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2020 Roundup of the Best Albums

As often tends to happen, the trend of posting late year-end wrap-ups continues…..and this year it is even more belated. In looking at my 2019 post of the best albums, published to the site on the flagrantly delinquent date of March 29th, there was a surety that would never happen again. Yet here we are, already a third of the way into 2021 and the window on 2020 reflections has clearly closed.  Nevertheless, stubbornness will prevail in almost all instances....

Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017

One way of describing 2017 is it was a remarkable year in the barest sense – meaning that despite all of the darkness, bigotry, abuse, and scandal, it was nonetheless still a year worth many remarks. Hey, that’s better than saying it was an unremarkable year not worth mentioning. Popular culture was galvanized by the sweeping hand of the #MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter to such a large degree that it engulfed the public consciousness. The power of the...