A few of you know I have been listening to my friend's radio show on KUCI 88.9FM. The DJ (socalnewwaver) does a deep dive into the 80's alternative scene alongside brand new music of the genre to see the direction it's heading. Hence the name: pastFORWARD The station has a fairly strict policy of only playing music that isn't found with a bazillion streams on spotify or a trillion radio plays & asserts a 3 month shelf life to new music. Every year socalnewwaver compiles a poll of the all the new releases he's played over the year & ends the year with the top 20 in his show. Here is the poll which also contains links to the tracks so that you can listen (if you haven't already)
You can choose as many tracks as you like & you don't need to download anything. Just listen, cast your votes & hit the submit button. He will do the rest. There are over 250 songs this year, so if you would like to take part, set some time aside. But trust me. That time will be very pleasurable. Go on. You know you want to
Pro-tip. If you need a break, you can save the poll as a pdf or word document etc, listen at your leisure, mark the songs you liked, &, when you're done, re-open the online poll & copy your votes before submitting. This is what I'm doing. Otherwise it could take the bast part of the weekend to get through all the tracks. There's a 3 week time limit on it anyway, so plenty of time to make your choices.