ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patrick Wall is the man whose name you’d love to touch. But you mustn’t touch. People pay him to write things. KNEE MEETS JERK In Which a Beleaguered Music Journalist Attempts — and Fails — to Identify Ten Records Released Between December 2012 and December 2013 That Were Better Than All Other […]

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Robert Howell is a professor of philosophy at SMU. His latest book is called Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity and is available at Amazon. Now that you are good and intimidated, below are his thoughts on a few records from the past year. ——————————————— I seem to be the only person who doesn’t like […]

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Looking at this list, I clearly had a dark, introspective year. So, there’s that. –@kerryrm Still Corners – Strange Pleasures Continuing what they started on Creatures Of An Hour, Still Corners deliver more of the same ethereal dream pop that I can’t resist. Strange Pleasures is like the soundtrack to a long drive across a […]

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Come on, people. You know Fiona Apple is very sensitive. She does not have thick enough skin for heckling, especially when it’s about her appearance. I have to admit I thought something was amiss when I saw her last September. She looked way too gaunt, but I know better than to yell my thoughts at […]

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I’m unabashedly obsessed with this song- and the whole album for that matter. I’ve deliberately avoided the backstory on this girl, but it’s becoming increasingly more difficult now that she has the number one song in America and is cropping up on ubiquitious shows like this.

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This interview with My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields is worth a read even without the conspiracy theory that Britpop was pushed by the Labour Government in the mid-90’s (ha!). ‘But when it is jokingly suggested that, had Shields released m b v in 1994, as initially planned, he could have kiboshed Britpop, his mood changes. […]

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David Yow fronting Girls Against Boys covering Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” doesn’t really need an introduction, but Yow’s is funny nonetheless: “If you like boring? songs by bands from the 70s and 80s, you might like this song.”

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