Best Of 2025: Adam
Making a list of good things that happened in 2025 may feel like a very short exercise…however despite the world being on fire, somehow, some way, great music is still getting produced every single day. Join us in celebrating our favorite albums, songs, and shows of the past year.
Album (National)
1. ROSALÍA – LUX
2. CMAT – Euro-Country
3. Turnstile – Never Enough
4. Deftones – Private Music
5. Oklou – Choke Enough
6. Smerz – Big City Life
7. Joan Thiele – Joanita
8. Ninajirachi – I Love My Computer
9. Mallrat – Light Hit My Face Like a Straight Right
10. Armand Hammer & The Alchmeist – Mercy
Songs (Not On Top Albums)
Miya Folick “Prism of Light”
Pyramids “Pretty Pigs”
Cowgirl Clue “Hearts That Run”
Party Nails “Movie Scene”
Shura “Recognise”
Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor “Passerine”
John Glacier “Nevasure”
Maribou State “All I Need”
OHYUNG “dancing on the soft knife”
Hannah Cohen “Mountain”
Annual 100 Songs Playlist (Tidal / Youtube / Spotify / Amazon)
Concerts
CMAT at Fine Line
Caterwaul 2025 at 331 Club (photos / photos)
Dazzling Killmen at Cloudland (photos)
Pulp at Armory (photos)
Buñuel/Today is the Day at the Turf (photos)
Mallrat at the 7th Street Entry (photos)
See/Saw Year 1 Party at Eagles 34 (photos)
Blood Incantation at Varsity Theater (photos)
Frank Black at First Avenue (photos)
Thou at Underground Music Venue (photos)
Best Bucket List Concert I’ll Keep In Its Own List
Oasis at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
