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I Bury The Hatchet And Listen To Born To Run: The Biggest Surprise Piano...
So here we are. I’m going to listen to Bruce Springsteen. Having since been called a martyr because I’m exploiting my musical identity to do something I hate, to write about it, I feel the need to...
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Let’s Live-Blog: The Beginning Of New Discovery: Prince
The last time I did this, I was writing about Bruce Springsteen. I sat down to write about Born To Run because I’ve always hated The Boss. And who are we if we are not challenging ourselves – even if...
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Two For One Prince: I’m Going To Live-Blog Purple Rain
Earlier today I listened to Prince for the first time ever. (Well, you know what I mean.) I should’ve, you think?, listened to Purple Rain as my first Prince album, but that’s not what happened. After...
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BREAK: I Live-Blog Stankonia, Have A Hip Hop Breakthrough
I’ve been thinking a lot about Outkast lately, probably because they’re mentioned in ?uestlove’s “Mo’ Meta Blues” a lot. As we warm up for the latest installment of my live-blog for Stankonia, I’m...
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East and West: Same Equation, Different Variables: Live-Blogging The Chronic
Yesterday, when I live-blogged Stankonia, I got a lot of feedback. Most of it was, “I can’t believe you’ve never heard this record before!” And the like. I put an internet meme (that WordPress, for...
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I Live-Blog #10Day Because Chance The Rapper
I remember the day I fell in love. It was a day I had to walk into the deep North East of DC after work, for reasons I can no longer remember. It was that day that my dear friend @TheQueenBRI told me...
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I Live-Blog Bowie’s ‘Low’, Find Out It’s Still A Mystery To Me In The End (It...
It’s been three years since I’ve Live-Blogged here. The last one was Chance The Rapper’s #10Day. CTR has since taken off to new heights we all could’ve probably predicted, probably because he is an...
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A Live-Blog of Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’, A Record of Individuality and Sadness,...
OK, here is what I know about Frank Ocean: he was a part of OFWGKTA (which I used to write about a lot because I listened to them a lot); he sort-of “came out” in a tumblr post either right before his...
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Wilco, ‘Schmilco’ AmIRight? (LOL I friggen love Wilco more than you do)
For those of you who know me, and HELLO out there for those of you who don’t, I am a huge (YUGE) Wilco fan. Last July when Wilco surprise-released Star Wars (LOL, still) it was the first time I every...
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The One Where I Live-Blog ‘Aladdin Sane’: I Want To Bite On The Neon Too, David
This past weekend marked the 11th annual Brooklyn Book Festival (#BKBF) and while navigating through the sea of wonderful totes on every shoulder and maneuvering through the maze of small press, large...
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