Carrie Brownstein

On this edition of All Songs Considered , host Bob Boilen talks with Monitor Mix blogger Carrie Brownstein, NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson and All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton about the year in music. Read More

As a former D.C. lady, I was thrilled to see the group dust off Savory from 1994's For Your Own Special Sweetheart . Read More

The list honestly isn't terribly different from a lot of the lists I've been seeing floating around on other blogs (though I haven't seen many Decemberists or Regina Spektor mentions), but for whatever reason it still kinda pisses me off. Read More

NPR's Morning Edition is taking some time this month to explore, in detail, some of the major topics in how music and music consumption have changed over the past decade. Read More

In one of the introductory essays to The Merge Records Companion , label co-founder and Superchunk bassist Laura Ballance trumpets the book as a "representation of the essential relationship between 'product' and purchaser, or in this case, Music and Music Lover." Read More

The first time I heard "Modern Girl," I thought the CD was defective. Read More

Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren't going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. Read More

Two weeks ago Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney asked me to contribute a piece on her NPR blog, Monitor Mix . Read More

Sebastian Mlynarski When I rounded up all the bits of information around Holly Miranda's solo project back in January , I had no notion that interest in it would eclipse that given to her main band, The Jealous Girlfriends . Read More

Love Douglas Wolk's definition (which he earlier offered at Moistworks –great stuff all around on that post), and all discussion should stop here, really. Read More