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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Best Of 2024 Year In Review: New Music and Live Show Coverage
The final month of 2024 offers an opportunity to highlight the best works presented over the whole year. For this music site, its annual “Best Of” collection celebrates the most significant artists written about since the beginning of this time period. Studio recorded music and video continued to dominate the bulk of analysis, with a significant return to detailed live show coverage included as well. Compiled here in monthly chronological order is the “2024 DaveCromwellWrites Best New Music Reviews and Live Show Coverage.”
Mark Ward Music Wrote: Wow! Another inclusion in Best of 2024 songs. Thank you so much Dave Cromwell 🙏
ReplyDeleteIt was a pleasure digging in to your music this year Mark Ward Music! Which is why it's now included in this "Best Of 2024" Review!
ReplyDeleteJulian Shah-Tayler Aka The Singularity Music wrote: DaveCromwellWrites if there is a journalism “best of year” you’re at the top of that list!
ReplyDeleteYou made amazing music this year Julian Shah-Tayler Aka The Singularity Music! Worthy of "Best Of The Year" 😉
ReplyDeleteThe Crushing Violets wrote: We’re thrilled to be included on the brilliant DaveCromwellWrites Best of 2024 list with our album Filaments of Creation!! Thank you Dave!! 🤩🙌
ReplyDeleteThe beauty shines through on every track of that album The Crushing Violets 👌
ReplyDeleteTom Lugo wrote: The very best always. You rock my friend. Awesome job. Happy and healthy 2025
ReplyDeleteYou are always creating something new, Tom. It's covered here because of the quality. 🎧
ReplyDeleteMarcus Palmer of The Suncharms wrote:
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Dreamy vibes all around, Marcus!
ReplyDeletesparkle*jets u.k. wrote: Thank you Dave! Reading that again made my day again!
ReplyDeleteSo much music, so many words, sparkle*jets u.k. ! 😄
ReplyDeleteThe Proctors wrote: Thanks, Dave, for the inclusion and your support! ❤️🙏🏻
ReplyDeleteWhen you make quality music, you can count on the support The Proctors! ✔️
ReplyDeleteGIFTSHOP wrote: We miss you at our gigs! Happy New Year. Thank you for your excellent and insightful words/thoughts and your incredible work for independent artists.
ReplyDeleteI totally miss the GIFTSHOP experience as well, my friends! Good thing we have these "recorded things" to still keep us close! 😄
ReplyDeleteAdam Lippman wrote: Thanks so much Dave ! I posted this around all my other socials! Here’s to a rockin' 2025!
ReplyDeleteYou earned it, Adam. Looking forward to all that and the New Year as well! 🌄
ReplyDeleteTrabelsi Hsin wrote: thank you so much for mentioning my song in your best of this year ! It really means a lot! Happy that you enjoyed my song and i hope that we will collaborate more in 2025 🙏
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated for your music and these thoughts. Continuing to spread the word about the sound you create and this analysis that follows. 🎙 😸
ReplyDeleteWYWY wrote: What a great way to cap the year with this article! Thank you ✨
ReplyDeleteYour music certainly warrants "Best Of The Year" status, WYWY ! 😇
ReplyDeleteThe Armoires wrote: Huge, huge thanks from The Armoires, sparkle*jets u.k. and the whole Big Stir Records family!
ReplyDeleteThe Big Stir Records family is always on this site's musical radar, The Armoires!
ReplyDeleteHushhh wrote: You rule, Dave! Thank you for including us among such great bands this year!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a killer year for new music Hushhh - and you're band delivered some of the best! 😎
ReplyDeleteMargot Day wrote: Metamorph BEST OF 2024 reviews “dance floor banger” Thanks to all of you for a wickedly wonderful year!!! Dave Cromwell, Moon Coil Media, Stabbing Westward.
ReplyDeleteDance and Hex the night away! 🧝♀️
ReplyDeleteRex Broome wrote: "Octoberland" by The Armoires is one of two Big Stir Records albums, both produced by Michael Simmons no less, to be ranked among the Best Of The Best in 2024 by DaveCromwellWrites! The other is, naturally, "Box Of Letters" by Simmons' own band sparkle*jets u.k. Thanks Dave for this full list of just 27 top records from the past year!
ReplyDeleteTwo of the top albums released this past year on the always innovative Big Stir Records!
ReplyDeletePhantom Wave wrote: Thanks DaveCromwellWrites for including us in this years Best Of review list!
ReplyDeleteYou made a brilliantly dreamy album there, Phantom Wave - most deserving of "Best Of 2024" 🏅
ReplyDeletePhantom Wave wrote: Thank you for your support, as always!
ReplyDeleteIt's a "Best Of" Fest that requires Phantom Wave to be included. 🎸
ReplyDeleteHeliocentric Overdrive wrote: Hell yeah! That's what I'm talking about! Thank you Dave for the inclusion. So many great bands featured year after year!! Happy 2025!
ReplyDeleteYour track was crushing and gazey Heliocentric Overdrive! Definitely Best Of 2024. 🎖
ReplyDeleteDamian Eckstein wrote: Thank Uuuuu Dave for always supporting us!
ReplyDeleteThe Giftshop legacy gets the coverage it deserves here, Damian 👌
ReplyDeleteThe Raft wrote: Thank you to DaveCromwellWrites for including Look At The Patterns in this best of 2024 round up.
ReplyDeleteThose "patterns” sound beautiful The Raft 🎧
ReplyDeleteShore Dive Records wrote: thanks so much to DaveCromwellWrites for including us and Phantom Wave. The Raft and We Melt Chocolate on the best of the year 😃
ReplyDeleteThere are *always* multiple Shore Dive Records entries in the DaveCromwellWrites Annual Year End Best Of! 😉
ReplyDeleteWilliam Zimmerman/New Dark Ages wrote: Earlier this year, our friend, Dave Cromwell was kind enough to write about Metamorph's album on his website here. Now included once again in this annual "Best Of" feature is the May 28th piece including the Metamorph review.
ReplyDeleteWilliam's promo always brings something interesting out of the void, and Margot's Metamorph hit the spot. "Best Of 2024" for sure!
ReplyDeleteMargot Day wrote: Dave Cromwell thank you both for your support of Metamorph 🎶🖤🎶🖤
ReplyDeleteYou got it, Margot! 🖤🌹🖤
ReplyDeleteHushhh wrote: Thanks again to DaveCromwellWrites for the review of our music! Don’t miss this recap of all the great music he wrote about this year!
ReplyDeleteThe bits of Dinosaur Jr and Cure influences are always welcome, however that "earworm hook" is all your own Hushhh! 😎
ReplyDeleteambient_airwaves wrote: Dave is awesome! Congratulations! 🍾
ReplyDeletethecrushingviolets wrote: @ambient_airwaves Yes, he’s great! Thank you!! 🤩
@ambient_airwaves I appreciate those sentiments ☺️
ReplyDeletePhyllis Whitney/Redleaf 🍁 @redleaf1221 wrote: Love DaveCromwellWrites reviews! So well-written and gets in to the music in depth. 🔥👍
ReplyDeleteAppreciate that, Phyllis! 😎
ReplyDeleteMatthew Nowhere wrote: Super thrilled that DaveCromwellWrites has chosen to include my latest single 'Love Is Only What We Are' on his 'Best of 2024' wrap up! Much appreciated Dave Cromwell!!!
ReplyDeleteThe best tracks of the year are featured once again here in the annual year end recap, and this one certainly qualifies!
ReplyDeleteAurora Denita Packard wrote: Awesome! Congratulations!!! Well deserved! 🔥
ReplyDeleteGood to know you enjoyed this review feature. 😊
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