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World Tour (Weezy, Wale, Dre) – Brenton Duvall I am woefully behind the times on some subjects.  In spite of the fact that I write a music blog (new media!) I have never fully understood what was going on with … Continue reading →

Foundations – Kate Nash There’s a lot of talk going round in the last day or two about a 1798 health care law that is vaguely like the individual mandate.  Ha ha! the liberal blogosphere cries, the Founders themselves believed … Continue reading →

Broken – Belly Here’s a nice blast from the past.  I remember thinking Mallrats was just about the most hilarious movie of all time.  In retrospect, that might have been a bit of an overstatement.  Still, fun film, and great … Continue reading →

Strange Powers – The Magnetic Fields The Republicans, newly in control of the House, have decided to institute a complete reading of the Constitution today.  Beyond that, they’re now requiring all Congressional bills to include statements of constitutionality.  Effectively, when … Continue reading →

We’ve all got our songs–the ones that we love and hold close to our hearts, but the rest of the world seems to be unaware of.  When we make mixtapes, we make sure to include them so that others might … Continue reading →

New Years – Asobi Seksu 100 Resolutions – The Lawrence Arms It’s a feature of a well-lived life that every year seems to be a little bit better than the one before.  I’m happy to say that 2010 certainly felt … Continue reading →

You Are the Everything – Redbird (R.E.M. cover) Great cover of a great song. This has always been one of my favorite numbers in the R.E.M. catalog. It’s got a wonderful simplicity. But as with most good R.E.M. songs, the … Continue reading →

As always, this is a subjective project. I do think that everything on here is legitimately great, but I’m not going to pretend that my tastes correlate perfectly with some objective standard for the best. This is a list of … Continue reading →

Fairytale Of New York – The Pogues I post this song every Christmas, in part because I feel like a world inundated by terrible Christmas music needs to be reminded that there is at least one song out there that … Continue reading →

These are the 40 songs that mattered the most to me this year. For this list, I’m continuing my tradition of not really talking about the whole song, but instead focusing in and highlighting the single best moment. As always, … Continue reading →