1. my 10 best live shows of 2011.  →

  2. i saw deadmau5 the other night →

    also i should note that when people told me i should dress up like a super mario bros. character i thought they were being cheeky. as it turns out they were being thematically appropriate!

  3. i wrote a thing about yelawolf →

  4. "She makes the sort of uptempo UK pop that American radio programmers tend to chuck to the side in favor of more blatant appeals to audience's ears, although you might hear it while shopping in clothing stores that fancy themselves slightly ahead of the mall's dominant trends." →

    I saw Katy B last night. I love her. But I don’t know if she needed a full band?

  5. here is the thing i wrote about stevie nicks at jones beach →

  6. Critical bias: Jacob > [big gap] > Stefano > Naima > Haley > Casey > Paul Scotty > Lauren > Pia > James > Thia. (Sorry, Thia.) →

    BIAS CONFIRMED

  7. "This is a story about a boy," she said. "A guy I was going out with—and he was great, he really was . . . great in bed. Until one day, we ran into a little problem. I decided it was sexytime"—here, she grabbed her crotch—"and that I was gonna take him to the bone zone. But he wanted to talk! The fucker wanted to talk. So I did the only respectable thing; I got rid of him and wrote a song about it." →

    Ke$ha gives a lap dance.

  8. "In a way it felt like someone had taken loft parties and girl punk shows and curdled the resulting mix just enough, then exploded the whole thing into a spectacle that could nearly fill a mid-sized amphitheater. " →