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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

Quarantine Album Pick of the Week

Quarantine Album Pick of the Week – Remembering Bill Withers on April 6th

2020-04-07
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Historic, MUSIC, Quarantine Album Pick of the Week

The word gifted to me this week by a friend was “resurrection”, which I believe was partly to observe Easter and Good Friday. Now this is what we’d call a “heavy” word, with pretty strong connotations, yet it seems incredibly appropriate not only for being relevant to this current week but also within the context of our global pandemic-induced hibernation. We are all clenching, eagerly awaiting a revival or regeneration of our lives and the world around us. However, here...

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By Derek Henry
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Quarantine Album Pick of the Week – March 31st

2020-04-01
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Current, MUSIC, Quarantine Album Pick of the Week

The word given to me for this week’s “Quarantine Album Pick of the Week” was a bit tougher, especially within the current context of life. The word was “soaring”. Ah, how we would all love to wake up and open our doors and burst out onto a beautiful morning street without reservation. Alas, we cannot. So this word makes a lot to sense when ascribed to our existing predicament and the natural yearning to be free in the open air....

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By Derek Henry
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Quarantine Album Pick of the Week – March 23rd

2020-03-24
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Current, MUSIC, Quarantine Album Pick of the Week

Don’t these milky-white British boys just ooze “sexy”? Well, hold on a minute…. What this album feels like is a group of your friends, who have all tested negative for the coronavirus, inviting you up to a really understated house party on the top floor of a skyscraper. You walk over to a window, contrasting the dark apartment around you with a greyish pallor from an overcast day. You look down on an empty city, self-isolated, in the middle of...

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By Derek Henry
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