I had a record number of replies for Volume II of the Cover Mix Contest, but only one got every track properly identified, with song titles and both artists. It’s also totally unfair, because the winner is Brian Ibbott, the proprietor of The Cover Song Podcast at Coverville.com. Now, to be fair, I didn’t issue [...]

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 [...]

Yeah, the VMA’s were tired–even Stereogum got bored. But what can one do? Here’s a start–a collection of some of the most interesting videos from the past 2 years–most animated, all downloadable:
Quasimoto-Bullyshit (James Reitano, dir.)
Marbles-Magic (Greg Gilpatrick, dir.)
Chemical Brothers-Galvanize (Adam Smith, dir.)
Guided by Voices-Back to the Lake (MK12, dir.)
The Shins-Pink Bullets (Adam Bizanski, dir.)
Interpol-Evil (Charlie [...]