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Continue reading →: Singles roundup!
In The Singles Jukebox’s series of year-end group match-offs, I ranked these songs: 1. Busy Signal, “Da Style Deh” 2. Pill, “Trap Goin’ Ham” 3. Ne-Yo, “Part of the List” 4. Calle 13 ft. Cuci Amador, “Electro Movimiento” 5. The Lonely Island ft. T-Pain, “I’m On a Boat” That’s the…
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Continue reading →: Palin: ready for prime time
Never one to overlook the chance to publish a few mordant zingers at Sarah Palin’s expense (“courageous frontier huntress”), Christopher Hitchens uncovers the depths to which the former Alaska governor will sink to get invited to future Sunday brunches with Peggy Noonan and Cokie Roberts: she asked RNC hack Fred…
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Continue reading →: Ways To Be Unwicked
Fantastic dialogue in this thread about roots-rock and its discontents (a few of my thoughts here appeared hastily there). What sticks with me – especially now, poised at decade’s end – is the implicit determination of the rockcrit establishment incarnated by Rolling Stone to promote a series of ideas about…
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Continue reading →: Singles 12/5
We played catch-up in this week’s Jukebox. This week we provoked the most comments (and discussion) over our, shall we say, lukewarm response to Animal Collective’s “My Girls,” theoretically the highlight from a parent album beloved our Pitchfork brethren. The review provoked two familiar voices to come out of the…
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Continue reading →: untitled post 1069
I’ve hesitated to write about Goodbye Solo. One of the best received movies of the year flaunts all the virtues of Sundance-approved filmmaking: rural American setting, multi-ethnic cast, a disinterest in cinematographic finesse. If it reminds you of Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of Cherry, it should, with a crucial difference: Red…
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Continue reading →: “We are in love”
Another superb piece of Tom Ewing writing in his Popular series, in which he reviews every British number one single from the beginning. Today’s is “Papa Don’t Preach.” Like most Madonna songs from the period I force myself to have an opinion; they were part of the air I breathed,…
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Continue reading →: Hey! Check out my cold, crisp boilerplate!
With each cold, crisp sentence Obama delivers, the more my opposition to what he himself called “an endless war in Afghanistan” hardens. We screwed this from the beginning. As I said earlier today: Instead of enabling Karzai and his thugs, we should have assisted in the creation of a NATO-anchored,…
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Continue reading →: Welcome November
An appropriate poem, now that we’re gettin’ war fever all over again… He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasure…
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Continue reading →: Signs and signals
I can’t quite accept Fred Kaplan’s otherwise well-calibrated writhing over President Obama’s decision to commit more ground troops to Afghanistan because he makes the following claim: Another problem with withdrawing is that it would signal, correctly or not, a huge victory for anti-American forces generally. If we left Afghanistan to…
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