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Skimming the cream from the milk. Presenting twenty top album from 2025.

Selected: The Men, The Minus 5, Tyler Childers, Bloodshot Bill, Tommy Womack, The Dogmatics, The Untamed Youth, The Lemonheads, The Unknowns, Jeff Tweedy, The Bottle Ups, Miss Georgia Peach, Walter Daniels & the Del Valle Trustees, Smoked Salmon, Dark Thoughts, Blowers (Chaputa Rec), Tav Falco, BASS DRUM OF DEATH, Gino And The Goons (Slovenly Recordings), Twisted Teens (Chain Smoking Records)

Peter’s Twenty Favourite Albums 2025 - PopDiggers Here we go again – as the tradition of PopDiggers has demanded since 2015: A presentation of my twenty favorites among newly recorded albums released in 2025. Each album is commented on and at least [...]

Did The Beatles really destroy rock ’n’ roll? Honestly, I don’t know. But what I do know is that my relationship with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ended after some forty minutes.

Did The Beatles destroy rock ’n’ roll? - PopDiggers Yours truly has just raised the premium on his life insurance, because there can be nasty consequences when you criticize an album that has been put on a pedestal for a very long time. On [...]

PopDiggers' SinglesGoingSteady rides into Rockabilly-land with Bloodshot Bill.

Bloodshot Bill – Keep Movin’ On - PopDiggers SinglesGoingSteady #07: Bloodshot Bill – Keep Movin’ On [Pig Baby Records; 2018] It’s a tough task to pick just one 7” from Bloodshot Bill’s impressive catalog of records, which began building in 2001, but someone has [...]

This time PopDiggers singles are going steady with The Manikins.

The Manikins – Spend The Night Alone - PopDiggers SinglesGoingSteady #06: The Manikins – Spend The Night Alone [Plastic Idol Records; 2006] Spend The Night Alone is picked from The Manikins’ third album Lie Cheat & Steal [P. Trash Records, 2005]. It’s a jet-powered power [...]

I tredje och sista delen berättar Stefan Ahlqvist om Problems skivutgivning under åren 1983 till och med 2013.

Problematik i kubik - Del 3 (1983–2023) - PopDiggers I tredje och sista avsnittet av Problems diskografi följer Stefan Ahlqvist upp del 2 genom att berätta om Problems skivutgivning under senare år. Henrik Herrströms avhopp förändrar Problem i grunden. Problem fortsätter först som trio, [...]

SinglesGoingSteady #05: PopDiggers tune into the strongly Italian-infused cover of "I Wanna Go Home" by The Bobbyteens.

The Bobbyteens – I Wanna Go Home - PopDiggers SinglesGoingSteady #05: The Bobbyteens – I Wanna Go Home [Outer Universe Research Records; 1998] When the female California-bred updated answer to The Trashmen, The Trashwomen, disbanded in the middle of the 1990’s, Trashwomen Tina Lucchesi and [...]

Del 2 av Stefan Ahlqvists genomgång av Problems skivutgivning handlar om åren 1979 till 1982.

Problematik i kubik - Del 2 (1979–1982) - PopDiggers I del 2 av Problematik i kubik fortsätter Stefan Ahlqvist berättelsen från del 1 om Problems skivutgivning – denna gång handlar det om åren mellan 1979 och 1982. Trots alla fina ord i tidningarna om [...]

Unfortunately, Andrew Matheson passed away a while ago, prompting a rehash of an appreciation (previously only available in Swedish) of king album "Grown Up Wrong".

Andrew Matheson & The Brats ‎– Grown Up Wrong - PopDiggers This article is sadly prompted by the untimely death of Andrew Matheson. It is a translation and reworking of my previous appreciation of Andrew Matheson & The Brats’ debut album Grown up Wrong, published in [...]

PopDiggers djupdyker i Problems skivutgivning tillsammans med Stefan Ahlqvist. Alla officiella släpp ska upp på undersökningsbordet. Första delen handlar uteslutande om 1978.

Problematik i kubik - PopDiggers Alla som är rimligt intresserade av svensk rockmusik bör någon gång ha stött på Malmöbandet Problem, inte minst eftersom de var pionjärer inom svensk garagerock i slutet av 1970-talet. Om ni händelsevis inte skulle vara [...]