Add these songs to y our playlist (or a mixtape if you are a LEGEND ;)

Saw a meme the other day that made me laugh. 2025 already seems like the longest year, and it is only January! BUTTTT... I don't mind it because the music so far has been incredible.
This is the first video mixtape of the year, filled with tracks to get you through the next while. It's a sonic journey of my favourite songs of the year so far.
I'm genre and mood-tripping through countries and regions: Ireland, Canada, Jazz, Rap, Black Metal, Drum and Bass, Indie, and alt. Lots is going on. Drop your favourites in the comments. A human-programmed playlist... G** forbid! ;)

[@michellesterling1750]

It’s funny that since I turned 50 I have exposed myself to more and more. Music, cultures, and languages. Listening to people who have open minds and adventurous spirits. You are one of them. Thanks again George❤

[@williamsdalton9092]

Glad your back. Needed a fresh perspective from the music scene. Tky

[@78zappaf]

Keep sharing more groups for a playlist. Great to see some recommendations of some Canadian groups.

[@tomasspasiuk2429]

Love this vid! Just chatting with a friend about some tunes! Cheers from Drumheller, Ab!

[@sublimical1311]

So happy you popped up on my KZbin! I hope life is going amazing for you, can't wait to check out these tunes.

[@sublimical1311]

Checked them all out, Electric Callboy is my fave out of all of them! Thanks for going out of your way to encourage us to expand our listening. Please do these on the regular! Strombo's Bombos!

[@cnon.]

Hey George, I participated in your Operation Disc Drop 20+ years ago. The fun of TV before much social media. I left my mix at a payphone.

[@paulmaceachern7185]

Thanks for this George! What a great time we live in where new music I would never had listened to is shared with a click. Cheers!

[@TheStromboShow]

It's so wild. I love it.

[@santiagobenites]

I'm always looking for new things to listen to. I crave it, I need it, and I've always been that way. Thanks for sharing these gems with us, George. You're the best!

[@TheStromboShow]

Santiago! Thank you. The death metal stuff isfor everybody but I love it! ha

[@RebeccaGonske-x1j]

Just checked out Housewife because of your recommendation 👍great! Needed this today! Thank you!

[@TheStromboShow]

Love that band!

[@michellesterling1750]

I added Housewife and Grae onto my Apple playlist. Both are awesome

[@michellesterling1750]

I love the Fuck around Phase

[@elliotbrown9260]

You are a legend my friend been taking your suggestions going on 30 years. “Who will win a cup first Vancouver or Winnipeg” my money is on Quebec

[@chaddalrymple]

Great suggestions! I've added most of these to my playlist. Elevator Operator is going to be in heavy rotation.

[@johnathonkelly5117]

You mentioned how good Steve Winwood was a while back, ive been listening to his stuff ever since. Definitely gonna check this stuff out!

[@thezenboy]

George, you keep ending up in my demographic suggested list - been there since the 90s. You’ve been sharing rich new music ever since. Please keep doing this. Please keep adding the angry and heavy. Stay strong

[@TristanBongo953]

Love the idea and video George, one friendly criticism is possibly slowing it down or making a list in the description of the songs. I've been spending 10 minute pausing beside my spotify trying to track down the names and artists of these tunes while swinging over to my spotify to check it out. Excited to give them a listen. Keep doing you!

[@danielreid9621]

Not to mention...cannot find the first song anywhere!

[@Angelicus-p5p]

There is definitely an unfilled space out there, at least on youtube, for new music recommendations. Everyone talks about or reacts to classics ad nauseum. While that's fine, no one is interested in trying new songs because they don't have 100 million views. I stopped listening to my local classic rock station because I wanted something new, but the newer rock station only plays "hits". I firmly believe tons of music is great without being #1 on a chart but there is so much music out there it's hard to find. Make this a regular bit and I'll subscribe. (Big Wreck anniversary release of Albatross in April, bonus track Fade Away, which has been bootleg on youtube for years but never released as Thornley or Big Wreck).

[@shoobydoobiemauiwowee]

Good to see you I am now subscribed.

[@melaniebell8115]

Great reco's inertiaopolis.. some I've heard, some not. What we've truly unwrapped here is a top-notch idea for a monthly video series.

[@robertatwork]

I just left Spotify a month ago, and built my own private music streaming service using all of the CDs I've ripped, and MP3s I've bought over the decades. The one big drawback with this is that my library is obviously stagnant. If I want anything new, I must manually add things myself. So a video like this is great for me! I also have an open to all genres policy myself.

[@andreaelizabethmitchell2306]

Motorcade by Grae is so incredibly bold!

[@PresidentGrae]

🩷

[@davidgillies1348]

Thanks for sharing your new music!

[@OlgaKelly-e9z]

Thank you ! Your recommendations are appreciated!

[@emeral311]

I would actual want a pop playlist from you to see what you would gravitate to.

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

Well that was a musical wake up Thanks for the heads up with these Artists yes yes mind blowing Cool musical treats are Thanks !

[@titusbc]

Child of Orwell and a young man of fight club … i like it.

[@iJGrimmX]

Thanks for the recommendations! My recommendation to you would be the entire Keep Me Fed album from the Mexican Hard Rock Band The Warning. So Good.

[@eviehawke]

thank you, G!

[@TheStromboShow]

Thank yoiu Evie!

[@chuckart2006]

Fantastic. Thanks so much.

[@stenchofjustice]

Stombo, the world is sleeping on King Yosef, pretty sure it could be great in the right scene.

[@ThomwoththeWeather]

Viagra Boys. Amyl and the Sniffers. Idles and so many more new bands rock! Born in 71..

[@BertMettam]

awesome great list appreciate it!

[@SciFlyZ]

top tier content

[@patricknolan3948]

Stromo and Drum and Bass in the same convo 🔥🔥🔥

[@da8688]

Thank you

[@TheStromboShow]

Thank YOU! I love sharing these.

[@kevsthabest]

Seeing Strombo recommend Electric Callboy just made my year.. Until they release their new album later on 🤣

[@Francois_L_7933]

Thanks George! Do you still try and cure insomnia with some Panthera? 😁 These days, I try to dig into some old Canadian rock and New Wave of the 80's... Men Without Hats' Nationale 7 is definitely underappreciated.

[@TheStromboShow]

I do, ha... been listening to that Whitechapel record a lot before I go to bed.

[@iamrobcrawford]

I hear you… I’m getting old and it’s real work to find new music that’s worth listening to. There’s so much out there. But I’m lazy! Has anyone compiled these recommendations into a single playlist??

[@Hangarcat]

Drop the Spotify list Strombo!

[@realmonster6235]

This is so cool. Haha, i love the genre spread you have. is there a way to submit our own music? Itd be a dream to have an opportunity to be featured in some form.

[@kiroolioneaver8532]

I find I tend to go through cycles where like every six years ('08. '14, '20, hopefully '26) I do a deep dive and add a whole bunch of new/current artists to my listening roster. Reading John Seabrook's "The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory" gave me more of an appreciation for pop music and I find the challenge with that type of music (and heavily cliche genres like contemporary country) is to find those artists and music that is grounded in "three chords and the truth" and is meerly adopting the pop format in order to make that music accessible (I found the most subversive hard hitting artists in contemporary country recently are queer/LGBTQ+) rather than simply making catchy music to get the most airplay/streams/sales. In other words, because pop music gets such a bad rap (rightfully in many cases) because of the commericalism, I do think there is such a thing as "good pop" music but it often takes a bit of effort to look for.

[@theofficialnicholasyee]

Thanks Strombo! Would it be feasible to link to a "Strombo Recommends" playlist?

[@ChristOnACrutch]

Gonna be a pain here but any chance you could add the list to the description too? Would be super helpful ❤❤

[@FernandoValdivia-e6c]

You should listen Chatpile - Cool World

[@smrtgrip]

Links to the artists would have been cool...

[@MrNovember91]

I love finding new music! While these aren't all for me, I still want to say thanks for the recommendations! Also, for those looking for a list/links: Pink Mountaintops - I Hate the Motorcyclist (can't find a video for this one) Housewife - Life of the Party kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKqZfIJnfdyMh8k Everything Is Recorded - Porcupine Tattoo kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH3JlpJnmM6Xg8k Kneecap - Sick in the Head kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnXHn6R5d7WpfLM Emma Jean Thackray - Black Hole kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWeknGprrbdpopY Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZKUi6qhjLqiY9E The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir - Demo I - "Folklore" kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2jLqpmoiMmCj6M Grae - Motorcade kzbin.info/www/bejne/iImml3-ZgqmDfck Micky Finn & Vital Elements feat. MC Spyda - System Culture kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6e5oYKvn9ScopI Electric Callboy - Elevator Operator kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJqzYXmmjp1re5Y

[@kalasothyaramboo2228]

♥️♥️♥️☮️✌️

[@ExileonBrockSt]

🇨🇦👽🎸👍🏼

[@ROOKTABULA]

I'll share the 4th song I ever wrote (was on our 2nd album). -1st attempt at "lead" during the intro break - literally. -I wrote, played, (c'ept drums) and recorded it in a 110 year old shack that was a shoe repair shop originally. -Got a ripping review of the album it was on, in M.E.A.T. magazine. -Still get (pissant) royalty cheques, 3 decades later. Let me know if it makes you nauseous, GS. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmmbiJl4pNhjjpo

[@w4rrioreh]

What happens if you find a song you want for a scene, but the artist does not want to allow it?

[@avet22]

Can someone lay this playlist out !

[@explorerbrett]

is there a link to any of these artists?

[@sammavitae114]

And DJT thinks there’s only two genres.

[@PresidentGrae]

🩷

[@garylarocca6901]

music.kzbin.info/aero/PL80VYFV2Ww-YQzboKMnNz4sWB6yA4ivPt&si=62pvgcpct2NHrekT

[@hiphophistorycanada]

Fonzis top 10 whiteboy music.

[@TheStromboShow]

lol.

[@hiphophistorycanada]

@@TheStromboShow What happened to your boyfriend Justin Trudeau? I told you on your previous podcast he was a clown and over with, even i did not predict he would do like the pope and quit....lol... u and Tom Green should bring the “Sweathogs” back together and start a band.

[@loug3004]

​@@hiphophistorycanadaget some therapy.

[@ROOKTABULA]

@@hiphophistorycanada Fascism aligned Reich Wingers: Always the worst of us. Thanks for the reminder.