Two things I really like about the end of the year–making comprehensive mixes of the music of the last 12 months, and giving cheap presents. This is a way for me to do both. Well, here they are–the first two products of about two weeks (off and on, mind you) of narrowing my year-end favorites [...]

For this week’s podcast, I’ve decided on an (ahem) gynocentric tone. This one’s for the ladies. These songs, to a degree, represent the breadth and depth of the female representation in all forms of music today, minus (egregiously) the hip-hops. I just got on a roll with this mix and couldn’t find a place for [...]