What were you doing on January 15, 1994? Personally, I can’t remember—I was 17, so it probably involved Pavement, Frank Black, marijuana, or some combination of the three. It was, however, on that date that a guy named David went to a Guided by Voices concert in Memphis, and it changed his life. [...]

(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 [...]

(This is the third installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. To see #40-31, click here. The fourth installment, #20-11, will be posted Wednesday.)

30. PJ Harvey-To Bring You My Love (Island, 1995)
The slowly building, primordial guitars of opening track “To Bring You My Love” provide the perfect initiation [...]

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 [...]

Yeah, the VMA’s were tired–even Stereogum got bored. But what can one do? Here’s a start–a collection of some of the most interesting videos from the past 2 years–most animated, all downloadable:
Quasimoto-Bullyshit (James Reitano, dir.)
Marbles-Magic (Greg Gilpatrick, dir.)
Chemical Brothers-Galvanize (Adam Smith, dir.)
Guided by Voices-Back to the Lake (MK12, dir.)
The Shins-Pink Bullets (Adam Bizanski, dir.)
Interpol-Evil (Charlie [...]