50 Things That Just Never Seem to End
Whether for our benefit or our demise, these 50 things somehow just keep going. So without further ado…
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A Data Analysis of 100 Fruit-Named Bands
I was at Love Not Money, my friend's record store in New York City, when I discovered The Moldy Peaches and had a resulting epiphany: every fruit-named band I had listened to up till then made fantastic music. The Smashing Pumpkins, Strawberry Switchblade, The Cranberries… the list goes
Why America Is So Good at Trash Culture
The Priceless Lessons of a "Worthless" Album
Music has a funny way of showing its age. A doo-wop song with multiple vocalists singing into the same microphone? Definitely from the '50s. A pop song with a gated reverb on a drum machine's snare hit? Totally '80s. But what artifacts showcase the age of
Capitalist Culture and Coffee Criticisms via the Lens of an Ex-Starbucks Barista, Part 2
The interview below is part two of a conversation with my friend, ex-Starbucks barista Elizabeth Dalhou. (Check out part one if you haven't already!) So the restaurant business is known to have a lot of… or is a great source for gross stories. Yeah. So I'm