Let's Earn Stripes

2009

December
November
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September
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July 2
June 1
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April
March 16

2008

June 37
May
April
March
February
January

Cloned Meat!

While I was in D.C. I was hanging out with Señor Eidinger of Mintwood Media Collective (of whom the...
Jul 1st

King Khan Is Not Afraid Of You

Back to the Rock and Roll Hotel (not my picture). A song about being inside his...
Jun 30th

Sparkling Cider is the Best

Muxtape is evolving. Sparkling Cider is too.
Jun 30th

Mission of Burmaccomplished

A guy outside Black Cat (aside: there’s a man that sits outside the Black Cat who is The Black...
Jun 29th

Sparkling Cider #8

Sparkling Cider is good for your brain. Jesus is on watch duty.
Jun 26th

Oh Bill How Heavy You Weigh

So Titus Andronicus outrocked Times New Viking at The Rock and Roll Hotel last night pretty soundly....
Jun 26th

This Is What A Blowout In Racine When...

Jun 25th

Step One

This is good news.
Jun 24th

L.A. Record Interview with the RZA

“I’d rather raise a scientist—rather raise a nerd.”
Jun 24th

Increasingly Irrelevant Is How It Goes

I’m pretty sure I was born too late to appreciate the counter-cultural impact of George...
Jun 23rd

Tsvangirai Pulls Out of Election

The news just hit the wire that Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition candidate for President in Zimbabwe,...
Jun 22nd

Yeah Right

Yep, this actually happened.
Jun 22nd

Realized

Mario Desa. “I just do color kinda however it comes together.”
Jun 22nd

This Is For Me Only

Times New Viking; Titus Andronicus; True Womanhood The Rock and Roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE ...
Jun 19th

Shamelessly Intriguing

Tao Lin (depending on who you ask, he the by-bootstrap-picker-upper or he the self-aggrandizing imp...
Jun 19th

Yeahbut

This little column made me wonder…where can I get a bedazzler for my MacBook? And what about...
Jun 18th

Buy Into It

This is the best record store I’ve ever seen.
Jun 18th

There's Uglier Ghosts, I Guess?

So I think it’s adorable that Roy Orbison took time out of being dead and posthumously...
Jun 17th
I Knew It
Jun 17th

We're Not Lazybones

The NEA announced a $2.8 million initiative called “The Big Read,” the goal being...
Jun 17th

Thank You For Your Actors

If you’re going to watch Planet Earth, don’t mess with anything less than the British...
Jun 16th

Let's Seriously Do Some Change

The Grassroots Netroots Alliance is an attempt to fuse the generally single-issue blogosphere and...
Jun 16th

Ugh

Pitchfork sucks or, in more words, provides overly subjective and hip-centric reviews and...
Jun 16th

Denim Pre-Party

Games. Reaction is a torture game.
Jun 15th

Always Monsters in the Concrete

Tecon Johhnson is back on the streets. Better than evs. The Superstar Superfriends will be coming...
Jun 14th
Sparkling Cider #7
Jun 12th
“shit.”
— Todd Ranch, who could be a...
Jun 12th

Years and Years

Three and a half months since the national elections and the ZANU-PF is playing transparent...
Jun 12th

Erm, Hey. Tallboys.

The Sleaze will or could be real good, even if their frontman has a shrieking Ferris Bueller...
Jun 12th
Caetano, Veloso, Tropicalismo. A lot of comps to Zimmerman,...
Jun 12th

Why Aren't There Chicks In Black Metal...

Jun 10th
“Music is an attempt to control chaos. Songs are a...”
— Pat Noecker, from These Are...
Jun 10th

Speaking of Half-Assed Reporting

The NYT has a piece up, and editor fielding questions/concerns about anonymous sources in news. This...
Jun 10th
Warch Watch
This means business.
Jun 9th

It's Over

NCMR ‘08 notes cont. Walked into the plenary to the dulcet thwack of Arianna...
Jun 8th

New to Me

Jaguar Love Finally Punk Pamelia Kurstin Magik Markers - “Boss” Thee More Shallows ...
Jun 8th

Media Needs Reform, Discush Less...

NCMR ‘08 notes. So much clapping. Amy Goodman is adorable. I don’t know any of these people....
Jun 8th

Sparkle and Cider no. 6

Sparkling Cider is great.
Jun 8th