The Organ is no more :’(

The incredible Canadian band The Organ (if you don’t know of them, think The Smiths with no Y chromozome) has officially announced on their

The Organ will be missed by many :’(website that they are breaking up.
This is horrible, horrible news. The Organ was one of my favorite bands for the past few years and [...]

Quick Hits, v.6

• I downloaded Civilization IV the other day. I love sim games and back in the day I was all about the Warcraft and Age of Empires. Anyway I had read a lot of good things about the Civilization series and I was pretty excited to play it and build my empire. Well, this game [...]

New Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! album in January!

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah burst onto the indie scene last year with an album that reminded us all of David Byrne, but in a good way.According to Aversion.com, the David Byrnesque band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! will be putting out their new album, Some Loud Thunder in January. Apparently the cd will be [...]

Kranky records will NOT release Benoît Pioulard’s debut on vinyl :’(

I got this horrible dose of reality emailed me today from the crank people at Kranky records:
we will not be releasing Precis on vinyl, sorry.
regards,
mr. kranky
Well WTF!??@? This is horrible news, as Benoît’s debut is definitely an album worth owning on vinyl. So please send out a collective FU to Kranky records.

Top 25 albums of 2006

Well, it’s that time of year again—that time when all the obsessive list-making indie fans turned bloggers like myself go crazy making year-end best-of lists—and this year is no different. The quantity of good albums was way less than average this year (I could barely find 30 to even consider for the top 25), but [...]

Bears to possibly release debut on vinyl

I emailed the wonderful lo-fi indie-pop band Bears the other day inquiring as to whether or not their breathtaking debut would ever be availabe on vinyl. I received this in my inbox today from Charlie (who’s birthday is one day after mine):
as for vinyl, you pose a timely question… i am trying to get [...]

Quick Hits, v.5

• Is it just me, or have I been updating this thing an awful lot lately. I wonder if anyone actually reads this.
• I really hate ESPN Page2. Not only are their writers idiots and think they need to litter their columns with iPod and YouTube references to come across as hip, but they’re also [...]

NFL Week 13 Sunday wrap-up

Well, only three weeks to go in the regular season, and this might have been the strangest yet. A few highlights: the Bears’ offense played about as bad as humanly possible (even worse than that infamous Monday night game against the Cardinals) and won. The Raiders’ defense played about as good as humanly possible and [...]

Send Michigan to the BCS Championship

I’m watching the USC and UCLA game right now, and I think it’s time for college football fans to rise up and say what everyone’s been thinking all year:
USC does not deserve to play in the national championship.
Michigan does. Do I need to remind you that their only loss this year came by three points, [...]

The 500 Albums Project

The 500 albums project is a comprehensive list of my favorite records ever released. It was incredibly difficult to rate such a massive amount of music and this is probably as close as I can ever hope to come to compiling such a detailed archive. From the culturally significant and historically important to the largely [...]