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Listening Party: Batuco, Son Rompe Pera
I was sitting on my bed with the window cracked open, letting in the sound of late-night cars humming down my street like spaceships. Too lazy to get up and flip the vinyl, I streamed Batuco on Spotify instead, my body still and humming faintly. Sometimes you just need percussion that wakes your bones up β read more
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Listening Party: In/Casino/Out, At the Drive-In
I found In/Casino/Out in a piano room at St. Ceciliaβs Hall. No one had came back for their things. It was just a pile of CDs, abandoned, along with a copy of Deftonesβ Around the Fur and a burned mix CD that opened with βWhen I Come Around,β by Green Day. Someone once listened to β read more
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Listening Party: how will i rest in peace if iβm buried by a highway?//, KennyHoopla
KennyHooplaβs how will i rest in peace if iβm buried by a highway?// is a short, electrified work, feverish and vibrant with both cultural memory and contemporary unrest. It evokes, almost uncannily, the wiry, adrenal pulse of early 2000s post-punk revival, particularly Silent Alarmβera Bloc Party with their clipped rhythms and almost ascetic guitar lines, β read more
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Listening Party: Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
Over the past few days, Iβve been making notes while listening to Bruce Springsteenβs Born in the U.S.A. Iβve probably listened to the album about three times now, each spin revealing something new. Originally released in 1984 during Ronald Reaganβs presidency, the album came out at a time when America was wrapped in patriotic fervor β read more
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Listening Party: Spirit Room by Michelle Branch
For the life of me, I wanted a blue Taylor 614ceβthe kind Michelle Branch had slung across her shoulder in press photos, radiant and reverent, the very image of the millennium’s girl with a guitar. I never got the guitar. But I did get The Spirit Room, and that was enough to make me believe β read more
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