/ jan 2010

1. 01.05.2010 | 4:23 AM EST

   Top 30 Studio Drum Sounds Ever Not talking strictly performance or technical prowess. It’s the texture, man. In no particular order: John Lennon: Watching The Wheels Spoon: All the Pretty Girls Go to the City Dusty Springfiel...

/ dec 2009

1. 12.23.2009 | 4:23 EST

   Ancestor of Oughts:
   Best (old) Music of the Decade Everybody’s got ‘em, present company obviously included. Lists and lists of the best of this and that to help mark the passing of another 10 crazy years. But the Ought’s ancestors ca...

2. 12.21.2009 | 4:23 AM EST

   Best of the Decade: Music This is not Pitchfork. (Ok, obviously not, but stay with me). It’s a grand organization, to be sure. Those talented young boys from Chicago have given me much to love, laugh and barf about. The...

3. 12.20.2009 | 4:23 AM EST

   Best of the Decade: Books Ok, so this is not a list of the best books published in the past decade… simply those I happened to read and enjoy most between 2000-2009. Not too many big surprises here for many of you, but ...

4. 12.19.2009 | 4:23 AM EST

   Best of the Decade: Films I can’t pretend that this is some erudite, New Yorker-style list of the decade’s very best films. Far from it. This is simply a list of the movies I most enjoyed this past decade. Some tr...