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The numbers are in, and boy are … the numbers in.

What the ranking of The Bad Penny‘s most popular posts of 2025 indicates about this website can be interpreted in any number of ways. Would you like us to prattle on and on with theories and statistical data backing the sharp uptick? Yeah, we didn’t think so.

Instead, let’s cut straight to the (Chevy) Chase. Ergo, we bring you the rundown of The Bad Penny‘s most popular posts of 2025:

1. On Tyranny: Locust’s Bobby Bray Says Bands Have ‘Responsibility’ to Tour Red States, Recalls Yeah Yeah Yeahs Solidarity

2. On Tyranny: Jesus Lizard Vocalist David Yow Ditches US for Portugal

3. On Tyranny: A Series in Which Musicians Discuss How Authoritarianism Affects Their Art, and Their Personal and Professional Lives

4. The 20 Best Scandinavian Melodic Death Metal Bands of All Time

5. On Tyranny: Eugene S. Robinson (Buñuel, Ex-Oxbow) Leaving US for Spain, Says ‘I’ve Had It’

6. On Tyranny: Brett Bradford of Scratch Acid, Suckling Hopes MAGA ‘Will Eat Itself’

7. Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums

8. Robyn Hitchcock ‘Could’ve Sung About Michael Caine’ Instead of Gene Hackman

9. Getting To Know Mark Lanegan

10. Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo In 2002: ‘I Think I Had A Falling Out With The Fans’

One point of pride we’d be remiss to mention, because we’re still not quite sure what the word “humble” means, is that The Bad Penny‘s traffic tripled over the past year. That wasn’t due to any new hirings and certainly not donations of any kind, which we’ve never solicited in the past.

It was readers such as yourselves who were responsible for the 300 percent increase in activity on this website. Words can’t express our gratitude for you – never inadvertently, of course, God forbid – checking out this labor of love. Or, as the kids would say, labor of 𐕣ove.

Lotsa great stuff already planned for this year, so don’t be a stranger – even though everyone who reads this website is probably strange.

This entry was posted on 01/08/2026 at 3:06 am and is filed under Lists with tags Bobby Bray, Brett Bradford, David Yow, Eugene S. Robinson, Locust, Mark Lanegan, Rivers Cuomo, Robyn Hitchcock, Scratch Acid, the Jesus Lizard. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.