Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff. Makes sense: Those…   Read Story »

I read this New York Times piece about how we're frantically trying to find a pithy, reductive nickname for this decade that's closing. Some are proposing "The Noughties," others "The Naughties," so…   Read Story »

Every now and then some magazine or other sort of publication decides to trot out their "100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Of All Time." The last of note we wrote about was Blender (RIP, dudes) in 2007,…   Read Story »

Not everyone (anyone) agreed with VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. Let's see what happens when they talk about folks with guitars. Before we dig in, though, it's helpful to understand what they've…   Read Story »

100 songs clearly cover a number of bases. It's fun seeing bands like Sic Alps on here, though it's difficult to gauge what having the 90th best track of the year means. The songs in the upper decks…   Read Story »

Yesterday we gave you Rolling Stone's top 50 albums of '08. Here, they break it down to singles and expand the list to 100. This assures extra room for as many "feat. Lil Wayne"'s as possible. It…   Read Story »

It feels comprehensive, but there are plenty of gaps (it's a list). Still, it's interesting, mostly because for some of the folks listed other vocalists wrote the accompanying blurbs, offering…   Read Story »

VH1's at it again, asking readers of their .com to rank music for a televised special. The 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs series will run each night this week and, somehow, does not feature Asher Roth at…   Read Story »

Out Magazine asked the questions "What makes an album great? And perhaps even more critical for this list, what makes a great album gay?" and then got some help. As they note: To create our list of…   Read Story »

Ew is right. In celebration of issue 1,000, Entertainment Weekly put together a number of lists documenting so-called "New Classics" in movies, books, television, and, of course, music. There are…   Read Story »