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Ten favorite African songs of the 2010s
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Jan 14
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Top 25 African songs of the Seventies
Apr 2, 2023
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Top 10 newspaper comic strips
Aug 24, 2025
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Top 50 albums of the Fifties
May 4, 2025
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45 favorite albums of my 2025
Dec 28, 2025
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Semipop Life
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Semipop Life: Not with that attitude
Hüsker Dü, Lella Fadda, CMAT, Big Thief, and more!
Dec 8, 2025
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Semipop Life: Step step step, brothers
Jazzwrld & Thukuthela, Jubal Lee Young, Wednesday, Fieldwork, and more!
Nov 2, 2025
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Semipop Life: Indestructible libido
Mahotella Queens, Maria Muldaur, Pulp, Sabrina Carpenter, and more!
Oct 5, 2025
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Semipop Life: Sensual, not sexy
Public Enemy, Messa, ARTMS, plus: Countrypop Life 3!
Sep 7, 2025
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Semipop Life: From generation to generation
James McMurtry, Mary Halvorson, Samia, (sighs) fine, Lil Wayne, and more!
Aug 10, 2025
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Video & Audio
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Video and Audio: Mixed feelings
It's lit! It's music!
Dec 14, 2025
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Video & Audio: I hate you so much right now
Goop on ya grinch with a baseball binch
Nov 17, 2025
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Video & Audio: The best mistake
There's many things I wish I didn't do
Oct 12, 2025
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Video & Audio: Far-flung the shallow, now
Throwing the 'bows, French tip on the toes
Sep 14, 2025
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Video & Audio: Songs of the summer monsoon
It's tough to LMFAO
Aug 17, 2025
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends 149
plus: a post-poptimist manifesto, down the bottom so you can ignore it
Sep 28, 2025
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Odds & Ends 148
Exhausted? Look back, then look up
Aug 31, 2025
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Odds & Ends 147
Not much of a mushness
Jul 7, 2025
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Odds & Ends 146
10 INPUT SKRONK 20 IF SKRONK = LOUD THEN PRINT "FUN" 30 GOTO 10
May 11, 2025
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Odds & Ends 145
Locals drip, globetrotters let rip
Mar 16, 2025
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Other Music
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The Purge 2025: A fast casual Thanksgiving
Bourgeois chimeras and populist goslings
Nov 30, 2025
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50 favorite songs, 2020–2025
Amapiano + amo, a pain
Nov 24, 2025
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Semiclassical Life: Write sins, not tragedies
I listened to a bunch of Gramophone Award finalists and might as well get a column out of it
Nov 10, 2025
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The Bullpen 010
Some year-end EP poll contenders, plus two (2) Pope jokes
Oct 20, 2025
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Vibes in the heartland: Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Bourbon & Beyond
Ringo and Rilo ring and rile the Midwest
Sep 21, 2025
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Miscellany
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Semipop Lifestyle: St. Louis last weekend
Anselm Kiefer! Darby vs. Moxley! Cahokia!
Oct 27, 2025
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Top 10 newspaper comic strips
one for each decade of the twentieth century, with some gerrymandering
Aug 24, 2025
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Semidrunk Life: The music of Jia Zhangke
The old is going, but where is the new?
Jun 29, 2025
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Semipop Lifestyle: Art and architecture in Texas
(food is an art)
Jun 7, 2025
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Semipop Lifestyle: World tour of Queens
going out of the city (mostly on the 7 line)
Apr 7, 2025
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Listmas
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2025 miscellaneous lists
One boba after another
Jan 11
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99 Lives 2025
20th anniversary edition!
Jan 4
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45 favorite albums of my 2025
A year of small numbers (doot doot)
Dec 28, 2025
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Favorite books of my year, 2025
This year confirmed that the Nobel people listen to me, so let’s get this right
Dec 25, 2025
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Favorite comics of my 2025
I've suffered for my art… now it's your turn
Dec 21, 2025
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