Oh Taylor Swift, you so crazy! ©

I can’t believe the first comment on my Hold Steady retrospective is about fucking Beach House

It’s okay Black Keys, if you’re lucky one day someone will regret inducting you into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists”

…yes it is, that’s literally the definition of rapist: one who rapes.

This band torpedoed themselves just as they were starting to gain traction. Unbelievable.

What this guy did is a criminal assault, but God, jumping on stage to take a selfie with the band in the background is one of the most obnoxious things I’ve ever heard of.

My pre-Premature Evaluation verdict from last night:

Snooze from the 6.

— Chris DeVille (@chrisdeville) April 29, 2016

Was hoping it would change today, but nah.

Word? I didn’t know DGiHAOTTWPoR8TUtaItHMoVMGDPLMitMotLRFTM had a new album coming this week. I know their reputation has taken a hit since their (underrated imho) self-titled sophomore album, but you’d think they’d still warrant a mention in “other albums of note.”

Sorry, I spelled “torrents” wrong.

I don’t really have a problem with these dudes as AOTW even tho my personal vote would’ve gone to dear god in heaven anything other that this wretched piece of recycled 80’s tripe up to and including the huge mass of vomit my great dane puppy left me in the middle of the living room floor this morning but I can see the logic in giving it to these guys as well.

You’re gonna hand Trump this election

HBO on Vinyl: “Scratch that”

This is the SimCity 5 of albums.

Nothing says “2016” like calling somebody “Current GOAT” and asking “running out of gas?” in a single three week period.

Pretty sure it’s just that this Macklemore song is so bad that it’s fucking up the internet.

“I have three pools.”

Greatest album name of the ever.

C’mon guys. The job of an attorney is to provide a defense for their client. Everyone deserves a fair trial, no matter how sure we are that they are guilty.

Hi guys, thanks for reading!

Just wanted to say a few things here at the top of the comments.

First off, I want to thank you all for the enthusiastic and thoughtful comments on this column week after week since it kicked off six weeks ago. I’m truly humbled by them.

Second, I’m not gonna do a column next week, so the next one might not be till the 26th, or even the first week of September. I’m not sure. I love writing this but it’s not possible to do it at the level I want to do it on a weekly basis, so I gotta pace myself a little bit. I apologize. It’s still a regular feature, just not a weekly one, which was never the intention in the first place. I just find a lot of stuff to write about every week, so I’ve been pushing myself to do a column every week. Maybe it’ll be every other week or something. I dunno. It’ll still be a lot.

Third, this is the second week in a row I went in a little bit on Apple Music, and I just want to clarify that it’s not intentional. This time, it was actually an accident. I started writing about something else, but kept finding myself saying, “But let me back up a step…” and by the time I finally got to where I needed to start, I was here. I don’t have anything against Apple; I have friends who work at Apple. They’re cool people and I never hear them complain about their jobs. Apple makes great products and they employ talented people. It can just be hard talking about the business of music without talking about Apple, because Apple is so involved in so many aspects of the business of music. But I’ve got plenty of problems with Samsung and Spotify and Youtube and the RIAA and the labels and everybody else, too. I also have a ton of respect for the people at those organizations, too.

I guess that’s it. Thanks again for reading. You guys are the best.

We’ve probably reached peak TIDAL.

An exclusive photo of some of the models getting ready back stage:

It’s like white America has just discovered Beyonce is black, and they’re really not happy about it.

IKEA generally likes its furniture to ship ready to assemble, without additional parts dribbling out over the course of three months after purchase.

I want to break an olympic record swimming away from this song

Just to chronicle this meteor plummeting down to earth:
“Future: Best Rapper Alive?” -Stereogum/Tom January 20, 2016
“Is Future Running Out of Gas?” – Stereogum/Tom February 10, 2016
“The Future Era Is Over” – Stereogum/Tom June 29, 2016

“Best Rapper Alive” to “Era Over” in just over 6 months.

we already knew he had a thing for assholes

Calling out the comment section!

The ass, not unlike the heart, knows what it wants Ye. No need for shame.

Pitchfork gave Lemonade an 8.5! (aka a woman’s 9.5)

i made that bitch famous.

This is definitely a woman who has said “ALL LIVES MATTERS” on many and multiple occasions.

pretty good band

Only if you stop trying to make The 1975 happen.

I’m sorry but this headline is fucked. Just because Marina is not part of the fucking hype train does not mean she is a “poor mans version” of anything. And this is comin from a fan of both of them.

The Loss of Patience

The War on Drugs can suck my fucking dick

Remember that that time Elvis Presley went to the White House and met with President Nixon about the national drug problem? Remember that time I said “Kanye has entered his Fat Elvis phase”. Remember me getting -24 for that?

Was she not entertained?

Try it

I miss the “available to buy” Kanye.

Do it

How screwed up do you have to be for Palin to come out as the rational adult in a feud?

Doris Montgomery

Surely everyone here in the comments will be happy about this choice and in complete agreement.

Don’t talk to me or my In Rainbows ever again

Tom’s sitting at his desk thinking of wild hyperboles for his premature evaluation like

I don’t know. Because David Bowie didn’t do a karaoke version of tame Impala on his album?

NERF SIDE LONG BEACH

JT has co-opted many aspects of Black culture over the years, but getting persecuted under some bullshit post-Voting Rights Act law is pretty much the clincher.