This year’s drawn-out primary season might have you wrestling with election fatigue, but that’s no reason to neglect your duty to participate in Name of the Year‘s 2008 Tournament. The first round of voting is going on now. So let us forget momentarily Messrs. Obama, McCain, Paul, Huckabee, Nader and Mrs. Clinton. The time has […]
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Vote or Die Don’t
February 28th, 2008
Perceptive Travel – An Interview with Jens Lekman
February 27th, 2008
It is a cold Swedish winter and I find myself flying into Stockholm on a £0.01 flight from London with Ryanair. I’ve emailed Jens to say I’d like to interview him for a new web site called Perceptive Travel. I’m honest enough to tell him that I’ve never interviewed anyone before and that I’m not […]
The National’s Matt Berninger talks touring, sounding like “chocolate and wool”
February 26th, 2008
New York magazine has a brief but excellent interview with The National’s Matt Berninger, wherein the soft-spoken vocalist comments on his band’s willingness to eschew staying an underground secret in favor of reaching more fans. But the best part is his reaction to the characterization of his unique vocal style by various journalists: Critics get […]
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Always should be someone you really love…
February 23rd, 2008
Gawker points to a collection of visualizations of Pop songs. Highly Recommended. (reminds me of this guy’s work, for instance.)
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Strange, clueless interview with Interscope head Jimmy Iovine
February 21st, 2008
When climbing the American corporate ladder, it goes without saying that the more you make the less you actually have to do. But does it also hold true that the more you make the further your head is crammed up your own ass to the point where you have no idea what on earth is […]
Amy Winehouse not just another celebrity train wreck?
February 13th, 2008
Slate’s Jody Rosen attempts to argue that Amy Winehouse isn’t just another celebrity train wreck, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Yes, Winehouse got her shit together long enough to eke out a via satellite Grammy performance on Sunday, but whether that good behavior sustains is far from conclusive. I mean, she was just […]
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Believe the Hype? The Bell
February 9th, 2008
My feedreader floweth over with mentions of The Bell in the last few weeks. The album “Make Some Quiet” comes out February 12th. Nothing earth shattering, sonically spectacular or even mind-blowing, just catchy power-pop that for some strange reason reminds me of The Stills debut album (in a good way). Muzzle of Bees has an […]
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