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Keller&Cole sweeps both the Best Single and Best Album/EP categories of our first "Roadie Awards."

This list was assembled with the help of a lot of folks who love music from every level and angle.  One of them is a college music professor, a capable musician with depth–and breadth–of knowledge and years of experience gigging around western Indiana.  Another is an award-winning international recording artist.  …

This list was assembled with the help of a lot of folks who love music from every level and angle.  One of them is a college music professor, a capable musician with depth–and breadth–of knowledge and years of experience gigging around western Indiana.  Another is an award-winning international recording artist.  …

This list was assembled with the help of a lot of folks who love music from every level and angle.  One of them is a college music professor, a capable musician with depth–and breadth–of knowledge and years of experience gigging around western Indiana.  Another is an award-winning international recording artist.  …

What wins over so many of us when it comes to "Bad and Better Angels," however, is the song's perfect balance of melody and lyricism.  As we tap along to that deceptively happy beat, we listen carefully to a message that reminds us that we are all heathens.  All of us flawed souls desperately looking for even more flawed souls so that we can call them out, and somehow feel better about ourselves.

Front Page captures not just anxieties of parenthood and growing old, but unique challenges of latching onto those anxieties in the age when the world’s future feels murky. Front Page for the Modern Age wants to let us know that everything is going to be okay, but it also doesn’t want to bullshit us.

There are a lot of Blues picks on this list. This is the best done blues tune by far. Holdman's voice and guitar work is reminiscent of blues well before his time.