Year End

25 in ’25: A List Of (Mostly) 25 Albums That Were Listened To Over And Over And Over Some More In The RNRF Offices To Distract From The Outside World In 2025.

2025 was a weird year personally for us and even weirder music-wise! We thought we had our Top 5 of the year locked down by June then something rolled up to our digital inbox in late summer and completely floored us/threw off the early ending we thought we had for [...]

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RNRF Local Look ’25 (Or how we learned to do nothing but re-listen to everything we’ve already reviewed over the past 360+ days in a span of a few days)

Y’know what? We did this to ourselves. We’re not complaining at all. It’s just when we’re hours upon hours into this thing then we wanna know who exactly is to blame. And it’s us! But let’s backtrack for a sec, okay? We expanded our year end list a few years [...]

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24 in ’24 Or “How We Learned To Do Nothing Outside Of Music Writing In The Month Of December”

If you’ve been with us for a bit then you know the dealio already: In a given year, the moment some song/artist/album clicks with us we immediately begin a draft compiling what will eventually be our year end best list that’s ranked and made up of what we thought were [...]

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24 in ’24… But Local (Or “Here’s All Those Artists We Suggested You Listen To Throughout 2024 Collected In One Place”)

Being a MA-based outfit and being lucky enough to be a small part of the beautiful music community here we tend to be a little biased when it comes to local artists. Especially when it comes to year end round up’s and rankings! That said, and like last year, we’re [...]

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23 in ’23 & Then Some (Or “Why Do We Keep Making The List Length Correspond With The Year We’re Covering)

Eventually this list is really going to be insane. But for now it’s manageable. Mostly. And we know we have control over it but something just clicks when the number of titles in the list is the same as the year, ya know? But anyway! We start a draft of [...]

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23 For ’23… But Locally! Or “23 MA-Based Bands (And Then Some) You Should Already Be Listening To”

We initially decided to do this in order to alleviate some of the stress of that other ’23 list we have going on but then we cut out the local stuff and decided to go through our archives for the year and what stood out of what we reviewed/featured that [...]

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