My Top 30 Songs of 2022

There were some bangers released this year! This list doesn’t even begin to encompass all the great songs released over the past twelve months, I’m sure, but these were 30 of the tracks, in no particular order, that stood out to me and were in heavy rotation on my playlists.

Alter Bridge: “Sin After Sin”

Kissing Candice: “South Circle”

Kissing Candice: “see/\saw”

Mac Saturn: “Diamonds”

Call of Sirens: “Kenopsia”

The Funeral Portrait: “Voodoo Doll”

Dark Divine: “Circles”

Lovely Machine: “Picture Frame”

The Veer Union: “Just Pretend (Acoustic)”

Awesome Ray Ray: “Last Desperado”

Silent Theory: “So Far, So Good”

CARBONSTONE: “Scream”

MONOWHALES: “CTRL^^^”

Dark Summer: “In My Heart”

Devils Envy: “Lone Wolf”

Amerakin Overdose: “Agastopia”

A Killer’s Confession: “The Boys”

Modern Mimes: “Down and Dead”

Saliva: “Crows”

Stone Horses: “When I Get Paid”

Shallow Side: “The Worst Kind”

Psyclon Nine: “Money and Sex and Death”

Stone Harvest: “All The Lies”

Death Valley High: “Pretty Graves”

Nickelback: “High Time”

Self Deception: “Psycho”

Stain the Canvas: “Puppet”

Adelitas Way/New Medicine: “Up”

Bad Omens: “Like a Villain”

Shinedown: “The Saints of Violence and Innuendo”

New Music (6/11 — 6/17)

Skyharbor: “Dim”

Lizzy Borden: “The Scar Across My Heart”

Danny Worsnop: “Little Did I Know”

https://youtu.be/3mk6k7YYsGE

Boston Manor: “Halo”

Night Verses: “Infinity Beach”

Diamante: “I’m Sorry”

State Champs: “Our Time To Go”

With Confidence: “That Something”

Deafheaven: “Canary Yellow”

Shawn Mendes: “Nervous”

All Time Low: “Everything Is Fine”

Coarse: “Shed”

Obscura: “Emergent Evolution”

ERRA: “Disarray”

Denman: “Higher”

Threefold Maze ft. Caitlin Smith: “Vacant Eyes”

Urbanisteria: “Native”

Cutting Teeth: “Life of a Loser”

Marilyn Manson: “Cry Little Sister”

Chelsea Grin: “See You Soon”

Blitzkrieg: “Angels or Demons”

Cody Jinks: “Must Be The Whiskey”

Slaves: “Cut and Run”

Madball: “The Fog”

Bad Wolves: “Remember When”

Nickelback: “Home”

Diamante: “Haunted”

BAEST: “Crosswhore”

The Struts: “Body Talks”

Let’s Talk Covers (Pt. 30)

1. Rage Against the Machine: “Renegades of Funk” (Afrika Bambaataa cover)

https://youtu.be/DrT_LWhHufg

2. Sevendust: “Inner City Blues” (Marvin Gaye cover)

3. Nickelback: “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” (Elton John cover)

Let’s Talk Covers (Pt. 22)

1. Nickelback: “Sharp Dressed Man” (ZZ Top cover)

2. Florence + the Machine: “Times Like These” (Foo Fighters cover)

3. Black Stone Cherry: “Mississippi Queen” (Mountain cover)

Let’s Talk Covers (Pt. 20)

1. Jimi Hendrix: “All Along the Watchtower” (Bob Dylan cover)

2. Theory of a Deadman: “Midnight Rider” (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

3. Nickelback: “Sad But True” (Metallica cover)