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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #476 to #474

August 2, 2020 Dan Seeger

476. Love Tractor, This Ain’t No Outer Space Ship (1986) The early nineteen-eighties was a good time for a band to ply their trade in Athens, Georgia. In addition to an especially fertile club scene, boosted by a college crowd … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #476 to #474

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This Week’s Model — Ela Minus, “megapunk”

July 31, 2020 Dan Seeger

Hypnotic and steely, the new single from Ela Minus is a forceful techno anthem for our wounded times. Born in Bogota and based in Brooklyn, Minus makes music with an impeccable sense of craft, layering on airy, rich vocals that … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Ela Minus, “megapunk”

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #479 to #477

July 26, 2020August 11, 2021 Dan Seeger

479. Roxy Music, Flesh + Blood (1980) After Roxy Music returned from an extended hiatus to make the 1979 album Manifesto, they found themselves making significant adjustments intended to insinuate their music into the marketplace. Songs from the album were … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #479 to #477

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This Week’s Model — Lydia Loveless, “Love is Not Enough”

July 24, 2020 Dan Seeger

“I can’t believe the worst kinds of people achieve/ Everything they want/ But it takes medication to get me off.” In her new song, Lydia Loveless does a damn fine job of encapsulating what it’s like to live in the … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Lydia Loveless, “Love is Not Enough”

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The New Releases Shelf — Women in Music Pt. III

July 21, 2020 Dan Seeger

Well, the title is just about perfect, isn’t it? For their third full-length effort, Haim swing their broadswords straight at the identity shorthand that gets laid upon their music, defining their craft less by the sounds assembled and more by … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Women in Music Pt. III

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #482 to #480

July 19, 2020August 23, 2021 Dan Seeger

482. Negativland, Escape from Noise (1987) Richard Lyons and Mike Hosler had been operating together as Negativland for nearly ten years when they and their collaborators delivered the album Escape from Noise. The group’s first outing for SST Records, a … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #482 to #480

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This Week’s Model — Shamir, “I Wonder”

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 Dan Seeger

“And soon I’ll the neon shining moon/ And I’ll break you up just like the stars/ I’ll be the Earth without disease/ And you the human inside of me,” Shamir sings at the opening of “I Wonder,” his new single. … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Shamir, “I Wonder”

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #485 to #483

July 12, 2020May 6, 2021 Dan Seeger

485. Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods, Casual Gods (1988) Thanks to his membership in Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison could claim a central part in creating some of the best and most influential rock music of the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties. As the … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #485 to #483

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This Week’s Model — Bully, “Every Tradition”

July 10, 2020 Dan Seeger

Years ago, I received a piece of advice that I assumed was worldly wise: Whatever other professionals you might work with in management of your day-to-day affairs, make sure you have a mechanic you can trust. I suppose there’s truth … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Bully, “Every Tradition”

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The New Releases Shelf — Punisher

July 9, 2020May 13, 2024 Dan Seeger

If there’s a better pure songwriter than Phoebe Bridgers at this moment, I don’t know who it is. Punisher, Bridgers’s sophomore release under her own name, comes after some productive moonlighting with pals in the groups boygenius and Better Oblivion … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Punisher

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