Do you have a Kindle? Do you have an iPod, iPad, or other device which can host a Kindle app? Have you ever read an alumni magazine? Do you have $1.59?

Then buy Class Notes.

This was supposed to run as a Village Voice music listing, but didn't due to a clerical error:

Celebrity DJs make the A-List for a reason, and the deceptively named Deadmau5 has earned his place there. The DJ born Joel Thomas Zimmerman may have committed his share of quasi-mortal sins – dating a Playmate without irony, assailing the etymology of his chosen profession in print, perverting the Disney logo fifty ways from Sunday – but there’s something quintessentially and universally euphoric about his brand of acid-trance that transcends race, economic status, and level of chemical dependency. Sure, Zimmerman’s fizz-tone beat-bounce prizes broad electronic strokes over ambient diffusion or convulsing-outside-a-rave nightmare, but in a compositional sense he excels at unspooling a good yarn, even if that yarn doesn’t go much deeper than the storyboard for a 30-second Mitsubishi advert.

Oh how weird; I didn't know this was out there online.

Introducing the decidedly D.I.Y. The Joy Of Cooking. Download it here. Thanks, Doug and Chris!

Jeff Mangum, Gang Gang Dance (again, in weird PDF format, doesn't seem to exist elsewhere).

Man Forever. (Somehow this wasn't digitized.)

And they seem to have established a page for these things here; note the Youth Lagoon and Black-Eyed Peas blurbs.

Yeah, I know, been a while.

I'm doing show listings for the Village Voice now, but for whatever reason on the site they don't (always) list the names of authors I'm just going to post the links here for my reference (and your enjoyment, maybe).

Olivia Tremor Control
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

More Cowbell: March and April.

My interview with Religious Knives is up on Sound of the City, the Village Voice music blog.

Ben Schiek lives!

More Cowbell. I did some stuff on Rye Rye, Peter J. Woods, The Godless Girl, and Tape Deck Mountain, and hope to become a regular contributor - already have some assignments lined up for the next issue.

Holy shit.

I Pazzed, I Jopped.

Albums
1	Burning Star Core, Papercuts Theater No Quarter
2	Skullflower, Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament Neurot
3	Katt Hernandez, Unlovely Ehse
4	Ascites, Caput Medusae Deadline Recordings
5	The Roots, How I Got Over Def Jam
6	David Dove & Lucas Gorham, Screwed Anthologies: Improvised Music Under the Influence of DJ Screw Cangrejito
7	Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Before Today 4AD
8	Fred the Godson, Armageddon
9	The Dead C, Patience BaDaBing!
10	Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella
Singles
1	Autechre, "Y7" Warp
2	Waka Flocka Flame, "Hard in Da Paint" Warner/Asylum
3	Peter J Woods, "Corpse" Maxcorp
4	Avey Tare, "Ghost of Books" Paw Tracks
5	Telecult Powers (ft. Lala Ryan), "Freakout"
6	Asher Roth, "Muddy Swim Trunks" Schoolboy/SRC/Universal
7	No Age, "Aanteni Score Live at the Red Cat"
8	Nicki Minaj (ft. Eminem), "Roman's Revenge" Universal Motown/Cash Money
9	Juelz Santana (ft. Yelawolf), "Mixing Up the Medicine" Skull Gang/Def Jam
10	The-Dream, "Love King" Def Jam/Radio Killa

Finally this review runs online; man, am I sick of this guy.

Cashing in on the misfortunes of a couple thousand dead birds.

"NOW NATIVITY SCENES, MAKE ME NAUUUUUUUSEOUS..."

For reasons I''m still figuring out, I can't get enough of this song lately. Christmas-y!

YouTube: Atlas Sound, "Artificial Snow"

A little light-classic Christmas listening, for those of you who're in the mood right now: the Nutcracker Suite.

Happy holidays, everyone!

The Dead-Tree Shuffle, 12/22/2010

Got to big-up Burning Star Core in Williamette Week's year-end music whatever, got to give Bret Easton Ellis pounds in City Pages' Artist of the Year feature. Go me!

SURREAL BEYOND WORDS

David Bowie and Bing Crosby. Singing "The Little Drummer Boy." Together. No, seriously. Click here.