There are many building blocks of the internet, but the cornerstones are think pieces, offhand lists, and other hollow provocations meant to stir arguments and, therefore, briefly redirect web traffic. Engaging such material is utterly pointless. Then again, it’s not like I … Continue reading Bait Taken — Spin’s Every Replacements Album Ranked
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. I have nothing to add here, save an acknowledgement that I’m glad I recently discovered the existence … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — Eugene Levy for Tab
Olivia Rodrigo gave no indication that she was going to have difficulty following up her sensational debut album, Sour. Surely, it would have been understandable had she been taken a little aback by the surge of commercial and critical success … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Guts
This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. There’s a line in the Too Much Joy song aptly titled “Theme Song” … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — Blue Island Beer Co. Too Much Joy German Kolsch
14. Talking Heads, Little Creatures (1985) Movies, it turns out, take a long time to make. David Byrne, the frontman of Talking Heads, learned that as he ground his way towards his feature directorial debut. As the band that provided … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #14
The Most Heartfelt and Goofy of R.E.M., According to Mike Mills by Devon Ivie I consider myself lucky that my tenure as a student in college radio coincided with the time that R.E.M. were still making great records. My longtime … Continue reading Outside Reading — Mills Mulls edition
There has clearly been no diminishment in the capacity for Big Thief to release one sterling song after another, all done with a rapid pace basically unseen the heyday of nineteen-eighties Britpop bands that were under the thumb of a … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Big Thief, “I Was Born for Loving You”
This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. When a group of us college radio kids participate in the beater car caravan from our modest … Continue reading Radio Days — Too Much Joy at Shank Hall
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. When I wrote about Naked, the final Talking Heads studio album, for the gargantuan countdown project that’s … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — Stop Making Sense rerelease trailer
These posts are about the songs that fell just short of crossing the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. The Stylistics had a team that served … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Heavy Fallin’ Out”
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