January 2011
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The Spicy Pumpkin's Top 20 Albums of 2010
20. Emancipator – Safe in the Steep Cliffs
Emancipator’s studio work has the tendency to fall into pseudo-Weather Channel grooves and licks, but Safe in the Steep Cliffs has some of the year’s most gorgeous downtempo trip-hop that it would be wrong not to overlook those weak moments and include it on the list. Also, his performance opening for Pretty Lights at Northern Lights was nothing short...
December 2010
92 posts
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I will not reblog anything that has "Reblog if..."...
I don’t like being told what to do.
Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello - “There are Much Worse Things to Believe In”
This is, without any hint of irony, my absolute favorite Christmas song ever. There’s no other song to that encapsulates the mythology and the spirit of the modern Christmas time of year, cutting through all of the bullshit about how Christmas is becoming too commercial (it was always commercial,...
The Hophead →
The Five Most Important Figures in American Craft Beer
Mad Mule
We wrecked Cortez’s shit.
uglypodcast:
Here’s a live recording of my band from school, Mad Mule. Very loud, very noisy, lots of raw power. Enjoy: http://www.mediafire.com/?kb4sfva8r0lwg78
So about that Net Neutrality thing. →
Nostalgia is Shit
It’s the reason why our fondest memories were watching cartoons, and gimmicky bullshit have become cultural icons
Like this shit:
Fuck Gak. I hated Gak. It smelled funny and it got hair stuck all over after being out of the tube for ten seconds.
It makes for a good metaphor for the ’90s though: bright, sticky, stupid, and brought to you by a bunch of cynical marketing executives...
ImmorTall →
I’ve been trying to get into games recently (games that extend beyond the jewel-encrusted gift from Jesus Christ himself that is Resident Evil 4) and have been particularly curious about the recent boon in Indie gaming. The problem is that there haven’t been many Indie games made for the PS2 recently, there’s only so many games with controls suited to a temperamental mouse-pad...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
The Flaming Lips (26)
Daft Punk (19)
Radiohead (19)
Gil Scott-Heron (14)
Crystal Castles (12)
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fuckyeahelectronicmusic:
Secede - “Born In A Tropical Swamp”