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Well, it seems this number keeps jumping higher and higher. There was a clearer method of listening this year, with more time at home to set a practice around all things, listening was no different. On Friday mornings, I would set aside a couple of hours for discovery — something I’d neglected to do consistently last year with my travel schedule. I’d forgotten about the excitement of it. I’d scour Bandcamp, search for blogs, text my pals who listen even more adventurously th...

Listen 7 min Open Mike Eagle. Photo by Emari Traffie Private Playlist is a listening session with Southern California’s most notable musical figures in their private creative environments.  With more than a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Leimert Park’s  Open Mike Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap...

Best music of the worst year: Our music critics favorite albums and songs of 2020 Our critics agreed on Fiona Apples sonic opus and the bolt-cutting value of 2020s other great albums and songs.  By Jon Bream and ...

Dead To A Dying World’s Sean Mehl discusses his 10 favorite albums of 2020 Elegy, and they were supposed to tour in 2020 but you-know-what happened. Guitarist Sean Mehl did keep his ear to the ground for new music though, and he has now made us a list of his ten favorite albums of the year, including a variety of styles of music from Anna von Hausswolff, clipping., Liturgy, Moor Mother, Nine Inch Nails, Sault, Wayfarer, and more. He also included thoughtful commentary on each pick, and you ca...

2020 has been a year unlike anything else weve ever experienced. The past 12 months have pushed us all to the brink, changing the role music plays in our lives in the process. Its not exactly been a pleasant experience - we can say that with some certainty - but this year has also driven home a number of important factors. Each of us, from freelance writers straight through to the Editor In Chief, are enormously grateful to have a platform with which to express ourselves, and also to support, s...

Circles "Good news, good news, thats all they want to hear," Mac Miller laments on the centerpiece to his first posthumous album. It should be no surprise that the late Pittsburgh rapper doesnt have a lot of that to offer on Circles, but what he does have to offer, over warm Jon Brion arrangements, is maybe more rewarding anyway -- a feeling of calm after the storm, not of serenity necessarily, but one of the hardest-earned stability. He says "Today Im fine," and you believe him. He says "Do n...