Articles Written By Erik Bryan
TMN Editor Erik Bryan is living the dream. He grew up in Florida, but he’s from all over. He likes playing chess, making cocktails, smarting off, and not freezing to death in Brooklyn, where he currently resides.
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Listening
The January 2008 Leak Report
Happy New Year, everyone! Wasn’t 2007 nuts? Now that’s out of the way, let’s get to the business at hand: 2008 is going to be a banner year for...
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An Unholy Christmas Soundtrack
The rigidity of Christmas tradition is most evident in the ubiquity of its music. As unsavory as I find so many other aspects of the season—the false sentiment, the...
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The December 2007 Leak Report
This week, a new monthly feature in the Mp3 Digest, provided the RIAA’s black ops don’t take me under cover of night to an undisclosed location for all...
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Everything’s Gonna Be All Right
The holidays have arrived. Thanksgiving is tomorrow, Black Friday looms imminently on the other side, and then it’s a mad dash to whatever your religion or creed suggests you...
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Lovelesses
My Bloody Valentine’s shoegazer-defining Loveless still finds incredible favor among critics and listeners alike and is generally assumed to be one of the best albums ever. The dudes at...
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Questionable Band Bios
While I usually try to share true and pertinent information about the bands featured here, this week I’ve scoured the web for songs I like from bands I’ve...
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Watching
Video Digest: October 19, 2007
Just over 30 years ago, following inauspicious beginnings, a relative unknown starred in a film he’d written about a scrappy boxer with big dreams who miraculously both beats the champ...
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Mp3 Bio: the Traveling Wilburys
To some, I’m sure I sound like a raving madman when I say there was ever such a thing as New Coke or Cassingles. Thanks to the internet I...
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Wherever You’ve Been, We Missed You
When you really think about it, a vampire weekend sounds either incredibly lame (as in hanging out in the cemetery with a bunch of goths, drinking cheap red wine, and...
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Mp3 Digest: August 1, 2007
Pop music is at it’s best when it’s not actually pop music, but a teeming, cacophonous, and experimental diversion from pop book-ended by an otherwise unassuming, jaunty indie-pop...
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Reviewing the Week in Pitchfork Reviews
Pitchfork continues to be one of the most popular and polarizing music review sites around, even 11 years after it first began. In fact, calling them a “music review site” is...
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Shaking Down the Used Bin
Two weeks ago I went to see the new Lars Von Trier movie (by the way, it’s hilarious) with my friend Matthew. After the movie, while walking back toward...