Here’s Volume 2, chock full of 09’s monster pop/rock grooves.  Fashionable Kelis bookends, a couple songs about dying and murder.  Expect to see Royksopp, St. Vincent, AnCo and ASDiG again later.
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1. Basement Jaxx “Scars f. Kelis” (XL)
2. Phoenix “1901″ (Loyauté/V2)
3. Yeasayer “Ambling Alp” (Secretly Canadian)
4. Memory Tapes “Bicycle” (Sincerely [...]

The cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s third LP It’s Blitz! features a striking high-speed camera-captured image of Karen O’s hand smashing a raw egg, sending its innards flying out in the shape of a Y. The 25th letter, of course, has become emblematic for the band in two distinct ways. First and [...]

I expect two page, single-spaced response papers on each of these in the box by my office door by 9am tomorrow.
SFJ on YYYs (New Yorker)
Christgau on Eminem (The Believer)
Wolk on The Fall (an oldie from The Believer)
“From Blogs to Riches” (New York Magazine)
Owen (from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) guest-blog (Said the Gramophone)
Julian Cope on [...]