Janelle Monae, performing “Let’s Go Crazy,” in front of Prince, at last night’s BET Awards. Me, last Friday at the Voice, wondering if she’s too weird to cross over into wide acceptance. Much more to come from me on her, soonish.
Also more to come from me/here/soonish on M.I.A. and Drake, both [...]

From the last paragraph of a Time Out NYC Sleigh Bells concert preview from last month:
Sleigh Bells will remain content to hold the adulation of prominent media figures and buzz-feeders such as New Yorker staffer Sasha Frere-Jones, a writer both Miller and Krauss admire. Miller even used some of the prominent names in their growing [...]

There has been so much good music this year that I had to make six of these suckers. I’ll post two a day between now and Friday.  Here’s the first one for you to download and play, in the following order (which should happen automatically) in a technology such as iTunes.
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If a band wants to conjure up a satisfying series of earthy hippie brews, it seems like they’ll eventually have to mix in a bit of patriarchy. In an earlier period of my life, I might say about “My Girls” something like “Hey Noah, it’s all well and good that your intent isn’t [...]

A bit late, I know. But I’m assuming that many people reading this feel like the first day back to work is really the first day of 2009. So.
I’ll leave my appreciations for School of Seven Bells, Ssion, Women and the Dø to reside on my other blog. Like the past year, this [...]

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 [...]