Total Entertainment Forever

A few times in a lifetime (not once, but a few times) an artist comes along whose appearance feels like a significant turning point, the discovery an exclamation point on the timeline of our development. Sometimes an entire generation gets turnt after tuning in to …

Too Close

There’s a very mundane reason why I’m so fixated on a roster of music that came out in the mid-2010s. 2012 was the year I finally bought a car after several years of not owning one, and I drove around listening to the radio because. …

Tomorrow Never Came

Part of Lana Del Rey’s enduring appeal is that, without being too specific in her reference points, she manages to evoke vague memories of cultural moments past. The California of the 70’s is a particular favorite, as are 50’s torch songs, 60’s Europop and psychedelia, …

To Kingdom Come

I haven’t listened to Passion Pit in a little while. They kind of fell off in the past few years. But they absolutely ruled the early 2010s era of pop music. It was a crowded field for 80’s inflected synthpop, but there was something in …

Today (This Army’s For Peace)

After a brief interruption, we return to you from brand new headquarters. We may have changed locations but we’re back with the same regularly scheduled fandom content that all two of you constant readers have come to expect from us. One fandom I haven’t touched …

To Be Alone

Hozier’s first album is still one of the most phenomenal debuts to come along in recent memory. He absolutely blew it out of the water on every level. And people latched onto it because it offered something completely outside of everything that was going on …

‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore

In a brilliant coup of stage-management, David Bowie wrote an album about death and promoted it by dying. With characteristically impeccable timing, he dipped out at the precise moment before the anvil dropped. It was so shocking that nobody really spoke about the element of …

Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

It’s validating to see the growing consensus that The Moon & Antarctica is one of the greatest albums of the millennium so far, but I could have told you that years ago. Modest Modest provided a soundtrack for the post-millennial years that was very different …

Time to Pretend

There was a time, between 2007 and 2010, when MGMT was one of the most dominant pop groups. It was actually longer than that. That was just the span between their two most successful albums. Their influence mostly stems from the success of Oracular Spectacular, …

Time to Bounce

The exhortation to bounce is pretty irresistible. Tom Tom Club are the party band for only the most nice and wholesome parties. Parties which, as this song implies, include a bouncy castle. There can be no implications to the word bounce in this context except …