Don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise, there is great music out there EVERY year.  At Weekend on Demand, we pride ourselves on playing the new new and in 2021 we logged spins on 651 different tracks that came out in 2020 or 2021 and placed them all on a “WOD 2021” Spotify playlist: (We’ve already started a 2022 version of this playlist – after one week, it has 13 tracks, so we’re right on schedule!) We also put together a 2½ hour block of 36 tracks from 2021 which was broadcast on FA2 and then saved to the KFAI Mixcloud: Our tastes tend towards indie, pop and/or goth and our most frequent intersections are with our fellow Saturday family shows “True Brit!” and “Temposphere” along with Tuesday’s “New Like Whatever.”  Check all of us out every week!

With another complicated year in the books, we offer this look back at the year-in-music, Upside Down style. 2021 offered plenty of sounds to get lost in, and below you can explore some of our favorites. Most of these exist in some physical capacity, but a few exist solely in the digital realm. Presented here in alphabetical order, with new releases at the top and reissues/archival music afterwards. Tune in to Upside Down on Monday January 10 when we offer a look back at the year that was, with a sampling of most everything highlighted here (we may need to spill into January 17, TBD). Thanks for listening! New Music Lea Bertucci: A Visible Length of Light (Cibachrome Editions) Blue Chemise: Flower Studies (B.A.A.D.M.) Bons: Peri Bathous (Spillage Fete) Chateau: Chateau I (Hobbies Galore) Evan Cheadle: Fault Line Serenade (Victory Pool) Cindy: Standard Candle Demos (Paisley Shirt) Circuit des Yeux: -io (Matador) Read More › “2021 YEAR-END REVIEWS: UPSIDE DOWN”