Author: Dave Scaddan
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The Feedback Society’s Top 20 Albums of 2022
As he does every year, music writer Dave Scaddan gives us his top 20 albums of the year! Here’s Dave’s Top 20 albums of 2022! 20 Moon Duo – Live at Levitation I can see why the sheer magnitude of the Moon Duo back catalogue might make them a hard act to get into. They…
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The Feedback Society’s Top 20 Albums of 2021
As he does every year, music writer Dave Scaddan gives us his top 20 albums of the year! Here’s Dave’s Top 20 albums of 2021! Before we get to the list, it seems worth mentioning that I considered several albums this year that all included songs that weren’t actually released in 2021. King Krule, Jaga Jazzist,…
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The Feedback Society’s Week in Music
Dave Scaddan goes through some of the music he’s been listening to in the last week, bringing you some awesome recommendations to listen to. Lou Reed Live at Alice Tully Hall Fans of Lou Reed may recognize this concert from a long-circulated bootleg that had a picture of a ticket stub on the cover –…
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The Top 20 Albums of 2020
This year’s Top 20 albums has many names you’ve seen here, but it also speaks of the changes and weird lives we lived in 2020. Even though I spent a lot of my available listening hours in 2020 going back to old faves, battling the psychic miasma that was our collective reality, there was still…
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The Shame of Greatest Hits Albums — And Five Exceptions
Dave looks at not only the idea of the oft-maligned greatest hits album, but also at five greatest hits compilations that may actually worth it. When I think of greatest hits albums, there’s a Kids In The Hall sketch that often comes to mind. A shopper who’s interested in discovering The Doors goes into a…
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Running Down the Jewels of RTJ4
As a supplement to our review, we take a deep dive into RTJ4 and the references that Killer Mike and El-P weave into their lyrics. Editor’s Note: We ran a review of Run the Jewels’ new album, RTJ4. But Dave sat down and took a deeper look at the “jewels” of the album, just to…
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Moodymann – TAKEN AWAY
Detroit’s cool, unclassifiable Moodyman throws down another brilliant piece of work, TAKEN AWAY, which includes one of his top tracks of all time, Do Wrong. So much of the new music that I have enjoyed in the past decade has obscured the notion of genre. If I look back 10-15 years in my listening habits,…
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Can ‘The Last Dance’ Win It The Right Way?
Jason Hehir’s new docu-series from Netflix and ESPN is a riveting, candid portrait of the cult of Jordan. But Dave asks “what about his supporting cast?” As The Last Dance gets trotted out week-by-week on Netflix, I find myself enjoying the nostalgia with a few reservations. My main worry about this series is that it might…
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The Top 20 Albums of 2019
As he does every year, music writer Dave Scaddan gives us his top 20 albums of the year! Here’s Dave’s Top 20 albums of 2019! Making this list has been tough this year. Leaving out old faves like Kim Gordon, Digitalism, Prins Thomas and Mono feels wrong, as does snubbing the attitudinous outbreaks of Megan…
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Clickwheel Dreams
Our infamously tech wary writer, Dave, thinks about his existence and how the future has taken control of his lifelong music collecting and owning efforts. I recently experienced a tech-scare that made me reevaluate my status as a non-phone-carrying, non-streaming music listener. To give this story some background, I should mention that I’ve always loved…