Thursday, December 27, 2018

Best of 2018: Digest

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*Jazz list . *Metal list . *All-genres-in-play list . *Live list . *All-genres-in-play top 10 list archive, 2005 through the present...

Best of 2018: Live

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Suffocation's Frank Mullen. Photo: Ignacio Orellana Alarcon Some great shows I saw this year: Dan Weiss / Stare...

Best of 2018: Overall top 10 + songs

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Here is my all-genres-in-play 2018 top 10, as submitted to two independent year-end surveys — neither of which is online yet — along with...

Best of 2018: Metal

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Here is Rolling Stone 's list of 2018's 20 best metal albums , as chosen and annotated by my colleagues Suzy Exposito, Kory Grow ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Best of 2018: Jazz

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I was thinking it might be fun to dissect this whole year-end process a bit, for anyone that might be interested in...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Best of 2018: Quick links

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*Here is the year-end jazz top 20 I put together for Rolling Stone . *And here is RS' annual metal top 20 , a collaborative venture ...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Lately (12/3/18)

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A couple articles on the intersection of jazz and the wider world of mainstream, or at least non-insular, music: *Warren Smith reflects on...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Year-end jazz top 10 lists: 2008 through the present

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The below is an un-annotated survey of Hank Shteamer's jazz-only "Albums of the year" top 10 lists, stretching back to 2008, ...

Year-end top 10 lists: 2005 through the present

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The below is an un-annotated survey of Hank Shteamer's all-genres-in-play "Albums of the year" top 10 lists, stretching back t...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Lately (11/20/18)

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*Frank Mullen's final NYC show as the vocalist of Suffocation (a band I've written about at some length on DFSBP) turned out to be ...