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 [...]

My immediate (and to most of my friends, annoyingly overzealous) appreciation for 2003’s “Move Your Feet” was due in large part to its mysterious origin. Before seeing a picture of Junior Senior (not that it would have helped), I couldn’t decide if the song was the product of a neo-soul shouter imitating a teenage Michael [...]