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The tireless left-leaning reporters over at The Huffington Post picked up a story from the Associated Press wire listing songs played at Guantanamo Bay to help wear down detainees. While acknowledging the power of pop music, the article is also terrifying for revealing the sordid ends that power can be applied towards.
While the AP list [...]

Some time ago (last week) we foreshadowed an impending animated music video listicle, only to find that someone else had sort of beat us to it. Fortunately, fasthack’s Top 11 Most Excellent Animated Music Videos is far from perfect (though two of their entries figure here) and includes some mostly-live action entries, like Blur’s brilliant [...]

The cinephiles at one of our favorite movie blogs, Future of Classic, bring us a helpful list on the occasion of the recent release of Cadillac Records (the movie about blues label Chess Records), which covers an oft-overlooked period in the early development of rock in Chicago.
Too short to be impervious to criticisms, their 5 [...]

In this first installment of our weekly psychoanalysticle series Freudian Fridays, we take a look at one of Western civilization’s most powerful myths and Sigmund Freud’s favorite bedtime story: Oedipus Rex.
For the unfamiliar, those who didn’t see it reenacted by Julianne Moore earlier this year in Savage Grace, and anybody else really, please refresh your [...]

And so it begins, the tidal wave of year-end lists approaches, and for Listicles’ first observance of this seasonal web-data migration we look at a list of the Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 from those totemic (sometimes tyrannical) arbiters of indie-alternative musical taste, Pitchfork.
Fittingly, they pick a mix of indie, dance and semi-mainstream fare [...]

With last’s night’s announcement of this year’s Grammy nominees (which is really just an encyclopedic list of music industry goings on), there are some surprise names to be found, and others strangely absent. On the one hand, the big award nominees make for a compelling Radiohead-Coldplay art rock showdown to be played out on Grammy [...]

Some time ago (two weeks, or 10 list-years) we posted a humble list of 5 great black and white music videos. Subsequently, we (I) have discovered that there are many more than we originally thought, several of which deserve to be memorialized in a list. So behold, Listicles’ second list of 5 Great Black and [...]

At a pop music moment when genre mash-ups like Girl Talk, M.I.A., Gnarls Barkley, and Kanye West’s new album 808s and Heartbreak abound, categories like rap, soul/r&b, rock/pop, etc. may have finally exhausted their use. Molly Lambert of This Recording, that tireless ethnographer of online music culture, offers a list of obscure genres to revitalize [...]