What if Nine Inch Nails-inspired modern rock dialed in on Trent Reznor’s simmering synth-pop fixation, instead of begetting aggro mid-90s stuff like Filter and Stabbing Westward? What if Secret Machines bought vintage Korgs and hired Doug Martsch to sing? What if the M83 guy were less French and more alt-bro? These (and others!) are the [...]

“Colby Nolan belongs to a deputy attorney general. In looking to expose Trinity Southern University for fraud, some undercover agents had the then six-year-old Colby Nolan obtain a bachelor’s degree in business administration for $299. On the cat’s application, the agents claimed that the cat had previously taken courses at a community college, worked at [...]

“The memory effect: Will your battery lose capacity if you don’t let it go down to zero every once in a while? Not likely. The memory effect applies only to nickel-cadmium batteries, whereas most modern electronics use lithium-ion or the more advanced lithium-ion polymer. Not only are lithium batteries immune to the memory effect, they [...]

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1. “I’m Good” is one of the few times we’re allowed to use “effervescent” to describe something involving the Clipse
2. The Clipse smile so much in this video, it’s hard to tell if they’re a) honestly just jovial dudes most of the time, b) super pumped that there’s a shark tank in their video, or [...]

Little substantial information exists about Caroline Crawford, but in this case I’ll use my ignorance as an advantage.  The lack of a factual framework only gives me more space to mythologize as to the origin of that voice, and to co-author a context worthy of the dreamy journey on which “Riding On Your Love” takes [...]

You might say I’ve Had This Song Dancin’ In My Ears For The Past Few Months (you might not say that).  Either way, I’ve been passively hoping over the last couple days that they’d play this one for PTV.  It’ll make my top ten tracks this year, and it’s good to know it translates live [...]

1.  “‘The Underdog’ has a million chords,” says Daniel. “A lot of songs on this record are just one or two chords. There’s a lot more droning.”
Britt Daniel, on the rawer new Spoon record, to Spinner (also).
2. “’Virgin mishandled an earlier remaster series,’ says Partridge, ‘and there were all sorts of bad color separations and [...]