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Tag: Wilco

MusicPosted onOctober 29, 2021October 29, 2021

25 Perfect Little Moments from Wilco’s “Being There”

Being There still feels monumental 25 years later. It also announced the arrival of Wilco: The Band That Jams and Takes Risks. Risks like recording a double album, opening it with a 45-second drums-and-feedback freakout, and then spending the next 76 minutes alternating between ennui-filled ballads and surreal-nonsense-filled bangers.

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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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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 1, 2017January 2, 2017

Rankstravaganza 2016: My Top 30 Favorite Songs of the Year

The past year was nothing if not a “low-flying panic attack” … .

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 31, 2015July 17, 2019

Rankstravaganza 2015: My 25 favorite songs of the year

Ha! You thought this blog was done for. Surprise! I’m back. (Fair warning, though: There might not be another post until New Year’s Eve 2016.…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 31, 2011January 12, 2015

Rankstravaganza: My 15 favorite albums of 2011

The album is dead. Long live the album. Increasingly, my listening habits tend to revolve around individual tracks, so I tried to adjust my year-end…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 27, 2011January 12, 2015

Rankstravaganza: My 30 favorite tracks of 2011

I don’t know about you, but for me, 2011 was not a year of discovery. Most of the songs that bubbled their way to the…

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Bay Area MusicPosted onDecember 2, 2011January 12, 2015

10 pleasant surprises hidden in this year’s Grammy nominations

In a category usually dominated by schmaltzy duets, it’s a pleasure to see a stompin’, southern gothic, traditionalist shit-kicker like “Barton Hollow” nominated.

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MusicPosted onSeptember 11, 2011January 12, 2015

Playlist: 5 songs that perfectly captured 9/11 even thought they were written before the attacks

Like a lot of people, music got me through that week.

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Check Out This Cool ThingPosted onSeptember 3, 2011January 12, 2015

Wilco offering preview of new album, ‘The Whole Love,’ for 24 hours, so quit wasting time and start streaming

I’m about 10 minutes into listening to The Whole Love, Wilco’s eighth studio album, and I’m already ready to declare it the best thing the…

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MusicPosted onJuly 26, 2011January 12, 2015

Racking Up Plays: “I Might” by Wilco

“Wow,” I literally said aloud upon hearing the first single leaked from Wilco’s upcoming eighth studio album, The Whole Love. “This song kinda kicks all kinds of ass.”

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