Happy New Years (and New Year’s Eve) Dear people, Well, we’ve been at hard at work since the summer time and we’re pretty proud of where we are now. We spent a lot of time in 2010 mulling over the idea of this blog and what we wanted it to be and spent the rest [...]

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[Here we'll look at some things you probably passed up when you were a kid because you were too busy playing Star Wars with your friend who was actually a jerk… and who threw a tantrum when you schooled him in NHL ’96. What a little bitch. There’s roots in the ground that still nurture.] [...]

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Compiled by Brendan Sullivan It’s almost New Year’s Eve! That means it’s time to celebrate the passing of another super year, or make an optimistic toast to the future, or just get stupid drunk and try to forget all the dumb shit you did in 2010 and not contemplate the dumb shit you will do [...]

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How this duo went undetected from me for this long is still a mystery. Indie folk? Check. Chick singer with a beautiful voice? Check. Acoustic dream pop? Good Lord, Blake, where the hell have you been? They’re signed to Merge Records and opening for The Decemberists for God’s sake! Get your act together. Wye Oak [...]

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Iceland seems like a really magical place. Like dragons roam freely next to Björk and climb mountains together and hang out in hot springs. The dudes from Sigur Rós are there, too, and they are probably wearing fun winter hats and big boots and riding around on horses and looking out across fjords (that seems [...]

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Words and Mix by Rick Molson (of Boca Chica and Horse or Cycle Every year the radio forces hundreds upon thousands of Christmas songs to our ears, but let’s admit it: we can heed only so many versions of “Rudolph” or “Frosty” without going completely insane. Granted you’ll find some decent tunes here and there [...]

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Words by Jacob Barron At some point, it seemed like the powers that be all gathered together and said, hey, let’s give December ALL THE HOLIDAYS. And so it came to pass, that December was chosen to host celebrations originating within at least three (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa), and sometimes four or more (sometimes Ramadan, probably [...]

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Words by Christopher Carosi

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Bone Machine
Tom Waits
Island, 1992

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Words by Pat Driscoll As blogosphere music geeks, we are all, myself included, prone to fits of indie snobbery. It’s just the way it goes, but sometimes said snobbery ensures that we’ll miss some pretty great records oftentimes based on an artist’s name alone. In the same way a film snob might dismiss a movie [...]

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