Why am I picturing Reggie Watts?

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame did a tribute to Nirvana and had female singers like St. Vincent and Lorde take over for Cobain.

^which is actually a great song.
Paramore don't get enough credit for being a genuinely good mainstream rock band—more intelligent than the Pierce the Veil types (ugh) and the Fall Out Boy types (ugh again).

"Afraid of Nothing" by Sharon Van Etten is certainly the most emotionally draining song of the year, tied with "Your Love Is Killing Me."
"Coffee" by Sylvan Esso is the most purely enjoyable song. The ending is like the musical equivalent of getting a hug.
Some others:
"Gethsemane" by Dry The River

I love the part toward the end of Water Fountain where the two separate parts are competing and switching back and forth. It's around 2:45.

I Wanna Get Better's lyrics are surprisingly intelligent, especially considering (forgive me for sounding like a Reposted A7X commenter) all the other stuff that's not Lorde or Sia currently popular.
I'm surprised it hasn't cracked the Hot 100 too!

How has it taken me this long to find a Sharon shout-out?
That album is amazing!

She literally said when she performed the song live "This is gonna be all over the radio next year."
She was right, and it's well-deserved too!

Hodor doesn't have to deal with this shit.

If you want it to be possessive, it's just 'I-T-S.' But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's 'I-T-apostrophe-S'
scalawag.

I saw a movie called Manborg this weekend, which was great. It's a so-bad-it's-good B-movie, but it's intentionally bad which makes it just as fun.

"Some Nights" is excellent. Another song from that album, "One Foot" works in spite of/actually because of it's obnoxious horn riff.

I love them so much. I always have a smile on my face at the end of this song, and "Play it Right" is just plain awesome.

No snark, just so happy.

^how about no. I believe it was Ignatiy that had some pretty good snark on the Gosling article last week. Barsanti tries too hard.

…except for the title track.

Seth Myers and Cecily Strong (during the Bastille episode) wasn't half bad, though I doubt that happened more than once.

I love the build to the chorus of "Latch."

WOW.

Midnight Organ Fight as a whole is so good.