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My Favorite Music of 2009

I was originally going to call this entry “the best music of 2009,” but that would’ve resulted in two equally absurd implications: one, that I’d heard every song released in 2009, which I didn’t, and two, that it’s...

Well-Worn Groove: Eels – Electro-Shock Blues

Electro-Shock Blues, written and recorded after the deaths of Eels front man Mark Oliver Everett’s mother and sister, is understandably a dark affair. That it’s also one of the most honest and uplifting meditations on mortality and loss ever committed...

Well-Worn Groove: Vic Chesnutt – The Salesman and Bernadette

Athens, Georgia singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt briefly commanded cult attention a few years ago following the release of the Sweet Relief compilation, a benefit album which featured covers of his caustic, sad folk songs by such unlikely admirers as Garbage...