If you read the whole thing, you’ll see that Newton Minow’s notorious “vast wasteland” speech—delivered right after he’d been tapped by JFK to lead the FCC—at least had its heart in the right place. Its official title is “Television and the Public Interest,” and Minow used it to lobby a still-formative medium to incorporate more [...]
“Damon Albarn has revealed details of the forthcoming third Gorillaz album, entitled Plastic Beach…The sometime Blur frontman got the idea for the title from the beach outside his house in Devon that’s littered with plastic bottles.”
EXCLUSIVE: marathonpacks.com has come into exclusive possession of some of Albarn’s actual rejected album titles. They are:
1. Beach Bottles
2. Bottle [...]
Two things I really like about the end of the year–making comprehensive mixes of the music of the last 12 months, and giving cheap presents. This is a way for me to do both. Well, here they are–the first two products of about two weeks (off and on, mind you) of narrowing my year-end favorites [...]
Yeah, I know, another list. This one was a lot easier to compile (especially the top 10) than the albums list. It was a decent year for videos overall (and for David Cross, who appears in 1/3 of them), one in which Gondry held serve for me as the G.O.A.T., Spoon showed that they still [...]
I’m not a huge fan of the Eels–I’ve always found Mark Everett to be the premiere sufferer of that young, male disorder that disallows non-clunky expressions of angst, despair, and relationship problems (see Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie). However, the band’s videos have always pleased me, from the floating in the air clip for [...]
I should be upgrading the site in a day or so, thus I’ve decided to try my hand at podcasting. No RSS feeds or anything (yet), just a radio mix this time of some of the best and most recent from this year–a lot of stuff I’ve already hosted here, and a good chunk of [...]
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 [...]