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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, ninnyish noblemen boast in major

The only good anagram I could find for Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson was “ninnyish noblemen boast in major.” I didn’t talk about this with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, but I did talk to him about his LP Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. The guy was awesome, actually: self-deprecating but super confident, funny and full of stories. [...]

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No Age in Paper Magazine

My review of No Age’s Nouns is in Paper Magazine this month, and up on the site as well. I am realizing that deciding to only post MP3s labels/bands have said are okay to post is quite difficult when it’s not the song you want to talk about, and when it’s your personal blog and [...]

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Recently in IRL

Two short profiles of M. Ward and Emily Haines, in the last and current issues of Paste (along with a couple of reviews in the former). Paste is becoming my favorite place to write for (next to Pitchfork, because nothing beats hate mail), and I’m not just saying that because my editor there reads and [...]

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Girls Gone Wild

This is a somewhat-old L.A. Times article about Joe Francis, the founder of Girls Gone Wild, and how he assaulted the writer outside of a night club. When I was a reporter for my college paper, I interviewed Joe Francis. Francis and his party bus and camera crew stopped at a local club (called, predictably, [...]

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