Tag: music
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Holidays 2017, Explained (Part One)
“This is the school for fools in love. Did I mention? Pay attention!” —Bootsy Collins, Worth My While (feat. Kali Ulchis) Last May, I mentioned wanting to get back to New Orleans by the end of this year. Our anniversary had just passed, Robert E. Lee’s statue had been removed from Lee Circle, and I…
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2017 in Music
“Love. Long as we got…”—SZA, Love Galore 2016 ended in such a discombobulated fashion that I didn’t do my usual annual accounting of the music that mattered. At least not in a blog post. In some private slack channel, Solange’s A Seat at the Table was my most important album of the year while DJ…
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Turn your Rdio Up
“Round and round, round in circles.” – Myron & E, Going in Circles I’m listening to Heavy Rotation radio on Rdio this morning as I write this post. A track from Shigeto’s latest album is playing. The Heavy Rotation radio station plays music that is being played regularly in my network of friends on the…
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My Year with Music 2012
“Can you feel what I feel when I feel what I feel?” – Ab-Soul, Empathy (feat. Alori Jah & JaVonte’) For better or worse, I fell whole hog into streaming music this year as Spotify’s player is just so convenient. I don’t think I’ve purchased less music than I have in 2012 in my adult…
Jason Toney 