November 24th, 2009

I’ve been hard at work lately compiling my forthcoming Top 50 Albums of the Decade list (well, it isn’t really work) and one of the hardest parts of creating this list has been trying to rank albums released this year against those from earlier in the decade. While some records hit like a ton of bricks [...]
October 19th, 2009

Vampire Weekend’s self titled debut was one of the finest albums of 2008, and was even recently crowned the 51st best album of the decade by Pitchfork. This was all well deserved in my opinion, Vampire Weekend was solid from start to finish (give it a listen below), included four great singles (”Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” [...]
April 22nd, 2009

Shortly after the release of 2007’s Icky Thump, I was looking at The White Stripes catalog in iTunes and realized that it was primed for a homemade “greatest hits” mixtape. Getting the perfect track order on these sort of mixes can be tricky (if you care about that kind of thing, which clearly I [...]