Love what I've heard of this record so far. I also love that, without any pandering Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair articles declaring it so, 2015 is really turning into The Year of Girlz That Rock (TM) (C) (R). Sleater-Kinney, Screaming Females, Courtney Barnett, now Hop Along, all the best straight-up rock records this…

Mastodon, please.

M = Mastodon.

TMAA FTW

TV on the Radio is one of those cases where I'm utterly confused as to why people prefer their later albums better. Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes is (imho) far and away their best work. It's tight, compact, powerful… nothing extraneous, everything on-point, memorable songs, great lyrics, it's got a good beat and…

For what it's worth, I don't think it's technically a 'music video,' even though it's a video with music. Going through YouTube, they've put up a bunch of tracks from their new album with similar lo-fi, off-the-cuff, whatever, video treatments attached, probably for the sake of having something than just the album…

I'd just like to second any and all comments praising Infinite Jest. It's one of the most amazing books I've ever read. Ever hour I spent away from it I found myself wishing I was reading it again… it's like I had a crush on a book. And it's not nearly as difficult as some make it seem.

Nice to see this review. I don't often watch new Simpsons episodes (maybe one or two a season), but I happened to catch this episode tonight, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing! I didn't know if it was a repeat of a Halloween episode or something–clearly it wasn't–but it was terrible! Every scene and every joke…

You're probably confused because I wrote it very confusingly (and incorrectly). What I meant is that Cuomo's mega-arena-pop-rock tendencies (which, yes, have ruined everything since Maladroit) is something that, when paired with Sharp's heartfelt sloppiness, was a wonderful match on Blue and Pinkerton. But I think a…

I've always found that what you hear on that first Rentals album is EXACTLY what's missing from latter day Weezer. (And vice versa, what you hear in latter day Weezer seems to be what keeps the Rentals form being great).