Weekend Music Roundup- Best Songs Of The Year, Eddie Vedder, Playboi Carti, Passion Pit, Daft Punk, Lil Durk and More
The year's end is near. Hallelujah.
It will more than likely be remembered as the year of Taylor Swift due to her massive amount of new material along with her whole Scooter Braun battle.
But there was much more that went on in the music world this year.
Being a man of the people, the plan is to cover the best of it this week in a blog made up of the people's favorites.
So leave your favorite albums, records, and new artists below in the comments.
I'll put together a playlist, recap blog, and mix for the New Year.
- Taylor Swift remained in the #1 spot for the second week with her album Evermore.
- John Legend delivered a moving rendition of 'Hallelujah' With Carrie Underwood, and 'Glory' featuring Common for The Global Citizen Prize.
ROCK
- Eddie Vedder released a new EP, Matter of Time which includes his recent solo singles, acoustic recordings, and a Bruce Springsteen cover.
- Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos went on an upload bonanza this week uploading 30 unreleased tracks, demos, and alternative versions, and remixes of tracks. And they're amazing. Check out their Soundcloud -
RAP
- Playboi Carti dropped his much anticipated album on Christmas, Whole Lotta Red
The Atlanta rapper has been working on the follow-up to his 2018 smash hit Die Lit for over two years now. Carti revealed the album’s title back in August 2018, hinted at various details throughout 2019, and announced the release date earlier this week on Monday. And now, on Christmas day, it’s finally here.
As previously hinted at, Whole Lotta Red includes Carti’s chart-topping, unconventional single “@ MEH”, which he released back in April of this year. Other notable tracks include “Go2DaMoon” featuring Kanye West, “M3tamorphosis” featuring Kid Cudi, “Teen X” featuring Future, and “F33l Lik3 Dyin” which samples Bon Iver’s “iMi”.
All in all it's a very "meh" album. Nothing mind-blowing or close to as good (in my opinion) as Kid Cudi's Man On The Moon 3. One of the highlight songs off the album for me actually features Cudi -
The other, Go2DaMoon features a killer verse from Kanye, who also executive produced the album
- Lil Durk dropped a new album, The Voice which he dedicated to the late rapper King Von.
- SZA dropped a brand new single called “Good Days” featuring Jacob Collier
EDM
- Daft Punk unveiled Tron: Legacy — The Complete Edition, a 10th-anniversary update of their film soundtrack. The expanded reissue contains a total of nine bonus tracks and it is FIRE-
English electronic musician Four Tet dropped two new albums.
Parallel and 871 respectively mark the second and third full-lengths from Four Tet this year following Sixteen Oceans in March. He also surprise-released the EP under his Indecipherable Wingdings moniker back in May, and has a collaborative album with Madlib dubbed Sound Ancestors coming next month.
COUNTRY
- Garth Brooks performed a live Christmas Eve in house set with his wife Trisha Yearwood and broke down in the middle of it.
- Legendary Bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice passed away.
Tony Rice, the master bluegrass picker who drew fans worldwide for the chance to hear the quick, fluid sounds he conjured from his Martin D-28 guitar, has died at age 69.
Rice died Friday (Dec. 25) at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina, according to International Bluegrass Music Association spokesperson Casey Campbell.
Ricky Skaggs, one of the many musicians who revered Rice and performed and recorded with him, called him "the single most influential acoustic guitar player in the last 50 years."
- 80s star K.T. Oslin also passed.
K.T. Oslin, country singer-songwriter and hitmaker of the late '80s and early '90s, has died. Music Row first broke the news -- since confirmed in a statement by the Country Music Association -- while also reporting that Oslin had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, and was diagnosed with COVID-19 the week before, though it is still unclear how much either contributed to her death. She was 78.
Remember to drop your favorites in music from 2020 in the comments -