Category: music
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Don’t You Miss It: The Best Songs of 2018
Read more: Don’t You Miss It: The Best Songs of 2018Remember last year, when we thought it couldn’t get any worse? And then it did? Music saved my life this year, as it has several times before, and I owe a special debt to these tracks: my selections for the best of 2018.
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Am I Gonna Be a Witness: The Best Songs of 2017
Read more: Am I Gonna Be a Witness: The Best Songs of 2017It was the worst of years, it was the- well, just that, really. But terrible years make for excellent music, and the top releases of 2017 are krunk. Turn it up and forget the world for 1 hour 8 minutes. We got you.
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Punks on the Ropes: The Best Songs of 2007
Read more: Punks on the Ropes: The Best Songs of 2007It was the year that MIKA out-fabuloused Eurovision, M.I.A. gave us a good shakedown and Serj Tankian demonstrated his solo chops. Listen to these, the best songs from 2007, and ask yourself like I did: Wait, wasn’t that released last year?
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Johnny Wants a Plane: The Best Songs of 1997
Read more: Johnny Wants a Plane: The Best Songs of 1997It was the year Daft Punk blew our minds with Homework, Rammstein made us stand up and pay attention, and the year the David Bowie came out as an alien. It was 1997. Turn it up.
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An Open Letter to My Hero, Sinéad O’Connor
Read more: An Open Letter to My Hero, Sinéad O’ConnorThe news tells me you’re doing poorly and I’m really sorry to hear it. You were there when I needed you, so I wanted to return the favor.
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Hot Diggity Dog!
Read more: Hot Diggity Dog!I found myself pondering recently: What the hell does No Diggity mean? Come down the rabbit hole with me and we’ll find out together.
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Heroes, Just for One Day
Read more: Heroes, Just for One DayIt is said that my generation doesn’t have heroes. We do, it’s just … complicated.
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A Mixtape for Planet Earth
Read more: A Mixtape for Planet EarthStill on a high at the end of a successful green film festival and pumped by the news that the US Government is taking real action on climate change, I have made a mixtape for the Earth of my favorite environmental tunes. These are songs that turned me into an environmentalist. I hope you love…
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The Eurovision Song Contest – in charts
Read more: The Eurovision Song Contest – in chartsI’ve constructed a short series of graphs that seek to explain the wonder of Eurovision, for the uninitiated.
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The awkward story of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Read more: The awkward story of Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungLet’s try to unravel the tangled web of awkward that is America’s folk godfathers.
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