Now that I’ve spent a bit of time with the New Pornographers’ forthcoming Matador release, Challengers, I’m crawling into a songwriting void and never picking up a guitar again. Add in Ryan Adams’ and Spoon’s recent releases, and its clear that the gods of song craft have drained the talent pool into other vessels.
(The world […]

Dear Spoon, how I love you…let me count the ways:
1. All of Girls Can Tell
2. “Sister Jack”
3. “I Turn My Camera On” in a Jaguar commercial (I’m sorry, it was perfect)
4. Britt’s unabashed, awkward hipster dancing at the Pitchfork Music Festival after party 2006.
Spoon is one band that, like Wilco and the White Stripes at […]

I’ll start this, the first full-on album review from the esteemed desk of NDFY, by saying that I’m an unabashed fan of Ryan Adams. I absolutely dig his music and have since Whiskeytown, but I’m also enamored with his trainwreck persona and all of its embarrassing pockets of humorously humorless self-righteousness and egomania. Perhaps it’s […]