You may have noticed that I gave up on my monthly wrap-up posts about halfway through the year. So, on one hand, here's a high-octane dance mini-mix for all your New Year's Eve partying needs. But, on the other hand, here's a shameless opportunity for me to present a handful of those songs that time (and procrastination) forgot. Hopefully, they'll serve you well...

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As always, it was inordinately difficult to even think about determining my favorite releases of the year in any quantifiable way. As always, I considered doing it alphabetically or not doing it at all. As always, I ultimately couldn't resist the lure of ranking anyway. As always, I attempted to do so using decidedly unquantifiable criteria: emotional impact, pure enjoyment factor, and perceived...

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First off, I want to say thank you to those of you who indulged my last post and possibly even enjoyed it. I know it's not necessarily the type of content a lot of people are looking for on a music blog, but creative writing has always been my first love, and those juices haven't really been flowing for me lately, so it...

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"Illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential." - Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" She would be the brightest pop star in the known universe. They had scoured every history book, analyzed every artifact, aggregated centuries’ worth of raw data, and it all led them to the same conclusion: there had never been one like...

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Well, here it is, unforgivably late, I know, especially for how slight it is compared to my usual quarter wrap-ups. What can I say? Either I've become harder to impress as the year has progressed, or I've become less inclined to feverishly keep up with albums that hold even the slightest interest to me. I think it's probably a combination of both. At...

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