FYI to those navigating to my dedicated LiveJournal page: As of August 2006, I have moved my full-length music-related blog posts off my LJ and onto a dedicated blog, MolanphyPop.

My LiveJournal, molanphy, continues as a going concern for smaller, hopefully more freqeunt items, not all of which will be music-related. I will generally continue to keep ( Read more... )

I'm posting this to LiveJournal, rather than bradamant, because I think it might be unseemly for her to boast in this way. But she deserves a major victory lap ( Read more... )

Here’s the rundown of the songs on the 2009 Summer mix, from indie-rock to kings of pop.

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Hey LJ peeps:
Fulfilling a longtime request by bradamant, who made the inarguable point that it was a bad idea to maintain a LiveJournal under our mutual last name, I have reinvented my LJ identity. I am now dennis_obell.

Dennis O'Bell, for those who are curious, is a fictional character named in an obscure 1970 Beatles B-sideIt's a pseudonym I first adopted 18 years ( Read more... )

This week, the Village Voice released its annual Pazz and Jop poll of rock critics nationwide. I am back in the poll, after skipping it for two years in favor of the Idolator Pop Poll, which no longer exists (budget cuts, man; I'm just thankful Idolator itself, and my column there, still exist ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I have been invited back on WNYC radio's Soundcheck with John Schaefer to discuss 2008's top singles and albums. Year-end segments are always fun, and I'm looking forward to a wide-ranging discussion ( Read more... )

I was going to send this just to bradamant, but since everyone's complaining lately of a dearth of LJ posts, I figured I'd throw it up here. (Sorry, online_stalker, but this subject might not interest you.)

Anyway, the news from New York City authorities is that bridge and tunnel traffic is down across the board. Here's the part that interests me:

“Less Manhattan ( Read more... )

Four years ago today, I was lucky enough to tie the knot with a lovely-and-brilliant Pennsylvanian in her home burgh. She doesn't seem to have changed her mind about the whole thing, amazingly ( Read more... )

Posting live from Croatia, from an Istrian hill town called Motovun...remember I said bradamant and I would be "off the grid" for two weeks? Think again:

I am going to be interviewed live on the radio this afternoon (Thursday, 14 August), on WNYC's Soundcheck with John Schaefer. They will be calling me from New York, and I´ll be talking from Croatia. The ( Read more... )