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Gabe Rosenberg
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Dec 14, 2021

Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2021

From my vantage point, 2021 felt precarious. …

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Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2021
Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2021
Music

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Dec 16, 2020

Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2020

Music in 2020 took one of two forms: those about our current moment, and those noticeably disconnected from it. Not that one is inherently better than the other — we deserve both validation and liberation. Some records, like Fiona Apple’s Fetch The Bolt Cutters or Run The Jewels’ RTJ4, were…

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Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2020
Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2020
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Dec 23, 2019

Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2019

There’s a quote from the TV show The Good Place I can’t stop thinking about. (Don’t worry, I’ll get to music in a moment.) The central question of this thoughtful and hilarious series is how, or even if, we can become more ethical people. …

Music

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Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2019
Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2019
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Dec 18, 2018

Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2018

What is the sound of eking out an existence? Of stitching a life back together again? Of questioning if the old one was even worth saving? …

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Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2018
Gabe’s Favorite Albums Of 2018
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Dec 17, 2017

My Top Albums Of 2017

Honestly, why even bother with men this year? — By the end of last year, we were all ready for a break, for a stop to the constant waves of news and destruction. We didn’t get that in 2017; instead, we got the never-ending sea. Putting together my best albums list, I was struck by how dominated my year…

Music

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My Top Albums Of 2017
My Top Albums Of 2017
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Dec 31, 2016

The Best Albums of 2016

Only Good Things About This Trash Fire Year — We don’t get to choose what music connects with us when. That’s about all the lesson I got out of 2016. Even beyond the election and political turmoil, here and seemingly everywhere else in the world, 2016 was more destructive than I expected. I graduated, left all the friends I…

Music

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The Best Albums of 2016
The Best Albums of 2016
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Dec 28, 2015

Gabe’s Best Music of 2015

The Review Where It Happens — 2015 was a heavy year. Wesley Morris, in The New York Times Magazine, called it “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity.” And yet, I can’t get this one line from Chance the Rapper out of my head. “It’s cool with just me. I’m cool being me.” It’s not because our…

Music

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Gabe’s Best Music of 2015
Gabe’s Best Music of 2015
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Aug 25, 2015

The Wayfaring Journalist

Why Mobility is the Key to Empathetic Reporting — Zip code 70805 is known as the “most dangerous neighborhood in Baton Rouge.” The area suffers from high unemployment and poverty and has some of the highest homicide and HIV rates in the United States. Drive down Airline Highway and cross over Florida Boulevard, locals say, and the change is…

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The Wayfaring Journalist
The Wayfaring Journalist
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Apr 4, 2015

College Campuses Deserve Better Coverage

Images c/o Wesleyan University This editorial originally appeared in The Wesleyan Argus Investigating breaking news on a university campus is no different than investigating any other tight-knit community — unless you refuse to see college students as a multifaceted community with diversity of belief and behavior. In the days and…

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College Campuses Deserve Better Coverage
College Campuses Deserve Better Coverage
College

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Dec 31, 2014

The Best Albums Of 2014

A critical approximation I’m looking now at my Best Of 2013 list. Finding it hard not to reflect on my music tastes even just a year ago: “What the hell was I thinking?” There’s a lot in those 10 spots that I might think twice rewarding so generously a year later, and a…

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The Best Albums of 2014 — A critical approximation
The Best Albums of 2014 — A critical approximation
2014

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