mp3: listing ship – voice of the future
things have slowed down a bit here lately, mostly because i’ve been struggling to keep afloat in a sea of video games. i’ve recently picked up spore, tiger woods 2009, mega man 9 and no more heroes… all of which require a sizable time commitment (particularly spore!)… [...]

mp3: soltero – bottomfeeder
i picked up an algae eater last weekend, thinking my algae filled tank would be a pretty nice home for it. and it was, little cat stevens has had a great time sucking on every inch of the place just like i hoped. but what i didn’t know when i got it, [...]

mp3: pavement – blue hawaiian … [buy it]
pavement’s brighten the corners is the next in line for the deluxe reissue treatment and matador’s recently coughed up the details on the copious extras that will be tacked on to reissue. it should be no surprise now 4 albums in, but the amount of bonus [...]

mp3: the dead science – young eucharistsmp3: no kids – this regrettable endmp3: deerhoof – gut symmetries
i’m sure more than a few people were disappointed when parenthetical girls were forced to cancel their opening slot on several sunset rubdown tour dates last week, but i doubt any of you were more disappointed than parenthetical girls [...]

there’s been a lot of great live music in dc this month and it keeps on coming.
old, but still awesome, randy newman is at the strathmore tomorrow night, playing two 45 minute sets. only the cheap sets are left, and they’re nearly gone, so pick em up now if you want in. check out npr [...]

well, i still don’t know what the deal is in terms of my original question (update: yea i do = no go…).. but i do know the encore from that philly show was insane… 12+ minutes of car! with meat puppets and dean ween joining in / taking things over… crazy stuff. check it out [...]

mp3: meat puppets – split myself in two ….. [buy it]
built to spill will be playing perfect from now on in it’s entirety at the 9:30 club tomorrow night and ram’s head in baltimore on wednesday night. that’s cool and everything, but what i really want to know is what the opening act, meat [...]

mp3: the advantage – mega man 2 (flash man)
mega man 9 released for wiiware today (psn and xbox live will get the game later this week and next week respectively)! i know the game is likely to be insanely frustrating, but i can’t wait to download it anyway! the game’s design and difficulty level and [...]

i’ve finalized volume two of my top 100 albums list at last! check out the opening tracks of my top ten albums below and then check out the full list… plain text here… and/or a graphic version here (pdf, 3.8mb).

1) the natural bridge (1996) — [buy it]
mp3: silver jews – how [...]

hayden’s playing at jammin java in vienna tonight, check it out! his latest album in field & town is nearly as good as the last one and was just released on vinyl last week, though it’s only available in that format at a single record shop in toronto… maybe he’ll have a few with him?
also, [...]