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2023 IN REVIEW — The Best Music Videos of the Year

The year has all but come to a close, and as such, a music-brained perpetual shut-in such as myself gets collecting together all the…

19 min readDec 31, 2023

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2023 IN REVIEW — The Best Music Videos of the Year

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Acorus Calamus

2023 IN REVIEW — The Best EPs of the Year (Part 2)

The second of two round-ups of the top 150 EPs of 2023, featuring Rema, ODD EYE CIRCLE, Spiritbox and more.

17 min readJan 27, 2024

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2023 IN REVIEW — The Best EPs of the Year (Part 2)

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Acorus Calamus

2023 IN REVIEW — The Best EPs of the Year (Part 1)

The first of two round-ups of the top 150 EPs of 2023, featuring aespa, Beach House, Mykki Blanco and more.

17 min readJan 16, 2024

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2023 IN REVIEW — The Best EPs of the Year (Part 1)

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Acorus Calamus

Grammys 2024 — the good, the bad and the ugly (part 2)

Part 2 of my breakdown of this year’s Grammy nominations — with thoughts on RAYE, Barbie, corn and more!

9 min readDec 5, 2023

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Grammys 2024 — the good, the bad and the ugly (part 2)

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Acorus Calamus

Grammys 2024 — the good, the bad and the ugly (part 1)

10 pleasant surprises, 10 confusing nominations and 10 disappointing snubs, to get us excited about February 4th.

10 min readNov 12, 2023

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Grammys 2024 — the good, the bad and the ugly (part 1)

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Acorus Calamus

2023 Halfway House — my top 200 albums of 2023 so far (Part 2)

The second part of the half-of-2023 album round up — the second part, outlining albums 100 to 51.

33 min readJul 20, 2023

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2023 Halfway House — my top 200 albums of 2023 so far (Part 2)

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Acorus Calamus

2023 Halfway House — my top 200 albums of 2023 so far (Part 1)

A somewhat overboard dive into the brightest and best of the year’s albums so far. Part 1 — numbers 200 to 101.

19 min readJul 17, 2023

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2023 Halfway House — my top 200 albums of 2023 so far (Part 1)

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Acorus Calamus

Eurovision 2023 — What’s the Deal (Part 1)

A potted rundown of this year’s Eurovision semi-finals, through the eyes of someone overly invested in this year’s Eurovision semi-finals.

22 min readMay 12, 2023

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Eurovision 2023 — What’s the Deal (Part 1)

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Acorus Calamus

A Century of Classical — a first listen to the 20th Century (part 3)

The third installment of the 20th Century classical music countdown — I hope you like helicopters.

18 min readMar 10, 2023

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A Century of Classical — a first listen to the 20th Century (part 3)

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Acorus Calamus

A Century of Classical — a first listen to the 20th Century (part 2)

It’s another jump back in time to continue on with our 20th Century listening guide. After the first part last week that took us from…

17 min readMar 2, 2023

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A Century of Classical — a first listen to the 20th Century (part 2)

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Acorus Calamus

Acorus Calamus

pop cultural things, with a focus on music past and present. all opinions are frustratingly my own. https://linktr.ee/acoruscalamus

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