Tell me about your favourite music experiences of 2017

i had Wipers-fever for a lot of 2017. but near the beginning of the year, i was pretty unfamiliar with their non-Youth of America albums.

on some fateful night, though, i had the house to myself and got waaaaaay too alone-drunk. i decided to listen to Wipers at top volume, with Over the Edge as my starting point. it turns out that the first song, the title track, is one of the greatest songs of all time, and it only gets better the louder its played. then it turned out the two tracks that follow it are nearly as good and also sound good at deafening volumes. i air-guitared and air-gripped the mic and air-drummed the living daylights out of myself, and my dog got really interested and thought i was playing. we ended up play wrestling and moshing for a good 20 minutes. it's a weird moment to take headphones off and be covered in sweat and sudden silence. but really, that was my top 2017 musical moment, getting way the fuck into Wipers on some random night by myself.

sorry to humble air-drum brag but it's really fun to air-drum when you actually know how to play drums. it's easy to imagine actually BEING the drummer, the heat and momentum building up, the frenzied fills and growing exhaustion by the third song, the relentless pace, reaching up to his the crash. there's really nothing like it. except, er, playing real drums with a band, i guess

^^^ it's fun both when you know how to play the drums and when you don't i think, but i'll say i enjoy air drumming a lot more since learning

1) Having my friend Rob Pursey over for our monthly club night at Paul’s Boutique in Oslo.
2) Listening to Robbo Ranx’ dancehall show on Mixcloud on the way home from work every friday.