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Featuring: your best/favorite/top music of 2025

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Featuring the ones who teach us how to understand the theory and language of music

Mar 30, 2025 • The Music Directory

Featuring the ones who dig in the crates and share their prized possessions

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Podcasters & Radio Hosts

Featuring those who discuss their love of music on the airwaves

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Historians, Scholars, & Researchers

Featuring the ones who study sound on an academic level

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Featuring the ones who methodically draft out the sounds that we all want to hear

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Featuring the ones who are behind the scenes making their sonic dreams come true

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Reviewers & Critics

Featuring the ones who engage with the art of music from an analytical perspective

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Playlist Curators

Featuring the ones who share their eclectic music tastes with the world

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

DJs & Selectors

Featuring the ones who read the room and live mix to make us move

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Featuring the ones whose instruments speak volumes (and yes, the voice is an instrument!)

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Writers & Journalists

Featuring the ones whose pens wax musically

Dec 2, 2024 • The Music Directory

Recent posts

Curation over Criticism with Gabbie

In the spirit of year-end lists, The Music Directory gets the New Bands for Old Heads treatment

Dec 8, 2025 • The Music Directory and Shanté

The gratitude edition

Nov 27, 2025 • The Music Directory and Shanté

Multidisciplinary Practices with Nielly

Exploring music, literature, art, and mysticism with one of my favorite playlist curators

Nov 10, 2025 • The Music Directory and Shanté

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