Screw Podcasts 003: A little bit country, a little bit Screw Rock 'n' Roll

You never thought you'd see a third one of these, did you? You cynical bastards. Anyway, I'm working through the tail end of a cold, so if my voice sounds weird or if I'm not quite as energetic as I should be, that's why. This podcast is very vaguely themed, in that half the songs have a very vaguely country sound. The other three songs, uh... don't. They're just good songs.

Screw Podcasts 003: A little bit country, a little bit Screw Rock 'n' Roll

01. B.O.B. ft. Lil' Boosie & DG Yola - Fuck You
02. Snoop Dogg - My Medicine
03. Cakehole - Stab You
04. Lyrics Born - Callin' Out (The Saturday Club Remix)
05. A Cursive Memory - Everything
06. Panic at the Disco - Folkin' Around

So download the podcast, and after you do, rejoice in the good news that though (my favorite music critic) Kelefa Sanneh is no longer with the New York Times, he is still writing, now for the New Yorker. He's no longer writing about music, which is an unbelievable loss, since he was basically the best in the game, but he is still delivering great writing. His return is in the form of an article discussing Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former and controversial pastor. It's good to see Sanneh bringing the same thoughtfulness to his writing about politics and culture that made his music criticism so vital.

And back at the Times, Damian Kulash Jr of OK Go writes an op-ed about new neutrality. Net neutrality concerns permitting Internet providers to give priority to information sent by some people (like big corporations) over others (everyone else). It's more interesting and relevant than that description makes it sound though. I'm not a big fan of OK Go, and the future Kulash describes sounds so fiendishly horrifying that I'm having trouble imagining it, let alone getting worried about it (though I probably should be). But the article is worth reading if only for this sentence:

I’m flattered, of course, but it makes you wonder if Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner sit around arguing who was listening to Vampire Weekend first.

I very much want to believe that happens.