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Posts from December 2006

Jazz & Improvisation, 1970-1990

Is there a writer who can take on the project of an unbiased overview of [jazz] music since the end of the Vietnam war?
Visionsong’s collection of jazz and improvisational albums post-Vietnam is both exciting and daunting.
Given the challenge from Dave Douglas, Ethan at The Bad Plus and Pat at Visionsong compiled lists that inspires […]


Marathonpacks’ Year End List

Marathonpacks’ Top 19 of 2006 list is a really good read. There are a couple albums on there I’m not familiar with, and a few that I don’t care for at all, but regardless of your feelings on each of his picks, the writing is impeccable and refreshing–I found myself interested in things I previously […]


Stephin Merritt Performs on Good Day Atlanta

Merritt (The 6ths, Magnetic Fields) went on Fox’s Good Day Atlanta to promote the Lemony Snicket audio books, which he performs on, and if you’re familiar at all with him and his work, the very notion of him on a morning show complete with falsely gregarious host and awkward questioning is enough to make […]


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18 December 2006 @ 5pm

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ACL Festival Memories c/o Austinist & Super!Alright!

We had a party! Um, several months ago! Thank you Super!Alright!


Flux Rad 2006 Ist Rad Mixtape Vol III

I didn’t have any trouble picking my Top 10 Albums of the year, and I think it’s half because of the fervor with which I got attached to a few things combined with the lack of really interesting and impressive stuff coming out in 2006. Between baby Wolf Parades (biological and otherwise) and more boring, […]


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