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To recap, here are: My 10 favorite albums of 2013, all genres in play. My 10 favorite jazz albums of 2013, plus one ...

My 2013 metal-only top 10 is live now, appended to Brandon Stosuy's year-end Show No Mercy countdown at Pitchfork. Several of these rec...

My 2013 jazz top 10 is live now at the Jazz Journalists Association site. My 2012 year-end jazz list was pretty extensive; this one is mor...

TONY 's "Best albums of 2013" feature is now live . That link will take you to a composite top 10 list,...

Sometimes appreciation takes the form of disbelief. You know a musical phenomenon from recordings, and you seek it out in person, assuming t...

Good for You: Greg Ginn, left, with Mike Vallely DFSBP is not a news blog, but at the moment I feel the need to write a qua...