The Stiletto Boys returned after a 13 year absence and issued their long-awaited masterpiece Liberator. Several of my favorite bands (Night Birds, Missing Monuments, The Connection, The Kidnappers) delivered superb new releases.
Any way you choose to explain it, I've had an inordinate amount of incredible music to write about over the past 365 days. Maybe there's lots of great music out there every year, and I just did a better job of finding it in 2013. I don't know if there was anything special about 2013 in particular. On more than one occasion over the past 12 months, I remarked on what an amazing year 2013 was for punk/garage/powerpop music. I briefly pause to sing along loudly, causing the cat to give me the death glare. So picture me now seated by the fireplace, dressed in my smoking jacket, weighing in on the year that was 2013 while I sip a hearty winter ale from a boot mug and listen to Bloodstains Across Denmark on a 1963 Motorola console stereo.
Due to a restructuring of the F & L operating budget (I purchased a trained monkey whom I'm convinced can write reviews as well as I can), I was unable to make this a live event this year. Holding strong to tradition, I once again bring the year to a close with my annual Lord Rutledge Awards.
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