Entries from January 2010

January 29, 2010

Weekly Best Of: The 21 Best Lost Episodes

WE HAVE TO GO BACK

January 29, 2010

Track-By-Track Review: Casual Victim Pile

Casual Victim Pile is an anagram for Live Music Capital, btw.

January 28, 2010

New Panda Bear Record Gets Title, Vague Release Date

It must be good to be a little/scared

January 28, 2010

Better Off Ted – “Mess of a Salesman”

This isn’t about trees. These girls are little, growing things.

January 28, 2010

Bubble Watch: January 28, 2010 Edition

It’s hard to remember that in the midst of the Late Night Controversy that just ended, we had our first big cancellation of the year with the horrid Jay Leno Show. Sadly, that means it’s time to start Bubble Watch, a semi-regular feature where we check in on some notable shows that are on the [...]

January 28, 2010

Franz Nicolay Explains Hold Steady Departure

We reported last week that keyboardist Franz Nicolay had left the Hold Steady, and yesterday, Paste got the scoop. Says the man himself: “In The Hold Steady, I was kind of a fox in a hedgehog band,” Nicolay tells Paste. “The Isaiah Berlin thing about the hedgehogs who have one defining idea and the foxes [...]

January 27, 2010

Sal Not Coming Back to Mad Men

On a season of Mad Men that was full of really sad things, one of the saddest was when Don fired Sal. We had some hope that the newly born Sterling Cooper Draper Price, in need of an art director, might find some room for him, but if this report on Vulture is true, it [...]

January 27, 2010

Justice Return With “Beginning of the End” [UPDATE: IT'S FAKE]

France’s Second Best Electronic/Dance Duo is back with a new single, “The Beginning of the End.” It starts like the soundtrack to an early 90′s CD-ROM game and of course gets funky from there. Check out the MP3 (via Stereogum) below. Justice – The Beginning of the End [MP3] UPDATE: It’s a fake. No new [...]

January 26, 2010

The Greatest Acceptance Speech of All-Time

Please watch this video, I’m begging you

January 26, 2010

Review: Beach House – Teen Dream

Any way you run, you run before us. Black and white horse, arching among us.