Category: Music
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Semi-new Song Sundays: Parekh & Singh
A duo from India reminds me to let pop music be pop, and not to dwell on how quickly the early 2000s are receding from the present.
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Tuesday Tune Twofer: Road Trip Repeat Plays
Two tenuously, tangentially related tunes every Tuesday. This week: songs from road trips with my fiancé
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Debussy Comes At You Fast
Stumbling through an inadequate description of how Khatia Buniatishvili’s interpretation of Claire de Lune got such a strong response out of me
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Semi-new Song Sundays: Rina Sawayama
Have you been to that Japanese place, Wagamamas? The one in Heathrow is amazing.
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More Dirty Projectors
On second thought, do I really need to like more than one musical group?
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Tuesday Tune Twofer: Cookies and Milk with The Go! Team
Two tenuously and tangentially related tunes every Tuesday, starting off with an easy combo from The Go! Team
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Semi-new Song Sundays: Dirty Projectors
Even before I found myself aged out of the most desirable demographics, I was never somebody who was up to date with new music. That’s partly why I’m so excited to have discovered and fallen in love with a song that was actually released this year! It’s “Overlord” by Dirty Projectors. On the surface, it…
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Music to Remember By, Part 4: Go Through All This Before You Wake Up
The final part of my playlist, which is mostly about feeling a connection to other people through popular music.
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Music to Remember By, Part 3: Our Dark Shazamless Days
My playlist of memories continues with Starbucks Music and hazy recollections of the 1970s.
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Music to Remember By, Part 2: Driving and Forgetting
Day 2 of the playlist brings repressed memories, homesickness, lots of driving, and feeling slightly more connected to the Japanese people
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Music to Remember By, a Weeklong Playlist
Compiling a playlist that didn’t help me sleep, but did start me on a weird ride though my teens and twenties.
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No Insight To Be Had Out There
Shallow takes on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” are a perfect example of faux-progressive pop cultural simplification for the Twitter generation