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Louisville knows how to get down, and our music reviews prove it. Check out 20 of our favorite music reviews from 2022.

Louder Than Life Jeff Polk’s Louder Than Life review was one that transported you to the festival which was lucky for those who weren’t in attendance. For those in attendance, it felt like you got to relive the whole thing over again.Photo credit: Nik Vechery
Hannah Grace Colin Hannah Grace Colin is young, but she is one to watch. Read the full review here.
Glass Animals “Nary a behind touched the seats,” Erica Rucker wrote when the Glass Animals came to Louisville in March. Read the review here. Photo Credit: Erica Rucker
The Histrionics Indie alt-punk rockers brought high energy to 2022. Read the full review here. Photo Credit: Facebook / The Histrionics
Jada’s Toys 2022 has been the year of the old-school Louisville punk rockers. Jeff Polk writes that Jada’s Toys is “raw, unpolished, live jam room recordings that give these tunes that true gritty punk rock energy they deserve.” Read the review here.
Joan Shelley “The music of Joan Shelley is a salve for the worst of times,” Syd Bishop writes. Read more here.
Maxwell “This performance was top level,” Erica Rucker writes. Photo Credit: Erica Rucker
LUX “By combining shoegaze, grunge, indie rock and post-hardcore, LUX has succeeded in creating a hauntingly beautiful, dream-like soundscape that somehow seamlessly blends melancholic vocals and melodies with frantic, high-energy guitar and drums simultaneously,” Jeff Polk writes.
Yezzer “The groove is just too strong and the sound is too original to ignore!” Jeff Polk writes in this review of their EP. Photo Credit:Facebook/Yezzer
Trapkingkai “The beats are grimy and raw on Trapkingkai’s ‘Life of a Wallflower,'” Syd Bishop writes in his review.
Houseplant “Here’s a challenge for you: Listen to Houseplant’s latest single (and first studio recording) “Acetone” and see if you can get it out of your head the rest of the day (spoiler: you won’t).” Read the full review here.
Bourbon and Beyond One of the biggest events of the year, Jeff Polk was on the scene and wrote this review so we could live vicariously through it. Photo Credit: Steve Thrasher
Japanese Breakfast Speaking of Bourbon and Beyond, we reviewed Japanese Breakfast’s set from the event. Read it here. Photo Credit: Nik Vechery
GRLWOOD – Kid Bruises “All the pent-up rage, anger and hurt all comes spilling out in one moving, emotional, empowering, brilliant moment.” Read it in full here.
Bad Milk Dirty Peaches “Not only do both tracks paint a vivid mental picture in the listener’s mind of the deep abyss of space and time, but also takes them on a journey through it.” Read all about the album here.
Beyond My God “It’s a song that not only walks the “tightrope between experimentation and accessibility,” but also has an interesting intent. ” Read the full story here.
Isn’t It Lovely “‘Isn’t It Lovely’ is a soft dream of a track, waltzing in with a combination of bouncy keys and angelically harmonized melodies before melting into Cochran’s sultry drawl,” the review reads.
Merkaba by CPHR DVN “While ‘Merkaba’ might be meant to be uplifting, the backbone of the song is an ethereally-haunted-sounding beat with a mid-tempo groove that ticks along through an air of dreamy sounds, highlighted by Mathematiks’ glitchy, honey-smoked vocals. ” Read the full article.
Satellite Twin – Routines “The band establishes a refreshed tone, a bright and bold direction that has roots in bands like Fugazi and melodically dense bands like Hum.” Read the review here. Photo credit: Facebook / Satellite Twin.
Jack Harlow Would this list be complete without a Jack Harlow concert review? Read it here. (It’s from 2021 but toward the end of the year, so it counts!)

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