Sarah Wyatt Swanson plays drums for Tammar (ed. note: the best band in Bloomington), is an ex-employee of Secretly Canadian Records, possesses an MFA degree in Creative Writing, and is currently working at the SPEA department at Indiana University.
Since I tend to be behind the times when it comes to buying records, I’ve made a [...]

Man, can you believe the Democrats were able to take over the House and Senate in this crazy year 2006? Hopefully my Indianapolis Colts have what it takes to make it to the Super Bowl. Man, this housing bubble never seems to want to pop, does it? Probably never will.
For serious, [...]

Nate Hileman lives in Chicago and currently handles ad sales for Pitchfork Media. He’s spent the last six or so years employed in various facets of the music industry. Besides music, he’s obsessed with managing fantasy sports teams and is convinced he could turn around the Pittsburgh Pirates if given an opportunity. While writing this [...]

Robert Towne Personal BestThis is, of course, not a 2008 music release. It’s a somewhat obscure 1982 drama written and directed by Robert Towne that was finally released on DVD in early 2008. (You can read my extended thoughts on the film here.) Not only is it one of the finest films [...]

Michelle Lane is a fashion stylist who lives and works in New York. She used to sit next to Eric in Mr. Rockey’s Geometry class. She styled her first music video this year, for Jaron Albertin’s “The Lake,” which can be viewed here.
Au Revoir SimoneThese girls are dear friends and I frequently collaborate with [...]

josh olivo records music as goodhandsteam.
(in no particular order):
gang gang dance saint dymphnamy favorite album this year. because it’s the jam. sounds kinda like it’s probably the closest they can come to making a pop record.
flying lotus los angeles a good hip hop record in a year of not that many good [...]

Mike Treffehn is currently wrapping up his MFA in sculpture at Tyler School of Art in Philly. He likes to think that musical obsession makes him “well rounded,” but it’s not fooling anyone.
An Old Friend Returns
I started getting really anxious about doing a year-end list, because that would mean that I’d have to quantify [...]

(As I do every year, I’ll devote this week to posting some year-end thoughts, musical and otherwise, from some friends of mine. My own thing will no doubt go up sometime in the early part of January. In the meantime, my year-end mixes are still there for the taking, btw.)
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The following four guys [...]

So, I’ve added Yahoo’s handy little mp3 streaming widget thing (which should be down in the bottom left of the browser window, as well as embedded with a little arrow next to mp3 links), which allows you to stream the mp3s on the site instead of always having to go through all the trouble of [...]

Slight update for those of you who may have downloaded the mixes, particularly #s 3 & 4. There were a few fuck-ups in those, somehow, which you might have heard. I got in there, fixed them, (and maybe tweaked a couple other things too) and re-upped them to their original spots. Which [...]