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My Favorite Albums of 2010

I’m try­ing to pull these togeth­er now. A few albums leap to mind: Liars – Sis­ter­world The Roots — How I Got Over Kanye West — My Beau­ti­ful Dark Twist­ed Fan­ta­sy Tay­lor Swift’s Speak Now Sight­ings — City of Straw Janelle Mon­ae — The ArchAn­droid Erykah Badu — New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh Ted Leo and theCon­tin­ue read­ing “My Favorite Albums of 2010”

Some Musical Notes

Sim­ply amaz­ing. Still in heavy rota­tion.  I’ve become the sort of crit­ic who likes spring releas­es. Give them time to mar­i­nate, I say. That new Liars album is still reveal­ing new things to me. Ready for a stun­ning admis­sion? I still haven’t heard the new Arcade Fire album! I’m still aghast that Spoon opened for them. What’sCon­tin­ue read­ing “Some Musi­cal Notes”

It’s Time for a Sixers Blog

I’ve been telling peo­ple for a while that it’s time for Philly bas­ket­ball fans to start blog­ging the Six­ers. I know it sounds like the most excru­ci­at­ing pun­ish­ment short of hav­ing to actu­al­ly play for the team, but that’s how you make this work. See, it’s like this: the team can’t plum­met much fur­ther andCon­tin­ue read­ing “It’s Time for a Six­ers Blog”

A New Year in Music

2009 was a dis­as­trous year for me and music. I was real­ly turned off to the pos­si­bil­i­ty that I might like any­thing. I revert­ed to old habits, lis­ten­ing to a dis­pro­por­tion­ate amount of met­al, with­out real­ly explor­ing fur­ther. For some­one who in the past prid­ed him­self on catholic taste, it was some­thing of a dis­ap­point­ment.Con­tin­ue read­ing “A New Year in Music”

My Turntable Returns!

My turntable Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by J T. Ram­say One of the things that makes me laugh is the slew of arti­cles that have been writ­ten late­ly about the resur­gence of vinyl. I laugh main­ly because I felt that the vinyl resur­gence had come and gone. I asso­ci­at­ed the trend with Mata­dor’s renewed com­mit­ment to reis­su­ingCon­tin­ue read­ing “My Turntable Returns!”