Dive into the archives.
- Power Pop
It’s good to know Sweden’s holding the fort on this for the time being. This is the catchiest thing ever:
- Bitter/Sweet 2008
Is it really this time of year again? Nothing too crazy here - lots of well-known songs, lots of obscure songs, even some songs we wish were more obscure than they are (”Mouth”). Enjoy:
Sweet
1. Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
2. Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost
3. Susumu Hirasawa - The Girl in Byakkoya [...]
- 25 Albums for 2007 (Part Five)
5. Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
Song: “Can’t Speak French”
Girl power?
You know, it’s pure coincidence that the top five artists I listened to in 2007 were all female - four solo artists and one reality-tv supergroup. This is Girls Aloud’s fourth album, and remarkably, it’s their best yet. After faltering a bit with [...]
- 25 Albums for 2007 (Part Four)
Dragonette kicks off our Top 10…
10. Dragonette - Galore
Song: “Take It Like a Man”
In a perfect world, Galore would be hitting the Billboard Top 10 right about now after months of slowly building buzz - Dragonette’s Martina Sorbara would become an icon on the level of say, Gwen Stefani (or at least Shirley Manson), and [...]
- 25 Albums for 2007 (Part Three)
Part Three of our Five-Part Series of Albums I Really Liked this year continues…
15. Bobby Conn - King for a Day
Song: “Mr. Lucky”
ADHD-glam, with weird, awful ventures into metal. Skip the metal tracks - I do. Stick to the insanely over-arranged glitter-rock symphonies (”A Glimpse of Paradise,” “King for a Day”, “Anybody”). The best [...]
- 25 Albums for 2007 (Part Two)
Our survey of the best and brightest albums (that I listened to) in 2007 continues…
20. Orion Rigel Dommisse - What I Want from You is Sweet
Song: “Simon Sent for Me”
The first of three Hexham Head recordings on this list. Philadelphia’s Hexham Head Studios produced five terrific albums this year, two of which barely missed making [...]
- 25 Albums for 2007 (Part One)
It’s getting tougher to put together this list every year.
When we’re young, we latch onto music as a means of defining ourselves - adolescence is a scary time, and being able to say “I listen to The Strokes/Cephalic Carnage/Aphex Twin” places you within certain social and even political context. Music serves as a mechanism by [...]
- Could someone explain what’s going on here?
This is John Maus. He’s a member of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and a solo artist in his own right. I’ve never listened to his solo records because I don’t care much for Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. Image courtesy of the artist’s Myspace page.
This is my cousin Green. She’s from Iowa. Image courtesy of my [...]
- Updates…
Well,
I haven’t really had much to update, so I haven’t. Which is to say:
I haven’t made much progress on my script. I’ve been watching lots of movies, but nothing particularly exciting. Work is fine - nothing to write home about, but I feel as though what I do is appreciated on some basic level.
So I’ll [...]
- Rock Show! Yay!
See, I don’t spend all my free time watching movies. Occasionally I go watch live performances of rock and roll music.
Last night I went with some friends and some friends of friends to see The Thermals:The Thermals conjure this sort of insanely overwrought pop-punk with brutally on-point no blood for oil lyrics (literally) and a [...]
