Beach House Take a Break
Beach House take a break, reflecting on their lo-fi pop music for a moment, giving us a chance to listen to everything that came before, appreciate it differently.
Mike Deri Smith
Urban Wakeboarding
Be on the lookout for wakeboarding culture-jammers tearing up local corporate water features: We ponder how climate change will mold the post-apocalyptic extreme-sports scene.
Motel De Moka
An oasis of sound, inspiration, and imagery like this is rarely found on the internet, let alone from a music blog. Motel De Moka summons some warm and forgotten magic with their abstract playlists. It’s infinitely appealing.
Fucked Up!
When these rockers get heavy, your spirit can soar. Hardcore via left-field sweat-pit harmonics might just be the thing that keeps you sane ’til Spring.
Human Rights School, Gossip Girl Endorsement, Joe the VP
There’s nothing like “Gossip Girls, High School Musical,” and plumbers to get the mass riled at election time. Now: Is Joe the Plumber or Colin Powell’s endorsement more valuable?
Songs of the Sacred Harp
Folk music can be tremendous, glorious and spiritual too, as the Sacred Harp demonstrates. Contemporary practitioners take note.
Chromeo & Juliet
West Coast reality-shows don’t make the lives of East Coast Arab/Jewish musicians Chromeo any easier, especially when digital love threatens to split them.
From Our Own Correspondent
When the news is too noisy, or too short, seek refuge in BBC correspondents’ stories of everyday life in a podcast that reveals more than talking heads ever will.
Don’t Call It a Bailout
Rescue packages are exciting, bailouts are greedy, but foreclosures are more ambiguous. Those profiting from repossessions paint an unhappy picture—and the grass.
Punk Ghandi, Aragorn’s Pax Americana, Palin the White Witch
Something weird is happening as celebrities try to appear in ever stranger places, videos, trying to get noticed. And, er, Sarah Palin has her own Disney film.