This month, in honor of St. Hallmark’s Valentine’s day, it’s a special theme version of Musical Moments To Die For. Love songs! Nothing but love songs! Well, that’s not exactly right: not so much love songs, but songs about love, which is a totally different head. Totally. Ho...

In this week's top 12: A song that was thought to be lost to the demise of the VHS era, Justin Timberlake pouring out his heart, televised baseball signaling the possible thawing of the northeast, and Nick: The Twitter. 1. Finding the video for Juniper's "Making Gerard Smile" on YouTube after years ...

I hate going back to the 2008 well (especially after Skillz has wrapped everything up), but until 2009 coughs up some more news, this is what we're stuck with... looking back on 2008 and thinking about what music didn't live up to our possibly inflated expectations. Guardian blogger Tony Naylor's to...

Well, I suppose it is time for a Top 10–or 15–list, right? Let’s start with my Top 15 New York concerts from 2008. Of course, these are only culled from concerts that I attended so I’m sure everyone has their own list. Post yours in the comments! Runner-Up. Man Man and Yeasay...

it’s a process of elimination. never using two words when one will do. to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books. brevity, as dorothy parker said, is the soul of lingerie. parker that leftwing poet; that drunk wiseacre; that caustic blacklisted suicide. what can’t be said in thre...

You told me you loved me I know where and when Come sunrise, surprise, surprise, The joke's on me again I know you don't love me You know I don't care Keep it hidden better Did I say the world was fair? I thought I was just the guy for you and it would never end I thought we were s'posed to be like ...

By: David Schultz Just because Earvolution hasn't gotten around to writing about some of this year's notable releases doesn't mean we haven't been listening. The Black Crowes: Warpaint A fine comeback for the Robinson brothers, nonetheless Warpaint fails to recapture the genius of the Crowes’ earl...

The Magnetic Fields must really like Chicago, for over the course of the three nights, they played two shows a night--more than any other city on their tour. The last time the Fields played in Chi-Town was in 2004 in support of their record i. In January, they released Distortion, an affable album f...

Oh sweet merciful Christ and--oh wait, this is actually a really good compilation.  Can you believe it?  We couldn't at first, seeing as how covers most times make us cringe, but we've seen the light. Stephen Merritt would be so proud of all of the artists who've gone ahead and paid tribut...

Stephin Merritt reads fifth-grade fave Ethan Frome on his birthday every year, because "it expresses everything about how horrible New England is." And hey, at only 99 pages, you can read its entire "if you want more out of your horrible existence, you're pretty much screwed" tale and still have tim...