Author Archives: Ale Delgado
Pretentious Mixtapes: gRADuation
The Boy is Mine (Buggin’ Remix) – Monica & Brandy Pony (BUSTED Remix) – Ginuwine Send Me Down (Kisses Remix) – HAIM Closer (The Knocks Remix) – Tegan & Sara Suit & Tie (Chachi & Jay Dabhi Remix) – Justin Timberlake It’s Never Over – AVAN LAVA Pull Me Down (Ryan Hemsworth Remix) – Mikky […]
SEVEN DEADLY SPINS: 2/25/13 – 3/3/13
SEVEN DEADLY SPINS: ARKANSAS STYLE. Conveniently, I spent this week mostly listening to last week’s Seven Deadly Spins, so you’re getting two spins for the price of one. (Or something like that.) Thanks to Rilo Kiley’s new single “Let Me Back In,” I rediscovered More Adventurous and have been playing it obsessively. I was in eighth […]
SEVEN DEADLY SPINS: 1/28/13 – 2/3/13
Long time, no spin! For a while, I’d been feeling like nothing new was coming out in music that was really getting me excited. And then came Sundance AKA a whole week of not listening to music obsessively. When I got back on record release day (or what other people refer to as Tuesday), I […]
Review: Escape From Tomorrow
1. Escape from Tomorrow Easily the most polarizing and buzzworthy film at Sundance, newcomer Randy Moore’s surreal horror Escape from Tomorrow is inaccessible, confusing, and absolutely brilliant. While I admit that I wanted to see it because I heard it was secretly filmed at Disney World and would therefore never see the light of day again, […]
Review: Escape from Sundance 2013
This year’s Sundance (or as The Guardian telling called it: Porndance) was especially heavy on the sex and politics this year, with films like kink and Interior. Leather Bar being vaguely disguised porn and documentaries like The World According to Dick Cheney and Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer being oh so topical. If you weren’t getting irrationally angry, sobbing next to strangers, […]
HEY! WHERE DID MY MONEY GO?: December 2012
So in case you missed it, the Spotify Premium account that I’d been tricked into getting (curse you, 30-day free trials!) was cancelled a few months ago because a man from Canada stole my debit card and tried to buy $500 worth of groceries, and so I had to cancel my card. Which thus ended […]
SEVEN DEADLY SPINS: 12/24/12 – 12/30/12
I miss Nashville. After three and a half years, it’s truly become my home and man, I just miss all you babes. So, to cope, I’ve been listening to a lot of Nashville bands lately. It appears that more Nashville bands are slowly making their way to Spotify: JEFF, of course, has their last three […]
10 Albums I Loved The Shit Out Of In 2012
Given my love for really bad rap and shameless pop songs, I make no claims that the albums I enjoyed the most this year were “the best of 2012.” For that, you’ll have to go to SPIN, NPR, and Get Bent. Instead, here are 10 albums that I loved the shit out of this year. They’re […]
PRETENTIOUS MIXTAPES: Jingle Mint Twist (XMAS 2012)
WHY IT’S PRETENTIOUS: So I have two Christmas traditions: 1) fall ill, 2) make Christmas mix. The flu is this year’s culprit RE: the first Christmas tradition, which is why I’m posting this at 7 PM instead of like, sometime during the day. This year’s mix started off as a tribute to Nashville, with a lot […]
SEVEN DEADLY SPINS: 12/17/12-12/23/12
It seems that every winter break, I fall into the same habits: drink a lot of hot chocolate, underestimate Russian literature, and drown myself in Bret Easton Ellis novels when the Russian novel starts talking about peasants too much. Most of this week’s Seven Deadly Spins come from the soundtracks to Bret Easton Ellis movie […]
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