I used to religiously await the end of year lists from stereogum and pitchfork, eager to learn if my own musical preferences and best picks aligned with the lords of taste. This year I completely forgot about those sites (until it was time to research this writeup). Maybe I’m
You have an inkling to be better, to get up earlier, so you set an alarm. When it blares in the early dark, still stuck in a dream your wife elbows you in the spine, and you lumber out of bed to brush the grimy sour from your lips. The
Here’s my top 10 list, in randomized order: BT – A Song Across Wires The mixing and flow in BT’s latest is exquisite, as always with his stuff. The album actually digs into the minutiae of EDM that elevated BT in the first place. There aren’t as many
HBO has a thing for Louisiana. True Blood, Treme, and now True Detective. Maybe it’s the tax breaks, or the distinctive mise-en-scène of a Spanish moss shrouded bayou. Or maybe since Katrina, when the southern gothic literary tradition became glaringly real on CNN, the State has dominated a cultural
Note: There are spoilers from The Dark Tower in this review. Don’t continue unless you’ve read the whole series. Recently I’ve been getting this urge to go through stuff I wrote a while back, archived files in obscure directories buried deep. To dust them off, read them