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Long on Sounds, Short on Ides: The Living to Listen List, Marching Forward into The 2025ire

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Apr 3

My expanded list of my favorite albums of this calendar year. Lemme tell ya: I'm thankful for music right now. Note the asterisk system, and buy somebody's work this month, ok? #musicblogs #musiclists #bestalbums2025

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THE LIST (January 1 – April 1, 2025) Bolded = New to the list ***Neaty ‘n’ Spiffy / ****Eyebrow-Raising / *****Do-Ya-RIGHT Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)****…

Amerikkkan Top 40: Some New (and Relatively New) Albums That May Help Get You Through the Morning News If You Can Stand to Read It

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Feb 27

Favorite #albums of 2025. 40 of 'em. Assorted flavors. #musicblogs #musiclists #bestrecordsof2025

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Hi! I’m early with my 2025 blog update, but I ain’t buying anything Friday anyway (I hope it isn’t Bandcamp Friday). If you happen to be a new reader, what I try to do at the end …

Song of the Youth: Substitute Teaching Update

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Feb 13

Skip. Skip. Skip.

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Feb 7

Top 10 Occurrences during my first two months #substituteteaching in #columbiamissouri in 2025 (been at it since 2023). Subbed again today for an art teacher at #davidhhickmanhighschool today and kids learned about @nickcaveart.bsky.social #educationblogs #publicschool

I am subbing more this semester since I am only tutoring at Stephens. I have had some adventures, but not really the kind one associates with substitute teaching.

Fetching Recordings from January 2025–For Month 1, Not Too Skimpy!

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Feb 1

My favorite #newalbums of January 202Fire plus some other musical experiences.

Top of my pops: #nyegenyegetapes ale hop & tito bakorta's dazzling dance record and #badbunny 's new one. Oh and #zohamba has my ear and heart! #musicblogs

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I am restless. As a teacher, I cannot teach the same lesson twice the same way (nor should anyone, but maybe I’m wrong). Last year, I tried to write more about the albums I loved on this blog…

Infinite Jest is Long, Too: Living to Listen’s Favorite 180 Albums of 2024

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FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Dec 25

My favorite 180 records released in 2024. #bestalbumsof2024 #bestmusic2024 #corblund #sunra @billorcutt.bsky.social

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This year, I abandoned my usual practice of scratching out a casual intro and, month by month, building a cumulative list of my favorite new releases. I had begun to feel the itch of guilt (and env…

Finally, my Stephens block class assignment rolls around--I'd been both excited about and afraid of it--and I survive intact.

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Dec 1

I also write an education newsletter from the standpoint of someone who has tried to do it for 41 going on 42 years. Here's the latest. Subscribe for free! #highereducation #teacherlife #teacherstories #blockschedule

The video is just my favorite song with "block" in it.

Blockhead

No!vember ’24: A Spare Commentary on the Best New (and Newly Discovered) Music I Heard

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Dec 1

My No!vember #newmusic wrap-up. I have a cold so I didn't feel like yammering a lead-in.

@redhotorg.bsky.social you're killin' it lately! Also @wejazz.bsky.social !!!

I’ve got a cold Huey Piano Smith could write another song about, my new block-style teaching assignment is intense (but I like it), and I’ve been traveling throughout the month, so I&#8…

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Dec 1

When Blair and I team up, just do as we say.

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 25

Oops Jamerson (damned autocorrect!)

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 25

Jimmy Blanton
James Jameson
Fernando Saunders

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FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thanks for the tip!

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 24

Um, that should be "with you" up there, dammit.

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hey readers: this might be old news, but consider a switch from Amazon-owned Goodreads to black-owned @thestorygraph.com - bring your books either you! I just added my newest purchases from @leftbankbooks.bsky.social : #nenehcherry #shfernandojr on #DOOM #ahmedabdullah on life in the #sunraarkestra!

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FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 24

Post you from a different era:

The only gig of Possum Fat, Springfield, MO, 1993 (with Morells/Skeletons guitarist #DClintonThompson on drums.

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 24

You best check this out from #RedHotOrg:

TRAИƧA, by Red Hot Org

46 track album

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The Return of Wussy: “We’re Trying to Be Professional and Stuff”

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 19

FelipeQuesO's #albumoftheday #pasalieu #afrikanalien #africanrap par excellence AND addresses some issues you will surely recognize.

Afrikan Alien - YouTube

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FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 17

Ann, read this interview with Chuck and Lisa when you have time:

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A chat with Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker on the occasion of their first LP in six years

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 17

#HailuMergia Trio live at #TheBlueNote in #ColumbiaMissouri!

FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 16

FelipeQuesO's #albumoftheday KILLER PERSONNEL ( #jackiemclean #tonywilliams #bobbyhutcherson #leemorgan #bobcranshaw and Mr. Moncur / all splendid compositions by #grachanmoncuriii / phenomenal recording by #rudyvangelder (big surprise, I know)

Evolution - YouTube

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Preserving America from Trump's Appointments

Reposted by FelipeQuesOvereem

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Nov 15

Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. And the whole idea was that this time he had a plan.
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Decapitation Strike

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FelipeQuesOvereem @felipequesovereem.bsky.social · Nov 15

Thankful for this song as a healthy outlet for my disgust, Ann.

Dick Dogs

YouTube video by Sonny Sharrock Band - Topic

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