Sometimes I will wake in the night with a warm, meandering bassline roaming through my consciousness, soon to be joined by a brushed rhythm and spare electric guitar melody—and when...
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It is a true testament to the decency of my college roommate during the 1988-1989 school year that he never burned my Sonic Youth Sister album, which I played fairly...
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I have a joke I think to myself (it’s not good enough to tell others out loud, really) whenever I listen to Yo La Tengo: that my first Yo La...
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It may seem strange to see so many playlists for an artist who has rarely been front and center in the musical landscape. But every Nick Cave album has at...
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It would be easy for me to simply describe Burial’s music as “spooky techno.” Probably electronic music scholars have a sub-genre classification Burial’s music falls under that basically means about...
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2010 had plenty of great albums. Here are six more. Six More Albums, forMy Top 12 Albums of 2010 As always, you can jump to the playlist at the bottom of each...
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Jesse Andrews The Haters Published 2016/03/23 I first discovered The Haters looking for Jesse Andrews’ first novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which I’d heard great stuff about....
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For the longest time all my friends knew me as their source of new music. I was keeping up with the latest new bands, and spreading the word to them….
American politics, never without contention, becomes even more heated in 2010. The Tea Party, naming itself after the inciting event of the American Revolutionary War, gains traction in the US...
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Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus (and grandnephew of Alice Coltrane) creates a blend of instrumental rap, avant-garde electronic music, and free jazz that is by turns hypnotic, propulsive, humorous, and…
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