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Love lists, but hate all that enumeration? Here are three albums that came out this year, and some sample tracks so you too, gentle reader, can enjoy some of what I’ve enjoyed this year. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information 3 I’m ill-equipped to describe jazz of any kind. On top of that, the [...]

There’s no other band like Electric Six. Who else could sing about household cleaning products and make it sound so badass? Plus, Dick Valentine can reduce the host of Fox’ “it’s-irreverent-’cause-we-say-so” show Red Eye to a puddle of bootlickery, and thereby free us all from being judged by the company we keep. Seven years in [...]