Today the road crew is doing something akin to massive fingernails across a chalkboard. They are driving steel plates over the road. Not by lifting them by a hook and carrying them. No, they have a bulldozer and they are pushing each one up the road. Right by my house. I have the TV on full blast, a...

Stream new Bob Mould, Dan Auerbach played the Current, Tapes 'n Tapes in DC & reactions to Brother Ali's new EP...

My post last week focused on some of the technology changes that I've been spearheading at Technorati but this time, I have a personal change to discuss. When I joined Technorati in 2004, the old world of the web was in shambles. The 1990's banner-ads-on-a-CPM-basis businesses were collapsed. The ed...

Just picked this up a couple or so weeks ago and have been enjoying the tunes included within courtesy of the Olympia, WA based band Sisters . Despite coming out through the Parts Unknown label late last year I haven’t seen a whole about this record, I guess maybe it’s a bit too much of a throwb...

Hilzoy finds that the Men Of The Mind are a puzzling lot… The unemployment numbers are dreadful. But for once, there’s a glimmer of hope on the horizon: conservatives are going Galt. "While they take to the streets politically, untold numbers of America’s wealth producers are g...

On a morning survey of the holdings in The Manhole, I actually have three Alkaline Trio albums, but truth be told, I can only recall ever listening to three songs. This is the one I've played air guitar to more often than not near the turn of the century, and the accompanying video proves shoestring...

In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

A lot of changes are afoot at Technorati. Over the last year or so, we've been looking inward at the infrastructure and asking ourselves, "How can we do this better?". The data spigot that Technorati builds on was the first thing to focus on, it's a critical part in one leg of the back-end infrastru...

Akisakila urges you to cease boycott of the infinarium. Recorded in absolute quarantine 2008. Once the sweat of Santana's grope is absorbed into the fetal lounge, the pyramirror emerges from the implicate order of deep palmistry. Maximal hash flow leaks a mutant Nugent pube. Counterfeit error of nam...

Mastodon, Lady Sovereign and Rancid announce TC dates, new Muja/Slug remix & Gospel Gossip record studio session...