If you’ve been following this (very sporadically updated) blog for a while or even just a little bit, you’ll be familiar with my tendency to post end-of-year lists after the end of the year. (I lampshaded this several times in my miraculously-done-before-2024 best songs post.) And I have spoken in the past about how late…
My 2023 in Music, Part I: The Songs
I really love to share music. Music I listen to, music I make, music all over the place — music drives my life in so many ways that I can’t help but take opportunities to talk about it. Also, I have ADHD (my diagnosis about a year and a half ago or so explained so…
My 2022 in Music, Part II: The Albums
I’m back! Will this be posted before 2022 comes to a close? Brandon of right now starting this post does not know, but you, dear reader, can now see the future. Which is your present. Whoa.* (*Note added after I got through only 3 albums before 2022 ended: Yeah, luck/ability to write super quickly about…
My 2022 in Music, Part I: The Songs
I’ve done a year-end recap of my favorite songs and albums for quite some time now, and one crazy year — 2015 — I went ever-so-slightly insane and semi-ranked 100 favorite albums and 25 songs. The past couple years, I went a lot shorter than that, and last year was down to 19 or 20…
New Christmas: A Non-Comprehensive, Highly Subjective Guide to Enjoying Holiday Songs You Hate
People have wildly divergent opinions on everything when it comes to music, and when it comes to Christmas music — all bets are off. The convergence of differing emotions about the season, good and bad holiday memories, whether or not you can or can’t watch A Charlie Brown Christmas because the kids are just too…
The Songs of James Bond
The setting: June 1983, Brooklyn, New York. A 14-year-old girl leaves her birthday party early to go out with her boyfriend (alas, they wouldn’t last) to see a movie. Nothing too notable about that, right? However, that movie was Octopussy, the thirteenth entry in the long-running James Bond series. It was the first James Bond…
My 2021 in Music
I started my review of my favorite music from last year with this sentence: “Here’s an understatement: It’s been a crazy year.” Well, that’s stayed pretty constant this year, honestly. But as always, great music has abounded, even in wild times such as these. Here’s a quick — at least as quick as I can…
My 2020 in Music
Here’s an understatement: it’s been a crazy year. But even through a pandemic … great music has shone through. It’s been a wonderfully rewarding 12 months in terms of songs and albums I’ve enjoyed, and in pretty much every case, these songs and albums have helped me process all the emotions, challenges, joys, highs, lows…
My Favorite Albums of the Decade
There are many ways to reflect on months and years and decades — but one of my favorite is music. To be more specific, albums. Over this past decade I’ve become even more enamored of the art form that is a complete album. This has happened even as my musical listening priorities have shifted a…
New Music Friday: Natalia Lafourcade, Jamiroquai, & More
This blog is back in business, yet again, with my first New Music Friday post in quite some time. I’ve been really jonesing to share the things I’ve been listening to these past few months, but life got in the way. I’m pushing it out of the way now for a few minutes so I…
Throwback Thursday: “Summer Day”
It’s been a bit since I’ve done a Throwback Thursday post here on the blog. Continuing a trend, I won’t be throwing it back that far. Today’s song is just six years old, and it came out this very week, in fact. The song in itself is kind a throwback, though–maybe you could call it…
Song of the Day: “Call Me”
Forgive the relatively late hour at which I’m posting this (making it more a “Song of the Night” than a “Song of the Day”), but I just discovered a song, and I really, really wanted to share it. So much that I’m awakening this blog, yet again, from its slumber. Take a listen to “Call Me”…
Harmony Avenue 