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Jon & Brion & Robert & Wyatt (and Hot Chip and of Montreal)

January 15, 2009 – 10:30 am
So tell me, is January too early in the year to start playing favorites with and making predictions about which albums are going to end up being the year’s best? I sure as hell thought so when I posted about Animal Collective’s newest opus last Wednesday, otherwise I would’ve come right out and admitted […]
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

January 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are another five… Adorably precocious Swedish Indie-Pop chanteuse Lykke Li out-Feist-ed Canadian Indie-Folk femme Leslie Feist simply by being…well…more feisty. The nigh-unpronounceable newcomer’s initially self-released debut Youth Novels […]
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Shuffle Songs, Vol. 5 — Rappity-Rap Edition

December 11, 2008 – 10:30 am
If you shuffle the letters in the word “rap” you really only come up with “par,” a Golf term, and “Arp,” an old-school brand of synthesizer. I think there are even fewer anagram options if you use the term “hip-hop.” But that’s neither here nor there because today’s “shuffle” special is an all […]
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Beats for Your Face (Or Lack Thereof)

December 10, 2008 – 10:30 am
So much for chilly temperatures and pretty powdery coatings…All of a sudden it’s a balmy 60 degrees outside with intermittent rain and it’s windy as a sonovabitch! So, what sort of soundtrack does a grey-skied, puddle-packed, wind-blown Wednesday deserve? I’m thinking something moody and changeable, that suits the days’ melancholy caste but still […]
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Albums That Should Suck, But Don’t: 808s & Heartbreak

December 1, 2008 – 10:30 am
Something like a bazillion years ago (okay, it was more like a year and change) I tried starting a new regular Blogarhythms feature about things…Be they artists, albums or whatever…That should in theory “suck,” but don’t. I got as far as profiling rich kid son of a superstar guitarist turned superstar DJ turned superstar […]
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