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"RECENTLY"

• ****** **: Why bands give themselves unprintable names
(Slate)
• Gospel of Wealth: Ethan Canin's America America
(New York Sun)
• Party Titans, Updating Disco's Sound: Hercules and Love Affair
(New York Times)
• All My Friends...: Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men
(New York Sun)
• Republic of Feathers: Jonathan Rosen's The Life of the Skies
(New York Sun)
• Under Suspicion: Susan Choi's Person of Interest
(New York Sun)
• The Emigrant: Bernhard Schlink's Homecoming
(New York Sun)
• Passage From India: G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr
(New York Sun)
• The Past is Another Country: Ha Jin's A Free Life
(New York Sun)
• The Interminable Present: Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief
(New York Sun)
• Fighting Words (and Pictures): Donald Dewey's Art of Ill Will--The Story of American Political Cartoons"
(New York Sun)
• Electronica: The Sequel
(Slate)
• "Sure it Sounds Old School, but When Were They in Class?"
(New York Times)
• When We're Sixty-Four: "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem
(Slate)
• Where's the Beef? Hip-Hop in the Age of YouTube
(Slate)
• Give It Up and Turn it Loose: JB and J Dilla
(Stop Smiling)
• File Under Other: Zines in the Libraries
(Boston Globe Ideas section)
• The Workmanlike Charm of Devin the Dude
(Slate)
• Jay-Z, Kingdom Come
(Blender)
• Seeing Red: Grass-roots Democracy in Taiwan
(Slate)
• International Hustler: Jay-Z in Taiwan
(LA Times)
• Method Man: Greil Marcus' Shape of Things to Come
(Village Voice)
• A Band Apart: Outkast's Swan Song
(Slate)
• Nowhere Man: Nell Freudenberger's The Dissident
(Village Voice)
• Alas, Poor Yorke: Thom Yorke's Solo Debut
(Slate)
• Mixing Desk: "Dear Summer"
(Slate)
• Nostalgic for Nothing: The Unstoppable Sonic Youth
(Slate)
• Better Than Prozac: Listening to New Order
(Slate)
• Wang is Missing: The Early Promise of Wayne Wang
(Slate)
• This Week's Challengers: The Arctic Monkeys
(Boston Globe)
• After the Snow: Crack, Rap and 2005
(Village Voice)
• Notes on 'Humps'
(Slate)
• In the American Grain: Neil Young's Legendary Inconsistencies
(Slate)
• Michael Jackson to the Rescue: Pop Music and Katrina
(Slate)
• Mixing Desk: "Mooooooog!"
(Slate)
• Hip-Hop's Hamlet: Kanye West's Fascinating Contradictions
(Slate)
• Gotcha! The Pleasures of Literary Hoaxing
(Boston Globe Ideas section)
• The Insanity Plea: R. Kelly's Amazing Comeback
(Slate)
• Look Back in Anger: Britpop and Tony Blair
(Village Voice)
• Mixing Desk: "Summer Songs"
(Slate)
• Melancholy Arena Rock: Why is Coldplay still depressed?
(Slate)
• Teenage fan club: The Cult of Sloan
(Boston Phoenix)
• Jeff Chang - Can't Stop, Won't Stop
(Boston Phoenix)
• Three Songs From the End of History
(The Believer)
• Penny Von Eschen - Satchmo Blows Up the World
(The Wire)
• Mixing Desk: "One-Man (and Woman) Bands"
(Slate)
• M.F. Doom: Mask of Sorrow
(The Wire)
• Mixing Desk: "Aging Indie Rockers"
(Slate)
• Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions: 16 Years Later
(Boston Globe)
• Jennifer Gentle - Valende
(Boston Globe)
• John Legend - Get Lifted
(Village Voice)
• Essay: Vote or Lie
(Village Voice)
• Second Time Around: Can reissues
(SF Bay Guardian)
• Mixing Desk: "Judging Songs by Their Covers
(Slate)
• McKenzie Wark - Hacker Manifesto
(Village Voice)
• Mixing Desk: "Live Albums That Don't Suck"
(Slate)
• Tupac - Tupac Live
• (Village Voice)
• Freestyle: Art of Rhyme
• (Village Voice)
• Various - Crunk Classics
• (Seattle Weekly)
• Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
• (Slate)
• Mixing Desk: "Have Music, Will Travel"
• (Slate)
• Mixing Desk: "Second Fiddles"
• (Slate)
• Ellay Khule vs. Rifleman
• (Village Voice)
• N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die
• (Slate)





"UNPACKING MY LIBRARY"

• Fun Home
  The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
  The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
  John Henry Days
  The Things They Carried
  
  
  

  "I'M JUST BUMPIN' MY MUSIC"

  2007
• LCD Soundsystem, "All My Friends"
• M.I.A., "Paper Planes"
• John Cale, "All My Friends"
• Devin the Dude feat Andre 3000, Snoop, "What A Job"
• Shackleton, "Blood On My Hands (R. Villalobos Apocaylpso Now remix)"
• M.I.A., Kala
• Animal Collective, "Fireworks"
• Panda Bear, Person Pitch
• 50 Cent, "I Get Money"
• The Arcade Fire, "Intervention"
• Lil Wayne, "Upgrade U (freestyle)"
• No Age, Weirdo Rippers
• Kathy Diamond, Miss Diamond to You
• Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana, "Black Republicans (freestyle)"
• Radiohead, In Rainbows
• Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals
• Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
• DJ Ivory, Hear No Evil 3
• Gucci Mane, "Bird Flu"
• Turf Talk and E-40, "Fresh is the Word"
• 7L and the RaZor, Bladerunners
• DJ Dixon, Body Language Vol. 4
• Deerhunter, Flourescent Grey EP
• The Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
• Juelz Santana, "Second Coming"
• Neil Young, Live at Massey Hall 1971
• Lil Wayne, "It's Me Bitches (remix)"
• Bob & Gene, If This World Were Mine
• Panda Bear, "Bros"
• Justice, "D.A.N.C.E."
• Prodigy, Return of the Mac
• VA, Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation
• J. Period, Best of the Roots
• The Veils, Nox Vomica
• Animal Collective, "People"
• LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
• Cormega, "Changin'"
• Radioclit, "On Everything"
• Raekwon, "My Corner"
• Smif-N-Wessun, "Like a Champion"
• Caetano Veloso, Ce
• Lavender Diamond, "Rise in the Springtime"
• Black Milk, Popular Demand
• El-P, I'll Sleep When You're Dead
• RJD2, Third Hand
• Apostle of Hustle, "Chances Are"
• Elvis Perkins, "All the Night..."
• 2006
• T.I. :: "What You Know"
• DJ Shadow feat. Droop-E, Keak Da Sneak, Turf Talk and Mistah F.A.B. :: "4 Freaks"
• Lil Wayne :: "Dough is What I Got"
• Cat Power :: "The Greatest"
• Love is All :: Nine Times the Same Song
• Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators :: Keep Reachin Up
• The Clipse :: Hell Hath No Fury
• Arctic Monkeys :: Whatever People Say...
• J Dilla :: Donuts
• Outkast f/ Lil Wayne, Snoop :: "Hollywood Divorce"
• Justin Timberlake f/ T.I. :: "My Love"
• Sonic Youth :: Rather Ripped
• Young Jeezy :: The Inspiration
• Arctic Monkeys :: "Leave Before the Lights Come On"
• Cat Power :: The Greatest
• Sloan :: Never Hear the End of It
• Five Corners Quintet :: Chasin the Jazz Gone By
• Booka Shade :: Movements
• Junior Boys :: "In the Morning"
• TV on the Radio :: Return to Cookie Mountain
• T.I. :: "Why You Wanna"
• Young Jeezy :: "3 A.M."
• Lil Wayne and DJ Drama :: Dedication 2
• T.I. :: King
• El Michels and Raekwon :: "The PJs" (remix)
• Ray Cash :: "Bumpin My Music"
• Jim Jones :: "We Fly High" video
• The Pack :: "Vans"
• Ghostface :: Fishscale
• Ne-Yo :: "So Sick"
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy :: "Love Comes to Me"
• MSTRKRFT :: "Work On You"
• Matt Africa & B. Cause :: Soul Boulders
• Lil Scrappy :: "I'm Back"
• Jay-Z :: "Kingdom Come"
• Comets on Fire :: Avatar
• Camera Obscura :: Lets' Get Out of This Country
• Lloyd f/ Andre 3000, Nas :: "You"
• Juelz Santana and Lil Wayne :: "Blow"
• Lil Scrappy f/ Young Buck :: "Money in the Bank"
• Too $hort f/ Snoop :: "Keep Bouncin"
• Feist :: Open Season
• Chairman Mao :: Run for Cover
• E-40 :: "Yay Area"
• Darondo :: Let My People Go
• Bloc Party :: "Two More Years"
• Various Artists :: The Hacienda Classics
• B.G. :: "Real Ni99a"
• Cassie :: "Me & U"
• Belle and Sebastian :: "Act of the Apostle I"
• The Game :: "Wouldn't Get Far"
• DJ Khaled, Freeway and the Clipse :: "Where You At"
• Juvenile :: "Get Ya Hustle On"
• Band of Horses :: "The First Song"
• Scanners :: "Lowlife"
• Broadcast :: The Future Crayon
• Joe Budden :: "New Jerz Shit"
• Tapes N Tapes :: The Loon
• Britney Spears :: DFA demo
• Destroyer :: Destroyer's Rubies
• Juelz Santana :: "Did You Miss Me? (Part 2)"
• Kanye West :: "Impossible"
• Outkast :: "Life is Like a Musical"
• The Rakes :: Capture/Release





"PICTURE ME SCROLLIN'"

• Alex Pasternack
• Catchdubs
• Chris Ryan
• Cocaine Blunts
• Devin McKinney
• "Don Rodriguez"
• Douglas Wolk
• Ed Park
• Eddy Zheng
• Gerald Cosloy
• Jeff Chang
• Jeff Johnson
• Jessica Hopper
• Jon Caramanica
• Julianne Shepherd
• martin deleon ii
• Michaelangelo Matos
• Nick Sylvester
• Oliver Wang
• Philip Sherburne
• Sasha Frere-Jones
• Sean Fennessy
• Thomas Bartlett
• Unami Mart
• W. Roque Strew
• Yancey Strickler
• Yoko Kumano
  
  
  

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