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Love all your suggestions. Check out the Swedish band Guapa and King Buffalo, if you have not.

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I shall investigate! Thanks.

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Thank you, Christian. Btw, I love when you are on Stand Up with Pete Dominick. I think you are the funniest guest, and I always look forward to hearing your hilarious quips!!

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I seemed to break a few ties with my votes, which gave me an awesome godlike feeling to start the morning.

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With great power comes very little responsibility.

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I thought Bodega was gonna win hands-down but DAMN Andra Day's voice got me thinking.

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Yeah, it's a real "pizza vs ice cream" debate. How do you even compare them?

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I don't know if it is just an Apple Music thing or not, but after listening to that Andra Day song the Pearl Jam sounded like it was recorded from behind a stack of pillows.

Probably depends on whether you're the kind of person who can see yourself listening to Iron & Wine, but Tears That Don't Matter from their new album is making me happy right now. It's got strings, melodramatic tempo changes, and some really nice piano near the end.

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Yeah, I'm sure real audio geeks could give me reasons, but it will never make sense to me that there isn't some sort of universal loudness standard. This will be a pillar of my presidential compaign.

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Oh, and I'm definitely spending time with the new Iron & Wine. Digging it so far, and I totally understand why he's broadened his sound, but I do miss the hyper intimacy of the first albums.

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“If you’re committed to elevating this shitty film over perhaps the most touching indie romance of the 21st Century, I can’t stop you.” Don’t mind if I do!

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Why I oughtta…

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