As physical record sales reach their nadir, iTunes and other less ubiquitous music applications have to look warily over their collective shoulder at up-and-coming streaming services like Spotify, Grooveshark, and Pandora, which are slowly draining even digital record collections of their meaning. Meanwhile, of course, illegal downloading continues to do major damage to the music… Read More

Here in the second city things are gearing up for the Pitchfork Music Festival 2008. And while the six people currently crashing on my floor prepare for the likes of Public Enemy performing It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, I am preparing to write a 1200 word essay on representations of… Read More

so sure, now everyone in the world just loves Daft Punk right now. 2 years ago, however, with the release of 2005’s Human After All, everyone was a hater. just look at what pitchfork had to say in their record review: “Turns out Daft Punk are (mostly) human after all, because from a compositional standpoint,… Read More