Tag: 2019
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My favorite albums of the decade.
I had a personal relationship with my iPod Classic. When listening to playlists at random, it always knew the one I wanted, or even ordered them in the best way possible. It fell from my bicycle once. A friend of mine listened music with it while playing football. It had at least 5 different cases.…
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My favorite songs of the decade.
You can fit 1,752,000 regular 3-minute songs in 10 years. And although that seems like a large amount, is likely that we’ve heard that much in the past decade, specially in Mexico. Of course, the length and nature of your favorite songs can vary greatly, and mine, as evidenced by the following list, does too.…
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My favorite albums of 2019.
Why will you remember 2019? What will make you think back to it and have a warming feeling? What meaning does it have to ‘end’ a decade? Here we are. At another finale. A change that doesn’t mean a lot, but we give it significance in order to make sense of everything that happens…
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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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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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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…