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Category: Obligatory List-making

Because it’s not the Internet without subjective lists, folks.

End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 30, 2020January 2, 2022

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2020

What can one say about 2020 other than, “Good riddance”? I can think of one thing: There was some damn good music released this year. Is it because 2020 was a particularly fruitful year, with talented artists who had nothing else to do but write and record new music?

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 24, 2020December 30, 2020

Rankstravaganza: My 10 Favorite Albums of 2020

On the brights side, one of the nice things about being cooped up with your household and no one else for 3/4 of the year…

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Halftime ReportPosted onJuly 23, 2020July 23, 2020

Halftime Report: My favorite songs of 2020 thus far

This year. This fucking year. But, on the bright side, it’s half over! And surely 2021 couldn’t be any worse, right? RIGHT? In times like…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 12, 2020January 13, 2020

A Very Belated Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2019

Fourteen of the 30 tracks below are either by a female solo artist, a band with a frontwoman, a male-female duo, someone who doesn’t subscribe to binary gender identifiers, or a Canadian indie-supergroup prominently featuring Neko Case.

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Albums of the 2010sPosted onDecember 30, 2019January 12, 2020

“Albums of the … Teens, I guess?”: All good things must come to an end, and also this decade must

I feel like I should apologize one more time for the overwhelming amount of nerdy, folky, melodic indie rock and the distinct lack of Beyonce and Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar compared to most best-of-the-decade lists.

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Albums of the 2010sPosted onDecember 18, 2019January 6, 2024

“Albums of the … Teens, I guess?”: personas get personal in 2018

If you’re going to make an Important Album in the late 2010s, you’d better wrap it in a personae or extreme vulnerability or some goof-assery,…

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Albums of the 2010sPosted onDecember 7, 2019December 30, 2019

“Albums of the … Teens, I guess?”: Tearing down walls in 2017

A lot of people were talking about building walls in 2017, but the musicians I was listening to that year were all about breaking down barriers: deconstructing genres, combining genres, giving new life to tired genres, imbuing old songs with new meaning and, in some cases, directly questioning those who would divide us.

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Albums of the 2010sPosted onNovember 27, 2019December 30, 2019

“Albums of the … Teens, I guess?”: Things fall apart in 2016

I don’t think it’s just 20/20 hindsight that gives the impression that the music of 2016 is permeated by a sense of existential dread.

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Albums of the 2010sPosted onNovember 20, 2019December 30, 2019

“Albums of the … Teens, I guess?”: Surprise me, 2015

As we speed headlong into the second half of the decade, pleasant surprises abound. Among other things, for me, 2015 is proof that bands I’ve…

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Albums of the 2010sPosted onNovember 10, 2019January 9, 2020

“Albums of the … Teens, I guess?”: Country, folk ‘n’ Weezer in 2014

We all remember how 2014 was a stand-out year for boundary-pushing country artists and finely crafted, acoustic pop-folk, yeah? OK, I didn’t realize it until…

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