This podcast will serve as the first to be distributed with Feedburner, a free and comprehensive distribution service that will allow marathonpacks to automatically download to your feed-reader of choice. Coolest to me, though, is the ability to feed it directly into your iTunes, and let it update each time you open the application (music [...]

(This is the fourth installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. To see #40-31, click here. To see #30-21, click here. The fifth and final installment will be posted Thursday.)

20. Mos Def-Black on Both Sides (Rawkus, 1999)
The last two installments of this list will draw heavily [...]

I’m posting this list in the interest of providing visitors an idea of what I’d consider my “canon”–for the last five years, at least. Any music aficionado would agree that a list like this actually goes together pretty quickly, by sorting one’s iTunes by year and taking a glance at the CD rack. My main [...]

After a week-long respite in the Florida sun, I’m back, with a list inspired by my pal Irving of the 10 best singles so far this year. As I compiled it, I noticed that my ideal top ten is replete with up-tempo, danceable numbers–my ideal, parallel-universe Billboard chart.
1. The Decemberists “16 Military Wives“–At a typically [...]