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Rock Music Gets Good Enough Again in The Tens (Thanks to Nuke York, etc. No Thanks to Mac DeMarco et al.)

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By Zachary Lipez
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For rock and folk music exclusively, the first half of the 2010s was decent. Not a golden age or anything—having Mac DeMarco and/or Burger Records around would bring any era’s rock GPA down—but certainly an improvement over the grim years of 2007-10, when the pretty understandable backlash to the Strokes et al. resulted in wave after wave of neutered Pet Sounds and Virgin Suicides-core.
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*The* 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums of the 21st Century, Part 2: 2006-2010

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By Zachary Lipez
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Welcome to part two of The 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums: 2000-2025. Please feel free to read part one HERE, but don't feel like it's necessary in order to undersatnd the plot. As explained in part one: Is this list the "best" or "top" 250 rock & folk albums of the last twenty-five years? Is it an overview? The answer to both these questions is in the title. See where the italics are placed? There you go.
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*The* 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums of the 21st Century So Far. Part One: 2000-2005

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The story of rock and roll and folk music of the 21st Century (“so far”… which the reader will hopefully add themselves from here on) is one of overdetermination, though not in any negative sense. Despite the “over-” implying otherwise. It’s just that there was a lot of history happening to a lot of people, much of which had been set into motion before they was even born.
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