Jim O'Rourke
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Owl City has to talk about the Postal Service for at least three questions. Cue joke about Harry Potter's Owl Post.
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Rihanna, in a sobering and impressive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, steps up to the plate as a spokesperson against relationship violence. "Don't react off of love––eff love."
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U2 builds a new Berlin Wall so cheapskates can't watch their concert commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. This story was written to make my day.
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Ryan Dombal gets a lot of shout-outs from me, but here's another: his well-crafted review of Julian Casablancas' Phrazes for the Young on Pitchfork deconstructs the singer's Oscar Wilde-derived thesis and finds it wanting, not to mention a little sad.
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Counting down the 20 best Beatles covers and 20 worst Beatles covers.
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Jim O'Rourke lives in Tokyo? And other facts derived from his interview with the AV Club.
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The Guardian is rightly annoyed by how many ugly-ass album covers exist these days. Can someone invent a format of music that disables them?
