Archive - OPE! by Brady Gerber

May 2025

OPE! Mixtape #67: Sleep Token

Remember when everyone hated Linkin Park?

May 28 •

OPE! Mixtape #66: Finally "getting" Billy Strings

Reporting on Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, and (finally) being won over by Billy Strings, at Outlaw Music Festival 2025

May 21 •

OPE! Mixtape #65: The music of Grand Theft Auto's trailers

My latest feature is now live

May 14 •

OPE! Mixtape #64: I started a podcast

OPE! is now a podcast, and on YouTube.

May 7 •

April 2025

OPE! Mixtape #63: The 2025 Rock Hall, Pt. 2

Not what I was hoping for but not terrible.

Apr 30 •

OPE! Mixtape #62: My seven favorite songs and albums of the 2020s so far

Some more good stuff

Apr 16 •

OPE! Mixtape #61: My seven favorite things of the 2020s so far

Some good stuff here

Apr 9 •

OPE! Mixtape #60: The Studio

The Apple TV+ show is my first favorite new "thing" of 2025

Apr 2 •

March 2025

OPE! Mixtape #59: What if your sadness is boring

On not loving new albums by Japanese Breakfast and Lucy Dacus

Mar 26 •

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