The Top 10 Albums of 1987
Because year-end album lists shouldn’t happen just once a year. In this installment: The lists and timeline converge.
Andrew Womack
The Top 10 Albums of 2007
In the past 12 months thousands of albums were released, but there are only 10 you’ll need to remember.
The Top 10 Albums of 1986
Emptying out a storage space in Houston means judging sentimental value against what fits in the car.
Catching Up With T-Pain
Almost exclusively, I listen to the song “Bartender” by T-Pain. When I moved back to Texas, my grandfather gave me his old car. It’s just turned 10 and in the two months I’ve had it, things are declining at a worrisome rate. A taillight jumped ship in
The Top 10 Albums of 1985
Even though it wasn’t an election year, in 1985 Alex P. Keaton could have run for president—and won.
The Top 10 Albums of 1984
It was no Orwellian nightmare; to have nightmares you need to sleep, and you can’t sleep when you lay awake terrified about nuclear war.
The Haçienda Must Be Built
From “Formulary for a New Urbanism” by Ivan Chtcheglov (Internationale Situationniste, October 1953): And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think
Video Digest: August 10, 2007
History’s five greatest drum solos ever captured on tape: Neal Peart, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, a manic child, Tommy Lee, Buddy Rich, and Karen Carpenter(s)
Mp3 Digest: July 25, 2007
Apparently Daft Punk is currently touring the U.S. with what some are calling “the best show they’ve been to in their ENTIRE LIFE.” (Emphasis Daft Punk nut.) Since just about the rest of the tour is sold out, however, your best chance to catch them may be in
“This Ain’t No Fado Part II,” guest-edited by Philip Graham
Did you know the Portuguese Empire lasted from 1415 to 1999? I sure didn’t. I sure do miss the Portuguese Empire. Philip Graham will too, as his year abroad in Lisbon will soon be coming to an end. And of the many things he’ll need to declare at