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Music Week
Music: Current count 24247 [24221] rated (+26), 509 [490] unrated (+19).Rated count off this week, partly because I replayed a fair number of 2014 releases around P&J ballot time, partly because I...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (December 2014 Part Two)
This wraps up the year 2015. Last year I resolved to spend less time on music and more on writing my book projects, and I've pretty much been a complete failure on that. I did manage to cut some ties...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24286 [24247] rated (+39), 505 [509] unrated (-4).A bit out of sync here, having closed the count last night but adding two incoming discs today -- otherwise last week was pretty...
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The big news of the week was the massacre in the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where ten journalists (mostly cartoonists) and two police were gunned down. This was followed by...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24347 [24286] rated (+61), 503 [505] unrated (-2).It's been cold outside, and I've done very little but cram new lists into theEOY Aggregate File and listen to marginal list picks...
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Country EOY Lists
Bits are cheap, so some folks at Rolling Stone scratched their heads and came up with a list, 40 Best Country Albums of 2014. It's one of those things you have to click through one album per page (and...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24392 [24347] rated (+45), 493 [503] unrated (-10).I thought I'd wrap up 2014 last week, freezing myyear-end list and shelving myEOY aggregate, so I made a serious effort to cram...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (January 2015)
I was hoping this would be my last word on 2014, but perhaps because I'm once again planning on scaling back next year, I've been looking for more definitive closure to last one. Below you'll find...
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Don't have much to show here, but enough to run. I wasn't able to find anything very useful on renewed hostilities in eastern Ukraine: I gather the central ("pro-western") government broke the cease...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24422 [24392] rated (+30), 497 [493] unrated (+4).Closed the count out Sunday evening, trying to get a jump on posting this early, but various distractions today will make this as...
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I've been waiting to add Robert Christgau's annual "Dean's List" to my EOY Aggregate file, assuming it would (as has been the case in recent years) be published by BN Review sometime after the Village...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24455 [24422] rated (+33), 503 [497] unrated (+6).The year-in-progress file for 2014 is nowfrozen, as of January 31. As of the same date, I've stopped adding things to theBest Jazz...
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Weekend Roundup
If I was much younger and had ambitions in journalism, I'd go up to Topeka and hang out with Republican legislators, trying to draw them out on the logic behind a plethora of bills being bandied about....
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24491 [24455] rated (+36), 500 [503] unrated (-3).Four of five A- records this week were 2004 releases -- three identified from the still unfinished year-end listaggregation, the...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (February 2015)
Coincidentally, today's Expert Witness touts three records I don't much care for: Sleater-Kinney's No Cities to Love [*], Tune-Yards' Nikki Nack [**], and TV on the Radio's Seeds [B]. Could be I was...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24527 [24491] rated (+36), 501 [500] unrated (+1).I shot most of my wad on Friday's Rhapsody Streamnotes, but since then I was pleasantly surprised by three straight jazz vocal...
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Weekend Roundup
I've been very lazy when it comes to politics the last few weeks. Much of what's wrong is so wrong on so many levels it boggles the mind. You can try to organize it, boxing various articles up into...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24560 [24527] rated (+33), 493 [501] unrated (-8).Wichita got hit by two snowstorms last week. Cumulative damage is about an inch on the grass, less on the concrete. I figure that...
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Weekend Roundup
The Kansas state legislature has past the half-way point in their scheduled session this year, and the Republicans there have already succeeded in their most evident goal: to make Kansas the laughing...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 24592 [24560] rated (+32), 499 [493] unrated (+6).Surprised at all the mail that came in this past week, especially today. (I don't always get Monday's mail added into Unpacking,...
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