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Today, I dive into my top 10 favorite records of 2025.

I also talk about indie comedy shows around Los Angeles and my love for the late great Steve Cropper.

Thanks. Here's a little preview. But Tropical Fuckstorm, who I also think is one of the most

original bands I've ever heard and one of the best lag bands I've ever seen hands down.

Unbelievable, the energy and the fire from this group.

And, you know, almost like the godfathers of geese and this black MIDI band I was talking about and squid

uh tropical fuckstorms record so it's a it's a two number ones and that's fairyland

codex and I can't even tell you if you've never listened to tropical fuckstorm

dig in any of their records and listen

to how insane and original this group is so i've kind of got two number one sorry uh that's just

uh how it works with me m j londerman if it was six months ago, he would have been number one.

If it was the beginning of the year, you know, Tropical Fox Storm would have been number one easily.

So it's interesting just to kind of see this flavor because it's really kind of abstract i also

want to get a big shout out to my bear and metal kings testament they put a great record out this

year parableum pure fucking molten metal, and, you know, sometimes we'd rotate into the top

10 for sure.

Public Enemy also put out an insane record this year, Black Sky over the projects,

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