Before catching the Rosebuds at Bloomington’s Second Story Nightclub last night, I gathered with some friends at my girlfriend’s house (she has cable!) for drinks. The television was harmlessly on in the background, but eventually we began dissecting what we were seeing. It wasn’t too hard to analyze the program, because there was so much [...]

During a conversation with a friend (over IM, naturally) the other day, he asked me for my recommendations for the “next big thing.” Assuming he meant music, I quickly sorted my iTunes by date, scrolled down to 2005, and began reciting bands in reverse alphabetical order: Wilderness, Tom Vek, Sufjan Stevens, Russian Futurists, Pitty Sing, [...]