Anthropic's Warped Mind

In the past, I haven't done concert reports and now I look back and wish I had. I had totally forgotten that My Brightest Diamond was co...

I'm not usually a fan of forum in-jokes, but this is awesome.

"Lunch. The sweetest word in the world." - Leo Laporte

The Decemberists – The Crane Wife There will be much debate about whether The Crane Wife or Picaresque is the better album. In my opinion,...

Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood This was the first album this year that completely blew me away. Rabbit Fur Coat was special, b...

Joanna Newsom - Ys Wow. A good album has some catchy melodies or fun lyrics that get stuck in your head. A great album alters your reality...

Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat By 2005, Jenny Lewis had undeniably become an indie-pop "it girl". But, that...

The Flaming Lips – At War With the Mystics At War With the Mystics was probably the most controversial album of the first half of the year...

This notable mention started off as a little quickie bit of text about the album and turned into a full blown essay...As a result, it deserv...

Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country I’ll tell you a secret…Any time I’m angry or ticked off, I can just listen to some Camera O...

My Brightest Diamond – Bring Me the Workhorse This is an infectious album that will hopefully be someday seen as the solid beginning to a ...

The year 2006 rapidly recedes behind us, which means that it's time for anyone who considers themselves even slightly interesting in mus...

Via NeoGAF's Johan van Benderschlotten : "It's ok that you people have bad taste in music. The world requires lots of you to ...

Part of the joy of buying the new Decemberists album after listening to the leak for a month is finding out what Mr. Meloy is actually sayi...

Dear Amazon, Do you understand what the word "shipped" actually means?  See, I don't think you do.  Apparently, when you say ...

One of my all-time favorite quotes... Jacob Bronowski captures in just a few minutes what I could take a lifetime to explain. From the Kno...

You may recall that way back in February (my how time flies) I posted a list of 27 albums  (I said 28 at the time, but miscounted) I had pur...