I don't know how it happened but I suddenly found my Sweetwater sales rep officiating my wedding

Boulevard was the first deep house album I ever encountered when I was 22, a skeezy guy who loved clubbing played it for me and was like "Well, you suck, but I think I can get with this"

So much of a fear of newness comes from a fear of social dissolution, that we have to be familiar and recognizable as ourselves lest that weakens the bond: it should be roundly socially acceptable to be transient people moving through the world unfixed by anyone’s perception

God damn forgot he played on this big record, absolute tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5CN...

He played on so many classic jazz records (Jackie McClean's Demon's Dance!) and Miles obviously and so many silk robe CTI records and fusion records in the 70s, and you gotta check out this Miroslav Vitous gem www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pqf...

Made even more evident by the songs she cut from the record, too

📸 by Steph Wilson

We're giving a lot of cover to Over-Determined Leftist Film Guys but that's a fight for another day

Inevitably, when we closed the list, we were all like "Hell yeah this is awesome, we love this, people are going to dig it" like it was my first day online workin for the site

You'll be pilloried for this. Pilloried!

Yeah sure. I'm dating myself but I remember when Stylus published the Top 101-200 Favourite Albums of All Time and I generally think that's the best idea for a list stylusmagazines.com/feature_ID_8...

The only canon we are trying to change with the rap list is show that Rap Guys are the most annoying kind of guy on the internet, finally shifting the hegemony away from the annoying Poptimism Guys