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My life keeps getting harder for a September round-up of albums the more I re-listen to albums I put in my "this is probably pretty good" pile. New AKRIILA album is a v good alt-rock alb, even got a polite Pfork 7.5

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Stevie Wonder is good at writing songs

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I spend about two and a half hours every week flying through untold gobs of music, most of it not very good. But I also spend at LEAST two and a half hours every week pointlessly refreshing my email inbox even though if there WERE new messages I wouldn't want to read them

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Everyone should listen to 3,000 songs a week but only for three seconds at a time while not paying very close attention

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You can't do macroeconomics with your own household budget as a central metaphor and you can't do mass popularity analysis with your own taste as a central metaphor, for basically the same reason.

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Would be weird for the gradual downfall of Taylor Swift to be she was so big and her music so formally simple that A.I. generated music is disproportionately trained on it, so her stuff keeps sounding more and more like “A.I. music” even though it’s the other way around

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YouTube video by KAROL G - Topic

I expect even more people have not heard this and you should it’s great m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljAH...

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BbY WOW

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I was exhausted watching the last Game Changer just imagining how long that shoot must have run

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Everyone’s talking about the current #1 song in the world, “Bby WOW” by Karol G

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Will continue annoyingly piggybacking off DISCOURSE for my own purposes -- "Choosin Texas" seems to have peaked on the Billboard Gobal 200 Excluding US (GXU) at #33 last week, is back down to #39 this week. That sort of gap happens sometimes, but less frequently than you'd think!

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 26/09/2026

"How good is this Gilla Band album really" getting a leg up from my alarm going off in tune with one of the songs (my first impression was amazement, will probably cool on it a little but it's really good)

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Current 2026 20 (will likely change v soon):

Six Sex: Ultra
Myaap: Pixie Dust
MOLIY: BADDIES <3 MOLIY
Ravyn Lenae: Blue Island
Brennan Wedl: s/t
Shannon: Tropical Mood
Fallon: Winter Princess
Ditonellapiaga: Miss Italian
Cain Culto: Culto
Gilla Band: Pugnello
JayJayy: Detour
Robounoishi (路傍の石): Album 13
LinLin: Disco Inferno
Haku.: When the World Changes
DJ Love: Budots Republic
Willow: The Thread
Fif: The Lower Forty-Eight
Djy Biza: Art of War
DJ Erik JP: No Clima da Sul
Whodamanny: Onda Biloba

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 26/09/2026

Opinions the whole office can agree on: new Cain Culto and Gilla Band albs are good 👍

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 25/09/2026

tfw when the two hours you've allotted for poll research takes five minutes

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 25/09/2026

Rapping on the second in the bridge, never change ❤️

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 24/09/2026

New mix: upgradin' "Texas" (the 2026 "Golden" in my personal listening), pop chart horoscopes, the real B-pop American Wedding, Brazilian funk's Esperanza Spalding, and everyone else everywhere in the world doing everything all at once www.otherdavemoore.com/p/motivate-t...

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Motivate the kids

2026 Mix 38: Choosin’ Texas(?), American B-pop, Latin America in India, the Brazilian funk Esperanza Spalding, and other music that’s everything everywhere all at once

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 23/09/2026

It’s usually futile to ascribe reasoning to the popularity of any big hit that isn’t one part luck and one part clinical “listening structure,” meaning radio play, distribution, promotion. This is why I don’t talk about popularity much—I find the mechanism fascinating and the results arbitrary

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 22/09/2026

[Camper Van Beethoven voice]

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 22/09/2026

My theory of Rosé as A-pop anti-pope still seems to be holding

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 22/09/2026

congratulations to taylor swift for winning the first annual montgomery burns award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence www.billboard.com/music/awards...

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Taylor Swift to Be First Recipient of Artist Director Honors at 2026 MTV VMAs

Taylor Swift will receive the inaugural Artist Director Honors at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.

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At the end of every story

Marit Larsen: still writing very pretty songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTkl...

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YouTube video by Marit Larsen - Topic

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In case you missed it here are the results of the best new to you album of 2001 in the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social tournament

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Results thread! Will repost in the morning for other time zones. We had 64 voters who voted for 72 different albums. So over half of the albums in the tournament received a vote of "best new to you album." I'll list everything that got three or more votes.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 19/09/2026

Last call for votes, closes in an hour!

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I'm going to close this tonight, in about eight hours or so from now. List your favorite discoveries from the 2001 tournament!

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18/09/2026

I have brought the Golden Beat to the Best Albums bracket! If you participated in the poll or followed along, you can list the three best albums you heard that *were new to you*! (Ones you first heard while looking for things to nom for the tournament are OK.)

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18/09/2026

Somehow this song by an American artist is British and B-pop is real???

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18/09/2026

Music is wild because on the one hand sustaining a career requires Olympian-like focus and skill and on the other literally anyone could make the best song ever, it’s like if I could show up to a basketball court and beat LeBron James one time in an elaborate Mr. Magoo-style accident

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17/09/2026

New mix: struggling to remember to choose Texas, capital-P pop as indie and/or prestige television, Francophone fun, profane formalists, and a few dependable ringers. www.otherdavemoore.com/p/one-hand-b...

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Vinyl records and anxiety

2026 Mix 37: Losin’ Texas, pop formalists on the rise, Waterboys appreciation, expected winners from xiangyu and Stay True Sounds, and an unexpected (and very weird) winner from Sara Bereilles

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17/09/2026

What’s the best and most RECENT conservative art

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Thabo Tonick - Listen To The Kids

If I were a label, I too would simply only release good songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZV...

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YouTube video by Stay True Sounds

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It does not honor someone to make their famous roles the fake-out guess on Connections, poor form

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Well I’ll be damned, was indeed calling it Afropiano in 2024 and promptly forgot about it

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