Flashing Lights

My favorite bloggist of the moment completes his epic 2K0 roundup of the The Most Authentic/Relevant/Successful Artists of the Decade (The Best Albums/MP3s/Songs/Artists/Bands/Humans of the Decade). The winner? John Mayer. A result that actually makes some sense once you’ve waded through Carles’s unorthodox tiers of relevance and sussed out his bizarre methodology. Whatever that [...]

The Ballad of Kanye Worst or Why MTV Doesn’t Care About Black People

The celebrity universe is one filled with mammoth egos so utterly disproportionate to the wade pool of talent from which they all must so starvingly draw. Trying to grasp the scope of emptiness in the upper echelons of fame would be an exercise in futility, likened to understanding what a beach is by counting [...]