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I got very lucky and my one Wednesday night off this semester (and one of my only week nights off period this semester) coincides (tonight) with the genius Laura Marling’s one trip to New York City on her fall tour for her fantastic new album, A Creature I Don’t Know. I am about to head out [...]
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Lady Gaga Caught In A Bad Romance With Satan
September 28th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I&ob=av3e For those of you who enjoy crazy religious conspiracy theories involving Satanism, the Illuminati, the Freemasons and Lady Gaga, get out your decoder rings because have I got a forward for you (sans the pictures that interspersed the crazy text):
Posted in Music, Music, Religulous, Religulous 
Tags: "Satanism", "Satanism" in Music, Bad Romance, Conspiracy Theories, Freemasons, Illuminati, Lady Gaga, Paranoid Delusions 
12 Comments »Like Revolution Itself In Musical Form
September 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Still the freshest music out there, now exactly 20 years after being first released—every time I hear the opening chords and first drum hits of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, it sounds to me like revolution in musical form: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&ob=av2e Your Thoughts?
Be Careful About Loving Women Too Much Lest Other Guys Think You’re Gay
September 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke When Pitchfork‘s Chris Dahlen wrote a tribute to Liz Phair’s landmark indie masterpiece Exile in Guyville as a review of its 15th anniversary rerelease in 2008, he led with this paragraph: You break all kinds of unwritten rules when you’re a guy who admires a girl. The white suburban kids who idolize gangster rappers are old [...]
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Feminism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Sex, Women's Issues Tags: Exile in Guyville, Land of Talk, Lisa Hannigan, Liz Phair, Pitchfork, Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent, Tegan and Sara 11 Comments »Laura Marling and St. Vincent Release Spectacular Albums Tomorrow (Tuesday 9/13/11)
September 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Seriously, two of the most gifted and groundbreaking women in pop music today are both releasing staggeringly good third albums of their careers. For the love of music stream Laura Marling’s A Creature I Don’t Know at the New York Times Magazine and St. Vincent’s Strange Mercy at NPR while you still can, if you doubt me. And/or support their amazing [...]
St. Vincent’s “Cruel”
September 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I cannot figure out what I love more, her brilliant music or her unique and remarkable theatrically controlled facial expressions. Her videos always mesmerize me, she’s positively electric on stage, and the songs get deep under the skin. She’s one of the best of our time. Support genius, pick up Strange Mercy. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos 1 Comment »Stream Laura Marling’s “A Creature I Don’t Know”
September 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Laura Marling’s debut album Alas I Cannot Swim, recorded when she was only 17, is a masterpiece which instantly made her my favorite female folk singer bar none. If Bob Dylan’s 1960s work did not exist she’d be my favorite folk singer, period. Her exceptional follow up I Speak Because I Canonly added textures and nuances to [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Music, Music Tags: A Creature I Don't Know, Laura Marling 2 Comments »Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing
April 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke My favorite new song of 2011 has a video (and it co-stars one of my three favorite contemporary Scandinavian actors, Stellan Skarsgård). It’s really well done: The whole terrific album on which this song appears can be found here. Your Thoughts?
Kanye West "Monster" Muppet Remix
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’ve been listening to Kanye West’s “Monster” pretty obsessively for the last couple months, but just watched the song’s listless official video for the first time and found it really disappointing. Then I discovered this perfect visualization of the song: The only thing downside of the video is they do not include Nicki Minaj’s full, [...]
Posted in Music, Music Tags: Animal, Bon Iver, Cookie Monster, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kermit the Frog, Monster, Muppets, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, The Count No Comments »In Honor of Trent Reznor's Academy Award Win
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke One of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs, “Only”, from the album With Teeth. Your Thoughts?
55 Years of Chart Topping Songs In 75 Minutes
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Click here for two compilations which include all the US chart topping songs spanning 1956-present in short clips so you can catch up on the last 55 years of mainstream pop music in just an hour and fifteen minutes. Your Thoughts?
Stream Lykke Li's New Album, Wounded Rhymes
February 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Lykke Li’s debut Youth Novels was one of my very favorite albums of the last few years. Her new one, Wounded Rhymes, drops next week. In the meantime, you can stream it here. A little bit of Lykke Li’s genius from the first album for the uninitiated: Your Thoughts?
Theophilus London And Sara Quin On David Letterman
February 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke In case you don’t know what Sara Quin’s twin sister Tegan looks like, here’s a heads up: that’s not her with Sara in the video below, Sara is branching out: Your Thoughts?
New Lykke Li Song "Love Out Of Lust"
February 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Good stuff: <a href="Wounded Rhymes, her new album, is out March 1. I can’t wait. Your Thoughts?
I Am Interviewed About My Personal (Atheistic) Religiosity/Spirituality
February 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Through Facebook, I was recently contacted by an old friend from high school (who was actually the first girl to go on a date with me). She is working on her Master’s in nursing and has an assignment which involves interviewing people about their views on religion and spirituality, for the purpose of thinking about approaches [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Music, Music, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, Religion, Secularism Tags: Eternal Recurrence, Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Stoicism No Comments »Daily Hilarity: 130 Bands In A Less Than 4 Minute Love Story
February 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Pretty amusing: Your Thoughts?
Valentine's Daily Hilarity: How To Write A Love Song
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s Valentine’s Day and if you’re a cheap bastard who has not yet figured out what to get your beloved for $0, there’s still time to write her a song following these familiar steps: The Axis of Awesome: How to Write a Love Song – watch more funny videos Thanks to @FunnyVideos on Twitter. Your [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Love, Love, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire, Videos 1 Comment »Decemberists Play R.E.M.'s "Cuyahoga"
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke And it really sounds as though it was written for them. Just listen. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews Tags: Cuyahoga, Decemberists, R.E.M. 1 Comment »"Who Could Heed The Words Of Charlie Darwin?"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Low Anthem’s sublime song and beautiful video for their song “Charlie Darwin”: I had the pleasure of seeing the Low Anthem a month ago at the Jazz Center at Lincoln Center. They played most of the songs from their new album, Smart Flesh (due out in ten days) and their first album,Oh My God [...]
Pearl Jam vs. Social Darwinism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A really well made music video for their otherwise mediocre song “Evolution”: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Evolution, Evolution, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Political Satire, Political Satire, Videos Tags: Animated Shorts, Animation, Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam's "Evolution" 1 Comment »The Nothing (Neverending Story + Radiohead's "How To Disappear")
February 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: The Neverending Story, The Nothing No Comments »Cat Faber's "The Words Of God"
February 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]
The Return Of Beavis And Butthead
February 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke MTV has announced that Beavis and Butthead is coming back with new episodes. Pitchfork has a list of some of their best musical criticism on this page (scroll down on that page a bit to find the full list, excerpted a bit below): “Uh oh…I think this is college music” (during the Flaming Lips’ “She [...]
I’m Seeing This Brilliant Guy Tonight
January 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sam Beam of Iron and Wine: For wider screen video, watch it here instead. Your Thoughts?
A Little Tegan & Sara And Tom Petty On My Birthday
January 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A couple of the songs that resonate most deeply: Your Thoughts?
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