Rod Taylor
@brazilbeat.bsky.social
Former occasional blogger of recent Brazilian musics. Still eight years' worth of posts to read for newcomers.
https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/
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Rod Taylor
@brazilbeat.bsky.social
· Jul 11
Actually, One More Thing (Really, Just One)
When I stopped writing four-and-a-half months ago, I had a nagging feeling that something was left undone. Before I could let go of Brazil obsession, I wanted to get a sense of the time periods I h…
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I collected all my Brazil decade playlists, plus the 75-song overview here on my still retired blog. Ninety plus hours of listening!
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2025 albums i listened to the most
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Ghost Parades, by Guilherme Granado Goat Unity
9 track album
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December 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
2025 albums i listened to the most
label.keroxen.com/album/ghost-...
label.keroxen.com/album/ghost-...
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Digmanybeats & Vários Artistas • Digmanybeats Studio, Vol. 3 🇧🇷
57 artists, 303 loops, feat. Rodrigo Brandão, Lum, Rodrigo Ogi, & many others
digmanybeats.bandcamp.com/album/digman...
57 artists, 303 loops, feat. Rodrigo Brandão, Lum, Rodrigo Ogi, & many others
digmanybeats.bandcamp.com/album/digman...
December 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Digmanybeats & Vários Artistas • Digmanybeats Studio, Vol. 3 🇧🇷
57 artists, 303 loops, feat. Rodrigo Brandão, Lum, Rodrigo Ogi, & many others
digmanybeats.bandcamp.com/album/digman...
57 artists, 303 loops, feat. Rodrigo Brandão, Lum, Rodrigo Ogi, & many others
digmanybeats.bandcamp.com/album/digman...
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Look at this pic of Roxy Music:
December 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Look at this pic of Roxy Music:
Attn NYC area followers!
NYC - a rare chance to see the great AVA ROCHA, one of the strongest voices in modern 🇧🇷
And it’s free!
And it’s free!
December 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Attn NYC area followers!
Teaching a popular music history class this past semester drove home some of these points and helped me understand better why I like bands so much. Good piece (even if I don't care for Geese).
Hey hey, my my....https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/arts/music/year-in-rock-geese-turnstile.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.TQ1F.KSKW8W2wu5w7
Who Says Rock Is Dead?
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December 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Teaching a popular music history class this past semester drove home some of these points and helped me understand better why I like bands so much. Good piece (even if I don't care for Geese).
Lent a pen to Dimebag Darrell in high school. (He was a local celebrity at the time.)
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Lent a pen to Dimebag Darrell in high school. (He was a local celebrity at the time.)
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Essential:
Here's a great documentary on bassist Charlie Haden:
10K views · 128 reactions | RAMBLING BOY - Charlie Haden documentary
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Documentary from 2010 about life and work of Charlie Haden. Directed by Reto Caduff. © IMAGE and CONTENT ...
RAMBLING BOY - Charlie Haden documentary
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Documentary from 2010 about life and work of Charlie Haden. Directed by Reto Caduff. © IMAGE and CONTENT 2020....
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December 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Essential:
FOMO? Try DOKU: dread of keeping up. Sure I'm intrigued by Pluribus (and lots of stuff), but I'm not adding more subscriptions to my life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
FOMO? Try DOKU: dread of keeping up. Sure I'm intrigued by Pluribus (and lots of stuff), but I'm not adding more subscriptions to my life.
Hmm. How do I let all these people know that Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and even Soundgarden didn't release perfect albums in the '90s?
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Hmm. How do I let all these people know that Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and even Soundgarden didn't release perfect albums in the '90s?
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Something I think about from time to time:
Henry Threadgill was once in a liquor ad. And teenage me became interested in his music because I thought his ad was cool. This ultimately led me to make "Afrikaner Barista" a couple decades later.
The interplay between art and commerce is complex.
Henry Threadgill was once in a liquor ad. And teenage me became interested in his music because I thought his ad was cool. This ultimately led me to make "Afrikaner Barista" a couple decades later.
The interplay between art and commerce is complex.
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Something I think about from time to time:
Henry Threadgill was once in a liquor ad. And teenage me became interested in his music because I thought his ad was cool. This ultimately led me to make "Afrikaner Barista" a couple decades later.
The interplay between art and commerce is complex.
Henry Threadgill was once in a liquor ad. And teenage me became interested in his music because I thought his ad was cool. This ultimately led me to make "Afrikaner Barista" a couple decades later.
The interplay between art and commerce is complex.
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Here's a Christmas song for everyone who is not where they want to be at Christmas, written by Caetano Veloso in exile in London from the junta that had killed and imprisoned his friends:
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
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Caetano Veloso - In the Hot Sun of A Christmas Day - 1971
YouTube video by culturalcannibals
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December 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Here's a Christmas song for everyone who is not where they want to be at Christmas, written by Caetano Veloso in exile in London from the junta that had killed and imprisoned his friends:
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
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Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America • Greg Tate (1992) 📕
reissue, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib & a new foreword by Questlove
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
reissue, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib & a new foreword by Questlove
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America • Greg Tate (1992) 📕
reissue, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib & a new foreword by Questlove
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
reissue, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib & a new foreword by Questlove
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Latest Emcida record has an 8 minute intro and a 10 minute outro and runs 42 minutes. What's in-between is often excellent, but those cuts kill the whole.
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Latest Emcida record has an 8 minute intro and a 10 minute outro and runs 42 minutes. What's in-between is often excellent, but those cuts kill the whole.
I teared up reading this. Just like the movie (which is one of the greatest of all time).
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I teared up reading this. Just like the movie (which is one of the greatest of all time).
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New!!! 3rd part (of 7) of my all-week-long series rounding up 80 favorite singles of 2025. This one's just under 1300 words focusing on Vietnam (Vī , Đông Nhi x DTAP) and budots music from the Philippines (DJ Love, DJ Sandy, DJ Joecel, DJ Johnrey plus 4 [!] singles by DJ Danz. That's a lot of DJs!)
80 Best Singles of 2025 (+5), Part Three
Vī “Kho Báu” and “Close 2 U”; Đông Nhi x DTAP “Một-Không (1-0)”: Well actually, I’m a little confused about “Kho Báu” (which means “Treasure”) - The Vũ Hà Anh/Videyourworld youtube page says it’s by V...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New!!! 3rd part (of 7) of my all-week-long series rounding up 80 favorite singles of 2025. This one's just under 1300 words focusing on Vietnam (Vī , Đông Nhi x DTAP) and budots music from the Philippines (DJ Love, DJ Sandy, DJ Joecel, DJ Johnrey plus 4 [!] singles by DJ Danz. That's a lot of DJs!)
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RIP Eddie Hazel. Gone 33 yrs. Dang.
December 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RIP Eddie Hazel. Gone 33 yrs. Dang.
Wow
Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile
(Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wow
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D. Boon died this date in 1985... I saw Minutemen play a few shows in college and met him. I was so NOT a punk kid but was a budding lefty. He quizzed ME: What do you think of...? Have you read...? When I learned he'd died, I surprised myself and sobbed. Boy could we use him now... Rest in Power
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
D. Boon died this date in 1985... I saw Minutemen play a few shows in college and met him. I was so NOT a punk kid but was a budding lefty. He quizzed ME: What do you think of...? Have you read...? When I learned he'd died, I surprised myself and sobbed. Boy could we use him now... Rest in Power
Brennan has really let her fascist flag fly this past year. She must be loving Weiss-era CBS.
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Brennan has really let her fascist flag fly this past year. She must be loving Weiss-era CBS.
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NEW!!! First installment of a seven-part series I’m running all week about my 80 favorite 2025 singles. 1200 or so words per post. Part One, after an intro and acknowledgements, focuses on lady rappers: Bunna B, Hot Girls, Shelailai, Lil M.U., and — back together after 34 years — L’Trimm.
80 Best Singles of 2025 (+5), Part One
In 2025, I liked more singles from the Philippines, singles from the Middle East, Southern soul singles, and goth/industrial/electroclash singles than I ever would have predicted.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEW!!! First installment of a seven-part series I’m running all week about my 80 favorite 2025 singles. 1200 or so words per post. Part One, after an intro and acknowledgements, focuses on lady rappers: Bunna B, Hot Girls, Shelailai, Lil M.U., and — back together after 34 years — L’Trimm.
This makes me feel so warm and fuzzy.
NYC Council approves JACK KIRBY WAY permanent street name
NYC Council approves JACK KIRBY WAY street
After much effort, the legendary comic creator gets a true NYC honor!
www.comicsbeat.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This makes me feel so warm and fuzzy.
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Catch-all fave 2025 polyglot albums thread:
BaianaSystem: O Mundo Dá Voltas
Inspirational auto-translate: "It's not the Black-Faced Ox that takes the children, it's the State… They deflected the ball and want to appeal for a goal kick."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtn...
BaianaSystem: O Mundo Dá Voltas
Inspirational auto-translate: "It's not the Black-Faced Ox that takes the children, it's the State… They deflected the ball and want to appeal for a goal kick."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtn...
O MUNDO DÁ VOLTAS - BaianaSystem (Álbum Visual)
YouTube video by BaianaSystem
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December 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Catch-all fave 2025 polyglot albums thread:
BaianaSystem: O Mundo Dá Voltas
Inspirational auto-translate: "It's not the Black-Faced Ox that takes the children, it's the State… They deflected the ball and want to appeal for a goal kick."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtn...
BaianaSystem: O Mundo Dá Voltas
Inspirational auto-translate: "It's not the Black-Faced Ox that takes the children, it's the State… They deflected the ball and want to appeal for a goal kick."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtn...
Quit your blog and in less than a year you feel lost perusing the melhores discos lists.
musicainstantanea.com.br/os-50-melhor...
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Os 50 Melhores Discos Brasileiros De 2025
Desde o início da pandemia de Covid-19 que o Brasil não vivia um ano tão movimentado, musicalmente diverso e repleto de grandes lançamentos quanto 2025. Do pop amazônico de Gaby Amarantos ao rock gaúc...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Quit your blog and in less than a year you feel lost perusing the melhores discos lists.
musicainstantanea.com.br/os-50-melhor...
musicainstantanea.com.br/os-50-melhor...