Commentary: I joined groups to discuss music and graphic novels and got an education I didn’t expect

Back in the spring, a good friend asked if I wanted to be part of a group that would listen to two albums each month — one of them randomly selected from Rolling Stone’s “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time“ list and the other picked by a group member. Then we’d talk about them during a Zoom call. Kind of like a record listening party. I said, “Why not?” I ended up in a group of men, all great guys, who frankly have a much more impressive listening repertoire and expansive knowledge of music than my own. Over the years, they’ve all had their hand in the scene in some formal way, either by maki…

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