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Pop music critic at The Washington Post
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Chuck Brown gave his music its name because it “goes and goes.” At the new GO-GO MUSEUM in Anacostia, the music finally has a place to stay wapo.st/4gMh9aJ

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I would be so stoked if we all started selling/trading records here

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I was wishing/hoping/praying DRAKE might try to get back into the zipcode of “Hotline Bling,” but these $exy $ongs are not 4 me wapo.st/3CGbSnp

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Wrote this at the end of last year but didn’t post it here bc I was sad about it, whereas now I feel a slush of anger, sadness and disgust wapo.st/4hPt0G3

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I loved the KENDRICK LAMAR halftime show wapo.st/4aQRa0E

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I asked JAMES BRANDON LEWIS about tenacity, time management, Don Cherry and go-go. He gave me a definition of the pocket that almost made me weep. And there’s more. wapo.st/416MYqr

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Stoked and inspired

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Wrote both of these late at nite, then collapsed into deep sleep and forgot to post them, whoops. A recap of FIREAID… wapo.st/42LTG6i

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The music of YASMIN WILLIAMS might elevate your perspective on time, space, work, play, gratitude, survival, life wapo.st/42LcjXY

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Upside-down thoughtwaves about Sunday’s Grammys: Does CHAPPELL ROAN win by losing? wapo.st/4aF0ch9

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First great album of this prematurely weird year comes from FKA TWIGS wapo.st/3CiUvsx

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On ROBBIE BASHO’s musical grail questing wapo.st/3PfojJf

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Rooting for KARRAHBOOO at the end of a hard year wapo.st/3VBGzQK

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Made a list of THE BEST POP SINGLES OF 2024 and I hope you luv it wapo.st/41l1POo

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Made a list of THE BEST POP ALBUMS OF 2024 and I hope you like it wapo.st/3D6a5Yy

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This new KENDRICK LAMAR album might be my favorite wapo.st/3CRWDHn

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The GRAMMYS are not about you wapo.st/3ClbKcf

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DIY said: Anyone can do it TSUNAMI said: Here’s how wapo.st/3UH0b5s

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Listening to TYLER, THE CREATOR as he takes up permanent residence on the plateau of prestige wapo.st/4hqquXo

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I think ANNO is making some of the coolest music D.C. has ever heard whoooooooosh wapo.st/3NOKKV7

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Last night’s LATTO show was filled with tons of little salacious shocks that I expected and one big optimistic shock that I didn’t wapo.st/48oVT8m

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My aoty is your aoty, but ‘Brat’ summer is over and this is how CHARLI XCX sounds to me now wapo.st/4dwWwO4

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Among so many other things, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON showed us how big songs come from a big life wapo.st/3ZROKLw

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Summer is over but MOLLY NILSSON is forever wapo.st/4ehVAOY

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Will America last as long as BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN? wapo.st/3MXucdf

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Maybe try using this new DESTROY LONELY album to recalibrate your rap sensorium wapo.st/3ZvUg6L

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Let’s follow KIM GORDON and MODEL HOME from the Black Cat to TikTok to the woods outside Wolf Trap and into the unknowable wapo.st/4e1EhRN

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Talking with JESSICA PRATT about where songs come from was like talking with a character from a favorite movie about the meaning of life: exciting, illuminating, impossible, realer than real wapo.st/3AkRl6h

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