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Critical Review: An Interview with Pitchfork Managing Editor Mark Richardson...
When we reviewed Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, it seemed unconscionable that the hype around the as-yet-unreleased album could be any bigger (as reviewer Andrew Phillips said, message...
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Unpopular Opinions: Musicians Should Have Controversial Political Opinions
It might make me unpopular but… I’m willing to stand up for Brian Eno (even if some people say he’s anti-Semitic). Liberal activism in entertainment is so standard that no one batted an eye when...
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Promo Pile Slush: George Duke’s “Dukey Treats”
Wherein heartless Flavorwire-music automaton the Beard tests album predictions based solely on artwork. Released last August, but only now making its way out of our promo pile, Zappa collaborator...
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Unpopular Opinions: 5 Reasons American Idol is Awesome!?
It might make me unpopular but… I think American Idol is awesome. Sure, it’s well-established that your most fuzztacular, beard-bearing buddy is a fairly curmudgeonly old man, but between the daily...
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Critical Review: An Interview with Village Voice Music Editor Rob Harvilla on...
The Village Voice’s annual Pazz + Jop poll is the end-all-be-all of year-end record lists. The ultimate in nerdy music romps, the alt-weekly’s annual cover story elicits the input of hundreds upon...
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Unpopular Opinions: 10 Reasons the Rolling Stones Are Awful
It might make me unpopular, but I think… the Rolling Stones are completely, utterly overrated. Working class heroes? Ha! More like slumming, middle-class poseurs. I’m not saying they don’t have a few...
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Unpopular Opinions: How Galaxie 500 Stopped Me from Being Stabbed
It might make me unpopular, but I think… anyone who can’t almost immediately identify Galaxie 500′s On Fire album is somewhat suspect. Before anyone unfamiliar with the record gets all up in arms,...
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Critical Review: Questionable Content’s Jeph Jacques on His...
Founded in 2003 as an outlet for artist Jeph Jacques’ esoteric indie-rock rantage, Questionable Content has since blossomed into one of the most popular webcomics ever written. Originally couched in...
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Exclusive: More with Questionable Content’s Jeph Jacques
From Comic 420: Best Band Ever After picking the brain of Questionable Content kingpin Jeph Jacques for well over an hour, we’d plotted the history of his groundbreaking webcomic, rationalized away...
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Unpopular Opinions: This week is like the one where Diana and Mother Teresa Died
Music opinions are like assholes: up close, they all sort of stink. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a difference between records, people, and events that are only sort of awful, and ones that are...
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