It would be easy for me to tell you that I loved Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone or that I think The Empyrean was one of the most overlooked albums of the year….and I just did. There is something to be said for a beautifully executed, thoughtful year-end best/worst albums list. However, I’m really not the [...]

Frome arounde the internete. Enjoye.
CJC from the better-every-day Chemistry Class gets sentimental for Lester Bangs.
Chuck Klosterman writes the best piece I’ve ever read on baseball’s sui generis self-historicism. Turns out, he’s a better writer than anyone currently scribing for ESPN.
Tom Breihan, probably my favorite current music writer, logs his time watching the CMT [...]

The difference between Richard Swift’s first two releases, now neatly packaged into one by (fellow Bloomingtonians) Secretly Canadian, is quite large. He crosses, over the course of two full-lengths, the chasm that separates Rufus Wainwright/Ray Davies-style music hall crooning (The Novelist) from more standard, but still well-written and forcefully delivered singer/songwriter fare (Walking Without [...]