I’ve been reading Decoded recently, which is a surprisingly good read. Â The usual self-rationalization etc., but Jay-Z shows some surprisingly insightful moments. Â In the book,…
Tag: Music
Grantland has a great story on The secret history of Kobe Bryant’s failed attempt at a rap career.  It’s a bit of a long read, but…
Amoeba Music recently relaunched their online presence, but with a much more effective spin.  Beyond the traditional online sales and music downloads, they’ve begun to focus…
In the course of my aimless internet nomadism, I stumbled across a reference to an essay written by Walter Benjamin on book collecting, titled “Unpacking…
I slept on this for a little longer than I was hoping, but better late than never! In these dying days of summer, I thought…
Courtesy of BoingBoing. Apparently it’s a young one known as the Astronomical Kid. It’s pretty funny, and actually seems to have taken quite a bit…
I feel like I spend half my time linking to Pitchfork articles, but I guess that’s because they do a damn good job at covering…
Yesterday, we posted that Blogger had rather surreptitiously shut down several popular music blogs. Today, Pitchfork is reporting that Blogger has issued a statement in…
Not much to this post beyond some pretty fun and easy Flash games by the Bell Brothers. Record Tripping It’s a strange mashup of deejaying,…
This is actually an entertaining rant from comedian Sean Patton. As someone who probably verges on music snobbery from time to time (I have been…