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Aug 31st

Fuck.

Aug 31st

The best-selling artists of all time

1. The Beatles 2. Bing Crosby 3. Elvis Presley 4. Frank Sinatra 5. Michael Jackson (More)

Aug 31st

The Sarah Palin Baby Conspiracy

Aug 31st

“Basically I just wanted to create new music that was a...”
— Beach Boys legend Brian...

Aug 31st

Our girl in New Orleans

Aug 31st

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Bon Iver sings a remarkable cover of “Blue Tulip” off Okkervil River’s forthcoming...

Aug 31st

Pedophile Nervous For First Day Of School

Aug 31st

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Two teenage Swedish sisters head into the forest to cover Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain...

Aug 30th

'The worst gay sequel ever'

Aug 30th

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Plants and Animals’ “Bye Bye Bye” is one of my favorite songs of the year....

Aug 30th

Barack who?

Aug 29th

When novelists commit journalism

Claire Messud spent a week with the Obama campaign, and she filed a story for Newsweek that began...

Aug 28th

If gay people had civil-rights icons, Del Martin would be...

Aug 28th

'Intervention' as musical theater

Aug 28th

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First came Of Montreal’s crazy-good “Id Engager,” and now here’s the equally...

Aug 28th

At last, a way to kill Batman

Aug 28th

Hannah Montana says, suck my flesh-colored phallus candy!...

Aug 28th

Proof local journalism is not dead

Aug 28th

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A creepy, Nosferatu-style video for the Walkmen’s You & Me standout “In The New...

Aug 28th

Proof no good can come from listening to Guns...

Aug 28th

DENVER – Senator Barack Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a...

Aug 28th

“Look, I owe the American people an apology. If I had beaten...”
— Michael Dukakis

Aug 27th

“Amtrak has become a recurring character in the hearings...”
— Libby Copeland, writing a puff...

Aug 27th

Welcoming Crumbler's 11th follower

Aug 27th

Romenesko gets some teeth

From today’s site, under the hed, “Fox News slogan is called ‘an insult to people...

Aug 26th

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The best part of Hamlet 2 is the gloriously anarchic musical number “Raped in the Face,”...

Aug 26th

80 percent of Facebook users avoid the new...

Aug 26th

“Two young New Jersey men were arrested after cops discovered...”
— Buzzfeed, inadvertently...

Aug 26th

Gays take seven medals in Beijing

Aug 26th

'The work begins anew'

Leave it to Ted Kennedy – 83 years old, hobbling, fighting an incurable form of brain cancer – to...

Aug 26th

“Effortless, high-volume production was his hallmark....”
— From the Times’ obit of...

Aug 25th

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I have always loved My Morning Jacket’s warm, appreciative cover of Erykah Badu’s...

Aug 25th

Crumbler Mixtape Challenge No. 1

As you know, Crumbler is a site designed first and foremost to help people with their problems. With...

Aug 25th

The NYT starts a Tumblr

Aug 24th

“You need a corpse for the newspaper, so you take a bunch of...”
— Dexter Filkins, who writes...

Aug 24th

Is it possible that all the Olympic hype and scandal can be...

Aug 23rd

Matthew Mitcham of Australia celebrates his gold medal in...

Aug 23rd

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Vampire Weekend perform Fleetwood Mac’s “Everything” on Australian radio....

Aug 23rd

A blog devoted to the Olympics' last-place...

Aug 22nd

Book Your Favorite Rock Band for Your...

Here are the prices, according to the Guardian: Bloc Party: $25-30,000 Death Cab for...

Aug 22nd

Poll: Most Americans would vote for a gay...

Aug 22nd

Another new Okkervil River track leaks

Aug 22nd

“Snoop Dogg had an embarrassing gaffe today when in an...”
— From a series of things...

Aug 22nd

The Onion’s magazine covers are often overlooked but...

Aug 22nd

“Isn’t it sad the way so many people who otherwise look...”
— Ron Rosenbaum in Slate, on...

Aug 21st

Hallmark's new line of gay-marriage greeting...

Aug 21st

Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World.

Aug 21st

Attention Casey:

mollyknight: The Walkmen sound like Band of Horses on Adderal. To me they sound more like U2, drunk...

Aug 21st

“At this rate, we’ll get to 100 by about 2013....”
— Kiehl’s hilariously sour...

Aug 21st

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Divide & Kreate’s “Party Kisser” mashes up Katy Perry’s “I Kissed...

Aug 21st

And you shall know them by the trail of abs

Aug 21st

The most terrifying Pizza Hut item ever? Buzzfeed says it...

Aug 21st

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about-today: Sigur Rós, Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur Lookit these assholes. Just kidding. Hmm. I...

Aug 21st

It happens in Baltimore, too

From yesterday’s Baltimore Sun: Two teenagers were ordered held without bail yesterday in the...

Aug 20th

“I’m not here to roast Bob Saget. I’m here to...”
— Cloris Leachman, killing it at...

Aug 20th

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Will Sheff invites head New Pornographer Carl Newman to join him for a performance of Okkervil...

Aug 20th

Weight Watchers is a role-playing game for...

Aug 20th

A beautifully composed shot of Phelps winning one of his...

Aug 20th

New York: Is Rafael Nadal's ass too big for...

Aug 20th

“At Applebee’s, she has to tread as carefully. Tweaking the...”
— Applebee’s CEO Julia...

Aug 20th

Lack of posting not our fault

We looked on the Internet today and there was nothing!

Aug 20th

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“Sunny Feeling,” another new one from Wilco. Stereogum says LP7 is on the way.

Aug 19th

“You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and...”
— David Berman, of the Silver...

Aug 19th

New Bloc Party on Thursday

Aug 19th

“The obvious precedent for Beijing was the Berlin Olympics,...”
— Anthony Lane. (It’s no...

Aug 18th

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The Rockafire Explosion tackles the Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhoods #1 (Tunnels).”...

Aug 18th

“Phelps stepped onto the winner’s podium, flanked by his...”
— Anthony Lane, on Michael...

Aug 18th

Another T-shirt. (via)

Aug 18th

The invasion of Franzia

Aug 18th

Available as a T-shirt. (via)

Aug 18th

Kakfa's porn stash

Aug 17th

Is Michael Phelps the love child of Aqua Man...

Aug 16th

Soderbergh In The Park To Stage Production Of Ocean’s...

Aug 16th

The 10 Commandments of Concert Behavior

Aug 16th

“There’s no way you should be able to eat what Michael...”
— Professor Janice Thompson,...

Aug 16th

Janeane Garofalo is making a shot-for-shot...

Aug 16th

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This crazy Radiohead video for House of Cards, which was shot without cameras, is now available as a...

Aug 15th

Beijing on 12,000 calories a day

Aug 15th

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Surprisingly funny and even moving trailer for The Cho Show, which is, like, about to induce a total...

Aug 15th

“I used to worry that Madonna would die, suddenly, and I have...”
— Hank Stuever, on Madonna...

Aug 14th

Still, Every Time She Scratches Her...

From the Calgary Herald: Yes, [Dave] Coulier dated Alanis Morissette and it looks like she talked...

Aug 14th

The U.S. men’s team won a bronze medal in gymnastics...

Aug 14th

Frightened Rabbit returns to PHX

Aug 14th

It is only thanks to her espionage that we...

Aug 14th

Spread the Word

A friend used the word “cheapity” in an e-mail with me. It is not in the Urban...

Aug 14th

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“Lost Coastlines,” a crisp new track from Okkervil River’s The Stand Ins. The...

Aug 13th

From a series of gorgeous optical illusions designed by one...

Aug 13th

But what if it had been a straight web...

From Inside Higher Ed: The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has kicked Paul Donahoe (a former...

Aug 13th

Underprotective Father Demands Daughter...

Aug 12th

Quick Note to Exercise Physiologists,...

Watching Michael Phelps swim provides a 5 percent performance improvement to anyone who happens to...

Aug 12th

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“Furr,” a lovely new acoustic number by Blitzen Trapper. I fell in love with these guys...

Aug 12th

Maybe mashups are the end of the world?

Aug 12th

“He and his friend Jordan Morris regularly joke about the...”
— Rob Walker, on the...

Aug 11th

channelalex: Cakewreck

Aug 11th

“It must have taken years of seasoned investigative know-how...”
— Mark Williams, in a hilarious...

Aug 10th

A brief, useful history of scandal,...

Aug 10th

“Prestige has shifted from the producer of art to the...”
— David Brooks, writing a...

Aug 10th

That's retarded

Aug 10th

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Mr. Rogers breakdances. Thank you Internets! (via)

Aug 10th

The NYT profiles Girl Talk

Aug 8th

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An interactive timeline of Internet memes. Has it really been seven years, all your base are belong...

Aug 8th

“Be accepting of different people and let people be who they...”
— Kanye West, gay icon in the...

Aug 8th

Treadwall: like a treadmill for your hands! I want.

Aug 8th

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alexbalk: Sweet mother of Christ is this song ever amazing. Pretty much the only Ben Folds I know is...

Aug 8th

Wordscraper is the new Scrabulous

Aug 7th

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‘See you at the debates, bitches!’ Paris strikes back.

Aug 7th

More on Wilco's "Take Me Out to the...

Coop asks: If an extended reissue Wilco album were to include a studio Take Me Out to the...

Aug 7th

Hamlet as a Facebook news feed

Aug 7th

A fresh take on evolution from Glennz Tees. (via)

Aug 7th

UPDATE

“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is not the national anthem … yet. Crumbler regrets...

Aug 7th

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Of Montreal continues their tradition of excellent songs with terrible names. Here’s “Id...

Aug 6th

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This one goes out to MK, who named her fantasy baseball team the Tweedy Birds after Jeff: Wilco...

Aug 6th

Today's candidate for best Wikipedia page...

Aug 6th

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The band I missed the most at Lollapalooza was the Hold Steady, who had skipped the festival in...

Aug 6th

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“One Wing,” the WIP (work in progress, bovs) that Wilco debuted at Lollapalooza. (via...

Aug 5th

Lollapalooza sets from Radiohead, Rage,...

Aug 5th

about-today: Crappy picture of The National, Lollapalooza 08

Aug 4th

Lollapalooza: Day 3

Black Kids. An incredibly likeable band that, for all its buzz, isn’t ready for primetime. We...

Aug 4th

about-today: Okkervil River, Lollapalooza 08

Aug 4th

about-today: Wilco, Lollapalooza 08 Jeff Tweedy in his...

Aug 4th

“The story has changed fundamentally. A year ago, the...”
— Ken Doctor, newspaper analyst,...

Aug 4th

Say what you will about whether China should have the...

Aug 4th

Lollapalooza: Day 2

MGMT. We walked over to see these buzzy hipsters only to be confronted by the ocean of humanity...

Aug 3rd

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about-today: One of my favorite concert moments ever happened last night as Radiohead hit the...

Aug 3rd

Lollapalooza: Day 1

Jeff Tweedy. Jeff Tweedy played a short solo acoustic set at the Kids’ Stage, where kids...

Aug 2nd