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NPR’s All Songs Considered is asking you, the casual and hard-core music non-expert to select the ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
You don’t need to be a snooty NPR listener like me, it’s open to anyone with musical taste–even bad musical taste.
Vote today. Select up to FIVE. If you don’t, just consider the reprocussions–Fountains of […]

As the first snow falls in America’s High Five state, black ice covers the roads, knuckles turn white and tailgating fucktards find their way into the ditch.
I drive past, laughing my way to the office, desperately trying to keep my road rage in check, with a “Ho-Ho-Ho,” and a “Hee-Hee-Hee,” and a “It’s […]

Small Sins’ eponymous debut album of 2006 was ‘one pleasant surprise’, as Benom might say. I still go back to it frequently. It is groovy, an easy listen that is fun and enjoyable.
Which is why I’m disappointed by their 2007 release (officially launched in late September). The band still loves synthesizers, but their sophomore […]

Although there’s no doubt that the commercial is great, I don’t see myself trading in my iPod for a Sirius satellite radio any time soon. And by any time soon, I mean ever.

In every city, in every state in the United States of America the program director of a classic rock station is waking up from a self-induced coma–the result of mixing NyQuil, Bartel & James and Oxycotin. It’s not what he planned, just what the hooker brought with her.
As he searched for his tan pants, […]

wait for it, it gets impressive. I like the awkward high five. It reminds me why I love the internets.

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Despite the title, I’m not going to write an album review per se. I don’t have the time in my life to review each song and get into a lengthy analysis. I’ll leave the (pretentious) reviews to Pitchfork, which, by the way, is probably the first site I visit each day simply because of the […]

Amy Winehouse mumbling and stumbling through “Back to Black” at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

So last Thursday Benom wrote about Radiohead’s webcast. Turns out it was only a test. On Friday, at roughly the time everyone was headed for their first drink after work, Thumbs Down began. It featured hours of material that you can now find just about anywhere. So in lieu of a play […]