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Dean's List: 2022
The 86 (not 84) best albums of the last year (or so)
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Dean's List: 2020
The 71 best albums of the last year (or so)
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Consumer Guide: November, 2024
Hip-hop from 52-year-old grandpa-to-be, demure grooves from a 31-year-old producer-frontman, dreamlike and bone-simple songs from a Belgium-based…
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The Big Lookback: You Never Can Tell
Thoughts on music for a wedding celebration, from 'The Village Voice,' March 3, 1975
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Consumer Guide: January, 2025
A post-riot-grrrl trio that hasn't given up on love; grooves that break into tunes, sound effects, or both; alt-rappers with sonic treats; and…
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Dean's List: 2021
The 71 best albums of the last year (or so)
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Dean's List: 2023
The 84 best albums of the past year (or so)
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A Few Words In Praise of Randy Newman
Robert Hilburn, "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman" (2024, 544 pp.)
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Consumer Guide: October, 2024
Guitar rock verging on the philosophical, boom-bap from an alt-rapper here to stay like that shit in your panties, a titanic work of art from 1956, …
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Consumer Guide: September, 2019
A compilation that treats mellow and humorous as a righteous path, plus songs from Texas, China, Brooklyn, Belgium, and a rock critic who earns her…
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Louis Jordan: The Grandfather of Rock and Roll
Formally, this jump-blues pioneer presaged rock and roll, though he was decades older than Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, or Little Richard.
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Xgau Sez: December, 2024
Moral compasses and the election, coming soon to Bluesky, morning TV avoided, the second sex comes first, Randy Newman upgrades, and song by song by…
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