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For the past couple of months, I've been working pretty diligently on a freelance textbook project; this is the main reason I've been silent on this blog. I've been gathering some ideas for (hopefully) interesting posts, and soon I'll update....

A hundred seemed too many, but I couldn't limit myself to fifty. There's a darn good chance I'm totally forgetting some albums I've loved, and I probably haven't quite given enough listens to some of the better albums from last...

A hundred seemed too many, but I couldn't limit myself to fifty. There's a darn good chance I'm totally forgetting some albums I've loved, and I probably haven't quite given enough listens to some of the better albums from last...

Soon I'll be posting my "top 100 albums of the past decade," which I've been wasting tons of time making. In the meantime, I can't recommend the new albums by Beach House (Teen Dream) and Midlake (The Courage of Others)...

Every year I make a list of my "top 50 CDs." I spend a lot of time fretting over all the music I've bought and downloaded every January through December, and then send out the list to a few other...

Wow-- I've really and truly been the laziest person on earth when it comes to updating this blog and website. I suppose I've had pretty good reasons for the silence, though: for most of November, I was busy finishing a...

After posting about Neville Brody, I began thinking about other possible album cover designers to write about. Then last week, I finally Netflixed the DVD of CONTROL, Anton Corbijn's moving biopic about Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, and although I...

In the early eighties, I was into a lot of post-punk and early electronic bands whose album covers were designed by Neville Brody. Over the years, I've tried to follow Brody's career, mostly thanks to my designer friend Tony...

(I limited myself to movies released after 1968 or so. Maybe I'll compile an "earlier" list another time. And since I love it so much, I couldn't resist including the Australian poster for Mysterious Skin.) (Top to bottom, left to...

Lately I've been listening to a bunch of recent (and recent-ish) albums that owe various degrees of debt to 1970s sequencer-heavy disco, particularly some of the music and productions of the great Giorgio Moroder. Lindstrom; Spirit Catcher; Chromeo; The Emperor...