The 11 Best Songs By Lupe Fiasco

Last weekend I went to Magic Mountain with my daughter.  Even at 7, she's obsessed with roller coasters.  I hadn't been in 15 years and wasn't sure what to expect.  We went on some of the coasters (like Superman, Goliath, and Lex Luther) that were bigger and more life threatening than anything they ever had when I was kid...and these were only the rides she was big enough to go on.    I can't

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The 11 Best Songs By Green Day of the 00s

Carmageddon II strikes today.  and like some awful Summer blockbusters...not everything needs a sequel.  The hype is huge as usual and like all big plugged sequels it will likely be a letdown.  But at least...and let's hope there's not a Carmageddon trilogy.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Green Day of the 00s:

1. Holiday (American Idiot)
2. Jesus of Suburbia (American Idiot)
3. Minority (

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The 11 Best Songs By the Killers

You can't replace quality.  We expect perfection and we expect it all the time.  We never acknowledge that nobody is perfect and imperfection should be expected.  We set our standards for others higher than we set them for ourselves and when they don't perform up to our expectations, we label them as failures.  Even if the imperfection is minor and tolerable...we always expect better.  And

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The 11 Best Songs By Grizzly Bear

Getting used to technology may be our biggest downfall.  Cellphones have become more important to us then some of our limbs.  Do we need two pinky toes?  This past week, I've been without my smart phone and regulated to a ancient-style phone.  Texting on this phone is more time consuming than writing a letter. There's nothing worse than have to hit the 6 button five times just to type the

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The 11 Best Albums by Bob Dylan

Last week Bob Dylan released his 567th album, which is
only a few short of Ryan Adams. 
Marketing a new album has vastly changed since Dylan strummed it onto
the scene almost 50 years ago.  You can’t
push your songs to radio.  There’s
nowhere to buy a physical album.  You
could have the next big EDM-artist do multiple remixes but Dylan’s music really
doesn’t lend itself to that.  But even

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The 11 Best Songs By The Avett Brothers

My life is traffic.  I
can’t go anywhere in LA without being 15 minutes late because of traffic.  I can leave an extra 15 minutes earlier…then I
hit road construction…and I’m still 15 minutes late.  I’ve tried leaving 30 minutes earlier…then
there’s an accident/road closure…and I’m still 15 minutes late.  The only thing that makes a the journey
tolerable and keeps your mind off the

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The 11 Best Songs By Jamie XX

It's the first weekend of football and everyone is freaking out.  The Redskins upset the Saints.  Dallas beat the Giants.  Broncos beat the Steelers.  The Niners beat the Packers...in Lambeau!  This happens every year.  A bunch of mediocre teams have crazy upset wins and the fanbase goes crazy.  Sure, it's a great thing to get the first win out of the gates but you can't tell anything by the

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The 11 Best Songs By The Animal Collective

Being cut off from the internet is like being cut off from your feet.  And I mean that literally in a Cary Elwes/Saw kind of way.  Not only is my computer's internet not working...but my cellphone internet capabilities have been turned off.  Not being able to look up obscure trivia is like not be able to get up from the couch and walk into the kitchen for a glass of water.  And to think,

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