Album Review

Offend Maggie by Deerhoof

By Lauren Maas
October 10th, 2008

After my first two days with Offend Maggie, I decided that I had made a monster mistake. Not only did I not get Deerhoof, I had no desire to get Deerhoof. I flipped from song to song, frantically attempting to find my way, to understand why I was so lost in their music.

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Song List

We Burnt These Cities With Rock and Roll: 10 Great Songs about City Destruction

By Lauren Maas
October 3rd, 2008

Here’s a list of what happens when rock takes aim at your favorite town.

“London Calling” by The Clash

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City Destroyed: London, England
Method of Destruction: Environmental–predictions of impending ice age, floods, nuclear error, etc–all triggered by underground punk rock movement. Without question, the seminal song of a city on the [...]

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Album Review

Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis

By Lauren Maas
October 1st, 2008

There was a time in my life where Jenny Lewis could do no wrong. I was a late passenger on the Rilo Kiley train, getting on board for their fourth album, More Adventurous. But with that album I found kindred spirits in Lewis’s plucky lyrics and the band’s insanely catchy hooks, and soon [...]

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Ironic Jukebox

Daddy’s Dance Party: The Early Years

By Lauren Maas
September 22nd, 2008

This post is a hard one for me to begin because its subject represents the springboard of my musical education and the genesis of all my amazing dance moves. Its subject has also gained the status of a minor legend amongst my friends because I’ve reminisced about it so frequently and with great detail, [...]

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My Ukulele: R.I.P. Far Away From Me, Tiny Tim

By Lauren Maas
September 12th, 2008

Much to my surprise, over the last year or so, I have begun a tiny museum of odd instruments in my house. I think this is because at certain moments at family meals, after having a certain amount of wine, I say things like “I wish I had an accordion…”

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Song Review

Never Will Say Goodbye…nono-nonono

By Lauren Maas
September 3rd, 2008

I’ve decided that the song of my summer, through my own repeat play on my iPod and through its random play on radios and loudspeakers in unexpected venues (waterpark, baseball diamond, restaurants, etc), is Jackson 5’s “Never Can Say Goodbye.”

Listen to “Never Can Say Goodbye”

I will first preface my recent experience with this song by [...]

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The Good, The Bad…The Queen

By Lauren Maas
August 20th, 2008

For posterity’s sake, I’m going to discuss my mother’s unnatural obsession with Queen Latifah, and then let the matter lie, so that the phrase “My mother loves Queen Latifah more than she loves me,” will never again escape from my lips because I am now settled in knowing it’s true, that she does love Queen [...]

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