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Music: Current count 29181 [29150] rated (+31), 367 [368] unrated (-1).Initial calculation came out at 24 new ratings, surprisingly low. Still, the list below only comes to 26. I looked through the...
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This week marks the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration as president, or as we're more inclined to note: one year down, three more to go. Supporters like to tout the economy, especially the...
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Music: Current count 29219 [29181] rated (+38), 373 [367] unrated (+6).Before we get to music, I want to point out Leonard Pitts' column trying to sum up what Donald Trump, his enablers and fellow...
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I figured the big political story of the week was Trump going to Davos, announcing "America is open for business," and hat-in-hand begging foreign capitalists to invest in America. He'd probably tell...
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Music: Current count 29253 [29219] rated (+34), 378 [373] unrated (+5).Ran out of time again, so I'll have to let the lists speak for themselves. The reviews will show up in Streamnotes later this...
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Streamnotes (January 2018)
With 154 records below (not counting 3 regrades), this is a pretty substantial collection -- down a shade from 161 in December, but otherwise the most of any month in 2017 except for January (155)....
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Can't say as I really felt any energy or appetite for doing a roundup this weekend. Still, practically wrote itself:Some scattered links this week: Matthew Yglesias: 4 big stories from a very weird...
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Music: Current count 29288 [29253] rated (+35), 378 [378] unrated (+0).I got to most of this week's count after postingJanuary Streamnotes, but there are a couple of surprises below. I've continued to...
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I've been reading David Frum's Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, and generally finding it useful in its clear and principled critique of Trump's vanity, authoritarianism, and...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 29345 [29288] rated (+57), 375 [378] unrated (-3). Surprised by the high initial rated count (48), but there were 49 records listed below, so I actually undercounted. I went back...
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Late. No time for an introduction. This is what I came up with in a day of checking the usual sources. Obviously, there's much more to report, but the framework remains the same.Some scattered links...
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Music: current count 29386 [29345] rated (+41), 375 [375] unrated (+0).Only one record from my jazz queue this week, and only two other"new" records: a guitar band from Niger recommended by Christgau,...
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Too late to write an intro, but you know the drill.Some scattered links this week: Matthew Yglesias: The 4 biggest political stories of the week, explained: President Trump endorsed some gun reforms --...
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Music: current count 29423 [29386] rated (+37), 367 [375] unrated (-8).Paid more attention to the new jazz queue last week, but still most of the newly rated albums are old -- some from my unrated list...
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Streamnotes (February 2018)
First month post-freeze, so I should be moving beyond 2017, and to some extent I am. Of ten A-list recent releases, four are 2018 (Laurie Anderson, Evan Parker, Amy Rigby, Shopping), four 2017 (Girma...
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