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They love it when you make your business public.

June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Been meaning to update the site again, but if you’re prone to long breaks, you want to come back with something good, right? How ‘bout drama? The Internet loves drama.
Yesterday, a piece that I wrote for the Austin edition of the A.V. Club went live, garnering responses ranging from “BS” to “This article is [...]

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Tags: austin · drama (not theater) · journalism · music

Back in the day when things were cool.

February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

When I was nineteen, I worked in a record store. Not like a High Fidelity thing – it was just the Sam Goody in the mall in the Rio Grande Valley. I had a manager there named Eddie. Nice dude, kind of a cokehead, in his early thirties. Long-haired rocker guy, could kick your ass [...]

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Tags: life · music · thirtying

Pimping me elsewhere.

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I forgot to post it when it ran last week, but I’ve got an interview with Rhett Miller running with Paste right now.
As I mentioned before, this was one of the neater things I’ve done, writing-wise, this year, just because I’ve been such a huge fan of the guy’s work for such a long [...]

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Tags: elsewhere · journalism · music

Post-script on the plagiarism thing.

July 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

So, after giving it some thought while writing that entry a couple weeks ago, I decided to contact my editors at Decider about that piece on the Counting Crows that found a version with “theme and content similar” published in the Sioux City Journal. Mostly because y’all were pretty convincing, and not doing anything made [...]

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Tags: journalism · music

20-1: In Which I Get Really Fucking Wordy Writing About My Favorite Music

June 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

[40-21] [60-41] [80-61] [100-81]
20. Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse (2004)

I kinda hated Modest Mouse before this album, mostly because I was in my “Oh, I hate hipsters!” phase of early-twenties hipsterdom, and they all liked this band a lot. But I was growing up a [...]

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Tags: hot 100 · life · music

40-21: Where The Canon Lives

June 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments

40. The Mob Rules, Black Sabbath (1982)

Dio’s contributions to Black Sabbath are sometimes maligned by Ozzy purists, but fuck that. The final few Ozzy records sounded pretty weak, and The Mob Rules is full of weird, crazy energy. It’s also heavy as fuck in ways that are the definition of Sabbath. "Falling Off the Edge [...]

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60-41: Some of these friends of mine.

June 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

60. Hip Hop Is Dead, Nas (2006)

I wasn’t into hip hop when Illmatic came out, and so I always kinda tried to fake it. That album still sounds good to fresh ears, but it’s not as earth-shattering now as everybody says it was in ‘94. That’s what happens when you [...]

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80-61: Where OK Computer lives.

June 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments

There were two more rules that I hadn’t included in the round up before. They were: One, live albums count, as long as they’re really consistently good albums, and two, EP’s are just shorter albums, because who gives a fuck about designations like that? With that out of the way, the list for today:
80. Who’s [...]

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Tags: hot 100 · music