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2020 Roundup of the Best Albums

As often tends to happen, the trend of posting late year-end wrap-ups continues…..and this year it is even more belated. In looking at my 2019 post of the best albums, published to the site on the flagrantly delinquent date of March 29th, there was a surety that would never happen again. Yet here we are, already a third of the way into 2021 and the window on 2020 reflections has clearly closed.  Nevertheless, stubbornness will prevail in almost all instances....

Staying Edgy in a World of Post-Reverb Rock

I’m definitely paraphrasing when discussing an interesting quote in Lizzy Goodman’s oral history compilation Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011. This quote stood out for being both blunt as well as resoundingly true. If you are not familiar with this seminal 2017 publication, Goodman basically took thousands of hours of interviews with some of the most important musicians, critics, and record producers of NYC’s Rock resurgence, including The Strokes, The Rapture,...