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The Quietus fully redesigns and launches
The site had earlier renamed itself to the Quietus but had kept its initial design; now, however, it’s fully up with a design overhaul. It’s been fun to be a small part of it so far … more »
Ned Raggett Ponders It All
Review: Nas - Untitled (9.5/10)
Kyle wrote 21 hours ago: In the dizzying two and a half years of innumerable mixtapes and feature verses that led up to the r … more »
Hello from South Africa! Here are some thoughts on Kid A.
Greg wrote 6 days ago: Hey guys. Although I’m not in the same hemisphere as any of my readers (I assume), I plan to e … more »
The Most Exciting Music Leak Ever
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Kyle wrote 1 week ago: When Greg and I were in high school, we had an assistant principal named Mr. Jenkins who had long dr … more »
The Quietus fully redesigns and launches
Ned Raggett wrote 1 week ago: The site had earlier renamed itself to the Quietus but had kept its initial design; now, however, it … more »
Track Reviews - J. Rocwell, T.I., Snoop Dogg
Kyle wrote 1 week ago: J. Rocwell – “Handbags”: I have no idea who J. Rocwell is, but I gave this a listen, and I pre … more »
The Cool Kids -- That's Stupid The Mixtape (5.5/10)
Greg wrote 1 week ago: The Cool Kids haven’t even come out with an album yet, and they’re already starting to g … more »
Goodbye, Status Ain't Hood
Kyle wrote 2 weeks ago: After a rather ominous “greatest hits” post on Friday, Tom Breihan has officially annou … more »
Bonnaroo Concert Review -- Metallica
Greg wrote 4 weeks ago: Metallica is an incredible band. Before I saw them at Bonnaroo, I had never really listened to Metal … more »
Wale -- “I Really Love Ur Girl freestyle”
Greg wrote 1 month ago: Wale released a freestyle over the beat from “I Luv Your Girl” by The-Dream. My reaction … more »
Lil' Wayne -- Tha Carter III
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Greg wrote 1 month ago: Everybody agrees that between his enormous ego, his even bigger sexual appetite, and his fame at … more »
New N*E*R*D*, New Girl Talk, New Nas, Really Old Paul McCartney
Greg wrote 1 month ago: Another song from N*E*R*D’s quickly upcoming third album, Seeing Sounds, just leaked. “Y … more »
Being thankful to not live for several hundred years in the Middle Ages
Justin Capps wrote 1 month ago: The other day, for a refresher, I decided I was going to listen to music sequentially, from some of … more »
New Ratatat track, and new page for my music
Greg wrote 1 month ago: Ratatat - Mirando I like it. It’s hard to even tell that it’s a Ratatat song until you h … more »
Mahler's 9th, part 3: Getting Gotten
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virgomusic wrote 1 month ago: NaBloPoMo Day 22! You know, I have a confession to make: I thought it would be pretty easy to captur … more »
Vampire Weekend is a cool band
Greg wrote 1 month ago: Rostam Batmanglij, the keyboardist for Vampire Weekend, has a MySpace. On his MySpace, he has a … more »
New Cool Kids track
Greg wrote 2 months ago: The Cool Kids — Jingling Like the Cool Kids themselves, I’m not entirely sure about … more »
For music today, it's off to Idolator and Tim Finney's latest piece
Ned Raggett wrote 2 months ago: Sparks are taking the first of their well-deserved breaks during the concert series and I’m cu … more »
My thoughts on Daft Punk's Discovery (or, Why You Are Probably Too Uptight)
Greg wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been really into Daft Punk for the last couple of weeks. I’m obsessed with Discover … more »
Criticism: Possible Antidotes... and That's Enough for Now!
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virgomusic wrote 2 months ago: NaBloPoMo Day 16! At the end of the third installment in my series of reflections on criticism in mu … more »
