The Wailing Wall gives us Dude Summer pt. 2 The good feelings of '09 are back. #Slack Mofo

Watch Soft Black, possibly stoned A bunch of dudes hanging out in the forest. #Slack Mofo

Talking with Miss Alex White Talking to the Chicago garage girl about White Mystery, the Red Lights, and everything in between. #Slack Mofo

Disappears and that beautiful Chicago sound Their debut record is about to come out on Kranky, and I'm saying we bump to the top of the "best of Chicago" list for two reasons. #Slack Mofo

Golden Triangle takes me to the movies Pairing the new album with the perfect scenes from Heathers, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, and beyond. #Slack Mofo

Micro review: Tindersticks, Falling Down a Mountain A few thoughts on Tindersticks' latest album. #Slack Mofo

You don't know bubu music Please feel free to send me an e-mail if you seriously think you can party like Janka. #Slack Mofo

Parenthetical Girls, this might be love If ever anybody deserved the phrase "beautiful, damaged pop" tagged on their press release, you deserve it, Parenthetical Girls. #Slack Mofo

Sex, drugs, and Nones Like The Pagans or a Killed by Death band smoking hash with Hawkwind. #Slack Mofo

Former U.S. Maple bro continues to fuck with minds When I saw this video of  D. Rider, I got to thinking that there are a lot of people who were not lucky enough to get hip to U.S. Maple in their ... #Slack Mofo

Jay Reatard, 1980-2010 Let it be known, that those of you who longed for a return to the way rock n' roll "used to be," Jay Reatard was more than a beacon of light, he was a comet in the dark sky. #Slack Mofo

I saw Lights And Lights were good. #Slack Mofo

Michael Yonkers: Dark 60's psych god Is it possible that while creating the songs that would make up the album Microminature Love,Michael Yonkers had prophetic visions of the Dead Kennedy... #Slack Mofo

NY beware: Wooden Shjips invasion imminent When you wake up free of the shackles of 2009 on January 1, remember onething: Dos by Wooden Shjips was one of the three best records of theprevious 3... #Slack Mofo

Dear Mt. Goat, Where's my fucking metal album? Dear John Darnielle,  Hi, it's me, Jason Diamond.  I'm a fan.  I go to your shows and awkwardly scream along to just about every single song.  I h... #Slack Mofo

Way to go, Africa Tinariwen get set to release their newest album, while "Ethio jazz" innovator Milatu Astatke's retrospective comes out near the end of the month. #Slack Mofo

A continued Hebrew infatuation with African music I could give you a long list of places to start when looking for the roots of the recent wave (and by wave, I mean two bands) of what I'm gonna go ahe... #Slack Mofo

Self-analysis: Why I like Princeton so much Upon first listen early last summer, and even now, I've been hooked on the four song tribute to Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and friends found... #Slack Mofo

Everybody agrees: This is the summer of dudes If you go ahead and type the word 'dude' into the little search box we supply you, you will come across a fair amount of posts where I mention the art... #Slack Mofo

Adira Amram ushers in the era of "FingerBlast" Right now, in some major label office, Passion Pit and MGMT are all sitting around together going "man, nobody is going to give a shit about us in six... #Slack Mofo

My continued infatuation with Frank Turner Wouldn't it be cool if Frank Turner and I hung out? We could drink beers on my roof, and he could just sit there, covering the second greatest Shellac... #Slack Mofo

Harvey Danger is fucking dead... (...that's what the e-mail forwarded to me said.) Reading this made me think back to my teenage years as a lil' punker, and how I always tried to defe... #Slack Mofo

Nick Cave getting all literate and shit One of the only times I have ever pulled the "you don't know who (insert name here) is?" card was when I was discussing books, and somebody was going ... #Slack Mofo