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Apr 1st

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U2, Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of

Apr 1st

A decent melody, a song I can sing

The first concert I attended was U2 at RFK Stadium in 1992, following the release of their Achtung...

Apr 1st

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Pedro, the MTV docudrama about Real World star Pedro Zamora, the first openly gay, HIV-positive...

Apr 1st

“Sunil knew nothing of the movie that ends with an...”
— Katherine Boo, whose brilliant...

Mar 31st

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Look you guys, I think we all know it’s going to be a tough Tuesday, what with the economy and...

Mar 31st

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On the one hand, Birdmonster bores me to death. On the other hand, Kevin loves them, to the point...

Mar 31st

And speaking of Okkervil ...

Mar 31st

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Real-life School of Rock: Okkervil River infiltrates the Austin Bat Cave to talk to kids about...

Mar 31st

“One top editor at another newspaper put it this way:...”
— From Mark Bowden’s long,...

Mar 31st

“That was the beauty of Morrissey. The thing about him I...”
— Decemberist Colin Meloy, on...

Mar 30th

Download a free track from Dylan's new album

Mar 30th

“And maybe Green Day has even surpassed another inspiration,...”
— The New York Times, with a...

Mar 30th

ShamWow guy slap chops a hooker

Mar 30th

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Mar 29th

The Reasons I Won't Be Coming

From Elliot Perlman’s collection of short stories: “When you begin, you always think...

Mar 29th

Rob Nadeau: Untitled (Red Stripe), 2008

Mar 28th

“There’s a little bit of me in everything. Of course there’s...”
— Ricky Gervais, in the New York...

Mar 28th

How to Become a 'Death of Newspapers' blogger

Mar 28th

To rescue a boy with autism from a balcony, a...

Mar 28th

Twitter Hash Tags You Rarely See

#accordingtojim #explosivediarrhea #smoothjazz #teapotdome #mambonumberfive ...

Mar 28th

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Lost reconceived as an episode of Muppet Babies. Perfect casting here, with Hugo as Rolf and Sawyer...

Mar 28th

“It’s like I got on the train I was supposed to and...”
— An anonymous twentysomething,...

Mar 28th

An e-mail program that displays messages as...

Mar 28th

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Little Red Riding Hood, retold as a series of animated infographics. Gorgeous and quite danceable,...

Mar 27th

Dignan's notebook

Mar 27th

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Lady Gag’s “Butterface” improves on the song it parodies in just about every way.

Mar 27th

Saved by the Bell: The Grad School Years

Mar 27th

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Saturday Looks Good to Me - (Even If You Die On The) Ocean: “So I went in and picked the...

Mar 26th

Help for the beginning home cook

Mar 26th

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“How am I supposed to feel accepted? How am I supposed to overcome the ripping, nagging...

Mar 25th

Stream a new Death Cab track

Mar 25th

And here I was afraid that hat would eat us. (via)

Mar 25th

I Was Going to Succumb To Cancer, But Then I...

Mar 25th

“At some point, the idea of representational art lost a lot...”
— Jeff Tweedy, from the...

Mar 25th

Rascal Flatts writes song about how much they...

Mar 24th

Artist Mari Kasurinen sculpts My Little Pony figures into...

Mar 24th

At last, a use for Twitter

Mar 24th

The Octomom now lives a short walk from my...

Mar 24th

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Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray Love, delivers a funny and unexpectedly moving talk about...

Mar 24th

FAILapalooza

Mar 24th

How Not to Use Statistics in Newspaper...

Lefties are fighters, the Washington Post reported today. In a story about the difference between...

Mar 24th

Mar 23rd

“They kept asking if they were invited. Originally, I said...”
— Chance Nalley, a New York City...

Mar 23rd

A Farewell to Arms

One enjoyable aspect of Sci-Fi’s Battlestar Galactica, especially at the beginning, was that...

Mar 23rd

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Mar 23rd

Meet cute

Mar 22nd

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Saturday morning Neko! Case’s “People Gotta Lot of Nerve,” all done up in...

Mar 21st

American Idol contestants, ranked by albums...

Mar 21st

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Mar 21st

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Electrosound puts the vocals from Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” over...

Mar 21st

“To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should...”
— Beloved comedy lesbian Wanda...

Mar 21st

Stream the new Decemberists

Mar 20th

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Vampire Weekend perform ‘White Sky” on Jimmy Fallon. Catchy little tune; sounds great...

Mar 20th

Dear Mountain Dew, please stop giving me...

Mar 20th

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A children’s choir sings Radiohead’s “No Surprises.” It’s a nice,...

Mar 20th

Crumbler's First Birthday

So today our blog, Crumbler, celebrated its anniversary of existing. In a show of the depth and...

Mar 20th

As requested, reviews of 1,302 songs by SXSW...

Mar 19th

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Radiohead play “Creep” on Monday night in Mexico City. The crowd sings every word, in...

Mar 19th

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wowdemoblog: this whole record was b-a-n-a-n-a-s, but when this popped up as the last track, our cd...

Mar 18th

These people might actually give us new...

Mar 18th

“A unemployment counselor said to a group of us: ‘Now...”
— The appropriately named Janet...

Mar 18th

“I know I ruffled feathers, but there was no way I...

Mar 18th

Ben Folds' new record: college a cappella...

Mar 17th

“Complain all you want. It’s like railing against the...”
— Anthony Bourdain, on Rachael...

Mar 17th

News that just-mentioned Crumbler favorite Bob Dylan has a...

Mar 17th

“We do know this: What’s been lost, quite literally,...”
— Seattle P-I reporter Mike...

Mar 17th

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davidmaddox: Sigur Ros - “Saeglopur (CrashOverdrive Remix)”

Mar 17th

Mar 16th

“I’m actually wondering who’s next? Who’s...”
— WWE wrestler Andrew...

Mar 16th

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MGMT’s “Kids,” as composed on Mario Paint. (via)

Mar 16th

Podcase correction

thedanimal: When I appeared on Casey’s podcast last week, I said the Dear & the Headlights song,...

Mar 16th

A delicious meal from soup to nuts. (via)

Mar 16th

Meet Washington's new gays

Mar 15th

“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace...”
— Clay Shirky, in perhaps the...

Mar 15th

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Mar 14th

“BMG’s music service was — for many of us —...”
— Carrie Brownstein, on NPR, on...

Mar 13th

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Before Bleed American exploded all over the radio, Mesa’s own Jimmy Eat World were best known...

Mar 13th

“Mr. Song learned this week that Ms. Franklin has decided to...”
— The Aretha hat is now...

Mar 13th

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Super Smashing Pumpkin Bros. reimagines Mario for the ’90s goth set. If you were always pretty...

Mar 13th

Duct tape, New York Times? Really?

I got excited when I saw the cover of this morning’s New York Times Thursday Styles, which,...

Mar 13th

Hold Steady DVD out April 7

Mar 12th

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The straight men of Alpha Delta Phi at the University of Chicago protested a recent hate-visit from...

Mar 12th

Rayogram offers a beautiful way to scan...

Mar 12th

What To Say To People Who Tell You Now's...

Woe unto the person who is young and single and makes a reasonable amount of money and yet for some...

Mar 12th

The Daft Punk soundboard is what the...

Mar 12th

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Trailer for The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon’s flawed but winning first novel....

Mar 11th

“Ours is a business that always begins with the...

Mar 11th

'Friday Night Lights' close to being picked...

Mar 11th

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FAROFF’s “The Brits Are Playing At My House” puts the Beatles’ “Get Back” over LCD Soundsystem, with...

Mar 10th

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Six minutes of local news anchors describing local apparitions of Jesus (and the Virgin Mary) in...

Mar 10th

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Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android,” as rendered in Mario Paint Composer. Crumbler...

Mar 10th

Stream the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Mar 10th

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New Silversun Pickups: Panic Switch. Good and noisy.

Mar 10th

Pitchfork redesigns

Mar 9th

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Antony & the Johnsons perform “Fistful of Love” live for P4K. Poor Antony is looking...

Mar 9th

Songs Discussed in the New Podcase

My friend Dan dropped by this weekend to discuss the mixtape he recently sent me. In the...

Mar 8th

pegobry: Gotham City (via Sandmania & retropolitics)

Mar 8th

New Podcase: The Mix-Up

Mar 8th

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Mar 7th

“For no matter what we achieve, if we don’t spend the...”
— Jim Collins, Good to Great

Mar 6th

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Neko Case brings her great “People Gotta Lot of Nerve” to the Tonight Show. (via)

Mar 6th

Is it really too much to ask that my work cafeteria carry lemon-flavored sparkling Italian mineral...

Mar 5th

“How do you feel about Wednesday?”
— A University of Chicago...

Mar 5th

“It’s not obvious how young writers without accommodating,...”
— The Week

Mar 5th

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All you need to know about this trailer for Slumdog DoubleDare is that it is the funniest video you...

Mar 4th

“There is a separate language in each of us, also a separate...”
— Marilynne Robinson, in her...

Mar 4th

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Blitzen Trapper’s song “Furr” got most of our attention when the band’s new...

Mar 3rd

A list of common misconceptions

Mar 3rd

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On his debut show, Jimmy Fallon (and the Roots) introduce the concept of “Slow jamming the...

Mar 3rd

Stream the new Dan Deacon

Mar 3rd

South by Southwest posts MP3s from nearly...

Mar 3rd

Continuing with the evening’s candy advertising theme,...

Mar 3rd

Snickers to advertise using a new language...

Mar 3rd

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MGMT’s “Kids” played by a bunch of cute girls — one of whom appears to be a...

Mar 3rd

New rule.

My editor says that starting today, winter weather stories in the Baltimore Sun will only be as...

Mar 3rd

Poor Sue. (via)

Mar 2nd

“The two old swashbucklers recounted an infamous Chronicle...”
— James Rainey, on the faltering...

Mar 2nd

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Andrew Bird performs a live version “Fitz & the Dizzyspells” off his unexpectedly...

Mar 2nd

“BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — They might have once loved the...”
— Balk’s re-casting of...

Mar 2nd

David Foster Wallace's last, unfinished novel

Mar 1st

gentleman: How much do I freakin’ love this down-to-earth,...

Mar 1st