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Warm Visions’ Top 10 Concerts of 2024

Realized I did things a little out of order, as I like to post the year’s Retrospective after all my “Best Of” lists are done. Well, woops. I still had to list out my favorite concerts I saw in 2024, … Continue reading

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2024 Retrospective – 100 Discoveries, Obsessions and True Moments + Listening Stats

Every year since 2014, I’ve taken time at the end of my Best of the Year list season to survey the field, to take stock in the music that defined my year, and not just the tracks that came out … Continue reading

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Recommended Albums: November 2024

Winding down 2024’s Recommended Albums (usually I don’t have the effort / material to dive into December’s albums, but we’ll see!), we shove the year off into the mist with some mighty solid records. I’d be remiss not to shout … Continue reading

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2010s Retrospective: 10 Years of Discoveries, Obsessions and True Moments

Well folks, welcome to my most indulgent, most confessional, most self-referential and truly most vain post on the blog. This is probably playing it up, but I’ve written a lot about myself on here. The dang header image is literally … Continue reading

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The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s

In what might be the vainest of my vanity projects, I decided to plunder the music of the 1990s, the decade of my birth, to “rank” my favorite albums. Why? It’s not like anything I list here is going to … Continue reading

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Playlist – Rose Garden, 2AM: A Hallucination Infatuation

After listening to my favorite playlist Essential Oil Dimension on loop for nearly a year, I decided that a spiritual successor should come soon. And thus, we have ROSE GARDEN, 2AM. While it doesn’t have as much of a fleshed … Continue reading

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Mulatu Astatke – “Tezeta” [1998]

I thought for the final post of # Warm Visions February I would end things on a grand slam. Many folks probably know this song, but if you don’t then dang – you’re in for a treat. Mulatu Astatke is … Continue reading

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2015 Retrospective

This is a 100-song playlist of songs that made 2015 unique from other years. Songs that I listened to a ton, songs I discovered for the first time, songs that hold immense emotional weight, and other assorted sonic ephemera. My … Continue reading

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