Zachary Lipez
@zacharylipez.bsky.social
Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter.
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Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
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Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Posting for accountability: newsletter of top 250 rock/rock-adjacent albums of last 25 years will be out by Jan 1st. zacharylipez.ghost.io
Abundant Living
Don't drag your orchestra into this thing
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December 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Posting for accountability: newsletter of top 250 rock/rock-adjacent albums of last 25 years will be out by Jan 1st. zacharylipez.ghost.io
If you thought I believed some batshit stuff in 2024… fasten yr seatbelts!
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you thought I believed some batshit stuff in 2024… fasten yr seatbelts!
Alex CF from Fall of Efrafa/Morrow/1,000,000 other crustalicious bands has a new peace punk band and it’s fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun (till the pigs come around)! ancientlightspunx.bandcamp.com/album/reclam...
Reclamation, by Ancient Lights
13 track album
ancientlightspunx.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Alex CF from Fall of Efrafa/Morrow/1,000,000 other crustalicious bands has a new peace punk band and it’s fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun (till the pigs come around)! ancientlightspunx.bandcamp.com/album/reclam...
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I've heard maybe 5 of these tracks before, and none of them were among my favs on this show.
Exactly what I want from radio tbh.
Exactly what I want from radio tbh.
Most recent @sohoradio show is now on Mixcloud if you’re on the market for two hours of the biggest smash hits of post-punk, occasionally interrupted by the wheezy and off-putting mutterings of an aging dilettante! Discover the stars of today… today! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I've heard maybe 5 of these tracks before, and none of them were among my favs on this show.
Exactly what I want from radio tbh.
Exactly what I want from radio tbh.
Most recent @sohoradio show is now on Mixcloud if you’re on the market for two hours of the biggest smash hits of post-punk, occasionally interrupted by the wheezy and off-putting mutterings of an aging dilettante! Discover the stars of today… today! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Most recent @sohoradio show is now on Mixcloud if you’re on the market for two hours of the biggest smash hits of post-punk, occasionally interrupted by the wheezy and off-putting mutterings of an aging dilettante! Discover the stars of today… today! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...
It was Zohra and mine’s wedding anniversary yesterday so we stayed up all night + started tracking what’s going to be our album of conspiracy ballads. Now I just need to convince her to keep Djinn Blossoms as our duo name and that the album should def be called “Murder Bananas.”
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It was Zohra and mine’s wedding anniversary yesterday so we stayed up all night + started tracking what’s going to be our album of conspiracy ballads. Now I just need to convince her to keep Djinn Blossoms as our duo name and that the album should def be called “Murder Bananas.”
Ah man I’ve been hoping that Fishbone would release their excellent Alice In Chains cover for purchase, and they have! fishbone.bandcamp.com/track/them-b...
Them Bones (Alice in Chains Cover), by Fishbone
track by Fishbone
fishbone.bandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Ah man I’ve been hoping that Fishbone would release their excellent Alice In Chains cover for purchase, and they have! fishbone.bandcamp.com/track/them-b...
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Since I'm in the Baltics, we're pretty late with the whole Geese discourse. But seeing multiple Geese memes in the last few days (plus P.T.A. filming frontman's Carnagey Hall concert, for some reason), I went to my go-to music critic to find out what the deal is, and boy, it did not disappoint.
Wrote about Geese, as one does. zacharylipez.ghost.io/geese-gets-w...
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Since I'm in the Baltics, we're pretty late with the whole Geese discourse. But seeing multiple Geese memes in the last few days (plus P.T.A. filming frontman's Carnagey Hall concert, for some reason), I went to my go-to music critic to find out what the deal is, and boy, it did not disappoint.
Sorry to hear about Peter Greene. Besides the obvious Pulp Fiction stuff, his opening scene for Justified was a classic. Also, in my cosmology, we do apply extra credit for being a Beauty Bar regular, being generally “around,” and for being a good tipper.
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sorry to hear about Peter Greene. Besides the obvious Pulp Fiction stuff, his opening scene for Justified was a classic. Also, in my cosmology, we do apply extra credit for being a Beauty Bar regular, being generally “around,” and for being a good tipper.
Dan Crenshaw’s bday will be deejayed by Steve Aoki. Second stage is Dim Mak showcase featuring performances by Lion Fever, Dance Disaster Movement, and Die Monitr Bats. (The “country music legends” is The Starvations 🙁)
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Dan Crenshaw’s bday will be deejayed by Steve Aoki. Second stage is Dim Mak showcase featuring performances by Lion Fever, Dance Disaster Movement, and Die Monitr Bats. (The “country music legends” is The Starvations 🙁)
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love an End of The Year album ranking from Zach
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
love an End of The Year album ranking from Zach
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Zach always has the best lists…
…but now I gotta redo mine. Real monkeys paw shit
…but now I gotta redo mine. Real monkeys paw shit
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Zach always has the best lists…
…but now I gotta redo mine. Real monkeys paw shit
…but now I gotta redo mine. Real monkeys paw shit
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Well, this is a tremendous list
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Well, this is a tremendous list
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We got some list’nin to do, amigos.
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
We got some list’nin to do, amigos.
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I look forward to reading two year end lists each year: @thequietus.com and Zach’s
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I look forward to reading two year end lists each year: @thequietus.com and Zach’s
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Oh my God this list talks about Surgery, I am all in.
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Oh my God this list talks about Surgery, I am all in.
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Saw Mdou Moctar mentioned, heard ten seconds of a song off Noura Mint Seymali's Yenbett then stopped it to prepare for a full listen. Lunch break is gonna rip. Can't wait to dive in to the rest of this later.
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Saw Mdou Moctar mentioned, heard ten seconds of a song off Noura Mint Seymali's Yenbett then stopped it to prepare for a full listen. Lunch break is gonna rip. Can't wait to dive in to the rest of this later.
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Any year-end list with Milkweed and an L'Trimm reference is the list for me.
Psyched to dive-in later. Guessing I have approx. 37 new albums to check out this week.
Psyched to dive-in later. Guessing I have approx. 37 new albums to check out this week.
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Any year-end list with Milkweed and an L'Trimm reference is the list for me.
Psyched to dive-in later. Guessing I have approx. 37 new albums to check out this week.
Psyched to dive-in later. Guessing I have approx. 37 new albums to check out this week.
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
zacharylipez.ghost.io
December 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
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ICYMI: The Paranoid Style on NPR's 'Great American Folk Show' is a celebration of my heroes Warren Zevon and Linda Ronstadt, and the debut of the never previously released PS track "Still Creepy After All These Years." Moving episode and a terrific experience. news.prairiepublic.org/the-great-am...
The Great American Folk Show
The Great American Folk Show is a little place where we commune with you to share stories, sing songs, and talk to some good people with great voices.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
ICYMI: The Paranoid Style on NPR's 'Great American Folk Show' is a celebration of my heroes Warren Zevon and Linda Ronstadt, and the debut of the never previously released PS track "Still Creepy After All These Years." Moving episode and a terrific experience. news.prairiepublic.org/the-great-am...
I feel sorry for all you who left Twitter entirely. The complete absence of any moral grounding there is so freeing. It’s like a bathroom stall in a bar in an afterhours in a bordello in the LES in the ‘80s, a week after the Rapture.
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I feel sorry for all you who left Twitter entirely. The complete absence of any moral grounding there is so freeing. It’s like a bathroom stall in a bar in an afterhours in a bordello in the LES in the ‘80s, a week after the Rapture.
Wasn’t going to do an EOY list but I guess I’ll be forced to as the critical intelligentsia’s morally repulsive erasure of what’s inarguably the best album of the year (80HD’s “Orc Party”) will not stand. Do better, scribes, or i’ll do better for you. ironlungrecords.bandcamp.com/album/orc-pa...
Orc Party (LUNGS-297), by 80HD
8 track album
ironlungrecords.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Wasn’t going to do an EOY list but I guess I’ll be forced to as the critical intelligentsia’s morally repulsive erasure of what’s inarguably the best album of the year (80HD’s “Orc Party”) will not stand. Do better, scribes, or i’ll do better for you. ironlungrecords.bandcamp.com/album/orc-pa...
At first I was happy to read the P4K list and see albums I love (Cleo Reed, woods, geese, etc). And doubly happy to not see any artists I personally despise. Then I realized the latter just means I’ve aged out of knowing first hand which artists are scum, so now I feel old + sad. 🙂
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
At first I was happy to read the P4K list and see albums I love (Cleo Reed, woods, geese, etc). And doubly happy to not see any artists I personally despise. Then I realized the latter just means I’ve aged out of knowing first hand which artists are scum, so now I feel old + sad. 🙂