eric boam·Dec 28, 2025My 2025 in MusicI’ve been writing this year end wrap up for 10 years now (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016), adding to my already…
eric boam·Jan 1, 2025My 2024 in Music2024 was a great year for music. Great shows, a ton of new great albums. Here is an accounting of my favorite music and musical moments…A response icon1A response icon1
eric boam·Dec 31, 2023My 2023 in MusicThis was the year that everything was back. The 90s were back. Live music was back in a big way. My discovery of new music returned full…
eric boam·Jan 12, 2023My 2022 in MusicIf you happen to find the right song in the right moment that describes the thing swirling around inside your head it’s nirvana
eric boam·Dec 24, 2021My 2021 In MusicThroughout the year I struggled to keep up with discovering new music. Yet as I look back on the year, I found that there were a number of…
eric boam·Nov 3, 20212010–2019: A Decade in MusicI produced a 16 page book chronicling my decade in music. It is a limited edition of 200 copies with some of the charts above and more. It…
eric boam·Dec 30, 20202020 — A Year Without Live MusicThe last concert I attended was November 15, 2019. It was my 17th show of the year. My friend Aric and I went for just the opening act…
eric boam·Jan 2, 2020My Quantified Media DietI produced a 12 page book summarizing my findings. It is a limited edition of 200 copies with some of the charts above and more. It was…
eric boam·Jan 1, 20202019 — An Accounting of My Year in Music2019 marks the end of a decade of deliberate listening, intense tracking of my listening, and better perspective on my relationship with…
eric boam·Jul 10, 2019Can you measure how much music excites you? I tried, here’s the data.It was my first night out of SXSW 2018 and like most years, I had a long list of bands I was hoping to see. At the top of the list was…
