The world didn't end, but I did hear a lot of great music that I want to share with the world.
Some of the bands and artists in this column are ones I have loved for a long time who released stuff this past year; others are completely new to me.
Genre-wise, it's about 85% punk, because I fell back in love with punk super hard in 2012 (I fall back in love with punk every year, but in 2012 I fell so hard you'd have thought I was 16 again) - but there's some non-punk stuff, too, and the punk stuff runs the gamut from Ramones-style pop punk to snarling hardcore.
As ever: tune into Mix Tapes from the Midwest: The Podcast, to hear these songs, as well as fourteen others that are just as great.
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