I’m never really comfortable putting together a list of songs (or anything else) and calling it the “best” of the year— not because I don’t think it’s possible to make a reasonable stab at such a list, but because I think that in order to do so you really have to have heard a lot …
Category: music
Recommendations for February 1, 2013
Tomorrow we learn whether we will endure six more weeks of winter or not (I will guess that the answer, for Chicago as least, will be yes), but today you should live in the moment and look at this stuff. Almost all stuff to listen to and stuff to watch this time around. Song: “And” …
My Year in Music, 2012
2012 for me was, first and foremost, the year of Spotify. Having access to Spotify dramatically changed both the quantity and the range of music I listened to. I went through, at various points in the year, a jazz phase (lots of Anthony Braxton, Miles Davis, Jason Adesiewicz, and Colin Stetson, among others), an Early …