Tag Archives: Devo

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 4 — Baby Ruth®?

Yes, that is Chunk–the pudgy, habitually dishonest, ice-cream-obsessed kid from the 1980’s flick The Goonies–doing his “truffle shuffle” at the top of this page. And that can only mean one thing…that in today’s post I’m putting Blogarhythms on “shuffle” once again! Named after a song by postpunkelectrogoths New Order, the Paris-based Thieves Like Us are […]

Count Me In for the Night

If the “great outdoors” is my “cathedral” than I suppose the discotheque is my altar. Seriously, I’ve had numerous “religious experiences” during my lifetime and nightclubs are the most frequent locations in which they’ve occured. Before you ask, no I wasn’t drunk or on drugs, so these bursts of seemingly supernatural energy weren’t the byproduct […]

Happiness Is a Warm 4-Track

My desk is literally overflowing with music at the moment. So much so that (other than listen to it) I don’t even know what to do with all of it half the time. There are piles of CDs all around my terrestrial desk and just as many recently un-compressed folders full of MP3s that need […]

Short Piers and Space Travelers

Last week one of my absolute favorite bands in the world — Athens, Georgia-based Indie-Pop sextet of Montreal — released “Id Engager,” the first single from their forthcoming ninth full-length album Skeletal Lamping. That album, which doesn’t hit stores until October 7th, is one of, if not the most anticipated release of the year […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]