Sounds Like 2013

Everything I saw, read and enjoyed listening to this year.

BOOKS
Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
James Salter, All That Is
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Renata Adler, Speedboat
Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire
Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter
Carl Wilson, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
Scott Tennent, Spiderland
Marc Spitz, Poseur
Rosie Schaap, Drinking with Men

FILM
Before Midnight
Frances Ha
Behind the Candelabra
The Great Gatsby
The English Teacher
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Philip Roth: Unmasked
Spring Breakers
Phil Spector
Les Miserables
The Sessions
Argo
Sound City
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

LIVE
Bats, Schuba's
Peter Brotzmann/Joe McPhee/Hamid Drake/Kent Kessler, Constellation
Lee Ranaldo and Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Jay Pritzker Pavillion
Laura Stevenson and Field Mouse, Beat Kitchen
Shane Carruth with Upstream Color, Music Box Theatre
Kim Gordon with White/Light, MCA Chicago
Mount Moriah and Blessed Feathers, Schuba's
Quentin Hirsley, Empty Bottle
Psychemagik and Orchard Lounge, Smart Bar
Peter Hook in conversation, MCA Chicago
Yo La Tengo, The Vic
Jeff Parker, MCA Chicago
Orchard Lounge, Smart Bar

ART
"Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962," MCA Chicago

ALBUMS
Bleached, Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
Charli XCX, True Romance (IAMSOUND)
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia)
Deetron, Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1)
DJ Koze, Amygdala (Pampa)
Fear of Men, Early Fragments (Kanine)
Joy Formidable, Wolf's Law (Atlantic)
Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury Nashville)
Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
Magician, Magic Tape 29 (SoundCloud)
Men, New Moon (Sacred Bones)
My Bloody Valentine, mbv (self-released)
Perseus & Jonas Rathsman, Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1)
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City (XL)
Yo La Tengo, Fade (Matador)

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