I’m over at Village Voice’s Sound of the City Blog today and tomorrow, lending my expertise on a variety of subjects, including that insane new Books track, that *yawn* new Interpol *yawn*, and best of all, puns galore with possible Weird Al/Lady Gaga songs.
I was there doing the same thing two months ago, too, which [...]

There’s been an obvious trend the past few years for post-post-punk bands to name themselves with an eye toward the militaristic and/or political–Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol–nominally (not ideologically) aligning themselves with the originator of the trend, Army of Lovers. No, wait, Gang of Four. Anyhoo, Sweden’s Lucknow Pact is named after a [...]

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 [...]