Here are the last two:

marathonpacks year-end mix, vol. 3 (128k mp3, 68.4MB) (expired)
1. Black & White Town–Doves
2. A Little Bit More–Jamie Lidell
3. Gone (f. Cam’ron & Consequence)–Kanye West
4. Trouble With Dreams–Eels
5. All We Are–Fischerspooner
6. Gideon–My Morning Jacket
7. Like A Honeycomb–British Sea Power
8. There Goes the Sun–The Pernice Brothers
9. I Was A Teenage Rainphase–Stereolab
10. So Begins [...]

The Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky is a fantastic place to see a show. Sitting right on the mighty Ohio River, the “Birthplace of the Tommy Gun” is a living testament to good old-fashioned Prohibition-era American lawlessness. Despite now being surrounded on all sides by evidence of the indistinguishably modern (a Johnny Rocket’s, Barnes and [...]

I should be upgrading the site in a day or so, thus I’ve decided to try my hand at podcasting. No RSS feeds or anything (yet), just a radio mix this time of some of the best and most recent from this year–a lot of stuff I’ve already hosted here, and a good chunk of [...]

I’m posting this list in the interest of providing visitors an idea of what I’d consider my “canon”–for the last five years, at least. Any music aficionado would agree that a list like this actually goes together pretty quickly, by sorting one’s iTunes by year and taking a glance at the CD rack. My main [...]

I refuse to budge from my stance that the New Pornographers’ Twin Cinema is the album of the year, and it’s great to see a video for one of the album’s best tracks, “Use It.” It’s a gimmicky piece directed by keyboardist Blaine Thurier (the guy in the shower toward the end of the clip) [...]

At the halfway point (or a little after), I thought I’d issue my halftime top ten (then I saw the stalwart largeheartedboy’s own version–I swear I had this almost done last week). Anyhoo, here goes:

Spoon Gimme Fiction–A remarkable work from the most iconoclastic songwriter around today. A longer piece on this album will come [...]