Guitars! Beards! Punk dudes! Old dudes! A barely-2009 Spoon song! A few ladies! Two (2) bands from Indiana (#8, #18)!
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1. Yo La Tengo “Nothing to Hide” (Matador)
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “The Tenure Itch” (Slumberland)
3. The Fresh & Onlys “Peacock and Wing” (Woodsist)
4. So Cow “Casablanca” [...]

It took me until the beginning of this year to finally get to the point where the overload of music and its attendant discourses provided by the internet made me feel like my critical sensibilities were completely shutting down, like I was unable to like, or even distinguish, anything anymore.* So I stopped reading music [...]

Having trouble getting into Embryonic?  Wayyyyyyy too long for you to even think about, with your busy life and other interests and limited free time and such?  Try this shaved-down version first (using your own mp3s, not mine).  All killer, no filler, 51.5 minutes of creepy, rhythm-centric middle-age paranoia (original sequence retained).  Dig on this, [...]

The first thing I thought after listening to Embryonic in full, or at least one of the first thoughts (I have lots of thoughts sometimes), was “how will these songs, which are clearly different than those with which they’ve made their bread and butter over the past decade, translate live?” The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi [...]

For podcast #3, I’ve decided on a little gimmickry. This one is entirely comprised of cover versions. I went out of my way to make sure they’re not totally obscure (like a high school band playing “Just What I Needed”), but I think it could be fun to offer a prize for the first person [...]

(This is the fifth and final 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. To see #20-11, click here.)

10. A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders (Jive, 1993)

A whittled-down version of The Low-End Theory, Midnight Marauders is, aside from the obvious [...]