There’s no better way to establish a mythic rock presence than to resist public appearance while continuing to issue uncompromising, obtuse, and often brilliant music. That’s been the case with the Silver Jews’ David Berman for the past decade and a half, and it was great to witness a manifestation of the devotion he’s accumulated [...]

The return of Monday Morning Music videos today starts with the first clip I’ve seen from the Arctic Monkeys, for “When the Sun Goes Down” (mov). More than most other videos, this one adheres very closely to the song’s narrative–almost to the point where I began questioning which one was made first. It works well [...]

This podcast will serve as the first to be distributed with Feedburner, a free and comprehensive distribution service that will allow marathonpacks to automatically download to your feed-reader of choice. Coolest to me, though, is the ability to feed it directly into your iTunes, and let it update each time you open the application (music [...]