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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 30, 2012January 12, 2015

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Tracks of 2012

Here is this year’s obligatory list-making, by the numbers: 3 Bay Area acts 6 solo female artists 2 re-united ’90s bands A ton of vaguely…

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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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Halftime ReportPosted onJuly 6, 2011January 12, 2015

Halftime Report: My favorite 15 tracks of 2011 thus far

I realize I may need to turn in my official Snobby Blogger membership card, but the iTunes play-count function doesn’t lie.

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MusicPosted onJune 13, 2011January 12, 2015

Nitpicking the Hits: Pitbull wants you to “Give Me Everything,” and by “everything” he means “access to your vagina””

Pitbull advises all the dudes in the club to live for the moment and find a sexual conquest to take home, echoing the famous biblical passage Isaiah 22:13 (and I’m paraphrasing here): “Eat, drink and rub your junk up against a sexy lady on the dance floor, for tomorrow we die.”

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MusicPosted onMarch 7, 2011January 12, 2015

Racking Up Plays: “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele

These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…

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Bay Area MusicPosted onFebruary 10, 2011January 12, 2015

Going On Sale: Rihanna, Elvis Costello, Keith Urban and other major Bay Area concerts

The busiest musician in California at the moment has to be Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes, who has launched a new, Golden State-based project…

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