My friend Cassie, who is in the market for an indie boy (above), likes Annie.  Today’s song is for her:

Madeline Zero - Gold Star

Well, you all probably can predict that I am not as big a fan of M.I.A. as almost everyone else. And, although I’m a big fan of Diplo, I don’t hate M.I.A. simply out of jealousy. Part of why I don’t like her is jealousy maybe, but mostly it’s that Arular was overhyped [...]

Well, I’m home, and I’ve been listening to Sage Francis’s excellent 2005 effort, A Healthy Distrust.
Here’s the second track, “Sea Lion” — featuring Saul Williams and Will Oldham and produced by Alias. It’s pretty money ($$$).

I don’t usually link to my advertisers, but I saw that “Socrates Style Philosophy” was coming up as one of the Google ads (there seem to have been a lot of “philosophy” ads recently, and some of them have actually been interesting), so I took a look to see what it was all about. Here’s [...]

I’m still getting used to this new domain name and trying to process my recent revelation that Broken Social Scene’s “Lover’s Spit” is everywhere (and that it’s Broken Social Scene and not some random adult contemporary star who sings it), but I figured I’d better review the best concerts I saw in 2005. My concert-going [...]

Well, I haven’t quite finished with the formatting of the top albums of 2005 (and I’m not sure if I ever will, with other worthwhile projects), but I thought this deserved a post. And watch this Saul Williams video (Windows Media).
UPDATE! Oh my goodness! Holy mackerel! Everyone needs to see this [...]

Well, I’ve been taking my time with the release of this list, and I’ll keep on taking my time. Below are the albums of 2005 that didn’t quite make my top 20. There will, of course, be an actual top 20 list to follow in the approaching time periods.

So that, there, is Ireland. Pretty much. I spent a lot of the days of Christmas there. They were fun. Not that much was open, because Ireland is Catholic and potentially a “developing” country.
Before that, I had some spectacular exams. In particular, I took two oral exams in the two [...]

Above, you’ll find the press photo that everyone uses for the Go! Team. That alone is annoying, but it’s the only press photo I could find really. But anyway, earlier, I promised to describe the Go! Team’s show last week. Here goes:
It sucked because of Ninja. Seriously, it’s all her fault. [...]

Well, it’s been quite some time since my last blog post, and I’ve done several things. In chronological order, I (1) started feeling sick, (2) went to Berlin, (3) saw Black Mountain and Dead Meadow in Leuven, (4) felt even sicker, (5) attended an anti-fascist protest in Leuven, (6) felt threatened by a fascist [...]