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Tyler Dunston

Tyler Dunston is a music writer for the Stanford Daily. He is a junior majoring in English and minoring in Art Practice. To contact him, e-mail tdunston 'at' stanford.edu.
The xx performing in Finland in 2012 (Wikimedia Commons, Tuomas Vitikainen)

On “I See You,” The xx stay true and expand

Tyler Dunston
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Jan. 18, 2017
David Bowie's "Blackstar" stood out as one of the best albums of 2016. (Wikimedia Commons, Joseph.bleh)

Playlist: The Stanford Daily music beat looks back on the year in music

Tyler Dunston
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Dec. 9, 2016
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Playlist: The Stanford Daily music beat shares their songs for post-election love and healing

Tyler Dunston
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Nov. 15, 2016
Skeleton listening to some spooky tunes. (TYLER DUNSTON/The Stanford Daily)

Playlist: The Stanford Daily music beat presents their favorite Halloween tracks

Tyler Dunston
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Oct. 31, 2016
A Stanford student studies for a midterm, listening to some great tunes. (TYLER DUNSTON/The Stanford Daily)

Playlist: The Stanford Daily music beat shares their songs for the midterm struggle

Tyler Dunston
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Oct. 25, 2016
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Ten featured albums of the summer

Tyler Dunston
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Oct. 11, 2016
Bon Iver gives an impassioned performance at the Fillmore in San Francisco. (Moses, Wikimedia Commons)

Bon Iver’s ‘22, A Million’ finds beauty in uncertainty

Tyler Dunston
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Oct. 4, 2016
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From Bandcamp to Matador: Car Seat Headrest’s cathartic ‘Teens of Denial’

Tyler Dunston
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May 30, 2016
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‘A Moon Shaped Pool’: Radiohead returns with another anxious and mournful masterwork

Tyler Dunston
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May 16, 2016
Anthony Gonzalez of M83. (Courtesy of Rama, Wikimedia Commons)

Album Review: M83’s most recent space odyssey

Tyler Dunston
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May 11, 2016
Jae, EAGELBABEL, and Eli Arbor perform at Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Photo by Rahim Ullah/The Stanford Daily

The Outsiders deliver a monster performance at EBF

Tyler Dunston
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May 1, 2016
The album artwork for "Ology" (Wikimedia Commons).

Gallant’s debut LP ‘Ology’ perplexes and dazzles in equal measure

Tyler Dunston
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April 13, 2016
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Real People Music dazzles at Sprung

Tyler Dunston
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April 4, 2016
Thao Nguyen performing with her band, The Get Down Stay Down, in 2009. (Courtesy of musicisentropy, Wikimedia Commons.)

‘A Man Alive’ delivers a little slash, a little burn

Tyler Dunston
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March 3, 2016
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Is it human to adore ‘Adore Life’? Hell yes.

Tyler Dunston
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Feb. 10, 2016
"Familiar Places," by Rooney Pitchford '15. (Courtesy of Rooney Pitchford)

Complex roots: Rooney Pitchford’s debut “Familiar Places”

Tyler Dunston
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Jan. 24, 2016
Courtney Barnett's "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit" is the Daily's top debut album of 2015. (Paul Hudson, Wikimedia Commons)

The Daily’s top five debut albums of 2015

Tyler Dunston
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Jan. 7, 2016
Tyler "EAGLEBABEL" Brooks performing at the Anderson Collection in 2014. (BENJAMIN SORENSEN/The Stanford Daily)

The Outsiders and Real People Music get the whole world talkin’ at XOX

Tyler Dunston
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Nov. 18, 2015
Arswain (left) and TAPE GHØST (right) working the boards. (KATLYN ALAPATI/The Stanford Daily)

Arswain and TAPE GHØST reshape dance music at Kairos

Tyler Dunston
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Nov. 9, 2015
Indie-folk songstress Joanna Newsom. (Courtesy of Daniel Arnold)

The Avant-Folk Goddess is Back: Joanna Newsom returns with “Divers”

Tyler Dunston
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Oct. 27, 2015
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