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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Ear Traffic’s best local albums and tracks of 2022
Real quick, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it yet again: The year doesn’t end on Nov. 30. It drives me up … not a wall, but perhaps an easily scalable chain-link fence …[…]
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have given us the Song of Anti-Summer. Now, hearts like mine need the comeback to be completed
For an ardent-but-realistic Yeah Yeah Yeahs appreciator, it’s a little surprising how astoundingly this comeback has gone — so far. Nearly a decade after one of the best bands of the 2000s left us with a barely-worth-any-trouble[…]
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