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Sharing Music With Love
Brown Sugar (2002) “I reminisced out the sentimental songs I enjoyed when I was a teenager…. I realized they were written in a language I did not yet speak.” Frank Ocean -Tumblr Letter (2012) There is no better way to capture the emotions and feelings of someone you care for with music. Always, I’ve struggled… Read more
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Top 25 Albums & Songs of 2022
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Music lists are a great organizer for learning what others have been listening to over the past year. In the first major year with pandemic-free restrictions, it has been great getting out there to see concerts, festivals, and DJ Sets with others. As the music industry has… Read more
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Favorite Things 2022
Running list of music and music-adjacent things I came across this year. Channel 5 O Block Video Love Andrew Callaghan’s videos with Channel 5 and formerly All Gas No Breaks. Sheads a differnet light on Chicago’s O block formally know as Parkway Gardens when the rap subgenre drill music got its start with musicians such… Read more
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‘Owbum’ to Maturity
Chance’s newest album represents how artistic growth and creativity is a laborious and fraught process.
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Best Music 2025
*Year-End Lists are the intersection between a Third Space and Endless ConsumptionThe end of each year brings a lot of year-end lists to put a bow on the soundtrack our lives. In a year of much anxiety, personally in my life and throughout the world, music in its many forms was a solace from that… Read more
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On Mixtapes and Friendship
For several months, I have allowed myself to embrace the nostalgia of music from my time in high school in the early 2010s. Artists I typically derided, such as Black Eyed Peas and Pitbull, I have newfound joy and reminisce as I grew into becoming a music lover. All the music on the radio at… Read more
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