Here it comes
VERY FINE SONGS OF 2018
Blah blah blah, this is some music
2018: THE ALBUMS
FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2017
This was a good year.
For music, I mean.
Not… you know, the world.
2017: OTHER SONGS OF QUALITY
Not every album can be a best album, but lots of albums are still very very good, and worth checking out.
2017 IN ALBUMS: THE FULL LIST
And we’re back!
Due to unforgivably sloppy records keeping in 2016, I was unable to successfully compile my annual list of albums and favorites. And as I go over a cross section of my playlists, I see quite a few albums I’m amazed to have forgotten about ever even listening to (M83! The Julie Ruin! Iggy Pop! Radiohead! Chance The Rapper! Cherry Poppin’ Daddies! Mogwai! Blood Orange! And yes, even the Hot Sardines!)
But that’s the cost of business when music becomes a volume game…
MUSIC IN 2015, Part 2: Favorite Songs
Music is better than words….
MUSIC IN 2015, Part 1: The Albums
366.
That’s how many new release albums I listened to in 2015.
A LIST OF THINGS I COULD POTENTIALLY RUN OVER WITH MY CAR, IN DESCENDING ORDER OF GUILTY FEELINGS
TEACHING THE TERROR OF KNOWLEDGE
Sometimes people ask me what the so-called “terror of knowledge” is, or at least they would if they were the sort of people I’d invent for just such a hypothetical scenario.
It’s a fair question, and one that deserves a reasoned answer.
So, since studies indicate that lessons are more easily absorbed when put into a memorable narrative context, it feels appropriate to explain by storied example:
Pryorball. 