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Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017
Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes
Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line
The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez
Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine
The Last Rays and Skeleton Shadows: Best Late Fall Records
Sonikseek: Toronto Gives Us the Future of Pop with MorMor

Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017
Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes
Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line
The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez
Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine
The Last Rays and Skeleton Shadows: Best Late Fall Records
Sonikseek: Toronto Gives Us the Future of Pop with MorMor

Wicked Neat Music Videos

Wicked Neat Music Music Videos: Duckwrth and Chameleon Sounds

2020-04-24
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Current, MUSIC, PERIODICS, Wicked Neat Music Videos

“Bernal Heights” was the closing song of the recent playlist Tunnelgazing Vol. 02, and it was a pleasant surprise to find there was a music video out there just as good as the song. For a cut that has an interesting medley aspect to it – going from winsome and idyllic to abruptly shifting urgent and sinister – the music video does an exceptional job of also capturing that shift by means of storyline and tone. We have a mixed...

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By Derek Henry
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Wicked Neat Music Videos: Laawd What’s Nxt for Paak

2018-10-01
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Current, MUSIC, PERIODICS, Wicked Neat Music Videos

Why a period before Paak? What is the reason, what is the cause? There is a lot of intrigue surrounding the artist Anderson .Paak, who is undoubtedly making a rocket-fired ascent into stardom ever since 2016 brought us the album Malibu. After that watershed album, he has been featured on tracks from so many eminent artists, from Chance the Rapper to Mac Miller. The “Wicked Neat Music Video” featured this time on the periodic is the funky and downright wicked...

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By Derek Henry
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Wicked Neat Music Videos: The Whistle of My College Years

2017-06-25
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Historic, MUSIC, Wicked Neat Music Videos

One of these days I will make a Top 10 list for “Favorite Albums from College”, and it will be a lovely stroll down memory lane indeed. For the time being we will just say that Peter Bjorn & John’s 2006 album Writer’s Block is on that list. I remember driving to a Best Buy in Manhattan, Kansas…..yes, a Best Buy, and buying this one along with one of the Kings of Leon records. When “Young Folks” came on, track 3,...

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By Derek Henry
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Wicked Neat Music Videos: Fujiya & Miyagi

2017-05-21
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Current, MUSIC, PERIODICS, Wicked Neat Music Videos

Rounding out a litany of periodics I wanted to start is the music video segment. No I am not from the East Coast, however, I would like to gainfully adopt the upper Northeast’s use of the word “wicked” and combine it with my annoying habit of using old-timey adjectives like “neat” and “swell” or outdated phrases like “what in tarnations” and “golly gee willikers”. Let’s just call it a “niche vocabulary”. Speaking of a niche, the English band Fujiya...

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By Derek Henry
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