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Rhapsody Streamnotes (July 2015)
At 110 records, the shortest Steamnotes so far this year. Also the longest time between columns -- last one wasJune 13. The main reason is that I spent three weeks driving northwest and visiting...
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I neglected these short book blurbs for close to a year --July 3, 2014 toJune 17, 2015 -- so I'm still catching up. In fact, I have so much written at this point I'll try to do another tomorrow. For...
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Book Roundup (2)
As I noted yesterday, I had fallen way behind on my book blurb roundups -- almost a year missing until myJune 17 post. (By the way, I blame Amazon for much of this, since their immensely useful website...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25234 [25190] rated (+44), 451 [453] unrated (-2).After wrapping up last week's (month's) Rhapsody Streamnotes on Wednesday, I decided I wanted to work on the long-delayed book...
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I started doing these book blurb "roundups" inApril 2007. This is the 57th such column, so I've averaged about 7 per year. I don't recall when I introduced the 40-book limit, but that should add up to...
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Downbeat Readers Poll
Downbeat sent me a couple pieces of mail asking me to vote in their Readers Poll, but without clear instructions. Google shows the SurveyMonkey URI to behere. (By all means, follow it and vote. I think...
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Once again, I skipped Weekend Roundup for more book blurbs. I doubt that's much of a loss, given how last week's news was so dominated by the first Fox Republican Presidential Debate Orgy -- really, if...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25277 [25234] rated (+43), 432 [451] unrated (-19).I hit the bottom of theSpin 1985-2014 list early in the week. Of 300 records, I've not heard/rated 290. That leaves the following...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25691 [25653] rated (+38), 439 [447] unrated (-8).A busy week, in all regards except unpacking. Rated count is back up after last week's dip. I got a jump there by looking at...
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Weekend Roundup
Nothing from Crowson this week: he wasted his editorial space with a celebration of the World Series victors. I enjoyed the Kansas City Royals' wins, too -- even watched a couple innings of Game 2,...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25726 [25691] rated (+35), 439 [439] unrated (-0).Fall is coming to Wichita several weeks later than usual this year, but we raked up a first bag of leaves yesterday (many more are...
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It's been a good week for warmongering anti-Islamist bigots, what with the Kurdish "liberation" of ISIS-held Sinjar, the ISIS-blamed bombing of a Russian airliner, the drone-murder of reality TV...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25787 [25726] rated (+61), 420 [439] unrated (-19).Several reasons for the huge rated bump this week: one is that I procrastinated in cataloguing the incoming so the week ended...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (November 2015)
A substantial list of albums this month as we're approaching the end-of-year, with an above-average 15 new A-list entries (from an above-average 117 "new" albums). Good chance there's some seasonal...
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Much blather this week about the existential threat posed to the United States by the prospect of allowing 10,000 Syrian refugees to resettle here. Some demagogues like Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush insisted...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25829 [25787] rated (+42), 399 [420] unrated (-21).Total was goosed early in the week by finding some more bookkeeping omissions. A more accurate rated count is probably a bit over...
View ArticleTurkey Giblets
Old-timers will recall that Robert Christgau ran what he called a Turkey Shoot every Thanksgiving from 1988 to 2005. For most of that time he limited his pans of bad albums to one "dud" per month, so...
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Not much time to collect things today, but here are a few links on the week's newsk: Julie Turkewitz/Jack Healy: 3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center: A gunman,...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25871 [25829] rated (+42), 388 [399] unrated (-11).We've had a very pleasant autumn here in Wichita, but the weatherfolk forecast a turn toward miserable for Thanksgiving through...
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Very busy with other stuff today, so these are abbreviated -- mostly links to pieces I happened to have left open, and scattered comments when I had something quick to say. Eoin Higgins: The double...
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