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You may have heard that the inflential music blog Pitchfork (https://pitchfork.com/) recently became a subdivision of GQ magazine.  As of now, Pitchfork is still posting music reviews and news just like before.  Nevertheless, some articles have sounded the…

The Grammy Awards will be presented tonight.  Ordinarily I do not care about this.   My brother Tom, an actor/singer on the Chicago theater scene (and far more gifted than me), thinks that all competitive artistic awards are a waste of…

We are supposedly living in the golden age of singles.  Listeners nowadays mostly get their music from streaming services, no longer buy CDs, and mostly want to listen to playlists featuring singles from lots of artists that capture a particular…

My normal CD listening habits were disrupted this month, for two reasons.  (1) My car hood got totalled by a flying metal object.  Fortunately nobody was hurt, but my car was in the shop for almost a month.  (2) I…

Alright, I'm old school.  I still listen to albums all the way through, and most of the time I listen to them on CD in my car.  Yes, my car still has a CD player.  In fact, I bought my…