A couple of years before fun. decided to light their drums on fire and make the programmed chart-topper that is Some Nights, another indie icon - Bobby Darling of Gatsbys American Dream fame - decided to fire up his laptop and record some songs as he trekked across the globe. In 2010, Darling released two EPs [...]
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My Top Ten Albums of 2009
2009 was a solid (if unspectacular) year for music, marked by two masterful (if not transcendent) albums and a whole slew of decent-to-good records. For some reason unbeknownst to me, nearly every band that released an album in 2009 released some variety of pop-album, even bands that had never before ventured into those sugary waters [...]
When They Disappear, We’ll Know Why
Originally this was going to be a post about whether or not we are too hard on our musicians, whether we demand too much of them creatively while delivering not nearly enough support for their troubles, and in some respects I stayed true to that aim. But for the most part, I've let the first [...]
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