The songs I’m posting today provide decent insight into my complicated personal romantic history. Prior to my current relationship, which sounds like this, love songs were excuses to revisit past experiences and sensations, which were generally marked by just-missed opportunities, outright exaltation, and retroactively resonant moments of nervous chatter. Here are a few of the [...]

The release of the new Bats album (At the National Grid) on the recently reformed Egg Records is a great opportunity to highlight the short-lived, forgotten Scottish indie label. They released a series of great pop singles during the 80s, and their compilation Egg Records: An Introduction (1989-91) was issued in 2003. The music is [...]

(This is the fifth and final installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. To see #40-31, click here. To see #30-21, click here. To see #20-11, click here.)

10. A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders (Jive, 1993)

A whittled-down version of The Low-End Theory, Midnight Marauders is, aside from the obvious [...]