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Dw. Dunphy’s Year-End Clearance Sale!
An abnormally good year for music in an abnormal year. As we close 2016 with either a fond wave of farewell or a single-finger salute, let’s look back on some of the records that made the mania a...
View ArticleBest of 2017: Justin Vellucci’s Top Ten
Yeah, yeah, putting the final nail in the coffin of 2017 is a little premature, seeing as there’s still more than 30 days left in the year. But, I’m the music writer compiling this list, so, here you...
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Best of 2017: 10 Albums for the Buy Curious
In the age of streaming, does anyone still care about someone else’s top albums list when every album in the known universe is at your fingertips 24/7 (if you have good cell signal and a decent data...
View ArticleA Fan’s Notes: Notable Albums of 2017
In early 2015 I published a list of my favorite albums of the previous year. In my story, I chastised writers who had rushed to get their lists out early and in doing so missed the December 15, 2014...
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Thank You, Next: 18 of 2018’s Other Epic Singles
Friends, robots, Kardashians, lend me your ears. Remember the days when you didn’t rely on a streaming algorithm to turn you onto new music? That’s right, back when your parents, older siblings, radio...
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2018’s 50 Best Albums: An Apocalypse Survival Guide
While it’s safe to say most of us want to forget all about 2018, there are hundreds of incredible albums by stellar artists across the complete spectrum of genres that are worthy of soundtracking your...
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An Aging Hipster’s Top 50 Albums of 2019
As society hurdles ass over ears into the smog congested, plastic particle infested, fact contested, crap basket of incivility, we can at least take solace in the fact it was a mighty good year for new...
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An Aging Hipster’s 21 Best Albums of 2021
OK, here’s a provocative and probably unpopular opinion – 2021 was a pretty good year. Trump is out of the White House (for now), vaccinations are at least available, and we’re not in a recession,...
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Popdose’s Worth-the-Wait, Retro-Heavy Top 50 CDs of 2022
Music journalists, bloggers, and fans typically rush to publish their year-end lists before the stroke of midnight on 12/31 as if all these albums will turn to pumpkin dust and immediate irrelevance....
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An Aging Hipster’s Top 50 Albums of 2023
In the November 2023 issue of Rolling Stone, a bunch of Millennial and GenZ editors essentially showed all Boomers and GenX’ers to the door to claim the magazine as their own. That’s fine, we had a...
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