As promised, here’s the first installment of our obligatory best of ‘08 respects. We were originally going to do this as five posts over five days, a full feature on each album. As we… More

Is it a good idea to use a band’s Greatest Hits record as an introduction to their body of work? It’s an arguable point, but the b-side and deep-tracks fetishist in me says no. For every… More

Frontin’ On Debra / Beck, Pharrell Williams & Jay-Z
I found this on vinyl at Amoeba in Berkeley. Throw it on at a party, and you’ll probably get laid.
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I discovered The Gutter Twins’ debut LP Saturnalia a month or two too late to give it a formal jerking off here, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a… More

Antiquiet was only alive for the final third of the decade, which means that we finally have an excuse to gush over the albums that defined the past ten years for us and, ultimately,… More