The Beatles: “Get Back” The Shins: “Half a Million” Wire: “Octopus” Beaches: “When You’re Gone” Rival Schools: “Choose Your Adventure” Sheer Mag: “Night Isn’t Bright” Weezer: “Thank God for Girls” The Interrupters: “Title Holder” The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: “Let Me Be” Tim Timebomb: “Ruby Soho” Skavoovie & The Epitones: “Phobus” Dave & Ansel Collins: “Double …
INXS: Kick For Kick we used the full fold-out album cover to get everybody (and the kids twice). Bad pun on the reverse side: “Need yule tonight.”
Rush: “Vital Signs” The Weakerthans: “Tournament of Hearts” The New Pornographers: “High Ticket Attractions” Sunny Day Real Estate: “Fool in the Photograph” Ted Leo: “Run to the City” Wire: “Short Elevated Period” Garbage: “Empty” Vanishing Life: “Big Other” Descendents: “Shameless Halo” The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: “1-2-8” Rancid: “Where I’m Going” The Shins: “Name for You” …
Blondie: Parallel Lines “Enjoy your holidays, one way or another.”
[Listen on Apple Music or Spotify.] Foster the People: “Are You What You Want to Be?” Aimee Mann: “That’s Just What You Are” Wire: “Still “ Pixies: “Baal’s Back” Bad Religion: “Turn On The Light” People Under The Stairs: “Back From The Dead” Eric B & Rakim: “Microphone Fiend” The Meters: “Live Wire” Julian Casablancas: …
The B-52s: Cosmic Thing “Make the whole shack shimmy this holiday season!” The reverse had photos from our trip to Italy captioned “Rome if you want to.”
I find flag design to be very interesting, and I’m constantly surprised to see how much bad flag design there is. I credit/blame the 99% Invisible podcast for giving me this appreciation. It started with the Vexillonaire episode. I learned so much from it — first of which is that vexillology is the scientific study of the history, …
[Listen on Apple Music or Spotify.] Wire: “In Manchester” Wavves: “Way Too Much” Sleeper Agent: “Force a Smile” Foster the People: “Ask Yourself” Beck: “Dreams” Simple Minds: “Ghostdancing” Electric Light Orchestra: “Mr. Blue Sky” De La Soul: “A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Saturdays’” The Chemical Brothers: “Go” People Under the Stairs: “Runaway (feat. Greg Nice)” …
We got a PlayStation 4 for Christmas last year and the quality of games didn’t disappoint (especially coming from a PS2 and Wii). Like anyone I have my favorite games, and if any gamer sees this list they’d probably say it’s the worst list of best games they’ve ever seen. And they’re probably right — there …
Mötley Crüe: Shout at the Devil