January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Wild Beasts (78)
The Weeknd (30)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (27)
Transit (10)
Gotye (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Wild Beasts (31)
Tycho (21)
Gotye (18)
The Cave Singers (16)
Anthony Jeselnik (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Gotye (35)
Wye Oak (28)
Warren Franklin (19)
Marc Maron (13)
Greg Laswell (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
An Interview: Jenn Wasner [Wye Oak]
nothingsoundsbetter:
Interview: Kyle Minton [10/26/2011]
If you have the chance to see Wye Oak in your lifetime of attending music shows, I mean it when I tell you that I hope it is as thunderous as it ought to be. Whilst standing in a sweaty, packed crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, my rib cage was rattled to the booming of “Holy Holy,” and just like that the deceptively docile appearance...
November 2011
12 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Drake (72)
Childish Gambino (38)
2 Chainz (11)
O’Brother (6)
Transit (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Owen (23)
Seahaven (15)
Feist (12)
Pusha T (9)
Drake (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
2 tags
“How I Met Your Mother” and its Strong Seventh... →
The eighth episode of How I Met Your Mother‘s seventh season, “Disaster Averted” aired Monday night, completing the first third of the season. As I watched “Disaster Averted” I found myself laughing…
Watchdoworkdesign:
This is one of the best videos of all-time.
CAIN!
“Heterosexual male identity… I don’t want to get too pointy-headed about it, but...”
– Dan Savage on why he maintains that the toughest sexual identity is straight male (in an interview by yours truly)
Watchfuckyeahmcgosling:
Quiet Ryan: Sometimes saying nothing says so much.
As patently ridiculous as the idea behind this video is, it’s also absolutely the reason Gosling is seeing such success. The clip in this video of him looking at Michelle Williams from Blue Valentine where he looks at her and licks his lips is the epitome of what he is doing so well. I feel that if I were to genuinely...
“In Time” Reaction →
In Time, the Justin Timberlake-starring sci-fi/action thriller is a movie with an interesting skeleton and several parts that are interesting on their own, though the movie as a whole never adds up…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Adele (21)
Seahaven (14)
Anthony Jeselnik (13)
Active Child (13)
Meek Mill (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
October 2011
8 posts
4 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Lydia (30)
Frightened Rabbit (29)
Look Mexico (28)
Feist (24)
Fiend (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I honestly have no idea where this post will go or where it will end up. It is going to be a personal post, but I need to write something to get this out. It might get dark and it will ramble, but it will end at some point. The amount of sense it makes in the meantime, I cannot guarantee. It is mostly typing as a form of release. It’s hard to realize how fucked up I might be.
The last few...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Rachael Yamagata (30)
This Town Needs Guns (20)
Transit (16)
MeWithoutYou (13)
Lydia (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Into It. Over It. (64)
Feist (24)
Lights (20)
The Dangerous Summer (15)
Lydia (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
2 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Toy Camera (17)
St. Vincent (11)
All Get Out (9)
Man Overboard (9)
Transit (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
6 tags
September 2011
12 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Warm Ghost (32)
All Get Out (17)
J. Cole (13)
Toy Camera (10)
Mates of State (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Fringe – “Neither Here Nor There” →
Is Season Four of Fringe beginning in the sideways reality of Lost‘s Sixth Season? Short thoughts on the Season 4 premiere of Fringe follow. Fringe begins its fourth season in a strange, and possibly…
4 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
The Dangerous Summer (16)
Beirut (14)
Fleet Foxes (11)
Transit (11)
The Cinema (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
5 tags
2 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Beirut (25)
Thrice (18)
J. Cole (17)
Cymbals Eat Guitars (10)
St. Vincent (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
5 tags
An Interview: Ryan O'Neal [Sleeping At Last]
nothingsoundsbetter:
Interview: Kyle Minton [8/25/2011]
To say that Ryan O’Neal had a vision last October would be a modest compliment given his prolific work over the past year as he’s committed an exorbitant amount of time to the Yearbook project. The project’s goal was to have Sleeping At Last release a three song EP every month for an entire year, an impressive amount of content from what...
2 tags
Rebecca Hall in "The Awakening"
Promo photo of Rebecca Hall for “The Awakening” that is playing at the Toronto Film Festival.
Holy shit how great does she look?
(via HitFix)
5 tags
Frank Ocean - “Thinking About You”
...
August 2011
10 posts
4 tags
YAWN - Open Season
nothingsoundsbetter:
Review: Joe Brown [8/30/11]
In the wake of Merriweather Post Pavilion, the proliferation of bands in the experimental pop/psychedelic pop/art pop realm has seen the genre expand beyond the point of dilution. There are bands other than Animal Collective and Yeasayer creating off-center, creative pop music, but there are not many that find the fine line between abrasive and...
4 tags
4 tags
“The Magicians” Reaction →
This morning I finished Lev Grossman’s 2009 novel The Magicians. At the end of the book, Quentin Coldwater, the protagonist of the story, is approximately the same as me, but the story begins when he…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
The Weeknd (18)
Marc Maron (15)
The Swellers (12)
Nas (9)
The Middle East (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Marc Maron – “This Has to Be Funny” Review →
Marc Maron is in the midst of a wave of success. On the heels of the popularity of his WTF podcast he has earned a deal to broadcast several episodes of the podcast on NPR and has scripted a … …
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Marc Maron (28)
Transit (13)
††† (5)
Big Sean (5)
My Morning Jacket (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz