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Two thousand twenty-two was the year of BAD BUNNY and BEYONCÉ and “BAD HABIT,” as the pop culture illuminati and YOUTUBE and your radio have been trying to tell you, but was it also the year of Toronto indie popsters ALVVAYS and Oklahoma country upstart ZACH BRYAN and British art duo JOCKSTRAP (seriously: Jockstrap) and incendiary Baltimore hip-hop experimentalists INFINITY KNIVES & BRIAN ENNALS (for real: Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals)? With the caveat that it technically will still be 2022 for another four weeks and no one’s heard the SZA album that’s coming out this Friday, not to mention any album or song that might show up the Friday after that or the Friday after that, it appears to be the time, rightly or wrongly, judging by the year-end roundups now arriving by the minute, to add up and sort out all the music that’s happened in the past 11 or so months. And the answer to all the above questions is yes.
Consensus, convenient as it sometimes can be, has never been a good way to decide what art is best. We all have different inclinations, different tastes, different communities, different ways of interacting with and processing sound. And we all may be starting our playlists with BAD BUNNY this year, but track 2 will be different for every one of us. So think of our annual collection of everybody else’s lists, which we launch today with about 40 links but which will number closer to 300 by the time we’re done updating it in early 2023, not as a consensus, but as a perpetually unfinished collection of perspectives, possibilities, recommendations and reminders: MusicSET: “Best Music of 2022: The Year in Lists.”
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This lengthy JONATHAN LETHEM essay about the four days he spent with JAMES BROWN and his band in 2006 for an even lengthier Rolling Stone piece that he was assured James Brown himself would never read, and all the weird little things the band told him, and all the other weird little things he left out of his original story, and all the pot he and they smoked, and his awkward meeting with JANN WENNER before he started, and his general lack of interest in taking on such assignments in the first place, is as juicy and delicious as I imagine the pulled-pork sandwiches he snuck into the studio on a long, dreary day when Brown refused to give his musicians a meal break must have been... Twenty-six TAYLOR SWIFT fans who “just want the system to change” sue LIVE NATION... One-time ATLANTIC RECORDS A&R exec DOROTHY CARVELLO becomes the second woman in two weeks to sue the label and the estate of its co-founder, AHMET ERTEGUN, for alleged sexual assault, which they say others at the label knew was happening. “WARNER MUSIC GROUP and Atlantic Records take allegations of misconduct very seriously,” WMG spokesperson said after the first suit was filed. “We are speaking with people who were there at the time, taking into consideration that many key individuals are deceased or into their 80s and 90s”... What jazz bassists listen for in drummers... A jazz ontology... PAVEMENT the musical... Back in the HUDSON groove.
Rest in Peace
HAMISH KILGOUR, co-founder, with his brother David, of influential New Zealand guitar-rock band the Clean, who cast a long, beautiful, lo-fi shadow over several generations of indie rock. Hamish, who wrote, sang and played drums and guitar, also co-founded Bailter Space and the Mad Scene and released a handful of solo albums in recent years (this is a good profile from around the time of his first, 2014's "All of It and Nothing," by Jesse Jarnow). He’d been reported missing in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Nov. 27, and was found dead on Monday... JIM STEWART, the Memphis banker and country music fiddler who co-founded the iconic R&B label Stax, home of Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T & the MG’s, Carla Thomas and many more soul greats. Stewart was the ST in Stax; his sister and co-founder Estelle Axton was the AX. “Soul music would not have been what it was if not for what Jim did and for who he was,” David Porter, who wrote and produced some of the label’s greatest hits, told the Memphis Commercial Appeal's Bob Mehr... BOB MCGRATH, resident music teacher on “Sesame Street” for nearly 50 years.... Pipe organ master FREDERICK SWANN, who spent the first half of his long career at New York’s Riverside Church and the second half at televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif.... Washington, D.C., R&B singer/guitarist EDDIE JONES... South African jazz guitarist/pianist DAVE LEDBETTER.
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| The Unrelenting Ambition of SoFaygo |
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| The young hip-hop artist did everything right launching his album 'Pink Heartz.' But what is “right” in 2022’s music industry? |
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The Line of Best Fit |
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| Hayden Silas Anhedönia left her home in Alabama behind, and with it, the most transformative year of her life. The architect behind "Preacher's Daughter" talks about the next steps for her alter-ego Ethel Cain. |
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| Far From Folsom Prison: More to Music Inside |
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| Johnny Cash wasn't the only superstar to play in prisons. Music, initially allowed as worship, came to be seen as a rockin' tool of rehabilitation. |
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| Sonny Rollins at the Turning Point |
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| An excerpt from Aidan Levy's definitive new biography of jazz giant Sonny Rollins captures him in the midst of his Bridge years. |
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| 17 key music industry acquisition stories from 2022 |
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| We’re talking acquisitions of companies, not catalogues, and we’re talking outright acquisitions or majority/controlling stakes (so not the UMG/PIAS news that broke this week). |
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| How the Fantastic Four took Double Dutch to new heights |
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| The ties between Double Dutch and hip-hop can be traced to Nelly's "Country Grammar," Missy Elliott's "Gossip Folks" and "Throw It Back," and the Cartoon Network animated series "Craig of the Creek." |
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| More live: Why Carl Cox is moving beyond being a DJ |
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| From three-deck wizard to a new kind of triple threat, Carl Cox is evolving. He talks to Nick Stevenson about his new artists era, first album in a decade, and playing on the moon. |
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| Greg Tate–I Am The Iron Man |
| By Touré and Greg Tate |
| The late Greg Tate is one of the greatest writers of our time. He’s an intellectual hero of mine. He’s a mentor. He’s a writer, a guitarist, a genius. We had an amazing conversation. I miss him immensely. |
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