Two more lists from two more school-chums (Travis even has a blog).
While I’m at it, some more year-endness I’ve been saving and waiting to share with you, dear reader.

Amy at Shake Your Fist: Songs and EPs/Singles from one of my favorite writers in the anywhere-sphere. Also good: lists at Culture Bully, who commissioned some [...]

As promised, here are some more year-end thoughts from a few pals of mine. These three guys–good guys, all–are from the program. I didn’t give them limits as to records that were released this year; just stuff they listened to over the course of 2007. More tomorrow.
Mark Benedetti
1. The Sound—discography, live videos, [...]

Not so much a ranked list as a series of thoughts about a few records I liked. These are in no particular order, though I guess the last pair is last for a reason. I paired some of these up, you know, to keep things a bit more interesting. Sort of like an [...]

Okay, so I might have been a bit hasty in putting these off til Monday; it’s amazing what a night of sleep can do to clear up a cluttered head. So, here are the last two, with the same caveats as the first two. Number three lets me get out the rest of [...]

So, hi. Happy holidays, etc. At this point, I’m roughly 75% done with my normal holiday shopping, and 75% done with my more cherished year-end tradition, my year-end mix-making. The first two are below (at a crisp, shiny 192kbps), with the next two to follow (hopefully) tomorrow (update: yeah, uhhhh…Monday NEW UPDATE: THEY’RE [...]

American Gangster is, of course, a concept album about Jay-Z’s own life, appropriately cinematized, with the last third on some parallel-universe, if-I-were-not-on-Charlie Rose-a-couple-weeks-ago and still dealt drugs I’d be dead now but a dead legend level. Thus, “Ignorant Shit” (mp3) marks the stage in the narrative, I think, where the kingpin drug dealer repurposes [...]