For our NY friends: Finals is organizing the lowest-stakes evening in the history of evenings, a chance to kick it in a cool space (Cafe Erzulie)...

Friend of the blog Vivian Medithi did us a real solid this year by interviewing Tomu DJ, which was a great conversation with a crucial artist.

One direction that's cool to take year-end lists is regionality. Not everyone can make lists like that, you have to have been actively paying attention. That's...

You read the New Yorker for Hua Hsu, you read P4k for Alphonse Pierre, and these days you read FADER for Brandon Callender. He's good money...

Major shouts to Aramis from Enumclaw for this best-of list, our fourth in a series following Katy Davidson's (Dear Nora), Hua Hsu's, and mine.