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December 18, 2017

Music Favorites from 2017

By James

Out of order list of some of my favorite music releases this year. Not that you asked.

Marvin Pontiac, The Asylum Tapes

Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me

The National, Sleep Well Beast

The Magnetic Fields, 50 Song Memoir

Game Theory, Supercalifragile

Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Luciferian Towers

Planetarium

St. Vincent, MASSEDUCTION

Father John Misty, Pure Comedy

Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock

Sufjan Stevens, Tonya Harding

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January 14, 2016

Men Drinking Whiskey

By James

A playlist of men drinking whiskey.

Adam Scott with Nick Offerman in Parks and Recreation

Father John Misty (Josh Tillman) for Suntory

Bill Murray in Lost in Translation

Nick Offerman’s Yule Log

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December 31, 2015

Music Favorites from 2015

By James

Below is my unscientific picks for some of my favorite music releases from 2015 (in alphabetical order).

  • Advance Base Nephew in the Wild, song pick: Christmas in Milwaukee

  • Supermoon Oh Supermoon, Vol. 1, song pick: Sarah

  • Alabama Shakes Sound & Color, song pick: Dunes

  • Moses Sumney Mid-City Island, song pick: Everlasting Sigh

  • Boots Aquaria, song pick: I Run Roulette

  • Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear, song pick: The Ideal Husband

  • Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, song pick: An Illustration Of Loneliness (Sleepless In NY)

  • EL VY Return to the Moon, song pick: I’m The Man To Be

  • The Minus 5 Dungeon Gold’s, song pick: My Generation

  • Pfarmers Gunnera, song pick: The Ol’ River Gang

  • Laurie Anderson Heart of a Dog, song pick: The Release of Love

  • Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell, song pick: Should Have Known Better

  • John Grant Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, song pick: Snug Slacks

  • Daniel Bachman River, song pick: Song For The Setting Sun II

  • The Mountain Goats Beat The Champ, song pick: Southwestern Territory

  • Taylor Batton Taylor Batton, song pick: Until Summer

  • Father John Misty 1989, song pick: Welcome to New York

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December 21, 2013

My Favorite Releases from 2013

By James

10. Simon Joyner – Ghosts

9. Yo La Tengo – Fade

8. Willis Earl Beal – Nobody Knows

7. David Bowie – The Next Day

6. Califone – Stitches

5. Shearwater – Fellow Travelers

4. Bill Callahan – Dream River

3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away

2. The National – Trouble Will Find Me

1. Low – The Invisible Way

Other of note: Richard Buckner – Surrounded, Kanye West – Yeezus, Phosphorescent – Muchacho, Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight…, The Knife – Shaking the Habitual, Savages – Silence Yourself, Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw, Volcano Choir – Repave, Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost, Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, Retribution Gospel Choir – 3, Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold, Robyn Hitchcock – Love From London, Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving

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