Category: Features
Best of 2025: Isaac Hams – The Big Short
Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over …
Best Of 2025: Blizzard Of Jozzsh – Your Anger Is A Gift
In these end-of-year recaps, I try to wrap up with an overarching takeaway that extends beyond just music. Last year, I parodied the idea of extraterrestrial life because it was dominating headlines. This year, I …
Best of 2025: Lone Watie – Hey There. Look At These Nice Rocks.
Like most people, I keep lots of things around the house that mean something to me and nothing to anyone else at all. I hold on to these things because they represent some meaningful time …
Best Of 2025: Spencer Hotz – Slowly Smoothing Brain Syndrome
Dearest Reader(s?), I firmly believe the noodle soup in the can called my skull is starting to go bad. More than likely, you will agree with that sentiment when you finish reading this rather unhinged …
Best Of 2025: Dan Obstkrieg – Have A Wonderful Day
Ranking junk: we love it. And yes, folks, usually I’d love to whip up some fanciful theory for you about how the human propensity to rank things is evolutionarily adaptive instead of decadent, but there …
Best Of 2025 – Zach Duvall: The Never-Ending Goldrush
Hello and welcome back to the heart of another List Season. Tired yet of seeing these things peppered all over the internet? Of course you aren’t! So below I present my top albums of the …
Best Of 2025: Captain – Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em, Good Times!
“All good things come to those who wait” is a bit of an annoying idiom, but only if you interpret its meaning in a very passive and entitled way that amounts to, “Well, if I …
Rudimentary Dweebi: ICWT’s Favorite ’25 EPs
“And right now… right now… right now it’s time to… kick out the jams, motherfuckers!” – Rob Tyner, “Kick Out the Jams” Kia ora, allies, acquaintances, and soon-to-be nemeses. Welcome to part deux of ICWT’s …