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My Favorite album

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You Should Know Who Tom Wilson Was – Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed Certainly Did

“Everybody’s Head Is Open to Sound” looks at the life of the legendary record producer, but rarely gets out of the studio.

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Listening to The Carpenters’ ‘Gold’ While Lying On a Blue Shag Rug

Country-soul artist Vanessa J. Moore was schooled by Karen Carpenter’s rich, velvety, raspy … simply perfect vocals.

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The Brilliance of Aimee Mann’s ‘I’m With Stupid’

My Favorite Album: NYC indie-folk singer and songwriter Robert Scheffler delves into intricate sonic layers of the 1995 gem.

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Leah Nawy was Cut Loose By Fiona Apple

The New York-based Taiwanese-American artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist tells us about her love for Apple’s “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.”

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Talulah Paisley Jetted Off to Liz Phair’s Guyville

My Favorite Album: Brooklyn-based artist Lyris Faron, the front-woman for the experimental rock band Talulah Paisley, and former member of Sloppy Jane and T-Rextasy, revisits “Exile In Guyville.”

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When Swervedriver Produced a Shoegaze Behemoth

My Favorite Album: Eric Richter, singer and guitarist with ’90s-aughts NYC band Antarctica (plus Christie Front Drive and now Suburban Eyes) told us about beautiful, swirling production values.

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Two Decades On, Broadcast Still Pushes All the Right Buttons

My Favorite Album: London-born, NY-based singer-songwriter Cornelia Murr told us about her love for a classic from the aughts.

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Flipping Over the Classics: Streisand, The Beatles, and The Cure

My Favorite Album: The members of the LGBTQ+ New York City-based indie electronic trio Occurrence zero in on three albums for the ages.

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Going Down ‘The Cocaine Drain’ With the Cowsills

My Favorite Album: Ginger, frontman with British rockers The Wildhearts, relates the pleasures of listening to the pre-Partridge Family dysfunctional brood.

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Lauren Mayberry Got Shook Up by Tori Amos’s ‘Little Earthquakes’

My Favorite Album: Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of the electro-pop band CHVRCHES, got an education from the Tori Amos classic.

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