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 0Posted on Jul 30th, 2012 | re: ATTN: Employees - Do Not Buy These Used CDs (117 comments)

I built a large portion of my music collection by buying used CDs. Mostly filling in gaps. But you just made me understand something I never got before. I always wondered “Why is great stuff like My Bloody Valentine and Stereolab and Tortoise just sitting here? How come nobody has snapped these things up yet?”

 0Posted on Jul 30th, 2012 | re: Frankie Rose - "Know Me" Video (2 comments)

I love Frankie Rose and all, but why release a video now for a single that came out eight months ago? Also, I get the connection between “Know Me” and the retinal-scan identification thing here (I think), but if you’re going to take the trouble to make a “futuristic”, “sci-fi” video, shouldn’t you make sure that at least one interesting thing happens in said video?

Still love the song!

 0Posted on Mar 23rd, 2012 | re: Gossip - "Perfect World" (7 comments)

“Great rack” is my favourite typo today. “Bikini hill” is a close second. It helps if you picture Beth Ditto while reading them.

 0Posted on Mar 19th, 2012 | re: In Defense Of Skrillex (286 comments)

Skrillex doesn’t need anyone to defend him. He’s doing fine. I’ve seen him live, and while I wasn’t nearly as impressed as tom was, I don’t see any reason to hate on the guy. FFTL was an okay band, too.

 0Posted on Feb 3rd, 2012 | re: Apparatjik - "Do It Myself" (Feat. Pharrell) (Stereogum Premiere) (3 comments)

Slow down, cowboy. Nobody stole anything from anyone.

 0Posted on Aug 16th, 2011 | re: Britney Spears - "Till The World Ends (Korallreven Version)" (7 comments)

Even the dopest track in the world would instantly suck with that voice on it. Ick.

 0Posted on Jun 7th, 2011 | re: Download Bat For Lashes' 10 Best Cover Songs (12 comments)

Didn’t she already cover “A Forest”? Only she retitled it “Daniel”.

 0Posted on Apr 18th, 2011 | re: Santigold - "GO" (Feat. Karen O) (2 comments)

If there’s a Santigold interview at that Life + Times site, they’ve done a very thorough job of hiding it.

 -1Posted on Apr 11th, 2011 | re: 80 Other Bands With Official Sneakers (22 comments)

I would count the Beatles one as being a “record label” shoe, given that it features the Apple Corps logo so prominently.

 +4Posted on Mar 24th, 2011 | re: 18 Dark Bands To Watch In 2011 (69 comments)

Hi Brandon. I feel like a dumbass doing this in a comment but I’m not sure how to contact you otherwise. I have some music I’d like you to hear. It’s dark dream pop led by a very accomplished female vocalist (lots of favorable comparisons to Liz Fraser et al). The songs are all about disasters and the band resides in the rainiest city on the continent. I’d like to give you a link to check it out without spamming everybody who reads these comments.

 +1Posted on Feb 8th, 2011 | re: Interpol, School of Seven Bells @ RIMAC Arena, San Diego 2/2/11 (4 comments)

My guess is that Interpol is still a band because there are still people who want to see them play. Probably the same people who think the band is still making worthwhile music. Don’t like it? Don’t buy a ticket.

 0Posted on Feb 4th, 2011 | re: Das Racist - "Swate" (Feat. Lakutis) (7 comments)

Not unless “Heems” is plural.

 0Posted on Feb 4th, 2011 | re: The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Performances Since We Were Born (24 comments)

So… numbers 2 and 3 are the same thing?

 -4Posted on Jan 31st, 2011 | re: Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues" (38 comments)

Beautiful song, but I have to subtract points for the rhyming of “self” with “shelf”.

 0Posted on Jan 17th, 2011 | re: Mogwai - "San Pedro" (3 comments)

I don’t know who Ray Cappo is, but I’m pretty sure the phrase “Hardcore will never die” originated in the hardcore-techno scene, and I guess the Mogwai title is a play on that.

 0Posted on Jan 17th, 2011 | re: The 20 Most Overlooked LPs Of 2010 (145 comments)

It’s funny how sarcasm doesn’t translate on the Intardwebs.

 0Posted on Jan 17th, 2011 | re: Double Take: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (190 comments)

“His celebrity has tainted the conversation.”

Um… isn’t that the subject of most of his lyrics? And wouldn’t that make him just a wee bit culpable?

 0Posted on Jan 17th, 2011 | re: Double Take: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (190 comments)

That album sucked too.

 0Posted on Jan 17th, 2011 | re: Double Take: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (190 comments)

Funnily enough, I kept thinking “Jesus Christ, isn’t this song ever going to end?”

 0Posted on Dec 16th, 2010 | re: 15 Breakout Bands Of 2011 According To BBC (22 comments)

That’s a terrible lyric. Sorry, bro.

 0Posted on Dec 16th, 2010 | re: 15 Breakout Bands Of 2011 According To BBC (22 comments)

I liked the Warpaint album. It made my top 10 (which I won’t link to for fear of being bitch-slapped for promoting my own music-critic career). What’s funny about Warpaint, though, is how much some of their stuff sounds like a Vancouver band from the ’90s called Perfume Tree. Anyone remember them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zq12-rZBzM

Well, that plus old Cat Power, maybe.

 +1Posted on Dec 13th, 2010 | re: 15 Breakout Bands Of 2011 According To BBC (22 comments)

Okay. I guess the world is just going to keep sleeping on this: http://thehopeslide.bandcamp.com/album/the-hope-slide

 0Posted on Dec 1st, 2010 | re: The Killers - "Boots" (A New Christmas Song & Video) (8 comments)

The sound quality kind of wavers at various points in the video. Weird.

 +1Posted on Dec 1st, 2010 | re: The Killers - "Boots" (A New Christmas Song & Video) (8 comments)

Is it just me, or is Brandon Flowers starting to morph into Michael Buble?