Local Loft Episode 258

I've made a list....and checked it way more than twice. 

2022 was way more active in terms of live shows & new original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop music made. A three-day concert festival raised a lot of money to help well known venues close to debt because the ongoing Covid pandemic. Major summer events returned for the first time in two years since the lockdowns and cancellations took hold in the darkest grip of the virus in 2020. And a Chicago rock legend couldn't Stay In Time to keep rocking because time ran out on his living years. The music rocked through any major obstacle in its way.

We rock back through the last 12 months with a feeling of pure musical satisfaction, and a very promising optimism for 2023.

And the 2022 Year in Review soundtrack is:

Convoy-Father (new single-released 12-24-22)

Tafoya- (Best 2022 Chicago area rock comeback-Michael Tafoya) Boogie With Me (2022 Freedom album remake)

Won't Stay Dead- (Best Chicago area 2022 Punk band) Somebody Put A Cross On My Head (And It Burns)

The Righteous And Few -(Best 2022 Chicago area Alternative Rock Band) Wasting Away

Whut?-(Best 2022 Chicago area metal album-No Hope, No Soul) One Choice

Endgame-(Best 2022 Chicago area metal band) Broken

Pale Horseman-(Best 2022 Chicago area live show, Save The Rock Fest) Vimanas (featuring Suzi Uzi)

We Killed The Lion-(Best 2022 Chicago area rock album, Boogie Shoe Blues) Pick Me Up

Cliff Johnson-Stay In Time (acoustic demo)

Off Broadway-Full Moon Turn My Head Around (Live at Fitzgeralds, Berwyn 2002)

The Outfit-(Mike Gorman interview Local Loft Episode 224 5/2/22)

The Outfit-Monster

The Outfit-Viking