The small rectangular cardboard totem top I saw in the middle of the Chappell Roan mob almost certainly wasn’t the first time anyone had ever used the phrase “gayCL.” In fact, I might well have[…]
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Category: music opinion
Ear Traffic’s 10 best albums and HI-35 (best tracks) for 2023
As I effectively said when I did my local best-ofs, for this writer the best thing about 2023 was that it ended. But one of the runners-up, surely, is the collective impact of the year’s[…]
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Ear Traffic’s best local albums and tracks of 2023
Given that Ear Traffic ATX is — with extremely limited historical exception — just one person’s thoughts on music, a little bit of disclosure and vulnerability seem appropriate here. So here it is: 2023 was an[…]
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Take it from a music-blogging Kansas City Chiefs fan: This Taylor Swift thing is a turn for the surreal
Jason Hanna/Getty Images Several weeks after it began … what is all this, really? Will we get an album from Taylor Swift in the next few years about what CTE does to a man?[…]
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Album review: Tearjerk, Face to Face (EP)
Perhaps knowing that Vanessa Jollay is part of Sailor Poon, and seeing this project branded under the forceful, punk-ish sounding name Tearjerk, you might expect Face to Face to offer something along the lines of[…]
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Ear Traffic’s top 10 albums and the HI-35 for 2022
The competition was absurdly tough in choosing Ear Traffic’s top 10 overall albums of 2022 and (especially) for picking the top 35 tracks of the year, aka the HI-35. I suppose that from my perspective,[…]
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