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A reason to go to Starbucks

by Andrew Hibbard on January 23, 2009

(Via You Ain’t No Picasso) I hate Starbucks coffee. It’s nothing about the store–I kind of love the idea of it–it’s just the coffee. I think it’s weak and not worth my–what is it now–$5. Don’t get me started on their frapachaccis. But I kind of want to go to the ultimate corporate coffeeshop Jan. [...]

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Top 10 of 2008: By the Numbers

by Andrew Hibbard on December 15, 2008

A whole 17 days before the year ends, we did it. We summarized the best our favorite music of 2008 on our humble blog, and its name was Justin Vernon. The Jagjaguwar re-release of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, our favorite album of the year, made it into six of our nine lists, all [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 6)

by Nate Freeman on December 5, 2008

10. Girl Talk. “Play Your Part (Part 1).” Any track off Feed the Animals—the unquestionable album of the summer—could have made this list. Dr. Gillis gets by with a little help from his friends Lil’ Wayne and Sinead O’Connor, a combination that makes for one of the best Girl Talk moments since Biggie rapped about [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 3)

by Andrew Hibbard on November 30, 2008

Yoni Wolf of WHY? Courtesy hiphopcore.net       

While I regret not listening to Silver Jews’ Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, Department of Eagle’s In Ear Park, Air France’s No Way Down EP, Portishead’s Third, Neil Halstead’s Oh! Mighty Engine, No Age’s Nouns, Atlas Sound’s Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, Dosh’s Wolves [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 2)

by Jessie Tang on November 27, 2008

For the first of the Top 10 Tracks of 2008 series, click here.
10. Estelle featuring Kanye West. “American Boy.” Dare I post this too? Rightly so. Estelle’s social commentary of the male specimen in the U.S.A. is definitely worth a shout out (i.e. our boys are 5’7” and wear baggy jeans, but apparently they pack [...]

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