Operation Manatee Music Prize: Top 5 Albums of 2020

I won’t go on about what we already know about this year. I’m just grateful for the absolutely mindblowing amount of incredible music that was released. For this year’s long list, I just put an arbitrary cap of 50 on it, because I just couldn’t dedicate the time necessary to include every great recording I’ve

Operation Manatee #310 – Happy heavy holidays!

We don’t have many traditions at Operation Manatee, but one tradition we DO have is that our last show of the year (or at least one show during December) is intended to cut through the sweet and saccharine holiday music that you hear everywhere else throughout the month. This year’s show is another straight banger,

Operation Manatee #309 – Time Travelling

Well, here we are still stuck at home. But since the world of music does not take a break, we will also not break! Well.. not break again anyways… This show was recorded to originally air on December 15, 2020, but something happened with the gremlins in the machines in the station and it was

Operation Manatee Music Prize 2020: The Long List

2020, right? There was one thing I was sure of when we all went home in March: the output music and other art was going to be nuts! This year did not disappoint, in that respect. I have never listened to as much new music in a year as this one (and I make an

Operation Manatee #308 – Manatee at Home

In what is a monumental first, history is being made on Operation Manatee; we are on the radio but from the comfort of our own homes. With or without pants…. Whoduvethunkit? Technology, am I right? Let it never be said that you can’t teach an old manatee new tricks. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, Chris