Double Reading

New Order is nuts. Don’t get me wrong — I love the band (and have quite a few albums), but it seems as if they have released yet another best of/singles/greatest hits: Singles. Already there has been Substance (which, until this new one, is pretty much considered to be the definitive New Order compilation), The [...]

Last year Pitchfork did a Top 50 Singles of 2004 list that I thought was just awesome. When they released it in late December, I scrambled to make sure I was familiar with as many listed as possible (i.e. downloaded them via the internet in one way or another…). And thanks to that list, I [...]

I remember when The Dandy Warhols‘ song “Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth” came out. I was in high school. I remember thinking, “Wow, this is a good song.” But then I saw the video and the song became (relatively) big and I basically wrote-off the band as sell-outs and copycats and [...]