It’s not as gross as it sounds I promise! This has been a cold, but fruitful January for music, some expected, some entirely unexpected, but all fantastic. Lucky you. May I humbly suggest the following: Vampire Weekend-Contra #1 in America? This is only the 12th indie album to ever hit Billboard #1, and it’s worthy [...]
It has been a ridiculously long time since I threw one of these at you. I apologize, I know you blindly lead me and for too long I’ve not been leading you anywhere. Well I’m back bootlickers (found that synonym on the interwebs) to show you what’s what for the month ahead in pop culture. [...]
New music coming just a bit later this month from one of my favorite musicians. Nate Reuss is the former lead singer of The Format. The Format made fun, orchestral, expansive, sometimes experimental indie pop which put a smile on your face whether you wanted it or not and despite the sometimes heart-wrenching material. But [...]
Two fun freebies for you all: Stream Fun’s new album all day. You don’t literally have to do it all day, but you may just want to. Community’s Pilot is up on fbook. Community is going to be hilarious. Fans of the Soup will recognize Joel McHale, who is better than ice cream. Well some [...]
if you’re not already, get excited for the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia:love the guest appearances by ted leo (check him out) and of montreal (check them out). via videogum.
I write today with a few notes of sadness, but also some of joy. I want to honor those music videos that have come before us and ponder why exactly music videos are now extremely terrible. MTV came to us like a bat out of hell and introduced us to The Buggles who while kicking [...]
So I’m a fan of NPR, one of the things I really like is a show called “All Songs Considered.” Basically I want the host’s job of picking sweet new tunes for people to hear. I already do this, but I don’t get paid for it. Regardless of my plotting Bob Boilen’s demise, they raised [...]
most of my amazing ideas (of which there are many) come in the wee hours of the night. THIS one is no different, and imagine my grand surprise when I saw this video mashing up one of my current favorite (and endangered) tv shows and this song, “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear. This song is [...]
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