I’ll always be the last person to imply that technology itself—specifially, the digital type that allows for consumer-level home recording/music construction—is directly responsible for the content of the music created by it. Which is a fancy way of saying that, despite the amount of software used to make music, I (perhaps naively) still preference [...]

Hawaii is ethnographic indie pop; a post-colonialist concept album that explores ideas of culture, community, identity and property through stories of weekend anthropologists, local theatre companies, and frustrated book editors. The stature this album holds in my memory is rare—along with but a handful of others, I have very distinct and very positive recollections of [...]

It turns out that Misery is a Butterfly was a one-stop detour, after all. I really liked that record, and still do (to a slightly lesser degree–Ed.), but I can understand why a lot of others didn’t. It was the post-Kazu Mikino-horse-related-injury album, and it reflected her significant bed-ridden life/death contemplation, resulting [...]

For Valentine’s Day, how about “Sit Tight” (mp3), a song that manages to touch upon relationships, communication, and problem-solving inside of three minutes. Okay, just kidding. Before you go leading off a mix for your S.O. with this, give it a close listen. The first few lyrics, for instance: “I’ve been sitting tight, didn’t [...]

For as long as I can remember listening to music, I can remember manipulating it. As soon as I got my first two-deck cassette jambox, I started remixing tapes and shuffling their running orders, based on whatever criteria I thought fitting. My most popular methodology was to re-organize the tapes in descending order [...]

First and foremost, this was a long time coming for Indiana sports fans. At least since 2000, when the Colts had at least two, sometimes three of the most effective offensive position players in the conference, perhaps the league, but managed to completely blow it in so many different ways in the postseason. [...]

I’m taking over (half the posts of) Idolator today—come on over and give me some moral support, as I wade throught the morass of Gawker Media and hopefully emerge without my gum in my hair (first post here). For those of you here for the first time because of Idolator, welcome. Please use [...]