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Lykke Li’s Sadness Is A Blessing

My favorite new song of 2011 has a video (and it co-stars one of my three favorite contemporary Scandinavian actors, Stellan Skarsgård). It’s really well done: The whole terrific album on which this song appears can be found here. Your Thoughts?

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Kanye West “Monster” Muppet Remix

I’ve been listening to Kanye West’s “Monster” pretty obsessively for the last couple months, but just watched the song’s listless official video for the first time and found it really disappointing. Then I discovered this perfect visualization of the song: The only thing downside of the video is they do not include Nicki Minaj’s full, [...]

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In Honor of Trent Reznor’s Academy Award Win

One of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs, “Only”, from the album With Teeth. Your Thoughts?

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55 Years of Chart Topping Songs In 75 Minutes

Click here for two compilations which include all the US chart topping songs spanning 1956-present in short clips so you can catch up on the last 55 years of mainstream pop music in just an hour and fifteen minutes. Your Thoughts?

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Stream Lykke Li’s New Album, Wounded Rhymes

Lykke Li’s debut Youth Novels was one of my very favorite albums of the last few years. Her new one, Wounded Rhymes, drops next week. In the meantime, you can stream it here. A little bit of Lykke Li’s genius from the first album for the uninitiated: Your Thoughts?

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Theophilus London And Sara Quin On David Letterman

In case you don’t know what Sara Quin’s twin sister Tegan looks like, here’s a heads up: that’s not her with Sara in the video below, Sara is branching out: Your Thoughts?

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New Lykke Li Song “Love Out Of Lust”

Good stuff: Lykke Li – Love Out Of Lust by LykkeLi

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I Am Interviewed About My Personal (Atheistic) Religiosity/Spirituality

Through Facebook, I was recently contacted by an old friend from high school (who was actually the first girl to go on a date with me).  She is working on her Master’s in nursing and has an assignment which involves interviewing people about their views on religion and spirituality, for the purpose of thinking about approaches [...]

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Daily Hilarity: 130 Bands In A Less Than 4 Minute Love Story

Pretty amusing: Your Thoughts?

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Valentine’s Daily Hilarity: How To Write A Love Song

It’s Valentine’s Day and if you’re a cheap bastard who has not yet figured out what to get your beloved for $0, there’s still time to write her a song following these familiar steps: The Axis of Awesome: How to Write a Love Song – watch more funny videos Thanks to @FunnyVideos on Twitter. Your [...]

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Decemberists Play R.E.M.’s “Cuyahoga”

And it really sounds as though it was written for them. Just listen. Your Thoughts?

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“Who Could Heed The Words Of Charlie Darwin?”

The Low Anthem’s sublime song and beautiful video for their song “Charlie Darwin”: I had the pleasure of seeing the Low Anthem a month ago at the Jazz Center at Lincoln Center. They played most of the songs from their new album, Smart Flesh (due out in ten days) and their first album,Oh My God [...]

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Pearl Jam vs. Social Darwinism

A really well made music video for their otherwise mediocre song “Evolution”: Your Thoughts?

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The Nothing (Neverending Story + Radiohead’s “How To Disappear”)

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Cat Faber’s “The Words Of God”

This is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]

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The Return Of Beavis And Butthead

MTV has announced that Beavis and Butthead is coming back with new episodes. Pitchfork has a list of some of their best musical criticism on this page (scroll down on that page a bit to find the full list, excerpted a bit below): “Uh oh…I think this is college music” (during the Flaming Lips’ “She [...]

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I’m Seeing This Brilliant Guy Tonight

Sam Beam of Iron and Wine: For wider screen video, watch it here instead. Your Thoughts?

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A Little Tegan & Sara And Tom Petty On My Birthday

A couple of the songs that resonate most deeply: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Ezra Koenig Vs. The Black Keys On The Colbert Report

This was one of the most geekily glorious things ever: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive And, for the record, The Black Keys rule (and are hilarious even without Colbert involved): The Black Keys “Tighten Up”The Black Keys | Myspace [...]

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Camels With Hammers Goes To See The Rural Alberta Advantage

Tonight, Dave Smith (our trusty Camels With Hammers webmaster) and I will be heading to see the Rural Alberta Advantage live! Here’s their awesome music: Their first album is Hometowns. Their next album comes on March 1 and it’s called Departing. They have already released the song “Stamp”. Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Josh Groban Sings Kanye’s Tweets

Hilarious: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: “Intervention” By Tegan & Sara & Margaret

I had never found Margaret Cho remotely funny before but I love Tegan & Sara just way too much not to find this video incredibly awesome: Margaret Cho – Intervention – featuring Tegan and Sara from Margaret Cho on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?

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Christmas Daily Hilarity: Garfunkel and Oates’s “Present Face”

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Shuffling Space And Time Like A Deck of Cards

Sean Wilentz on how Bob Dylan overcomes the illusions of time: The question of the ballads, though, and why Dylan was drawn to them so early on, is interesting. In Bob Dylan in America I recount a scene where he’s at the White Horse Tavern with Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, and they’re singing [...]

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Menomena

One of the best bands going and a personal favorite: Their brilliant new album is Mines. Your Thoughts?

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