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LxListening: Spring Sing-Alongs

Spring is always an excellent time of year for new releases, and this spring is no different. Right now, there isn’t enough time in the day to listen to all the albums that were just released. And as a...

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LxListening: Summer Road Trip 2014

The summer is upon us, and as I set out for my first road trip of the year, I went looking for the best soundtrack to match. Here are five songs from this year perfect for your next trip out on the...

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LxListening: Spoon-fed

Editor’s Note: This is a repost from two years ago, that highlights some of my favorite Spoon songs and why. In the past, we have used these Friday playlists to highlight artists we love (the Beatles,...

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LxListening: The Music of Rectify

Rectify, Sundance’s the little-show-that-could, has quickly become one of the best shows on television, and its second season was the best thing on this summer in my humble opinion. Set in a small town...

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LxListening: Fall’s Finest ’14

With November and December usually being a dead period for new music releases, fall is really the last part of the year for big music releases, and it looks like there will be plenty worth talking...

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LxListening: Body and Soul

My fall has been filled listening to two seemingly very different types of music: electronic music and soulful R&B. While on the surface this seems very much like a war between human and machine,...

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LxListening: Q4 Finds

Every year, I devote the first half of December to catching up on any music I may have missed this year before we put together our end-of-year lists, a favorite exercise for any music fan. So I scour...

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LxListening: Dancing through the Winter

Winter is usually a time for quiet reflection and hybernation. Not for me in 2015. My way of kicking the winter blues has been listening to dance music, old and new. So here are five songs to help you...

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LxListening: Sprinting to the Summer

This year, we’ve talked plenty about this year’s three best releases (at least in my mind): Courtney Barnett’s lively Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, Kendrick Lamar’s magnum opus To...

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LxListening: Odds and Ends ’15

Since the day of the cassette mix tape up till today with Spotify playlists, many people’s playlists follow a mood like rainy day or exercise music or draw from a nostalgic period like songs from high...

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LxListening: Back in School

While plenty of people (students and teachers alike), just went back to school, this time of year usually is a great time for music discoveries. Here are five of my favorite songs from the last couple...

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LxListening: Love Story

This is certainly not the playlist you expected upon first clicking in. It’s not the soundtrack to Sleepless in Seattle 2 or the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation, but rather love-themed songs from...

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LxListening: Sweet 2016

It’s been a modest yet somewhat surprising first few months of music in 2016. We had a crazy sloppy album release from the former best rapper on the planet (Kanye West with Life of Pablo), and a quiet...

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LxListening: Rocking and Rolling

Rock music has really fallen far in the last two decades, being replaced by hip hop, pop, and then electronic music as the primary musical language of the day. While it once ruled the musical landscape...

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Songs for Peace: LxListening

Frankly, 2016 has been an awful year. It has felt like every news cycle brings a new tragedy: black lives being taken from police brutality in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis, police being shot in Dallas,...

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