January 2011
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Top 10 Albums of 2010
I suppose I could’ve made each countdown number its own post and staggered them throughout the month, or, at the very least, written a bit about each album. You know—make it look professional and all. But, as is my custom, I procrastinated and here we are. In any case, I’ve always felt that, for the most part, record reviews are pretty useless. I guess they had their place...
Jan 1st
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December 2010
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Dec 25th
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WatchWatch
twentyfourbit: Carrie Brownstein’s Portlandia Theme Song + “Dream of the ’90s” Video SNL’s Fred Armisen and Wild Flag/Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein are finally set to air the debut episode of the new IFC version of their online comedy series, ThunderAnt, now dubbed Portlandia, on January 21. In anticipation of premiering their “dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon,” they’ve...
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Indie Christmas Soundtrack 2010
Holiday music is generally pretty awful and Christmas music is especially tortuous. My childhood memories are plagued with Christmas mornings being forced to listen to Bing Crosby crooning some crappy old Christmas standard while we opened our presents. While I have nothing against Mr. Crosby’s vocal stylings per se, the Christmas theme always made me wish a little bit that we were Jewish. ...
Dec 14th
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Help Caithlin De Marrais Record Her New Album at...
It’s completely ridiculous that record companies aren’t throwing money at Ms. De Marrais to record music. I mean, not to get all “this music is better than that music,” but I’m pretty sure this music is better than that music. “That music” being 99% of everything else record companies decide to release on an unsuspecting public.  Given this...
Dec 13th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“We have a gay guy [in the unit]. He’s big, he’s mean, and he kills lots of bad...”
– Special Operations Fighter
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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