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I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom , which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten...

I recently heard the following piped into a supermarket (no audio link because the song is really pretty terrible): Cause she's so hiii...

Look, I just have to put this out there after hearing this song piped into a few too many establishments this weekend. Adele's single ...

I'm just going to throw this out there for no good reason. It bugs me that the whole entire internet seems not to have identified the br...

Am I the meanest teacher? Maybe. I think I'm about to get a really terrible song stuck in my students' heads. But it's for Lear...

Just to be clear: Lady Gaga is about (primarily visual) spectacle, not about music per se. That's not to say that her spectacle is neces...

I've posted before on a general reluctance to sing, which is to say I'm aware of it. My theory is that people think there's a g...

That was the aforementioned unorthodox exercise. More anon.

I feel like my earlier reading of Cee Lo's "Fuck You" is very much backed up by the developmental narrative (from childhood t...

[Welcome, readers from 33 1/3 !] There are a lot of f-bombs in this post. Just saying. Puerility is a powerful mode for a number of the aut...

Apropos of yesterday's sequence of stills: I can't believe I still haven't posted on Janelle Monáe. I mean, she has a disc title...

Okay, does anyone not think this is a shout-out to Dreyer and Falconetti ?

Once again, I should reiterate that I don't play piano and never have. But at some point in high school I borrowed one of my mother'...

Kevin Dettmar recently asked his readers about their "guilty pleasures." He was talking about pop music, but sadly, I don't ...

Like many people, I had some formal musical training (violin) when I was pretty young and left off serious study about mid-college. I don...

Recently Hillary showed me this video of Feist singing “1, 2, 3, 4” for Sesame Street . I found the video very funny, and particularly enjoy...