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Some Music I Loved in 2018

Some Music I Loved in 2018

By Tim on December 31, 2018

While I’m sure my musical diet becomes less and less relevant with each passing year, irrelevancy never stopped me before. So here goes. (And if you want to listen while you read, here’s a Spotify playlist.) I’m going to start with Boygenius, the EP that represents the theme of much of the music I listened […]

Posted in music | Tagged 2018, anna burch, boygenius, Elvis Costello, Haley Heynderickx, Jane Gowan, Laura Gibson, Lucy Dacus, Mitski, music, Neko Case, The Beths, The Real Shade, Wye Oak

A Bad Singer Playlist

By Tim on May 3, 2016

A Bad Singer Playlist “Writing about music,” Martin Mull quipped, “is like dancing about architecture.” Part of the problem, of course, is that the reader wants to hear what the writer is going on about. And, inevitably, I refer to many, many songs in Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We […]

Posted in Bad Singer, music | Tagged bad singer, Elvis Costello, isobel campbell, Joe Strummer, Johnny cash, Mark Lanegan, music, Neko Case, Otis Redding, rolling stones, Shuggie Otis, timbre, tone deafness, Wagner

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