As you’re reading this, I’m recooperating after the weekend-long Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. Tune in Tuesday for my whatever. As for this podcast, it has nothing to do with Pitchfork, save some smart-ass comments about me not knowing anything about what will happen (by the way, I’m typing this Thursday night). (Sunday [...]

This is the third in a series of guest posts from Jason Groth of Magnolia Electric Co., as the band makes its way west with Ladyhawk. Find links to his first two entries after this post, which is my favorite yet.
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Before I knew what vapor lock actually was I suppose I processed it as [...]

This is the second in a series of guest posts from Jason Groth of Magnolia Electric Co., as the band makes its way west with Ladyhawk. His first bit of correspondence, from Omaha, can be read here.
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You think they’re kidding about getting drunk faster in Denver, but they’re not. Sure, it makes scientific sense, [...]

UPDATE (7/28): A few weeks ago, my ftp-thing decided to make all of the original files from these two original posts (from May) go away, banished to the land of wind and ghosts. Well, now they’re back. They’re not exactly new, but they are alive once more. Part two is here.
UPDATE (11/15): Bienvenue à [...]

The response to the first “Beatles Moments” post was incredibly rewarding, if a bit overwhelming. Honestly, I should have known that there were so many fellow fanatics eager to indulge others with their favorite moments. With that in mind, along with the fact that I was forced by time constraints to eliminate a large number [...]

The name is off-putting to be sure, and no doubt meant as a preemptive “shhhh” to anyone thinking that this project, helmed by coy pop savant Erlend Øye, is indicative of a desire to delve into the realm of soul any more than Gang of Four’s Entertainment or The Clash’s “Lost in the Supermarket.” [...]

(A quick preface, from marathonpacks) I first met Jason Groth in the summer of 1998 when he showed up at my apartment with a mutual friend, saw my turntable, and graced it with the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society, which he had freshly purchased and with which he was visibly enamored. That summer has [...]

More than a few years ago, I turned one of my (at the time) good friends onto Guided by Voices, via the song “My Valuable Hunting Knife” from Alien Lanes. She had remarkably good taste in music (ahem) and immediately latched onto the band. After about a month, Alien Lanes was [...]

And finally, we can. Depeche Mode’s original, from a mind-bendingly long ago 1990 (!) took one of Martin Gore’s most perfectly realized compositions and approached it from the post-New Romantic electro-perspective that Violator did more perfectly than any other album of its ilk, by like three miles. And “Enjoy the Silence,” it turns [...]

Three weeks and counting. If I could remember to water my plants with this sort of regularity, they would be green and sumptuous instead of brown and crackly, and dead. Either way, this is the second half of the 2003 theme, and it’s arguably better than the first one in terms of music [...]