Category: Music
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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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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
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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