Humanizing and well-written. Spoiler: she doesn't have a penis.

On whether Best Coast's guys-treat-me-like-shit-but-I-just-keep-crawling-back lyrical content is hindering the female experience. Read all of the follow-up Tumbls and comments to get the full perspective. It would be interesting to hear Bethany herself comment on this.

This is brilliant music blogging. Details are what make me love music.

On the place of an "innocent reminiscer" in today's indie pop-rock landscape, and how it all began with Jonathan Richman.

This! This is so good. This is what I want to be writing.

Twenty seconds of a song as the perfect college girlfriend.

"You can try to know, and own the fact that there are things you do not know, or you can be knowing, and hide your own ignorance with sideways shots of been-there done-that familiarity. You can understand that shit happens and try your best to keep things together and accomplish something against all odds — YOU CAN DANCE, as this album begins — or you can blow up the hospital just to show everyone that at any moment anywhere, a hospital can blow up for no fucking reason whatsoever."

"I wrote the words 'a grain of sand' upon a grain of rice/She baked a pie of very shy laboratory mice."

Excellent pieces on Deerhunter's Microcastle, M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes", and Wale's "Mixtape About Nothing." Easily one of my favorite music writers. I think it's the ethnomusicology background.

Good story, personal writing from one of the more entertaining and interesting blogs out there. (And four tracks from the new Andrew Bird album.)

On art which extends the present, and tickling yourself. This is what I love so much about music.

"If I was in a band I would write a slow song with an 808, reverb, and a female vocalist, and call that song 'Zach Braff’s Eyes Reflected in My Nano.'"

"This track is like being raised on velvet pillows and then, on your 18th birthday, having a crazy albino mannequin begin to rub sandpaper on your face."

"If you need to know what french kissing is like, and how to do it, I would recommend thinking of the kiss as a sleep and your tongue as the dream. It's not right away, and it doesn't last the whole time." Contented sigh.

"Sean Booth of the British duo Autechre talks about just about everything but how he and partner Rob Brown make music."

Best albums, album covers, old albums, Eureka! albums, and more from one of the best music news and reviews sites out there. You'll find recommendations here that you won't anywhere else; it's exciting.

"I simply can’t describe the feeling of listening to forty-five minutes of nature-inspired ambient music when you know what is coming in the final thirty seconds."

Stylus is shutting down, unfortunately. Here's their own excellent guide to the best of the site. Great weekend reading.

A very interesting and multi-talented guy.

"The idea is that the Harry Potter from Year 7 and the Harry Potter from Year 4 started a rock band. And now, no one can stop the wizard rock."

A look into the character and the musician. A good article.

"Between them the Remainders have published over 150 titles, sold over 200 million books, and have been translated into over 25 languages, but for one week a year they are rock stars."

"Whoomp! There It Continues to Be"