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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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Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Dance Naked”

May 30, 2022May 31, 2022 Dan Seeger

These posts are about the songs that fell just short of crossing the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. After releasing a string of hit singles … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Dance Naked”

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #191 to #189

May 29, 2022December 16, 2023 Dan Seeger

191. X, See How We Are (1987) The sixth X record, See How We Are, found the Los Angeles band in transition. On their previous studio outing, Ain’t Love Grand, they undertook a shift that proved faulty. They parted ways … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #191 to #189

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This Week’s Model — Suede, “She Still Leads Me”

May 27, 2022 Dan Seeger

I don’t know I can be expected to resist this. Suede’s new single, “She Still Leads Me,” moves with a swoop and dramatic grandeur that evokes the nineteen-nineties heyday of Britpop overstaters, such as Pulp, Oasis, and, um, themselves, I … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Suede, “She Still Leads Me”

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Medium Rotation — Wild Loneliness; Painless

May 25, 2022 Dan Seeger

SUPERCHUNK Wild Loneliness (Merge) — It should not be said that time has mellowed Superchunk. Sure, it’s been more than thirty years since “Slack Motherfucker,” their official debut single after a release under the name Chunk, but the nail-spitting rage … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Wild Loneliness; Painless

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #194 to #192

May 22, 2022 Dan Seeger

194. Big Audio Dynamite, This is Big Audio Dynamite (1985) “We put on a great show, unless you turn up hoping to see the old Clash,” Mick Jones explained as his band Big Audio Dynamite embarked on a tour to … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #194 to #192

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This Week’s Model — Try the Pie, “Last of You”

May 20, 2022 Dan Seeger

I guess it’s official: I’m destined to immediately fall — and fall hard — for new tracks that merge a nineteen-nineties guitar fuzziness with early twenty-first century indie-rock yearning. Waxahatchee is undoubtedly the standard bearer for the sound, but Try … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Try the Pie, “Last of You”

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The New Releases Shelf — Wet Leg

May 17, 2022 Dan Seeger

Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers make a nifty racket together. Hailing from the Isle of Wight, the longtime friends decided to form the band Wet Leg just a couple years ago and quickly got down to the business of crafting … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Wet Leg

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Radio Days — Then and Now: May 15, 2022

May 16, 2022September 29, 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’ve been lucky to do several times over the past years, I spent my Sunday night … Continue reading Radio Days — Then and Now: May 15, 2022

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #197 to #195

May 15, 2022 Dan Seeger

197. The Bongos, Beat Hotel (1985) RCA Records thought this new band they signed held some promise of crossing over. There were already some little inklings that the Bongos had the makings of mass appeal. Two of the singles from … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #197 to #195

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