This year’s drawn-out primary season might have you wrestling with election fatigue, but that’s no reason to neglect your duty to participate in Name of the Year‘s 2008 Tournament. The first round of voting is going on now. So let us forget momentarily Messrs. Obama, McCain, Paul, Huckabee, Nader and Mrs. Clinton. The time has […]

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I’m probably the last remaining carbon-based life form that has not heard a single note of Vampire Weekend’s newly released debut. Even this humble blog has been fairly resistant to the charms of this latest in a long succession of bands of the moment, so I feel like I’m among friends. As for the rest […]

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Anyone who’s ever written about music and is not employed by, say, Billboard or Rolling Stone can appreciate The A.V. Club’s priceless list of The Worst Band Names of 2007. There’s no telling what horrors lurk behind such hideous monikers as The Color Fred, Comanche Abortion, The Pleasures of Merely Circulating, Chevy Metal or Cobra […]

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Amazingly cynical site devoted to predicting the death of troubled, drug-addled crooner Amy Winehouse. Guess the correct time and date of death and the reward is an iPod Touch. A pre-condolence box is thoughtfully supplied, while the site itself is adorned with photographs of Ms. Winehouse looking less than pampered and ready to face the day. […]

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David Byrne goes to IKEA for the first time and makes a video game out of the experience. “Why does everything have weird names? Every container, shelf, cabinet or appliance had some odd name, as if people from Planet Sweden anthropomorphized these objects, naming each one they encountered as best they could”

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