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February 2013

February 2013

  • Whole Note: 2013 Grammy Awards
  • Books of Note 2011-2012
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet, Four MFs Playin’ Tunes
  • Best Cover Songs of 2012
  • Various Artists, Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac

Listen to The Best Cover Songs of 2012.

January 2013

January 2013.

  • Whole Note: 2012: The Year in Music
  • The Best Songs of 2012

The best songs of 2012 are:

01. “The Garden” / RUSH
02. “Roll on John” / BOB DYLAN
03. “Fight” / SAINT SAVIOUR
04. “Seven Minute Mind” / THE BAD PLUS
05. “Bay of Skaill” / THE MAGNETIC NORTH
06. “Coda” / FRAMES
07. “Green Chimneys” / ERIC REED
08. “Animal Life” / SHEARWATER
09. “Beautiful Friction” / THE FIXX
10. “Song of the Lonely Mountain” / NEIL FINN
11. “Flying (In Crimson Skies)” / MARCONI UNION
12. “State of Grace” / TAYLOR SWIFT
13. “Blew Out the Walls” / ANIMAL LIBERATION ORCHESTRA
14. “Airegin” / BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
15. “Teo” / BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET
16. “Seek It” / RICHARD HAWLEY
17. “In the Beginning” / TODD SNIDER


Listen to the best songs of 2012.

December 2012

December 2012

  • Whole Note: 1982
  • The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (museum exhibit and accompanying book)
  • Appreciation: The Fixx, Shuttered Room
November 2012

November 2012

  • Whole Note: The Path to Enlightenment
  • Appreciation: Junko Onishi
  • Acorns: “The Sound of the Life of the Mind” by Ben Folds, “I’m Not the Same Without You” by Donald Fagen, “Skyfall” by Adele, and “Gangnam Style” by Psy
  • The Magnetic North, Orkney: Symphony of The Magnetic North
October 2012

October 2012

Whole Note: Head in the Clouds

Ruminations on meaning in art, the intersections of music and literature and literature and music, and the good life.

This issue features discussions of songs and albums by:

  • The Waterboys
  • Rush
  • Bill Ryder-Jones
  • Found Audio
  • Arturo Delmoni & Nathaniel Rosen
  • The Alan Parsons Project
  • Duke Ellington
  • Kate Bush
  • Lykke Li
  • Matisyahu