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Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Essentiality Review
Here’s one simple and kind of dumb thought I had about jazz one time: ‘If music was a circle, then jazz would be the point where that circle starts and ends’. Mathematically circles don’t have beginnings or ends though, so, was I thinking of popular music history as if someone was drawing a circle and…
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El Décimo Capítulo: Reflexiones sobre la edición 2019 del Corona Capital.
Aclaración: Todas las reflexiones y pensamientos expresados en este artículo son únicamente mi opinión y para uso exclusivamente como recomendación (o no) del Corona Capital y los artistas que se presentaron. Pueden dejar comentarios expresando su opinión, éste, finalmente, es un espacio libre. ¿Qué es lo que se supone que tenemos que esperar…
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Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Review
The only absolute truth of our lives is that death will come eventually. No one escapes from it. Dealing with that fact has become ordinary, even manageable. But when death comes for a loved one in a moment that seems too soon, that, is completely different. Why is it so difficult to deal with and…
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The National/Mexico City/October 16th 2019
While I was waiting in line to see, arguably, my favorite band right now, one interesting thought came into my mind: Why is all this people coming to see The National? It’s not that they’re not popular enough for people in Mexico to be interested in them. Simply, how can a band that makes music…
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Abbey Road by The Beatles – Essentiality Review
50 years. Half a century. Everything that needs to be said about The Beatles and their 11th album, Abbey Road has been said. The facts about its recording process, the story of a one-of-a-kind band that was coming to an end, the mixed reception of the finished product, the theories surrounding each song, the creation of the…
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Hospice by The Antlers – Essentiality Review
It is 6:40 am. I’m leaving my house to go to work. I’m walking to the stop where I meet a colleague who’s going to pick me up. Carpooling has become a routine. Walking through the morning mist after a rainy night is also a routine. But the most important routine is putting my headphones…
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I Am Easy To Find by The National – Review
I just have to say it: right now, in this particular moment of my life, The National is my favorite band. Why? As I stated in my list of favorite albums of 2017, while talking of the band’s previous release, Sleep Well Beast, The National are experts at delivering a message through music, whatever that message…
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U.F.O.F. by Big Thief – Review
Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums) are Big Thief, a New York-based indie folk/rock band that in their new album U.F.O.F. have made their own rules in crafting evocative guitar lines, pulsating rhythm sections and oh-so painfully direct lyrics. The album in question is unattached from their past discography both…
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Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood – Review
When I first heard Weyes Blood, the voice threw me back in time 50 years. And yet, the production, the sounds surrounding it, and its personality helped it sound present and tangible. The sensation was unique, and I was surprised of knowing who was behind it. Weyes Blood is the artistic name of Natalie Mering,…
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Courtney Barnett/Mexico City/March 4th 2019
When I read that Courtney Barnett, an acclaimed Australian rock singer-songwriter, was returning to Mexico, I bought the ticket immediately. The price was the cheapest I’ve ever paid for a foreigner artist. The venue, a medium-sized theater in Mexico City with a court and elevated seats at the back, was one I’d never been to.…
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Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten – Review
Is it wrong to go back? Why does it cost so much to move forward when we’re carrying deep memories that weight more than we can carry? How do we use the past to push us instead of pull us? Sharon Van Etten has always had a knack for making you look back. Her…
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Not from 2018: 10 albums of past years that I listened and loved.
There is one bad thing about year-end lists that nobody talks about. They are a snapshot of what you listened to mostly all year, but only from new releases. Music, as an art form, is timeless, and that simple fact makes it difficult to ignore older records during a particular year. An album a friend…
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2018: My favorite albums in a divisive year.
There will ever be a peaceful year? Our measurement of time is completely relative to what we see and feel of nature. But, actually, the universe doesn’t care. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades…none of those has any influence in the grand scheme of things. But we give it importance, we give it…
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Mexico City/October 2nd 2018
Look, I have absolutely not enough knowledge or experience to say this, but Nick Cave has to be one of the greatest frontmen in history. His presence itself can drive 7 thousand people mad, and at least a few dozens would try to break the rules of physics just to shake hands with him or…
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Chairs Missing by Wire – Essentiality Review
The last years of the 70’s were music-defining ones. Or at least, rock-defining ones. The genre changed forever and the shape of it would transform from big arenas and excentricism to the minimalism and DIY nature of the punk, post-punk and new wave scenes. Enter, Wire. This London-based band became an essential part of…