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Album of the Week: Kathryn Mohr | Waiting Room
Sometimes quiet intensity is called for. Sometimes it’s just the thing when so many other dashy flashy things are in dire need of our attention.
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#NewMusicFriday: February 14, 2025
Happy Valentine’s Day.
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Album of the Week: Richard Dawson | End of the Middle
You may very well have come to the conclusion that common sense is no longer common.
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#NewMusicFriday: February 7, 2025
In “Bluetooth Speakers Are Ruining Music,” The Atlantic’s Michael Owens takes an historical lens to our evolving relationship with music, notes the relatively recent tug-of-war between quality and convenience, and accurately identifies the audio industry’s enduring fixation with “fidelity.”
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Album of the Week: Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary | So Far We Have Come
Tired of Tin Pan Alley? Ready to let Keith go? Drop your Jazz at the pawnshop?
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Acoustic Sounds To Reissue 7 Bob Marley Albums This Spring!
I save and savor the music of Bob Marley like precious medicine.
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#NewMusicFriday: January 31, 2025
I had been hoping to avoid it forever, but I finally came down with covid. Coronavirus? Whatever’s it called these days. I had never had it.
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Album of the Week: Bonnie “Prince” Billy | The Purple Bird
I like every Bonnie “Prince” Billy record, even the bad ones.
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#NewMusicFriday: January 24, 2025
There was a moment early in my infatuation with Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS when it occurred to me that I could be listening to [cue Beethoven’s Symphony No.5: dun-dun-dun DUNNNNN…] My Favorite Album of 2025.
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Album of the Week: Eusexua | FKA Twigs
What is Eusexua?
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#NewMusicFriday: 50 from 2024 | The Qobuz Playlist
Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest, and Qobuz have made it even easier to experience Stephen’s 50 favorite albums from 2024.
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If you pay attention to current events, this week is a big week
For me and my interests, there is no new record I’ve been looking forward to more than FKA twigs’ Eusexua which arrives this Friday through Young and Atlantic Records.
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Album of the Week: David Lynch | Crazy Clown Time
When it comes to death, I’d like to think I’m more Irish than Italian.
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#NewMusicFriday: January 10, 2025
After bemoaning last Friday’s dearth of notable new releases, I was pleasantly surprised when Bad Bunny released his latest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, on Sunday, the 6th — just in time for Three Kings Day, a holiday enthusiastically celebrated throughout Bad Bunny’s home island […]
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Album of the Week: Ethel Cain | Perverts
“It’s easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.” ~ Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood