musings on music

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Best Albums of 2008

1. Rings - Black Habit
2. V/A - Como Now!: The Voices of Panola County, MS
3. Hercules & Love Affair - self-titled
4. Matmos - Supreme Balloon
5. Portishead - Third
6. Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground
7. Clinic - Do It!
8. Corespondents - Hairy Ghost Pipefish
9. Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won
10. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

recent writings

Nurse With Wound
Paint & Copter
Portland Cello Project
Hypatia Lake
King Louie
Pink Widower
Peter Moren
Feral Children
PDX Pop Now Festival
Corespondents
LSD&D



the publications i write for

Blurt
Burnside Writers Collective
Dagger
DVD Corner
Junkmedia
LivePDX
LivePDX Music Blog
LivePDX Movies Blog
The Oregonian
Relevant Magazine
Stylus Magazine
Performer Magazine
Willamette Week

the writers i admire

Andrew Beaujon
Andy Beta
Chunklet
Joshua Clover
Robert Christgau
John Darnielle
Andrew Earles
Sasha Frere-Jones
Lalita Ham
Hua Hsu
Michaelangelo Matos
Matt McKechnie
Susan Miller-Josselyn
Adam P. Newton
Philip Sherburne
Simon Reynolds
Luc Sante
The Wire/The Mire
Douglas Wolk
Wow & Flutter