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Broc Nelson
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Writer for Everything Is Noise and Little Village Magazine. Leftist. Foodie. Improvisor.
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I had an article published this week about two friends who purchased a used bookstore and am currently writing two album reviews for two other friends. My fortune cookie gave me affirmations tonight. Build community, one way or another, motherfuckers.
#writing #dowhatyoucan
March 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
#365Albums

Vitalic - OK Cowboy (2005)
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I've been in an electronic music mood lately, and this album is a danceable banger all the way through, creative yet accessible.

#music #dance
January 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation
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One of my favorite albums in recent years, Exit Simulation is an immersive ambient r&b experience that touches on personal growth, depression, and social issues with grace and beauty.

#music #ambient #rnb
January 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown (2024)
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My favorite album of 2024 is a masterpiece. Dark folk/art pop that is as mesmerizing as it is gorgeous and thoughtful. Listen to this album.

#music #artpop
January 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (1996)
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Since I'm in an electronic music mood, here's an old favorite. Aphex Twin is a legend for many reasons, and this album is one of them.

#music #electronica
January 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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100 gecs - 10,000 gecs (2023)
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This is a weird future. Everything is available so readily that 100 gecs is a logical outcome of kids raised on every kind of genre. Easily my favorite electronica/punk/metal/ska/pop album with a song about a frog on it.
#hyperpop
#music
January 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Blood Incantation - Starspawn (2016)
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Since I just posted Absolute Elsewhere as one of my favorite albums of 2024, here is where my love for BI started. This kicked off a years long infatuation with death metal.
#deathmetal
January 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)
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This is a classic, great songwriting, mesmerizing song flow and atmosphere.
#music #folk
January 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
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Tribe were such a unique and endearing voice in hip hop. They forever have my love. Bass up, vibes up, bump this.

#hiphop #music
January 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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High on Fire - Snakes For The Divine (2010)
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A musician buddy asked about everyone's favorite riffs the other day. My favorite metal riff is the title track to this album. Shit goes hard.

#metal #music
January 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Doom - Total Doom (1989)
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British crust punk compilation. This is probably the crust album I listened to the most. Extra points for being the first of many punk bands I like whose entire output can be collected on a single CD.

#punk #music
January 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Swans - The Seer (2012)

The 32 minute title track came on shuffle today. It is better in context with the 2 hour album. When I first heard this album, I listened to Swans for like 2 months straight. Anything else was incapable of satisfying me.
#music #swans
January 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Fugazi - Red Medicine (1995)
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This was the first Fugazi CD I ever owned, bought used at a CD store. It has lived in my brain since my first listen. Fugazi is like comfort music for me.

#music #punk
January 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
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Generally, I don't give a fuck about Metallica, but they had their moment and got a lot of people into heavier sounds. This is my favorite album from them.

#music #thrash #metal
January 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Low - C'Mon (2011)
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A very special band. Through their slowcore sound they carried a hope for love and humanity through raw, yet bridled emotion, bolstered by the love Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk had for each other. I feel fortunate to have seen them live. RIP Mimi.

#music #indie
January 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (2022)
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As I reflect on the best albums of 2024, here is one of the best albums of the decade, so far. This is an indie-prog masterpiece that I keep coming back to.

#music #indie
January 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
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Prince is good music any time of the year, but I think 1999 (the year) solidified him as New Year's Eve music, for me. Purple Rain is an essential album. "1999" (the song) is not on this album, but that doesn't matter.
#music #soul #pop
December 31, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
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I don't know what my favorite album by The Beatles is, but it could be this one.

I think that catches me up for all the days missed.
#music #pop #rock
December 31, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Rippikoulu - Musta Serenonia (1993)
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I went through a Finnish death metal phase. This album is one of my favorites from that micro-genre. Heavy, doomy, excellent.
#music #deathmetal
December 31, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
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Though I have always resisted it, there is a bit of an emo kid in me. This album is truly a great emo/pop punk album that deserves it's legacy.
#music #emo
December 31, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah (2014)
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Kinda hard to believe it has been ten years since this came out, and I wish D'Angelo would show up again with another album. Black Messiah was 14 years after his previous album, Voodoo. So, I'll keep hoping.
#music #soul
December 31, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Preacher Gone To Texas - Choice vs Chance (2002)
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Local emotional hardcore band from the Quad Cities in the early 2000s. I don't know how many times I saw them as a teenager, but they always drew a crowd and deserved to be bigger.

#music #hardcore #localscene
December 28, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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Pixies - Come On Pilgrim (1987)
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I burnt myself out on Pixies over the years, listening so much that I'm tired of them. This EP was my introduction to the band and is still the exception to my burnout.

#music #altrock
December 28, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
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Where "Dylan went electric" and made an iconic folk rock album that kicked off another 3 album run of pure gold. I don't care if you don't like his voice. He is a legend despite it.

#music #folk
December 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Cluster - Zuckerzeit (1974)
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We made the right choices by letting Germans have synthesizers in the '70s. Cluster's krautrock/kosmiche music is one of many examples why.

#music #krautrock
December 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM