Category: Music
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Semi-New Song Sunday: Haim on Rhye feat. Mustard
I’ve been thinking of the “Semi-New Song Sunday” experiment as a failure, because it hasn’t been turning up a non-stop stream of My New Favorite Bands. But really, it’s been an unexpected success. Pushing myself to find new (to me) music every week has meant I’m seeing more of what’s out there, and I’m learning…
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Kutiman Around the World
Two of Kutiman’s post-Thru You videos, celebrating the cooperation and creativity of humans living in cities
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Semi-New Song Sunday: Aunty Donna
Aunty Donna is an Australian comedy group that has been aggressively promoting their new Netflix series. I heard about them via an Australian video/podcast channel I watch regularly called “Mr. Sunday Movies,” so now YouTube believes I’m the world’s biggest fan, and is recommending them constantly. “Everything’s a Drum” is from a two-year-old live benefit…
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Track Two’s Too Terrific
Digging through my iTunes library to find my favorite track twos and celebrate never being cool.
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Tuesday Tune Two-fer: Jeremy Blake (Red Means Recording)
Two tunes from an artist who showed what you can do with synthesizers and gave me calm when I needed it
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Semi-New Song Sunday: First Aid Kit
Hearing First Aid Kit for the first time makes me wish I’d grown up in their version of the 1970s, instead of the real one
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My Possession
The latest Dirty Projectors song seems as close as 2020 is going to let us get to a collective exhale.
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Tuesday Tune Twofer: Songs for my Mother
Remembering the early 1970s, and two songs my mother liked to sing when I was a kid.
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Semi-New Song Sundays: Nada Surf
Nada Surf is new to me but is still making me nostalgic for my college years.
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Tuesday Tune Two-fer: Music to Feel Bad To
Today’s theme is feeling gross and going back to bed
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Semi-new Song Sunday: Run the Jewels
New-to-me: Run the Jewels make revolution look like a fun street party
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Tuesday Tune Twofer: What a Wonderful Time to Be Alive
Two tenuously and tangentially related tunes every Tuesday, with a hopeful Election Day reminder that we’re living in the best time