The glut of "best of 2013" music lists can be overwhelming, though occasionally I'll run across one that gives me pause and invites thinking about what shaped my year of listening, what I missed, and why the end of the year doesn't mean I'll stop listening to anything that came out in the past 12 months simply because I'll be using a new calendar. Just yesterday I spent a good bit of time reading through the first part of the Passion of the Weiss's "Top 50 Albums of 2013" (which includes a few write-ups by Reader contributor Tosten Burks) and Fake Shore Drive's "100 Great Chicago Rap Songs of 2013" and took note of some mixtapes, tracks, and artists that I hadn't spent much time with this year.…
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