So maybe it doesn’t all fall on the same calendar. It all still merits a mention, or so James Mann thinks.

Are there really 19 ways to use a CD that you just don’t like? Tim Wardyn thinks so.

Pop gems, nostalgia, stars, retro-dance, electric disco, New Wave, alternative, and Broadway. Yes, Virginia, this is Ben Varkentine’s list of great albums for 2004.

Listmania continues, with Rob Levy’s Top 19 albums for 2004.

Millions of people died in 2004. Carl F Gauze picks his 19 favorites.

A visit to the Erotic Muesum reveals an electic view of sexuality. Carl F Gauze maintains his composure.

A visit to the Erotic Muesum reveals an electic view of sexuality. Carl F Gauze maintains his composure.

James Mann watches the WB’s The Surreal Life and gets entirely too worked up. Chill, dude.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo, and… you mean there were other movies released in the theaters, on DVD, or shown on cable last year? Ben Varkentine insists that this is so.

The year 2003 isn’t officially over until we’ve had Gail Worley’s picks from the mountain of interviews she did over those twelve months. It’s a rock zeitgeist!

For a brief while, James Mann puts the old 78s down and clues us in on those few things he liked in 2003 that weren’t around in 2002.

Daniel Mitchell enjoys the occasional musico-archaelogical jaunt through the wonderful world of Ohio record shop dollar bins; what follows are his top 19 finds of 2003.

As comes as a surprise to no one, Ben Varkentine’s list of what you should have been listening to last year contains a lot of synth pop, new and old wave, dance and Joe Jackson. But wait! Where’d these punk bands come from?

Books about writing, bubblegum music, mystery, songwriters, and politics of both the fictional and real varieties. Trust us, this is frighteningly close to being an X-ray of Ben Varkentine’s head.

As comes as a surprise to no one, Ben Varkentine’s list of what you should have been listening to last year contains a lot of synth pop, new and old wave, dance and Joe Jackson. But wait! Where’d these punk bands come from?

As a dog returns to its… master, so VH-1 returns to excavate the ’80s once more. But Ben Varkentine’s been digging those fields a lot longer than they have, and he’s got the scars to prove it.

He never was a liar. He said he was gonna die, and he did it. Not that we doubted him, or expected him to beat fate. James Mann pays tribute to an excitable boy.

The capstone in Seattle’s Experience Music Project has to be the Hendrix Gallery, the recently unveiled tribute to one of the city’s favorite musical sons. Steve Stav give us an eyewitness account.

Shawn Smith, vocalist for Brad (featuring members from Satchel and Pearl Jam) discusses comparisons with Elton John, Prince, and finding a proper label to release Brad’s material. Troy Jewell has the scoop.

Ten years ago, a California punk band put out an album that addressed the important issues we currently face. Who were they? And why haven’t we listened? Eric J. Iannelli breaks it down.