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A collection of 47 posts

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/19/24

I come bearing gifts

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/15/24

Dueling banjos

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/14/24

On travel, arena rock, very sweet books, and music that does not touch the ground

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/7/24

On covers that do or do not need to exist, curbed enthusiasm, and exposure of a northern variety

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/6/24

On covers that are not covers and a general lack of proper prior planning

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/5/24

Gliding into the work week all easy-like

Music

Cultural Consumption: 2/1/24

Proof that a four-minute pop song can be a belated nostalgia ploy AND a poignant plea for the chance to make up for lost time

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/31/24

Rambling about the musical memory hole, sons of a glorious nature, and more

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/30/24

What kind of band name is "Los Colognes," anyway?

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/18/24

Time to get Crackin'

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/17/24

From a phony soundtrack to a real singer-songwriter

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/16/24

Much mellower than planned.

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/15/24

When you're creeping up on 50 and you have a family and a house to take care of, "three-day weekend" doesn't necessarily mean "a lot of extra time to loaf around writing Jefitoblog posts"; often, instead it means "now there'

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/11/24

As a much younger listener, I was extremely lyrics-focused — not to the extent that great lyrics would get me to forgive the idiosyncratic vocal stylings of, say, a Bob Dylan, but definitely to the extent that my first trip through any new album was typically spent reading through every verse

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/10/24

Woof! This day has just about defeated me in terms of the amount of time and creative energy that remains, but I've got a pretty good streak going here and I don't want to break it now, so here we go. For as long as I

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/9/24

If you're anything like me, you regularly lose track of artists whose work you've actively enjoyed. Hooked up to this great informational firehose we're all attached to, I'm not sure there are enough "follow" buttons, push notifications, or newsletter blasts

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/8/24

Today's musical roulette wheel landed on Del Water Gap's 2023 release I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet. Prior to diving into the record in question, I didn't know anything about this act, but I'd enjoyed a couple other

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/4/24

Some days are more conducive than others when it comes to listening to stuff and then writing about it, and today definitely landed on the "less conducive" end of the spectrum. This is a bummer, but on the other hand, I had less time for listening because I

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/3/24

The discovery algorithms used by Spotify and Apple, etc. have never done a lot for me in terms of putting new stuff I'll love in my ears, so I'm kind of ambivalent about that stuff at best — but I'm also an outlier in a

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/2/24

Today's soundtrack comes to us courtesy of my brother Brian, who sent me a Bandcamp gift copy of Kyle Craft's Full Circle Nightmare for Christmas. It was released in 2018, but it's all new to me — and besides, from the production to the arrangements,

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/1/24

Unsure of what to listen to next and let down by whichever bits of code are supposed to help Spotify and Apple Music point me toward stuff I'll like, I decided to try Gnoosic, a discovery engine that works by asking you to give it the names of

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