Since the release of Boxer, The National’s brilliant record from 2007, the band has become one of my favorite bands. So when the band’s two nights (Sunday and Monday, May 24 and 25th) at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club sold out in less than 3 minutes, I was a little miffed I couldn’t see them [...]

My yearly disclaimer: This list doesn’t try to out-do any other list out there with my extensive knowledge of obscure choices that no one has heard of… mostly because I rarely have enough time to hear everything. This is just a list of my favorites that I frequently listened to during the last [...]

So it’s that special time of year. I’m in the process of putting together my Best of 2008 albums list, which really just means going back and re-listening to the albums I’ve heard, digging up the ones I haven’t and pretending that any ranking system I come up with really matters in the first place. [...]

For quite sometime, I’ve kept a list of every concert I’ve attended. Detailing the kind of information that only obsessive music fans would care about: what the venue was, who was the opener, if there were special guests etc. Although its a somewhat unnecessary activity, it really doesn’t take too much time to write [...]

Welcome to Volume Two of Mixtape Pollution 2008… This is the second disc of a mix I made (and still am burning copies) for this mixtape club I’ve been a part of for the past year.
This collection is more about sound than lyrical themes but when strung together sounds like one long story arc.  While [...]

This past year I have been part of a mixtape club where each month I get a CD or two of songs, usually from people I don’t know. September is finally my month so while I’m putting the final touches on the physical copy to mail out to people, I thought I would post [...]

My top nine albums/music of the year. I would have picked ten, but most everything else was background noise and singles to me in comparison to the following. Any year that Radiohead puts out an album is a great year in music, in my opinion, but there was a ton of great music to flesh [...]

Like many a music fan, I too love to put together these end of year lists. I love scouring the magazines, websites, blogs and newspapers for their favorite albums and songs of the year. While the last few years have been great, I have to say, 2007 is by far one of the [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve made one of these (tried last week, but the results were bad). I always enjoy making lists like this because the random nature makes it fun to rediscover old and recent favorites.
Condor Ave by Elliot Smith (from Roman Candle)
While I’ve been a fan of Elliot Smith [...]

We’re near the end of the first week of the Writer’s Guild strike, and while we have yet to feel much of the effects (beyond the lack of new episodes of the Daily Show, Colbert Report and Conan O’Brien… and other, less funny late night comedy programs), its only a matter of time before more [...]