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2009 Top Ten

Reasons why were partially explained in my “prescript,” but I’m still amazed that I was able to rattle off eight heartily-endorsable albums released this very year, plus a song or two and a band or two, just to round things … Continue reading

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25 Things

[Here's my contribution to the much-beloved, much-maligned, extremely popular early-2009 Facebook meme known as "25 Random Things."] 1. I’ve had a full beard since 1999. It took exactly no getting used to, and I don’t think I’ll ever get rid … Continue reading

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7 Songs

If summoned by glenn mcdonald to exercise a bit of gunpoint music crit, I really must comply. Plus, it’s got me subscribed to a couple more blogs of friends I didn’t know HAD blogs. The rules are as follows, the … Continue reading

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Top 11 2007

MOJO Presents: Sun is Shining I have always claimed to hate reggae music. The reasons are exactly what you’d imagine: 1) It “all sounds the same” and 2) jocks in college loved it, and most of those guys were jerks. … Continue reading

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2006 Top 10

Goner – “Jersey Roy / An Island’s Worth of Avenues” In October, Scott gave me an advance copy of the new Goner CD while we were in New York. Sitting in the airport on the way out of town, I … Continue reading

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