gabbie

The Best Albums of 2025, So Far Celebrate New Bands for Old Heads' one year anniversary with my most listened to albums of the first half of 2025. Also: giveaways and listening parties return!

more like the albums I've listened to the most during the first half of 2025
www.newbandsforoldheads.com/p/best-album...

oh to be a blissfully ignorant youth, unaware that your favorite songs will be tomorrow's grocery store muzak

Patrick Hicks on Substack One of the best follows on Substack is my guest today @Gabbie from New Bands for Old Heads! We talk about being part of the My So Called Life generation, making playlists for people, and of course her...

One of the best music curators around is my guest today @meandtimory.bsky.social from New Bands for Old Heads! We talk about being part of the My So Called Life generation, making playlists for people, and of course her most embarrassing musical moment. patrickhicks.substack.com/p/episode-5-...

this was the best, Patrick, thank you so much for having me

Before You Dismiss Pop Music, Give It An "Academic Listen" Someone who actually understands music theory helps me take down antipoptimists in a way I never could on my own: by deconstructing actual pop music by Taylor Swift and Charli XCX.

sick of the antipoptimism. time to fight it with music theory.

The Best Albums of May 2025 This month, 9 great records with a small band focus, an interview you missed, and another listening party announcement. Plus, how do you filter out new music before listening?

Your Grandparents made the first great record of the summer… and you didn’t even call to check up on them? Shame on you!

I've started interviewing some very special people (and condiments) about their musical nostalgia and making mixtapes for them based on their responses.

meandtimory.substack.com/p/new-music-...

Virtually every single record that receives any kind of review at all receives a positive one. So who is an album score even helping?
meandtimory.substack.com/p/album-scor...

meandtimory.substack.com/p/best-album...
in case you missed it...

The Tisburys - Listening Party Cover Charge - Gabbie's Ko-fi Shop You are purchasing a pass to the New Bands for Old Heads Discord server to listen to a pre-release live stream of the Tisburys new record: A Still Lif...

Also for our non-Philly friends who want to hear the new album early, join us on @meandtimory.bsky.social discord at 4pm today!! Limited spots available: ko-fi.com/s/a8bd494570

New Music DNA - Pt. 1: Can I Turn Nostalgia Into Bespoke Mixtapes? Can new music scratch the Gen X itch? I turned Kevin Alexander’s love of Fugazi, New Order & Jawbreaker into a playlist of brand new music just for him (but you can listen, too)

In an age of playlists and digital music sharing, can you still make a mixtape than means something to the recipient?

@meandtimory.bsky.social
wanted to find out, and I wanted to be a part of it. Click through to see how it went!
#music

My newsletter New Bands for Old Heads was literally made for anyone asking these questions: meandtimory.substack.com

all music critics are a bunch of frauds -- nobody can pick the "best" when we don't listen to everything. but I hope you choose me, the best fraud of them all, to help you find new music, instead of relying on algorithms to feed you AI slop.

meandtimory.substack.com/p/best-album...

Want to hear our new record early? Very excited to work with @meandtimory.bsky.social to present a Discord Listening Party via New Bands For Old Heads! Join the Discord today & listen along with us on April 13th: t.co/veBC8X2nQ4

Tu vuò fà l'americano? Then Listen to More Music in Other Languages English used to be the music industry's lingua franca. Now, we're more ready than ever to hear what the rest of the world has to offer. A huge playlist of non-English music awaits you.

“If you like X, then you'll like Y”…. no English allowed edition. We've moved away from the prereq that musicians must sing in English to be successful, & the world has been listening to more & more non-English music. Tons of examples in many genres within, plus a 3 hour playlist for paid subs

The Music Submission Survival Guide A practical guide for musicians, an inside look for music lovers, and surprisingly good advice for everyone else. Plus, win tickets to see Beth Gibbons!

Have you ever wondered how bands manage to get discovered? Sometimes it’s just knowing how to write a decent email.
meandtimory.substack.com/p/music-subm...

The Best Albums of January 2025 Monthly roundups start here and now. Plus: Where to find other new music roundups, a playlist of 2025's best tracks, and this month's record giveaway,

The Best Albums of January 2025
open.substack.com/pub/meandtim...

I had such a good time

I'm not gonna lie -- I'm really nervous to listen to this! But I had a blast recording it, and you definitely SHOULDN'T be nervous to listen. I had the fever to tell.

This was way too much text for bluesky but if you're wondering what the hell my whole deal is, it's all this nonsense. substack.com/@meandtimory...

All this bc the left couldn’t get behind a black woman.

Your hatred will make everyone suffer.

It’s not their fault that black women are educated and capable and you’re jealous.

Opening a can of worms with this one... but the real headline here is that nothing is as black and white as it seems, and this is me doing a lot of handwringing over it. Bonus: best discussion my articles have ever generated in the comments!

meandtimory.substack.com/p/i-stopped-...

Hey "Gabbie" is me! Thanks, that's for sure what I was trying to get at. We cling to memories. It's a Proustian response.

TikTok was incredibly enjoyable, annoying, frustrating, comforting, and stressful.

Creators know commenters were equal parts exhausting and exhilarating.

Be kind to people who miss it. Think of it as a summer camp you never went to and never really got.

Does new music have to be brand new, or just new to you?

open.substack.com/pub/meandtim...

The bigger my platform gets (elsewhere obviously) the more people think they found an ally in me for opinions like “new music is all derivative." Sorry, I'm not on your side. I love new music, and I definitely think the kids are alright. I can live with the hypocrisy of gatekeeping the gatekeepers.

thank you so much! happy to have you

The Best Albums for Old Heads of 2024, Pt. 4 (and final!) The four-part album of the year series concludes with a list (unranked, of course) of would-be #1 records of 2024

here's the last installment of my series of best albums of the year for people who don't pay attention to new music... these are seven albums that deserve a #1 slot

thank you so much!

Actually my Spotify wrapped would unmask me as a complete fraud and bring shame upon my ancestors, so I'll just silently be creeping on all of yours.