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Vibes in the heartland: Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Bourbon & Beyond
Ringo and Rilo ring and rile the Midwest
Sep 21
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Semipop Life
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Semipop Life: Sensual, not sexy
Public Enemy, Messa, ARTMS, plus: Countrypop Life 3!
Sep 7
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Semipop Life: From generation to generation
James McMurtry, Mary Halvorson, Samia, (sighs) fine, Lil Wayne, and more!
Aug 10
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Semipop Life: All the stars approach you
Los Thuthanaka, Marshall Allen, PinkPantheress, Avril Lavigne, and more!
Jul 13
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Semipop Life: Ha! I kill me!
Craig Finn, Bashy, Dlala Thukzin, Buck 65, and more!
Jun 15
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Semipop Life: Make me lonesome when you go
Jeffrey Lewis, Isaiah Collier, The Ex, Mekons, and more!
May 19
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Video & Audio
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Video & Audio: Far-flung the shallow, now
Throwing the 'bows, French tip on the toes
Sep 14
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Video & Audio: Songs of the summer monsoon
It's tough to LMFAO
Aug 17
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Video & Audio: Playing dumb in the gender/genre wars
Wishy-washy like my washi tape
Jul 20
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Video & Audio: Last summer tonight
I'm gonna tell Chuck D on you
Jun 22
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Video & Audio: We all scream
Near or far, closer together
May 25
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends 148
Exhausted? Look back, then look up
Aug 31
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Odds & Ends 147
Not much of a mushness
Jul 7
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Odds & Ends 146
10 INPUT SKRONK 20 IF SKRONK = LOUD THEN PRINT "FUN" 30 GOTO 10
May 11
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Odds & Ends 145
Locals drip, globetrotters let rip
Mar 16
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Odds & Ends 144
I know you have good judgment, I know you have good taste
Feb 16
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Other Music
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Vibes in the heartland: Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Bourbon & Beyond
Ringo and Rilo ring and rile the Midwest
Sep 21
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The Bullpen 009
Hope, dreams, luck, doom
Aug 3
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1985 poll: Results
Ramshackle drink-punk beats every continent
Jul 27
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1985 poll: My ballot
why music doesn't suck
Jul 26
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The Bullpen 008
Diverse aesthetics, indefatigable optimism: too much to ask?
Jun 8
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Miscellany
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Top 10 newspaper comic strips
one for each decade of the twentieth century, with some gerrymandering
Aug 24
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Semidrunk Life: The music of Jia Zhangke
The old is going, but where is the new?
Jun 29
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Semipop Lifestyle: Art and architecture in Texas
(food is an art)
Jun 7
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Semipop Lifestyle: World tour of Queens
going out of the city (mostly on the 7 line)
Apr 7
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Favorite books, 1920–1939
Thirteen ways of looking at a vicennial
Mar 9
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Listmas
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Listmas 2024: The finale
I have to teach in two days, so minimally annotated!
Jan 13
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99 Lives 2024
After the songs of summer have gone
Jan 5
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40 favorite albums of my 2024
The syllables, the letters, the black and white keys
Dec 29, 2024
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Favorite fiction of my 2024
Shape rotation, cat decapitation, cracks in the Simulation: transcendence any which way
Dec 28, 2024
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Favorite not-fiction of my 2024
But I'm different honey, I'm from way down in the south
Dec 22, 2024
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