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  • Habibi Funk Gets Into the ‘Bourj Hammoud Groove’ with Ara Kekedjian Collection

    Cover of Habibi Funk 033 Bourj Hammoud Groove by Ara Kekedjian title is written on cover in Armenian alphabet

    From its first note, “Mini, Midi, Maxi,” the opening track off Bourj Hammoud Groove, Habibi Funk’s new Ara Kekedjian retrospective, will transport you to another time and place. You don’t know where in the world you are, but it’s somewhere around the end of the 1960s and you’re feeling very jet set as you shimmy against psychedelic lights in your Paco Rabanne fit while smoking a really long cigarette. The band is giving Jacques Dutronc energy with a song that falls somewhere in between “Mini, Mini, Mini” and “Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi.” You don’t really understand the lyrics, but it doesn’t matter. Vibe transcends language at the global disco-a-go-go. 

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  • I Love These 2022 Albums From Boy Harsher, The Weeknd, Wet Leg and Lots More

    Up and Away, The Runner, A Bit of Previous and Wet Leg are four fantastic 2022 albums
    Vinyl copies of Up and Away, The Runner, A Bit of Previous and Wet Leg

    There was a lot of great music that came out this past year, so much that making a list of the best 2022 albums is a near-impossible task. Fortunately, last year, a good friend gave me a notebook designed for keeping track of music, so I was able to keep decent notes on most of the albums I heard in 2022.  I followed the format of that notebook in putting together this list of albums I love and think you should hear. It’s not short— there are 23 full-length albums listed below— nor is it confined to any single genre. These albums aren’t ranked either. Each listing is followed by a link where you can buy the album.

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