Guitars! Beards! Punk dudes! Old dudes! A barely-2009 Spoon song! A few ladies! Two (2) bands from Indiana (#8, #18)!
[192kpbs mp3 | 72:14 | 100.5 MB]
1. Yo La Tengo “Nothing to Hide” (Matador)
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “The Tenure Itch” (Slumberland)
3. The Fresh & Onlys “Peacock and Wing” (Woodsist)
4. So Cow “Casablanca” [...]

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.
CLICK: [68:57 + 192k = [...]

Measuring time without a watch: I figure that this must be the main value of all these (decade- and) year-end lists.  We know a year has passed, but these lists give us another coherent way to account for time beyond conventional chronometrics, through a kind of historical-cultural matrix instead.  Of course, we gauge our events [...]

It took me until the beginning of this year to finally get to the point where the overload of music and its attendant discourses provided by the internet made me feel like my critical sensibilities were completely shutting down, like I was unable to like, or even distinguish, anything anymore.* So I stopped reading music [...]

My brilliant friends are preparing their year-end lists, which I’ll post here to showcase my good taste in friends (last year’s).  After that, I’ll post some longer thoughts (last year’s) and even-longer mixes.  For now, a bit of my stuff for that other place.  My take on Royksopp’s Junior, which I love, is at the [...]

Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to post two things: some thoughts on 2009 songs and albums thus far (Phoenix, “My Girls,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs, AC Newman, Royksopp), and more excitingly, my take on some of the best stuff to come out of Indiana lately (the Broderick, We Are Hex, Push/Pull, I’m looking in your direction[s]). [...]