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Ghana, early 70s.

Ghana, early 70s.

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How To Get Through A Big Pile Of New Music

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Right now I’m working through a playlist of several hundred tracks from different sources: Email attachments, CD rips, RSS feeds, Etc. A lot of this listening is a job. And like any job, I’ve thought about how to organize and streamline it. It would take a lot of time and screen shots to go through [...]

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How I judge music

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Pitchfork’s internal editing system lets me see my past review scores all in one place. Since I don’t review stuff very often for them, I was a little surprised to see the numbers all in one place like that. It turns out I’m a high grader. Or rather, when I write about things I know [...]

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Wolf Eyes wants to hear from its fans

SayNow is a website that lets you leave messages for celebrities, and it lets you listen to them. I spend a few minutes a week listening to what girls want to say to R. Kelly or Tyrese (this sort of thing interests me). Today there was a new band ready to listen to and leave [...]

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