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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #371 to #369

April 4, 2021 Dan Seeger

371. The Chameleons U.K., Strange Times (1986) Manchester band the Chameleons were poised for quick success. After earning the enthusiastic support of influential British DJ John Peel, the band was signed to Epic Records, and their 1982 debut single, “In … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #371 to #369

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Outside Reading — Tripping Halls edition

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021 Dan Seeger

If Y2K-Era Movie Theater Carpets Could Talk by Foster Kamer Now this is the sort of narrow-niche article that I crave. Writing for the blog of independent film distributor A24, Foster Kamer offers an appreciation for the garish aesthetic of … Continue reading Outside Reading — Tripping Halls edition

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This Week’s Model — Waxahatchee, “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”

April 2, 2021 Dan Seeger

It’s been a long, rough year since Waxahatchee released the exceptional album Saint Cloud. There’s little doubt that Katie Crutchfield, the sole proprietor of Waxahatchee, was counting on the subsequent tour as her true revenue stream. We all know how … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Waxahatchee, “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”

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The New Releases Shelf — Little Oblivions

April 1, 2021 Dan Seeger

I want to write about Julien Baker’s new album, Little Oblivions, without bringing up the singer-songwriter’s bandmates in boygenius. It’s so hard, though. Just like her cohorts, Baker spun away from that indie dream group with a readiness to expand … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Little Oblivions

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Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number One

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Dan Seeger

As Kirsten Johnson watched as her beloved father’s mind slip away, she decided to grapple with the welling sorrow in the way that felt most natural and apt to her. She did it through her art. After years shooting documentaries, … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number One

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Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number Two

March 30, 2021 Dan Seeger

With a level of patience and care that’s become her clear trademark, writer-director Kelly Reichardt crafts a warm, shrewd cinematic story that explores a distant American past to offer pertinent, strangely moving commentary on the present. Set in the first … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number Two

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Then Playing — Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Another Round; Hillbilly Elegy

March 29, 2021 Dan Seeger

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Wollner, 2020). Notably stronger than its predecessor from fourteen years earlier, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm returns the title Kazakh journalist (Sacha Baron Cohen) to the good ol’ Land of the Free. Borat’s stated mission is to put … Continue reading Then Playing — Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Another Round; Hillbilly Elegy

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #374 to #372

March 28, 2021 Dan Seeger

374. Yaz, Upstairs at Eric’s (1982) Following the breakup of her group the Screamin’ Ab Dabs, Alison Moyet was a singer without a band. She followed a practice common to musical strays at the time by placing an ad in … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #374 to #372

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Outside Reading — The Wrong Questions edition

March 27, 2021 Dan Seeger

Ten Questions the Press Should Have Asked President Biden by Zeynep Tufekci It’s easy to pinpoint — and become enraged by — the failure of the White House press corps during the four years they utterly failed to properly confront … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Wrong Questions edition

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This Week’s Model — Bachelor, “Stay in the Car”

March 26, 2021 Dan Seeger

I wonder if it’s even accurate to use the term side project to refer to Bachelor, the new band formed by Ellen Kempner, frontperson of Palehound, and Melina Duterte, who performs under the name Jay Som. Maybe those categorizations no … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Bachelor, “Stay in the Car”

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