Cursive Mama I'm Swollen CD (Saddle Creek) "While history repeats, the present won't repent" sings Tim Kasher on "In The Now," the opening track off Cursive's seventh full-length Mama I'm Swollen. So true. Here is history repeating itself with Kasher's cringe-worthy, emotive, confused, written-on-th...

Below is the sermon from this morning's worship service. How was it? Hmph, more like a hit off the handle that peaks over the third baseman's head rather than a solidly hit line drive up the middle. Odd how a sermon can seem pretty good on a Thursday but so good on a Sunday. The Day Togethertext: â€...

“…the Gospel is like a 4 D-cell maglite, it gives off bright light but you can also beat people over the head with it.” http://is.gd/lMza # I was upset that columnist Pitts seemed ignorant of the earlier #columbusdispatch article on Twitter… http://is.gd/lMU8 # …but the...

Neko Case Middle Cyclone CD (Anti-) Headline: Sword-wielding Redhead Disrupts Traffic, Idle Drivers Everywhere Fall in Love Harmonic 313 When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence CD/LP (WARP) Headline: Record Industry Alarmed By Results That Robots Could Make Better Music Than Humans The Monks Early Y...

image c/o nickydigital.com (hat tip, Krista) First the keffiyah, and now this. Perky homemaker Rachel Ray, best known for annoying millions with her quasi-robotic joie de vivre on Everyday with Rachel Ray, is throwing what may be the coolest......

Former security chief warns searching personal data will 'break moral rules' Privacy rights of innocent people will have to be sacrificed to give the security services access to a sweeping range of personal data, one of the architects of the government's national security strategy has warned. Sir Da...

This week is one hand-packed snowball to the chest compared to the avalanche of releases that plowed us over last week. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand CD (Vice) These Atlanta psychedelic garage punks have played their guitars with their dicks, pissed in each others mouths, and puked on Kelly O. R...

I love this day, Fat Tuesday, primarily because I never knew of it while growing up.  I love getting dressed up in my designated "Mardi Gras" pants, acting like a goofball at church, and eating as much junk as possible.  My Lenten practice this year: to finally pray through the book of Psalms.   ...

Just had to throw a photo of this in there. This is my college roommate of 3 years wearing a GXC shirt that on the back reads "Streaking our way across the US" because the men's and women's Geneseo XC programs often made it to Nationals and they had a tradition of streaking in the new states trying ...

Giddy up, New Music Wranglers. Here's a quick round-up of the highlights being released today, Tuesday, February 17. Beirut - March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland Double EP/2x12" (Ba Da Bing/Pompeii) Beirut's Zach Condon went to Eastern Europe for the Gulag Orkestar and the French countryside...