This is an ongoing series of album reviews and music features published in venues like Jacobin, PopMatters, Post-Trash, Spectrum Culture, and Africa is a Country. I’ve made revisions, corrections, and additions when needed or when I have changed my mind about something. Musicians, bands, and projects include (in no particular order): Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Kim Gordon (also here), Thurston Moore (also here), Nirvana, Nico, Slint, Can, Abdullah Ibrahim, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Aimee Mann, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bad Brains, Kendrick Lamar, Oasis, Jamie xx (also here), Galaxie 500, Big Star, Beastie Boys, Pavement (here also and Gary Young), Sonic Youth (also here), De La Soul, The Magnetic Fields, Shabaka, Edith Frost, Bill Callahan/Smog, Yo La Tengo, Melt-Banana, Laetitia Sadier, Mogwai, África Negra, Neil Young, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Horse Jumper of Love, Royal Trux, Tom Verlaine, The Clean, Mount Eerie, R.E.M., Mdou Moctar, Shabazz Palaces (also here), Steve Albini, Ibaaku, Mitski, Dean Wareham (also here), Bon Iver, DeYarmond Edison (Bon Iver), Jorge Ben, Enarak, Mary Timony, Sunn O))), Guided by Voices (also here), MONO, Tindersticks, Lee Ranaldo and Michael Vallera, The Chills, The Hard Quartet, Kim Deal, Superchunk, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, The Lemonheads, Minwhi Lee, Dirty Three, Water From Your Eyes, White Shape, American Football, Amen Dunes, Mister Goblin, DIIV, Gastr del Sol, Jethro Tull, Jim White, Jay Farrar/Son Volt, Explosions in the Sky, Heatmiser/Elliott Smith, Shellac, J Mascis, Redd Kross, Hum, the Mountain Goats, Future Islands, Pale Saints, Tara Jane O’Neil, Six Organs of Admittance, Abdallah Oumbadougou, Cherubs, Woods, Sentridoh (Lou Barlow), The Folk Implosion (also here), Buffalo Tom, Susanna, John Strohm, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Animal Collective, Aguaturbia, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin, Rainer Buchmüller, et cetera…
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