No One Likes Everything

All the trains on one track. Had to cosign a Latino dude's explaining to white people. The white people start cheering hurray! for someb...

Is Germany "Hanging on to Mutti," with reflexive conservatism letting Merkel slide into another term? Beyond the Black Rainbow...

What would have happened if people refused police sweeps in Boston . Delicatessen With Love is another project from Gabriela Galimberti a...

An Ann Arborite makes good on dreamy electronica . Jordan Harper's death songs (with my picture) . Jen Schradie on 7 Myths of the Di...

Gary Winograd's street shots: Mirror of self or world? DJ Bonez McCoy's Trill Ass Car Mix vol. 10 or so. Guess what? We torture...

Deerhunter finally sounds like what I always wanted from Deerhunter albums: A bit more crunch. "Bunnystyle" K-Pop from D: ...

Martin Luther brings the zings . Whitney Hubbs Not my favorite, but decent article on the danger of analytics . Are we only what we can ...

Justin Zatkoff was a College Republican — even THE College Republican — who lied to cops and said that "liberal thugs" beat hi...

I need to close some browser tabs: A staggering indictment of the GOP by a moderate voter. GOP turnout app codenamed ORCA was a fail wh...

A band named Black Pus with an album called "Pus Mortem" is pretty much what you'd think, and they're pretty good. On ...

Hookworms' Form and Function is fuzzy indie psych. Naomi Punk is good power pop from Portland. Pus Mortem by Black Pus freaked o...

Cristina Garcia Rodero . One of the canvassers met Robert Rosencrantz, whogunned down a kid who tormented Rosencrantz for being gay...

Adam Collins-Toruella from Pesanta Urfolk is in Lux Interna , a dark/drone Americana band. They might not be metal per se, though Pes...

Phillip Bond draws female astronauts . OBAMACARE as a comic from Yo Burbalino! Bill Moyers calling out conservatives with SuperPACs. ...

godheadSilo's "Elephantitis of the Night" In which Crooked Timber asks well-meaning libertarians to abandon their vestigial...

I think that the label "noise pop" as applied by these guys to to make the 100 Essential Noise Pop Songs list is so broad that ...

Ed Panar's Animals That Saw Me Alessandra Sanguinetti from The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their ...

Sometimes I can't close tabs until I've blogged them even though I know this is crazy. I took part in April Wolfe's psychic tr...

In that little picture, you can almost see the hawk that was in my office when I got back from my lunch break. It had been in there for a w...

Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality in Respond Magazine. Some interesting points: Freud had a weird view toward the causes of homosexuality,...

I have a blog post up at EQCAblog about César Chávez , where I interviewed Marc Grossman, the communications director for the Chavez Foundat...

Half the time I feel like the Death Grips are right down my alley, what with noize beats and alt rap. The other half the time, I think I...

An essay (PDF) by Ellen Willis about feminism and punk . More on Willis, the New Yorker's pop critic in the late '60s and '70s,...

I have few illusions about the traction of letters written to my congress members, but I'd like to think that when some poor intern goog...

Yes, CBS is actually running a contest where the grand prize is hanging out with Ozzy Osbourne in New York and getting a colonoscopy. Accor...

American Life League bravely expose the perv agenda at Planned Parenthood. Lols abound.

Passenger Peru's s/t is fuzzy, jumpy indie rock. Fucking Despair by Fat History Month is jangly, taut indie rock. Philadelphia Pun...

Self-titled stoner blues rock from Ufesas . Pretty good when they're Monster Magnet, but kinda cheesy Gov't Mule moments too. Gloo...

More free/pay what you will music from Bandcamp. Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976 byShooting Guns is instrumental stoner metal that's ...

Witch Mountain's South of Salem is stoner/gloom metal with a female vocalist. Sounds like PJ Harvey with the knob turned two more click...

Oroborus, by Hypatia Lake . Solid stoner rock. Sedan s/t . Simple, hypnotic piano/guitar and drums. Kösmonaut 1, by Kosmonaut . Tangerin...

Corrupt Autopilot's Inside the Crystal Palace . I know Crystal Palace mostly as a dirt-cheap rotgut vodka. Turns out it's also som...

Julian Lynch's Mercury Au Revior Simone's Another Likely Story (Neon Indian remix)

Watching Veronica Mars episode Green Eyed Monster , and this guy has all these Nick Cage posters up all over his house, and it turns out tha...