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Great bloggers make great music bloggers

by Fred (follow us on Facebook) Tyler Cowen draws attention to this paragraph, from Milan Kundera's Encounter:Scarcely 1 percent of the world's population are childless, but at least 50 percent of the great literary characters exit the...

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Great bloggers make great music bloggers

by Fred (follow us on Facebook) From Tyler Cowen:In 1984, my marriage to Cindy was in serious trouble. I had started once a week therapy with a McLean Hospital based psychiatrist named Lenore Boling, and I used...

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(The interesting part of) American Idol returns, and (interestingly enough) Ann Althouse returns to American Idol.

by Fred To wit, read her thoughts on why Tyler Grady failed to pass muster, here. Rarely does AA out-think a problem, and the dispatches she files from American Idol are usually no exception, but...

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The more things change,…

Someone teleported through time from the early 1950s to 2009 would find a music business curiously similar to the landscape of 60 years ago. Few specialty record outlets. Department stores dominating the market....

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"A subject only a movie music reviewer can care about."

Great post, and great point about year-end "bottom ten" lists, from our favorite battery type (that's AA, you fiends; get your minds out of the gutter): Come on, if a movie was that bad, any...

Great bloggers are great music bloggers

From Andrew Sullivan.

Remember that scene in The Breakfast Club? I believe the THC had already been ingested. The loathsome five spontaneously decided to be friends and apropos of nothing started dancing? Imagine that same choreography set to “Lisztomania” by Phoenix.

Don’t have the requisite mental creativity? [Sigh.] Then just watch:

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