Curious what notable personalities in the scene think was great this year? So is TGEFM! So we reached out to some of our favorite luminaries ranging from musicians, label personnel, and more for their “Best of 2025” lists. Now, listen: TGEFM is not a taskmistress. Contributors can write these out however they want. So if it doesn’t actually look or read like a list… and sometimes it really is just a list with no other observations! Who cares?
In 2025, Tired Radio released a a powerful full-length Hope In The Haze on Red Scare Industries. That record is already all over a ton of the best of lists we have published in 2025… but what did Tired Radio’s Tony Truzzolino love in 2025? Find out in his “Way-Too-Long List of 2025 Albums & EP’s That I Thoroughly Enjoyed Listening To This Year!”
“Way-Too-Long List of 2025 Albums & EP’s That I Thoroughly Enjoyed Listening To This Year (in alphabetical order):”
AFI – Silver Bleeds The Black Sun
Adrianne Lenker – Live at Revolution Hall
Alex G – Headlights
Alien Boy – You Wanna Fade?
Algernon Cadwallader – Trying Not to Have a Thought
Anxious – Bambi
Arcade Fire – Pink Elephant
Arms Length – There’s A Whole World Out There
Band Argument – If The Accident Will
Baths – Gut
Blame it on Whitman – Blame it on Whitman
Charmer – Downpour
Cheem – Power Move
Clipping. – Dead Channel Sky
Coma Cinema – Grand Delusion
Cut Copy – Monuments
Daffo – Where the Earth Bends
Dead Pioneers – Po$t American
Deftones – Private Music
Elway – Nobody’s Going To Heaven
Errth – Errth
February – Run Like A Girl (EP)
First Day Back – Forward
Five Hundred Bucks – Pest Sounds
Freezing Cold – Treasure Pool
Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up
Ghost Tour – Feel Some Good Again (EP)
Good Luck – Big Dreams, Mister
Greet Death – Die in Love
Hard Chiller – Baby!
Have Mercy – The Loneliest Place I’ve Ever Been
Heavy Seas – By Degrees
Ho99o9 – Tomorrow We Escape
Hot Mulligan – The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still
Hundredth – Faded Splendor
Indigo De Souza – Precipice
Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly
Kendall :3 – Oil
Kerosene Heights – Blame it on the Weather
Lake – Bucolic Gone
Liquid Mike – Hell Is An Airport
Madeline Kenney – Kiss From The Balcony
Many Eyes – Combust (EP)
Michael Cera Palin – We Could Be Brave
Mini Trees – Slow It Down
Model Martel – A Thousand Couple Times
MSPAINT – No Separation (EP)
Neckscars – Unhinged
Neks – Point of No Return
Oh The Humanity – Ground To Dust
One Fall – Cut & Run (EP)
Pet Symmetry – Big Symmetry
Pool Kids – Easier Said Than Done
Press Club – To All The Ones That I Love
Pretty Biter – Pleaser
Sainthood Reps – Dull Bliss
Saturdays At Your Place – These Things Happen
Scarlet Rae – No Heavy Goodbyes (EP)
Scowl – Are We All Angels
Sir Chloe – Swallow The Knife
Slow Death – No Light To See
Somerset Thrower – Take Only What You Need To Survive
Spite House – Desertion
Sport – In Waves
Stay Inside – Lunger
The Carolyn – Pyramid Scheme of Grief
The Mars Volta – Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio
Thrice – Horizons/West
Tourneforte – Make Good
Unseemlier – I Have A Screw Lose, Somewhere
Water From Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place
Weatherbox – The Compass (EP)
Youth Lagoon – Rarely Do I Dream
Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed’s musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he’s self-aware, amirite?
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