best-of list Archive
26 Dec 2023
Musoscribe’s Best of 2023: Books
From my perspective, 2023 has been another great year for books about music. It wasn’t easy limiting my selections of the year’s favorites to just four, but these titles all […]
25 Dec 2023
Musoscribe’s Best of 2023: Archival
Reissues, compilations and archival releases are of particular interest here at Musoscribe World HQ. And this year has seen a bumper crop of excellent titles in these categories. Here are […]
17 Dec 2022
Musoscribe’s Best of 2022: Archival/Reissue
Because I tend toward archival material – expanded and/or overlooked reissues, previously unreleased live and studio collections – a good bit of those kind of releases find their way to […]
16 Dec 2022
Musoscribe’s Best of 2022: New Releases
2022 has been another great year for new music. Even with everything else going on, I’ve reviewed nearly 120 new albums this year on Musoscribe. And in compiling my annual […]
14 Dec 2022
Musoscribe’s Best of 2022: Books
2022 has been a stellar year for music-related books. For much of the pandemic era( and a good chunk of this year) it looked as if the well had, if […]
27 Dec 2021
Musoscribe’s Best of 2021: New Releases
Picking my favorite new releases for 2021 has been exceedingly difficult. I have no way of knowing to what degree (if any) the infernal and tragic pandemic had the silver-lining […]
02 Jul 2021
10 Albums That Changed My Life: Emilio “Mimi” Castillo
For more than 50 years, Tower of Power has been bringing its soulful brand of funk to hit records and energetic live shows. In 2018 the nine-man band – plus […]
31 Dec 2020
Musoscribe’s Best of 2020
Happy Last Day of 2020. What a strange, unprecedented, generally awful year. But it certainly had its high points, and music is among them. In a year when it soon […]
31 Dec 2019
(My) Best of the Decade
Like many critics and serious followers of music, from time to time I compile my own “personal bests” lists. Almost exactly a decade ago today – this blog’s been around […]
27 Dec 2019
Musoscribe’s Best of 2019: Interviews
I lost count of how many interviews I conducted in 2019. I think the number is right around 175. I enjoyed ever single one of them, but as is typical, […]