ives - Janky Star Fib - Fib Illuminati Hotties - This is Not...

BEST SONGS

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2022

MY FAVORITE LOCAL ALBUMS

Daringer - Baker’s Dozen Littlecake - City Croons Jae Skeese & Billie Essco - GODBODY Donutxslinger - Slingers Dub Wylie Something - Scatter the Pieces Touchhole - Touchhole Demo fourball (teekoh) - 4NTHOLOGY Maya LaMacchia - Bloom Instrumental Humans - Blind Vision  Lost Sounds Records - The Birth of Audio

MY FAVORITE LOCAL TRACKS

JAMES - Rise / Start Jay Moore - Brown Baby All Seeing Eye - Sketchy Kyleap - Place Memories You’ll Forget - Fairy Circle Michael Heubusch - Atlantis  Captain Johnny Sausage - Old Man in the Woods Music for Aliens - Aubade  Dre Spittaa - Cap Rap Igitur - In Each Other’s Pockets Victor Aidan - Deja Vu Lowly Mountain Banjos - This Cruel War Yellow Thumper - Casino Rae Wonder - Leon Ronnie Mae - Love Letters to the Virgin M*ry

BEST FILM Spiderhead The Batman Kimi Red Rocket The Worst Person in the World Experiment in Terror Men House Beast Cabinet of Curiosity  Stutz Bullet Train John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection BEST TV

Severance The Rehearsal Chad Murderville

BEST ALBUM DISCOVERIES

Makaya McCraven - In These Times Genesis Owusu - Missing Molars (Swnt Deluxe) Dari Bay - DB 17-19 A PERFECT ERUPTION Jockstrap - I love you Jennifer B Cindy Lee - What’s Tonight to Eternity Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou Pet Shimmers - Face Down in Meta Divino Nino - Foam Cibo Matto - Stereotype A Floatie - Voyage Out Astrel K - Flickering i Athletic Progression - Athletic Progression Robber Robber - Caldera Mamalarky - Mamalarky JWords - Self-Connection BEST SONGS

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2iellsVCfigxRwYqcoDqE8?si=12de51391bec40aa

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2021

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC

denzelworldpeace salo spit kink slowso. Program They Live .downtune Brian Caswell Ceegee Incorporated Brian Carney Cheap Peach Willem Rizzuto Symphelex Vile Science Ruby Z skoob.(the dean) zoop

BEST ALBUM DISCOVERIES

Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment Death Lee Konits & Jim Giuffre - Lee Konits Meets Jim Giuffre George Harrison - Living in the Material World “Blue” Gene Tyranny - Out of the Blue Jockstrap - Wicked City Pom Poko - Cheater Stennes - Eyes Didn’t Let Me Open Luge - Luge Butcher Brown - #KingButch Smirk - LP Cindy Lee - What’s Tonight to Eternity Ovlov - buds King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader

BEST FILM DISCOVERIES

Doubt Promising Young Woman On the Waterfront Kajillionaire Living in Oblivion Songs my brothers taught me Aquarius Spree Minari Bliss You Can’t Kill Dave Arquette The Green Knight Drugstore Cowboy Another Round Doctor Sleep Togo

HONORABLE MENTIONS Captain Fantastic Never Rarely Sometimes Always Rhythm Section In the Soup

BEST TRACKS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

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2020

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC

Maya LaMacchia - Midnight, Here Jacob King - Wired Manic Jackson - Sampler Science Vol 1 Spit Kink - Spit Kink Kial Lowski - Changeover All Seeing Eye - Grey Plan Olmsted - Clementine Lifemusik mit Andre - Psychic 420420 Konyac - 2019 OST Fantasy Island - Fantasy Island

BEST ALBUM DISCOVERIES

1. Good Morning - Basketball Breakups 2. Spirit of the Beehive - Hypnic Jerks 3. Melody’s Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage 4. Crack Cloud - Crack Cloud 5. Eerie Wanda - Pet Town 6. EIEIEIO - Gentle Spaniels 7. Sitcom - Be the One You Love 8. Caroline Rose - LONER 9. Fog Lake - Carousel 10. Donna Blue - In Between EP

BEST SONGS

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BJkrUYSqXt8jdJ2gbBeGA

BEST FILM DISCOVERIES

1. I’m Thinking of Ending Things 2. Moonlighting 3. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki 4. Salt of the Earth 5. Nofinofy 6. Neighbouring Sounds 7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire 8. Waves 9. Vivarium 10. The Sound of Metal

HONORABLE MENTIONS

1. Knives Out 2. Dick Johnson is Dead 3. The Rental 4. Bad Hair 5. Kiss of Death 6. The Day Shall Come

BEST TV DISCOVERIES

1. Undone (amazon) 2. Midnight Gospel (netflix) 3. Ozark (netflix) 4. Devs (hulu)

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2019

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC

Maya LaMacchia - Walls and Windows  BradleeZ - Silk & Sapphire Oliv- Love Songs Manic Jackson - Art Therapy Aurorae - Surround Sound Candy  Elite Zaraus - Space is Scary The Antidepressants - Two Songs STCLVR - 4 The Summer  Kylehours - 2019 Rob Rowe - Solar Wraith II

BEST MUSIC DISCOVERIES

1. Crumb - Jinx 2. Charlie Mergia - Rock n’ Roll Fragments 3. Caroline Says - No Fool Like an Old Fool 4. Nate Mercereau - Joy Techniques 5. Lrrr - Whose News? 6. Her’s - Song of Her’s 7. Dirty Art Club - Vermilion 8. Wilco - Ode to Joy 9. Sun Organ - Sun Organ 10. Las Ligas Menores - Las Ligas Menores

BEST NEW FILM DISCOVERIES

1. Ad Astra 2. Cold War 3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4. Happy as Lazzaro 5. High flying bird  6. Under the silver lake 7. Mr. Pig 8. The Art of Self Defense

BEST OLD FILM DISCOVERIES

1. Alice in the Cities 2. Last Year at Marienbad 3. Stranger Than paradise 4. The Innocents 5. Fear Eats the Soul 6. Wings of Desire 7. Camera Buff

BEST TV

1. Forever 2. I Think You Should Leave 3. Pen15 4. It’s Bruno! 5. Rhythm and Flow

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2018

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC Store Manager Derick Evans Too Real Jesse & The Spirit Animal Magnetism Aljoha ToneyBoi Nicholas Christakis Slowso. Lamb Markous BEST IN FILM 1. The Other Side of the Wind  2. The Seventh Seal 3. Knife in the Water 4. Mandy 5. Gook 6. Annihilation 7. You Were Never Really Here 8. Infinity Baby 9. First Reformed 10. The Third Man Honorable Mentions 1. Hereditary 2. Super Dark Times 3. Cameraperson 4. Hostiles 5. Upgrade

BEST MUSIC 1. Autolux- Pussy’s Dead 2. Dimlite- Grim Reality 3. The Sorcerer’s- S/T 4. Quelle Chris- Lullabies for the Broken Brain 5. Makaya Craven- Where We Come From 6. Tommy Guerrero - Perpetual  7. Ava Luna- Infinite House 8. Arthur- Woof Woof 9. The Heliocentrics - Sunshine Makers (OST) 10. Francobollo- Long Live Life  Honorable Mentions 1. Woo- Whichever Way 2. Aquaserge- Laisse ca etre  3. Pencil - No. 2 4. Oronzo De Filippi - Meccanizzazione 5. Nova One- Secret Princess

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2017

BEST IN MUSIC 1. MNDSGN- Body Wash 2. Kenny Segal- Kenstrumentals Vol. 2 (Summer Rarities) 3. Brockhampton- Saturation (I, II, III) 4. Sir Was- Digging a Tunnel 5. Der Ans- Bright Head EP 6. Andy Shauf- The Party 7. Sleepdealer- Yerba 8. Pile- A Hairshirt of Purpose 9. Wylie Something- Genuine Moments 10. Timber Timbre- Sincerely, Future Pollution Honorable Mentions 1. TV Blonde- Changes EP 2. MTBRD- Smoovies 3. Sun Organ- You’re Doomed 4. Souleance- Brotha EP 5. Siriusmo- Enthusiast BEST IN FILM 1. Brawl in Cellblock 99 2. Good Time 3. Mother! 4. Godless 5. Logan Lucky 6. Bladerunner 2049 7. Okja 8. Marjorie Prime 9. Free Fire 10. Wheelman

Honorable Mentions 1. Accidental Courtesy 2. Boy 3. Roman Israel Esq. 4. Theeb 5. Letter from an Unknown Woman

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2016

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC: Bradlee Z’s 2016 Hit Singles, “I Ain’t Your Sousaphone” Slow Cooker’s Another Typo, “Tub Apple” Pleistocene’s Spear, “Give me the Line” Yellow House’s Songs in Limbo, “Vegatative Propagation” BEST LPS:

1. David Bowie’s Blackstar, “Girl Loves Me” Featuring my favorite drummer of all time, Mark Guliana

2. Novos Baianos’s Acabou Chorare, “Misterio do Planeta” Super musicians from 1970s Brazil

3. Arthur Shea’s Arthur’s First, “Dog’s Dream (Dreamin’ bout his dream girl)” Bedroom genius

4. Xenia Rubinos’ Magic Trix, “Hair Receding” Experimental pop from some other planet

5. Sam Evian’s Premium, “Carolina” Celestial Shore’s frontman gets chill

6. Dozer’s Words & Dreams & Memories, “Gone Fishing” The “good” kind of indie

7. Caroline Says’ 50 million Elvis Fans Can’t be Wrong, “My Fiance’s Pets” I keep coming back to this one

8. Get The Blessing’s Lope & Antelope, “Lope” Grooves for getting back center

9. The Walais’ Tche Belew, “Yikirta” Ethiopian Jazz-funk is the best feel-good music around

10. Pinesheets’ Casual Frustrations, “Sunday Afternoon” Played this one so much that bcamp wouldn’t let me listen any more unless I bought it, so I did

BEST FILMS:

1. Arrival 2. Green Room 3. Hypernormalisation 4. Frances Ha 5. Veron, FL 6. Enemy 7. Frank 8. Meadowland 9. The Phenom 10. Tangerine

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2015

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC Little Cake- Good 2 Eachother Alex Berkley- Welcome to Jamestown (Day 9) Jamie & The Debt- Choke Newish Star- Mixmaster Hot Tip- Fiction BEST SONGS Homeshake- Heat Harvey- Moonlight Taxidermist- Oldie Palm- Ankles No Problem- Cruise 2017 Jackie Charles- Birthday Song Wylie Something- Chinatown Bus Palehound- Easy The Foetals- Fine Freddie Nunez- Spacing Alice Bowman- Be Mine (Jakko mix) The Furniture- Yr Cards Really Big Pinecone- Adult BEST MUSIC VIDEOS Show Me The Body- Vernon feat. Wiki Juan Wauters- I’m All Wrong Hundred Visions- Our Ritual OTHER FAVORITES Kamasi Washington- The Epic Thad Jones- The Magnificent Thad Jones Wilco- Star Wars Nu Yorica!: Culture Clash in New York City 1970-77 Lushes- What Am I Doing? Bad Noids- Yield Side

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2014

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC Hot Tip Space is Haunted Softlines Cal Dripken Newish Star

BEST RECORDS 1. Celestial Shore – Enter Ghost 2. Deep State – Bein’ Mean EP 3. TOPS – Picture You Staring 4. Extra Spooky –  Tap Into Your Secret Power 5. Hands and Knees – American Cheese 6. Williams Thomas Lawrence – The Doghouse of Yer Dreams BEST SONGS Dwight Twilley Band – Looking for the Magic Chief Scout – Oh Shit Sales – Getting It On Marnie Stern – Year of the Glad Disco Doom – Deadeye Comeback – Blood of the Bull Celestial Shore – Gloria Jason Martin – Alpha Dog Jawbreaker Reunion – “Empire The Irenes – James Baxter Bent Shapes –  86’d in ’03 Neat – I Want to be an Ice Gator Stay Gold Pony Boy –  Bad Team Oh, Rose – Prom (Download mix here.) BEST NEW LABEL Gray Cake Tapes  WEIRDEST SHOW Pariah & Couples Counseling @ Northrup (6/8/14)

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2013

MY FAVORITE LOCAL MUSIC Cemeteries- Hisk//Husk (2009-2011) Thom Daly- Thinking Man’s Dance Music Del Paxton- Worst.Summer.Ever Space Wolves- IV Hussalonia- Double Fantasy Snowbeast Records- Halloween Compilation No. 1 BEST ALBUMS 1. James Rapp- Twenty Moon 2. Luke Temple- Good Mood Fool 3. Sirs- Sirs EP 4. Kirkis- Purplefruit Xray Vision 5. Elephant and Castle- Analogue EP 6. The Magic in Threes- S/T

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2012

BEST ALBUMS 1. Radiation City- Cool Nightmare  2. Cody Chessnut- Landing on a Hundred 3. Menomena- Moms 4. Hospitality- Friends of Friends 5. Here We Go Magic- A Different Ship 6. Coral Riffs- True Romance 7. Caves- Humility (b/w Bear Claus) 8. Amento Abioto- Amenta Ve 9. Rotaries- Before Leaving 10. On Beta- You’ve Got Blood In Your Heart

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You know that feeling you get when you're reading about beheadings of the innocent in the news? How does this happen, what can be done about it, am I just a spectator in an evil world, powerless? Rarely are we making the effort for large scale change, I know not everyone's built for advocacy. I'm not writing my congressmen or doing humanitarian work in Libya, I just wrote these songs with my friends in a basement. It's a small protest, but it's better than nothing at all.

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solo project from Mink's lead singer, Jazmine Frazier. 

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At Stein's insistence, this happened towards the end of the Murphy2 video shoot. RZ+TSB makes a raw and depraved sound. Mr. Bungalow featuring Blackflag and Questlove for the soundtrack to a David Lynch movie written by John Hughes.