It’s that time of year again, folks, where the nights are about 4x as long as the days, you’ve spent all your money on presents and/or scarves and you’ve really got nothing better to do… than to sit and make a audio CD (if you can remember them) that contains all your most wonderlicious musicial moments from the 12 months past. The idea of the compilation CD is thus: with 16000GB capacity MP3 players giving more music at fingertips than [...]

There are some pleasures in life that aren’t all that costly, fattening, or illegal. One such pleasure is the introduction to a wonderful new band. One such wonderful new band goes by the name Wild Beasts. It’s depressing describing the sound of band in the digital age, as by the time you’ve thought of something original or witty, or managed to draw some illustrative and elaborate comparison… the person you’re informing has already been on MySpace, YouTube or last.fm and [...]