For the second year in a row I've decided to sit down and share with you my favorite music videos of the last 365 days. 2012 turned out to be an amazingly fantastic year for new music, as evidence by the fact that the initial list I came up with for this project had well over 50 songs on it. Ideally I'd want this to be a Top Ten list, but I when ( Read more... )

Speaking of M.I.A, she also came out with a new music video the same day as Madonna, even though the song isn't brand new--it was first heard on her VickiLeekx mixtape. And while I think it was a poor PR move on her part to flip off the entire Super Bowl audience, personally I was fine with it. I mean, as this song clearly points out, she is a ( Read more... )

I probably should have posted this video last week before the Super Bowl when I wanted to (but was too lazy to) to provide a little context for Madonna's Super Bowl performance, but at least M.I.A.'s odd choice of flipping off the entire world gives me a second chance to post this video on the blog with some sort of relevance. I quite like ( Read more... )

I was never really a big fan of Vampire Weekend's first album. To me it was kind of like the Little Miss Sunshine of the indie music world: cute, endearing, and fun but lacking a whole lot of substance and not nearly as good as everyone made it out to be. For me the only real reason you would ever listen to it over and over again was if you were ( Read more... )

If you haven't already gotten M.I.A.'s new album, Kala, you should, because it is probably the best album that's come out so far this year. If you have heard the album you are probably familiar with my favorite track on it, Jimmy. Turns out this was actually a remake of a Bollywood song from the film Disco Dancer. Of course, I have a video for ( Read more... )