“He Stopped Loving Her Today”

April 28, 2013 By 2 Comments

George Jones has died. Here’s his song that I love, “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and some of my ruminations on lost love that I wrote a couple months back in a post that I included that song in.

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An Arty Take On Britney Spears

April 7, 2013 By 1 Comment

I always loved the chorus to this song, so I’m glad to see someone open up the artistic possibilities within the whole concept. Yaël Naïm’s “Toxic”: Your Thoughts?

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Tegan and Sara’s “I’m Not Your Hero”

January 31, 2013 By 2 Comments

Tegan and Sara, whom I adore, came out with their new album Heartthrob this week. I love this song from it: Your Thoughts?

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Warned You

January 13, 2013 By 1 Comment

A new song called “Warned You” by the band NowhereNauts. I love the drumming on it.

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It’s 2013 In New York

January 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I’m living in the future, baby! Your Celebratory Song of Choice?

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Hegel, I Goethe Goethe Have You ‘Cause I Nietzsche Nietzsche Nietzsche So Bad

December 13, 2012 By 5 Comments

A charmingly silly song composed with many German philosophers’ last names by J. Boor: Even apart from the novelty value, it’s a catchy tune in the vein of Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Buy the song for just a dollar and/or read the lyrics here. Casey Charllotte Carr comments in the spirit of the [...]

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Tegan and Sara’s New Song “Closer”

October 7, 2012 By 1 Comment

Tegan and Sara, the twin sister pop band whose music I have been obsessed with for a couple years now, just released the first single from their forthcoming album–a super cheesy ’80s soundalike song.

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David Byrne & St. Vincent’s New Album

September 11, 2012 By 4 Comments

What a dream collaboration! Their album Love This Giant is out today! Here is a little video they made about the album for The Daily Beast: I am going to see them when they come to New York in two and a half weeks! I saw her at Pitchfork’s music festival in 2010 and she [...]

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Retro ’80s Industrial Music: The Ghostbusters Theme Played On 8 Floppy Drives

August 22, 2012 By 1 Comment

Things will be more philosophical around these parts soon, I promise! Your Thoughts?

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A New "Broken Social Scene" Band!

June 24, 2012 By 1 Comment

For a decade now, Broken Social Scene has been one of the best bands in all of pop music, indie or otherwise. They are also a band filled with talented artists who are part of other bands on the side, some of which are comparably fantastic as BSS itself. Now Brandon Channing, one of the central [...]

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