January 2011
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December 2010
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Leah's Top 10 of 2010
Happy New Year, all! I thought I’d follow up James’ 10 best with my own, agreeing completely with the fact that there was a lot of fantastic stuff released this year.
10.) Dr. Dog, “Shame, Shame”: Like Blitzen Trapper, but better. If you listen to anything off of this album, listen to “Unbearable Why”.
9.) Sia, “We Are Born”: Generally, I have a broad taste in...
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James' Top 10 of 2010
Hopefully as many of you as possible have voted in our poll for which albums you think should be rated highest in 2010, and so we’ll have a less biased and more stylistically/ethnically diverse list with us in the not too distant future. But on a personal level, I’ve been quite proud of 2010’s ability to churn out consistently good shit- I’ve never found myself lost for...
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meaghano:
“wat are you doing new year’s...
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“The best music is the music that persuades us that there is no other music in...”
– Alex Ross from Listen To This
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Bored? Snowed In? →
Browse The Auditory archives and find some good music to help you pass the time. I’ve been bored, browsing, finding some old gems from our writers from Bach to Wu-Tang.
Get it!
-Daniel
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zveneczi:
J.S. Bach: Choral ‘In Dulci Jubilo’,...
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2010 Reader's Poll →
Don’t forget! There’s still time to vote in our 2010 ‘Reader’s Poll’. On New Year’s Eve we’ll be unveiling the Top 10 albums of 2010 picked by YOU!
Happy Holidays!
-Daniel
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Greatest Choirs or Greatest British Choirs?
I am not a fan of Eric Whitacre, and I normally would not give him the time of day in a blog post but I have so many negative feelings about his comments on Gramophone’s list of the 20 Greatest Choirs in the world. Of the twenty choirs, thirteen are British. Not a single American choir made the list. Before I tear apart what appears to be a defense or justification by Whitacre, I want to take a...
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CONTACT!
On Friday evening, I attended the latest CONTACT! concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was my second time attending one of the New York Philharmonic’s New Music series’. There was nothing particularly awful about the concert, but there was definitely nothing very exciting either. In April, I attended CONTACT! to hear Nico Muhly’s work, Detailed Instructions. Even though I went...
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Who Still Goes To The Record Store?
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, many people are reflecting on the mistakes or lack of progress that, we ourselves and our leaders, have made during the past ten years. Music, however, along with social media, has made great strides to find new outlets of expression and distribution. In the age of YouTube, iTunes, Torrents, and other forms of open media, the recording...
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Remembering John Lennon
Today marks the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s tragic, unexpected death. On December 8th, 1980, John, and his wife Yoko Ono, had just arrived at their New York City apartment, when John was shot five times by deranged fan Mark David Chapman. Chapman had been waiting at Lennon’s apartment the entire day—interacting with John’s other fans, speaking to the doorman, and even stopping John that...
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