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 [...]

The video for Wolf Parade’s “Shine a Light” (mov) is the first opportunity I’ve had to associate any visuals with the band’s music other than those created by my mind. It’s an interesting conceptual piece, nicely mirroring the gritty, cryptic elements of the music with a combination of high and low tech special effects. The [...]

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 [...]