"I'm going to see Eagles of Death Metal tomorrow night, which reminded me of their upcoming album and my favorites from previous albums. The "Give me a moment, Carlo, help me" then "Drums!" in the background of "Miss Alissa"—which is a great song in its own simplicity—fits exactly why I love EODM. Absurd, silly, bragging and rocking, all at the same time. It's meta-rocker-posturing, taken so far over the top it's endearing and honest rather than slapsticky."

"I'm going to see Eagles of Death Metal tomorrow night, which reminded me of their upcoming album and my favorites from previous albums. The "Give me a moment, Carlo, help me" then "Drums!" in the background of "Miss Alissa"—which is a great song in its own simplicity—fits exactly why I love EODM. Absurd, silly, bragging and rocking, all at the same time. It's meta-rocker-posturing, taken so far over the top it's endearing and honest rather than slapsticky."

"Auburn, WA and the Starting Gate got a mention in This American Life! Yay for Superman guy from Auburn."

"Auburn, WA and the Starting Gate got a mention in This American Life! Yay for Superman guy from Auburn."

"http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2008/10/hear_globe_dow_spin_fast.html says it all."

"http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2008/10/hear_globe_dow_spin_fast.html says it all."

"This American Life with another strong finance episode. The Planet Money guys join up to try to get us all to wrap our heads around the severity and growing impact of the credit market meltdown. Music just isn't as compelling as commentary these days."

"This American Life with another strong finance episode. The Planet Money guys join up to try to get us all to wrap our heads around the severity and growing impact of the credit market meltdown. Music just isn't as compelling as commentary these days."

"There's some weird part of Method Man's voice that makes me calm and happy, which is usually counter to the lyrical content."

"There's some weird part of Method Man's voice that makes me calm and happy, which is usually counter to the lyrical content."

"Yee-haw! I need to learn this version for karaoke. Poison the well before the youngsters get up there to sing it."

"Yee-haw! I need to learn this version for karaoke. Poison the well before the youngsters get up there to sing it."

"For all you financial crisis fans out there.... Yeah, okay, just me. Putting my hand down now."

"For all you financial crisis fans out there.... Yeah, okay, just me. Putting my hand down now."

"I got an amazing chance to see The Bug live last weekend, for the closing of Seattle's Decibel Festival. He'd brought Warrior Queen, who's featured on the new album (and 'Money Honey' on the old one). The Bug's opener was an enthusiastic DJ with some decent house beats—his name escapes me. Good stuff; very dancy. How you get 4-day-exhausted Decibel attendees to get back up and dance more, I don't know—some kind of sub-sonic magic underlying his frequent scratch-out segues. BUT he was a perfect cover for The Bug, who came out and dropped one of the bigger beats I've heard on a sound system ever. All dancehall should be that loud. Add Warrior Queen live on top with a giant, grungy beat and you have a perfect recipe for getting Seattleites to totally forget we're mostly white and usually soggy."

"I got an amazing chance to see The Bug live last weekend, for the closing of Seattle's Decibel Festival. He'd brought Warrior Queen, who's featured on the new album (and 'Money Honey' on the old one). The Bug's opener was an enthusiastic DJ with some decent house beats—his name escapes me. Good stuff; very dancy. How you get 4-day-exhausted Decibel attendees to get back up and dance more, I don't know—some kind of sub-sonic magic underlying his frequent scratch-out segues. BUT he was a perfect cover for The Bug, who came out and dropped one of the bigger beats I've heard on a sound system ever. All dancehall should be that loud. Add Warrior Queen live on top with a giant, grungy beat and you have a perfect recipe for getting Seattleites to totally forget we're mostly white and usually soggy."

"Wonderful tribute to Paul Newman by the usually sports-focused (yet awesome) Frank Deford. Since there's no way ilike.com will pick up podcast or NPR content, I'll paraphrase: Deford and Newman lived in the same town for a number of years. The town was inordinately proud of Newman, but worked hard to seem unruffled by him being about town. One day, Deford and his wife were in a bookstore, along with Newman and one of his daughters and other townsfolk. To illustrate the magnetism Newman carried with him, when he got his daughter's attention across the shop with a, "Okay, honey, let's go!", "every woman in that store (including [Deford]'s wife herself) gave an involuntary head-feint toward the door." Beautiful, and the rest of his tribute is good, too. Catch it on iTunes or NPR, where it is appropriately treated like audio you'd love to listen to."

"Wonderful tribute to Paul Newman by the usually sports-focused (yet awesome) Frank Deford. Since there's no way ilike.com will pick up podcast or NPR content, I'll paraphrase: Deford and Newman lived in the same town for a number of years. The town was inordinately proud of Newman, but worked hard to seem unruffled by him being about town. One day, Deford and his wife were in a bookstore, along with Newman and one of his daughters and other townsfolk. To illustrate the magnetism Newman carried with him, when he got his daughter's attention across the shop with a, "Okay, honey, let's go!", "every woman in that store (including [Deford]'s wife herself) gave an involuntary head-feint toward the door." Beautiful, and the rest of his tribute is good, too. Catch it on iTunes or NPR, where it is appropriately treated like audio you'd love to listen to."

"Yet another great This American Life. I can think of few things more difficult on any moral or ethical discussion than scamming scammers. It's like a tour of a circle of hell itself."

"Yet another great This American Life. I can think of few things more difficult on any moral or ethical discussion than scamming scammers. It's like a tour of a circle of hell itself."

"If you wanted to write a song to make Bowie, Michael Jackson, Beck and Timberlake mildly jealous, this would be a contender. It's hard not to hit an 80-mile-per-hour groove and want it to last all evening with "Golden Age" blasting."

"If you wanted to write a song to make Bowie, Michael Jackson, Beck and Timberlake mildly jealous, this would be a contender. It's hard not to hit an 80-mile-per-hour groove and want it to last all evening with "Golden Age" blasting."

"I like that this song fits so many themes of the summer. Storms, big epic endings, guitar solos, a lullabye-style twist and, of course, the new sound experiment under TV on the Radio's newest album. It wanders from Michael Jackson to DMB to Depeche Mode to trip hop and back, and it's just great. I can't wait to see more songs worked into their live setlist. Last weekend's show was still strongly focused on the previous two albums."

"I like that this song fits so many themes of the summer. Storms, big epic endings, guitar solos, a lullabye-style twist and, of course, the new sound experiment under TV on the Radio's newest album. It wanders from Michael Jackson to DMB to Depeche Mode to trip hop and back, and it's just great. I can't wait to see more songs worked into their live setlist. Last weekend's show was still strongly focused on the previous two albums."

"This seems to be the year of dancehall crossover. This is just a great tune, with a killer hook. I'm looking forward to the live version, and working my way through more Warrior Queen material."

"This seems to be the year of dancehall crossover. This is just a great tune, with a killer hook. I'm looking forward to the live version, and working my way through more Warrior Queen material."

"I tend to keep my distance from knowing that much about musicians in bands I like. I don't read interviews or bios, I rarely read reviews, and I hate learning the usually predicable and lame stories behind songs. But sometimes a bit of back-story serendipity leaks in. This song, for instance. My housemate shared Wolf Parade's newest (...Mt. Zoomer) with me, so now I am working backward in their discography after an impressive live show. This is my favorite from their first album, which reminds me of the sound I like under all those annoying Modest Mouse songs. Which brings us to the "well, duh" point that Wolf Parade received an exposure boost from the interest of one of the guys in Modest Mouse. ...Intra-band news I can handle."

"I tend to keep my distance from knowing that much about musicians in bands I like. I don't read interviews or bios, I rarely read reviews, and I hate learning the usually predicable and lame stories behind songs. But sometimes a bit of back-story serendipity leaks in. This song, for instance. My housemate shared Wolf Parade's newest (...Mt. Zoomer) with me, so now I am working backward in their discography after an impressive live show. This is my favorite from their first album, which reminds me of the sound I like under all those annoying Modest Mouse songs. Which brings us to the "well, duh" point that Wolf Parade received an exposure boost from the interest of one of the guys in Modest Mouse. ...Intra-band news I can handle."

"Such a shame iLike doesn't carry mashups or remixes. This is *genius*. Think of dub hop + dancehall + a 50's sock-hop cheer. Quasi-harajuku kids in striped Jamaican cardigans doing a mix of the twist and reggaeton on a bubble-tea shop checkered dancefloor. I dare you to not bob your head."

"Such a shame iLike doesn't carry mashups or remixes. This is *genius*. Think of dub hop + dancehall + a 50's sock-hop cheer. Quasi-harajuku kids in striped Jamaican cardigans doing a mix of the twist and reggaeton on a bubble-tea shop checkered dancefloor. I dare you to not bob your head."

"Same iLike doesn't have audio for "Politicians & Paedophiles", because that makes for one of my favorite album-openings ever. No mistaking The Bug after that. "Fuck Y-self" is good, but there's something about gigantic grungy dancehall that is delightfully counter to *whatever* you were doing before you put it on. Looking forward to the new material, too. ("Angry" is getting me through the nerf gun fights at the office.)"

"Same iLike doesn't have audio for "Politicians & Paedophiles", because that makes for one of my favorite album-openings ever. No mistaking The Bug after that. "Fuck Y-self" is good, but there's something about gigantic grungy dancehall that is delightfully counter to *whatever* you were doing before you put it on. Looking forward to the new material, too. ("Angry" is getting me through the nerf gun fights at the office.)"

"Amazing song, with amazing sound. CocoRosie samples have anchored most of the mixes I've received lately, and for good reason. "Beatiful Boyz" with Antony & the Johnson's is good too, but Noah's Ark fits some compelling melody needs from a childhood of my mom's off-tune lullabies, which centered around pre-school education themes rather than the mystery and magic at the heart of the style. This is what I imagined other kids' lullabies sounded like."

"Amazing song, with amazing sound. CocoRosie samples have anchored most of the mixes I've received lately, and for good reason. "Beatiful Boyz" with Antony & the Johnson's is good too, but Noah's Ark fits some compelling melody needs from a childhood of my mom's off-tune lullabies, which centered around pre-school education themes rather than the mystery and magic at the heart of the style. This is what I imagined other kids' lullabies sounded like."

"DoCopenhagen (the blog) put this song in their first muxtape, and I'm outraged nobody ever recommended Kate Nash to me before. Even if the rest of her music comes nowhere close to this song, I don't care. Fantastic song, and it is a real treat to know I have her full catalog to explore without expectations or hype. So keep it to yourself, please—I'm planning to enjoy this."

"DoCopenhagen (the blog) put this song in their first muxtape, and I'm outraged nobody ever recommended Kate Nash to me before. Even if the rest of her music comes nowhere close to this song, I don't care. Fantastic song, and it is a real treat to know I have her full catalog to explore without expectations or hype. So keep it to yourself, please—I'm planning to enjoy this."

"I've heard this mixed into lots of DJ mixes, because it's just a great spooky, goofy, romantic little song. Not much else to say about it other than a classic of Crystal Castle's sound."

"I've heard this mixed into lots of DJ mixes, because it's just a great spooky, goofy, romantic little song. Not much else to say about it other than a classic of Crystal Castle's sound."

"Another creepy hunting lodge ballad by Bats for Lashes, which reminds me strongly of the madness at the end of Nabokov's "Lolita". Don't ask me why; it's both a too-intimate tour of my subconscious, and I don't think detail will help the comparison, if it even struck you as interesting. Or it could even be too shallow and apparent to you, and therefore off-putting, intellectually. But really—odds are it didn't mean anything to you at all, and now I'm babbling on like an associative freak."

"Another creepy hunting lodge ballad by Bats for Lashes, which reminds me strongly of the madness at the end of Nabokov's "Lolita". Don't ask me why; it's both a too-intimate tour of my subconscious, and I don't think detail will help the comparison, if it even struck you as interesting. Or it could even be too shallow and apparent to you, and therefore off-putting, intellectually. But really—odds are it didn't mean anything to you at all, and now I'm babbling on like an associative freak."

"What's not to love about a lyric like "And I think I might have heard you on the radio / But the radio waves were like snow". My housemate Lucas got me listening to Wolf Parade by telling me it was a Bowie parody band. Now that I know better, I feel like a jackass for dismissing them due to the preponderance of "Wolf" bands lately, most of whom were underwhelming. Proof positive that trendy-name nausea is all in your head, not in the music."

"What's not to love about a lyric like "And I think I might have heard you on the radio / But the radio waves were like snow". My housemate Lucas got me listening to Wolf Parade by telling me it was a Bowie parody band. Now that I know better, I feel like a jackass for dismissing them due to the preponderance of "Wolf" bands lately, most of whom were underwhelming. Proof positive that trendy-name nausea is all in your head, not in the music."

"Noting for the record that: 1. This is a damn good song. 2. Nailler9 included it in their summer mixtape podcast *before* the "You Look Nice Today" promotion of "The Fishstick" (though I only just realized that). "

"Noting for the record that: 1. This is a damn good song. 2. Nailler9 included it in their summer mixtape podcast *before* the "You Look Nice Today" promotion of "The Fishstick" (though I only just realized that). "

"As we skipped Death Cab at Sasquatch and waited at our latern-lit campsite for the distant sounds of The Cure set to echo off the river gorge, a friend reminded me of the production team behind Spank Rock's amazing debut, Yo Yo Yo etc. The star of the album is "Rick Rubin" (which is actually a fascinating tribute battle rhyme), but the whole thing is just great. I've regressed a few summers and will spend the next few weeks rediscovering. Oddly enough, I could say Spank Rock was the best find of Sasquatch (with National, Battles, MIA, Beirut, Jamie Lidell, Crudo, REM and Dime Def not far behind)."

"As we skipped Death Cab at Sasquatch and waited at our latern-lit campsite for the distant sounds of The Cure set to echo off the river gorge, a friend reminded me of the production team behind Spank Rock's amazing debut, Yo Yo Yo etc. The star of the album is "Rick Rubin" (which is actually a fascinating tribute battle rhyme), but the whole thing is just great. I've regressed a few summers and will spend the next few weeks rediscovering. Oddly enough, I could say Spank Rock was the best find of Sasquatch (with National, Battles, MIA, Beirut, Jamie Lidell, Crudo, REM and Dime Def not far behind)."