Graph Search and Destroy

Nothing makes me feel fortunate to be a doddering old fart like Facebook.

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Soy Bomb Reviews Aubrey Plaza’s Stage Crash

omething very wrong happened on Sunday night during the MTV Movie Awards.

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Decoding Mamet’s ‘Phil Spector’ Through a Lil Wayne/Strokes Lens

Ihis past weekend was the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd‘s Dark Side of the Moon. Remember Dark Side of the Moon?

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Three Reasons I’m Actually a Little Sad I Missed SXSW

I wasn’t at SXSW this year. And I’m pretty happy about that decision.

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How Some Hate Mail Led Me Down the Socialist Musician Wormhole

A few weeks ago, I received an incredible piece of hate mail.

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Does “Best Recording Package” Celebrate Music’s True Outsider Artists?

“I think music can only exist if it has visual support,” Mathias Augustyniak told me.

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An Exclusive Interview With David Bowie(s)

Seven David Bowie impersonators. That seems like exactly enough. Six David Bowie impersonators would be too few. Eight would be way too many. But seven, that’s the perfect number of David Bowie impersonators.

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I Was (Almost) a Middle-Aged Strip Club DJ

It’s close to 1AM on a recent Saturday morning and I hear myself saying “It’s cold outside but it’s warm in here,” in my smarmiest baritone strip club DJ voice. “And I mean warm in all the right places.”

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Purely Hypothetical New Year’s Resolution’s For Today’s Pop Stars

“I have this goal that I want to do,” Tim DeLaughter tells me. “I want to build the world’s largest band.”

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A Super High Maintenance Analysis of “Silent Night”

I own Rod Stewart’s new album, Merry Christmas, Bab. Even more embarrassingly, I paid for it. With money. And now I own it.

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