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Medium Rotation — Boat Songs; Headful of Sugar

June 15, 2022 Dan Seeger

MJ LENDERMAN Boat Songs (Dear Life) — The new album from Asheville-based singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman is a revival triumph for the era of sloughy dudes with guitars and an attitude grounded in sardonic misery. Boat Songs, the third solo album … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Boat Songs; Headful of Sugar

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Radio Days — Then and Now: Retro College Countdown from June 1989

June 13, 2022 Dan Seeger

This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. As I am occasionally privileged to do, I returned to my college radio alma mater last night … Continue reading Radio Days — Then and Now: Retro College Countdown from June 1989

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #185 to #183

June 12, 2022 Dan Seeger

185. Big Country, Steeltown (1984) Big Country has the kind of debut album a rock act longs for. Boosted in part by the surging influence of the new cable network MTV, The Crossing and its single “In a Big Country” … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #185 to #183

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This Week’s Model — Laura Veirs, “Eucalyptus”

June 10, 2022 Dan Seeger

For music fans with a long enough memory, I think there’s probably no way for the new Laura Veris single, “Eucalyptus,” to avoid comparisons to Suzanne Vega. A lilting female voice engaged in plain, crisp storytelling using a staccato rhythm … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Laura Veirs, “Eucalyptus”

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The Art of the Sell — General Electric “College Roommate” print ad

June 9, 2022 Dan Seeger

These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. In 1957, General Electric pitched their line of radios by noting that they made perfect companions for … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — General Electric “College Roommate” print ad

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Medium Rotation — Second Nature; Growing Up

June 6, 2022 Dan Seeger

LUCIUS Second Nature (Mom + Pop) — To the legions who’ve been longing for the next great record that’s suited to be accompaniment for a tearful backwards skate after a roller-rink break-up, Lucius is here for you. Six long years … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Second Nature; Growing Up

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #188 to #186

June 5, 2022June 5, 2022 Dan Seeger

188. The Jam, The Gift (1982) “For me, the songs on The Gift have less stops and starts,” Rick Buckler, drummer of the Jam, observed several years after the release of the band’s final album. “This is what I’m getting … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #188 to #186

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Outside Reading — Your Best American Grrrl edition

June 4, 2022 Dan Seeger

Kathleen Hanna Won’t Save You, So Stop Asking Her To by Laura Wynne This week brought the unlikely return of Creem. The brattier counterpoint to Rolling Stone in the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties relaunched as a robustly updated website and a … Continue reading Outside Reading — Your Best American Grrrl edition

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This Week’s Model — Pinkshift, “Nothing (In My Head)”

June 3, 2022 Dan Seeger

“Nothing (In My Head),” the new track from the Baltimore band Pinkshift, is a bazooka. In press material accompanying the release, the band explains that the song is about feeling trapping and longing for escape. The annotation is hardly necessary, … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Pinkshift, “Nothing (In My Head)”

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Medium Rotation — Warm Chris; Crooked Tree

June 2, 2022 Dan Seeger

ALDOUS HARDING Warm Chris (4AD) — The fourth studio album from Aldous Harding crackles with invention. Well, crackles might not be the right terminology, since that overall impression this smoothed-out, folk-grounded pop gives is of ideal refinement. The tracks on … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Warm Chris; Crooked Tree

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