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THE LIST OF LISTS 2024

Jan 2, 2025 | nobells.blog | No Bells

KIERAN: I like listmaking as much as the next guy but this year, they’ve got me exhausted. List after list after list. I started dreaming in lists, little bullet points and rank-charts floating in my mind. Yet I still looked forward to the List of Lists because it’s not really a list, just an anarchic sprawl of brain-dumps. After a year of writing and thinking, music-making and performing, what do our favorite critics and artists want to riff about that they haven’t had the chance to?
Bells & Whistles #8: What Slips Through the Cracks

Oct 11, 2024 | ninaprotocol.com | No Bells

Nowadays, I rarely go out of my way to find new sounds. The blogger’s itch I once had to “be first” on the “next thing” has been scratched. Maybe this is due to burnout from years spent scouring the internet, or maybe it has to do with my predisposition to avoid anything the algorithm feeds me. Sorting through Reels, SoundCloud links, and manicured playlists in hopes of finding an artist who makes me feel something has always felt unnatural.
Bells & Whistles: The Year In Review

Jan 26, 2024 | ninaprotocol.com | No Bells

Art by Tyler FarmerMANO: I understand the impulse of wanting to move to New York as a journalist, creative, or hell, anybody who just wants that rush of being where culture is happening. Late 2022, I became one of those transplants. The city has been amazing for meeting like-minded people, reconnecting with old friends and family and most of all, going to shows damn near every night.
Town Hall 2

Jan 22, 2024 | nobells.blog | No Bells |Mano Sundaresan

MILLAN: Maybe, it will make us feel better to congregate in an unassuming white walled room and just…have fun? A lofty proposition nowadays, but I’m convinced we can make it happen.
THE LIST OF LISTS 2023

Jan 4, 2024 | nobells.blog | No Bells |Mano Sundaresan

If you’re new here: In 2021, I realized was incredibly bored of seeing the same songs/albums/films/etc on almost every publication’s year-end lists. So I started asking peers to send me their personal year-end lists. The catch was THERE ARE NO RULES. The lists could be about virtually anything. The first List of Lists was an unexpected success, and since then, the List of Lists has become one of the most ridiculous and endearing traditions on this blog.
The Sexyy Red Olympics

Dec 7, 2023 | ninaprotocol.com | No Bells

The Games of Sexyy RedMidway through her set at the Palladium in Los Angeles, Sexyy Red shielded her eyes from the stage lights with a hand and gazed out at an ocean of beautiful people, choosing lucky contestants to take part in a twerk contest. For what felt like 30 minutes, Sexyy and her team carefully assembled a roster of eight women from her fanbase of “Hoochie Babies.” One girl in a blonde wig and tight pink top came up. Another had Sexyy’s bright red hair.
Review: DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY at Washington Stage Guild

Oct 13, 2023 | broadwayworld.com | No Bells |Mary Lincer

Somewhere in the middle of Dorothy's Dictionary, the title character tells young Zan that a librarian's role is to put people together with the books they're supposed to read. Theatregoers who think 'yesssss!' when they read that have met such a librarian and will relish Dorothy's Dictionary; and theatregoers who haven't yet been fostered by those unsung professionals: what are you waiting for?! Just ATA (ask them anything).
SONGS OF THE SUMMER 2023

Sep 8, 2023 | nobells.blog | No Bells |Mano Sundaresan

Last month, when the No Bells Los Angeles crew came to town for the Popstar Benny show, we talked about the music we’d been listening to this summer. Turns out, NONE of them had heard of Byron Messia, whose syrupy smash “Talibans” has been fully inescapable throughout the streets of Brooklyn these three months. And Millan and I were barely hip to the regional Mexican music that’s been dominating the L.A. airwaves.
eoy_2022: Staff Picks

Feb 16, 2023 | nobells.blog | No Bells |Mano Sundaresan

Consider subscribing to our Patreon. 100% of funds go toward paying our writers, maintaining this website, and further diversifying our reporting efforts. Our writers, editors, videographers and designers share their favorite music of the year. Peep our List of Lists for the full No Bells List Experience. Millan VermaOn a train bulleting through Europe, the Dutch family next to me give each other kisses and share laughs, making me realize I’m so lonesome that it hurts.