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I've Caught Aaron Strumpel Fever

The only 5-star album I've heard thus far this year. If Nine Inch Nails sang the Psalms and invited avant garde jazzbos The Art Ensemble of Chicago to the studio, it might sound like this.- Paste music critic Andy Whitman In the last several years, I'

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Andy Whitman on "No Line On the Horizon"

Here's Whitman's take on U2's No Line on the Horizon.

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Andy Whitman on U2's "Really Good Non-Reinvention"

Josh Hurst hosts a U2 love-in. Meanwhile, at artsandfaith.com, Andy Whitman of Paste, who is working on his review of the new album, lets this slip: Don't believe the hype. This is not U2's best album, but it is a really good non-reinvention. I think

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Help Andy Whitman, the world's best music reviewer/columnist!

If you can find anybody who writes about music with more eloquence, passion, and historical knowledge than Andy Whitman, please let me know. He's my favorite. Nobody can send me running to spend money on music I haven't heard before like Andy can. Alas, Andy had

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Browser, 10/17

Here's Andy Whitman on my favorite album of 2008 so far. Also... * Bono and Edge trying to drive fans crazy, hold secret performance of new material. * My horse could paint that? And now, a bunch of links to GreenCine Daily, where reviews are piling up for must-see films:

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David Foster Wallace, author of "Infinite Jest," dead at 46.

My thanks to Alissa Wilkinson for passing along the news... The L.A. Times has the story here. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find that her husband had

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David Foster Wallace, author of "Infinite Jest," dead at 46.

My thanks to Alissa Wilkinson for passing along the news... The L.A. Times has the story here. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find that her husband had

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My Favorite Music Reviewer Speaks

Andy Whitman, my favorite writer at Paste Magazine, delivered a lecture at the Trinity Arts Conference last week. I missed it. My work schedule prevented me from attending, and it hurt to miss out. Nobody writes about music with more passion than Andy. And few can draw from such a

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Looking Elsewhere: May 27, 2008

Remembering Sydney Pollack GreenCine Daily compiles the tributes. What's your favorite Pollack film? * Over-praising Coldplay What appears to be the first review of Coldplay's Viva la Vida has appeared in The Sun. It's a review by Gordon Smart. Now, I'm somewhat curious

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Del Toro Wants Puppets to Invade "The Hobbit"; Plus, Andy Whitman on Great Christian Rock Albums

At Arts and Faith, Peter Chattaway comes up with two interesting links on The Hobbit. The first one is an interview, in which Del Toro says things that make me want to cheer. The only thing I will be pushing for more in these films that the other three are

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Buzz About This Album Began in 1994. On May 6, It's Here.

Music reviewer extraordinaire Andy Whitman has already heard it, and he's posted some comments at ArtsandFaith.com.

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"We Call This Friday Good"

Thank you, Andy Whitman. And T.S. Eliot. Best words I've read all day.

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Larry Norman is Dead. Long Live Larry Norman.

"The father of Christian rock" -- Larry Norman -- is dead. And as you might expect, Andy Whitman has written something appropriate to this solemn event. UPDATE: CT on Larry Norman.

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The Browser: Dobson and the election. Another Top Ten List. O'Connor.

Whitman on this election year's Dobson¬†factor Some writers make me nod off. Andy Whitmanmakes me nod on, and on, and on.¬† * A Lively List VJ Morton has one of the most interesting¬†Best of 2007 lists I've¬†seen, and a thoughtful trip through the¬†acting

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Specials: Harry Potter; Mother Teresa; Wilson on Atheism Books; Cummings on Satyajit Ray

I'm a week late to this blog entry, but wow... Andy Whitman writes about music better than just about anybody I know. And now he's posted a home-run entry about Harry Potter. * Yesterday I posted news about the new book on Mother Teresa. Here's

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Specials: Bourne, Batman, Potter, Wenders, Derrickson, Bjork, Sunshine, and more.

A few quick notes and links from my flurry of catching up: I can't believe it. After all of the buzz, the hype, the excitement, I've seen The Bourne Ultimatum, and I'm really, really disappointed. It's the least of the three... basically

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Lindsay Lohan Turns Around. (Or... Does She?)

Thanks to Andy Whitman for bringing to my attention the only Lindsay Lohan news worth reporting. And here it is: FOX News reports that Barry Gerald Sands, a Century City defense attorney and a certified drug and alcohol counselor, had this to say regarding Lohan's current predicament: "

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Music bits: U2 Album Progress. Whitman's aves. Hartse on Feist. The Believer.

A quick blitz of music links: * U2's progress on their new album. * Andy Whitman rates the best albums so far this year. * Joel Hartse reviews Feist's The Reminder. * A summary of The Believer's annual Music Issue.

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Andy Whitman on Britney Spears, American Idol, and Calvin College

Once again, Andy Whitman is a shining a beacon through the cultural fog.

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Looking for Utopia?

One of the seductions that bedevils Christian formation is the construction of utopias, ideal places where we can live totally and without inhibition or interference the good and blessed and righteous life. The imagining and then attempted construction of such utopias is an old habit of our kind. Sometimes we

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The best music site on the Web is going to get even better.

Andy Whitman is going to work for All-Music Guide. Oh. my. stars. Thom Jurek, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and Andy Whitman... three of my favorite music critics all in the same place. Fantastic.

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Andy Whitman on The Innocence Mission

Paste's Andy Whitman is joining the latest wave of love for The Innocence Mission, upon the re-release of their marvelous Birds of My Neighborhood. Have you seen the winning entries to my "Describe the Innocence Mission's music" contest?