Contra by Vampire Weekend is a good album, and I like it. They're on the edge of wealth and fame here, familiar, conflicted, feigning disgust for the benefit the rest of us. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/va...

Power Move by @cheem.bsky.social is a good album, and I like it. It's fun, it's bold, and it's deceptively technical. Read more: doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/ch...

Slaves of the Wolf by Bear Mace is a good album, and I like it. Someone's got to occupy the middle of the road in every genre, and I'm happy someone's doing it for Death Metal as well as they are. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/be...

On the Undercard by the Hempsteadys is a good album, and I like it. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/he...

Endless Fantasy by Anamanaguchi is a bad album, but I like it. It may be dated, it may be too long, but there are a lot of songs just make me smile on this thing. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/an...

gambling is just a tax on hope

Pittsburgh City Paper is back!

this came to me in a dream #art #eldenring

to play against west coasters after 1 am is to admit that losing isn’t that bad, really

In my first year doing the blog I made 50 posts. The next year I only did 25. I'm gunning for 100 this year if I can (I've only done 4 so far, but I have 3 more basically done)

On the Undercard by the Hempsteadys is a good album, and I like it. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/he...

Many thanks to @idioteqcom.bsky.social for profiling my new band! idioteq.com/50-days-at-i...

Post Marked Stamps #7, the split between Mt. Oriander and Engagements, is a bad EP but I like it. Bafflingly frail CD packaging holds some bittersweet 90s emo revival. Other than that, it's pleasant, if forgettable. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/en...

i love not knowing the difference between matthew lillard and damien lillard

more like buttlerian jihad am i right fellow humans

Donuts by J Dilla is 20 years old today. It’s a good album, and I like it. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/j-...

I think I’ve listened to the Snow Patrol cover of Crazy In Love 3x as much as I have the original song

I am displeased to report that measuring out my coffee grounds and water actually does make my pour over taste better than eyeballing it does

#CDs forever. Easy to copy, easy to burn, portable, lightweight, perfect mix of digital convenience and physical presence.

The gimmick of my music review blog is simple: Albums can be good, or bad. Independent of their quality, I can like them or dislike them. Hence "Double Binary by Goalie Fight". goaliefightnj.com/blog

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

My AOTY this year was @yourspiritdies.bsky.social 's My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest. Read about it on Double Binary! doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2026/yo...

and yet we persist we being you and me which means you also gotta persist or I’m gonna look like an idiot

their bet is that the kind of person who doesn’t want to see a snuff film is also the kind of person who wants the right thing to have happened. someone so desperate for peace they’ll accept any justification to retroactively make the thing correct.

starting to question the efficacy of posting. just a hunch

i cannot make the Cal Chuchesta expression with my face. how does he do that.

Self-actualization and the ignorance and hesitation towards it by ANORAK! is a good album, and I like it. It took me a while to come around to it, but it shows off a band that's pushing their own musical boundaries to great effect. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2025/an...

L.L.Bean Holiday Songs is a bad album, but I like it. It tries to capture the spirit of colonial New England Christmas and ends up sounding like medieval Old England Christmas. Joke’s on them, I’m into that shit. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/l-...

Weihnachten Mit Den Fischer-Chören von Fischer Chöre ist ein schlechtes Album, und es gefällt mir nicht. Die Interpretationen amerikanischer Weihnachtslieder sind surreal, und die Farbgebung der Verpackung erinnert eher an Los Angeles Lakers als an Weihnachtsstimmung.

Handel: Messiah - Great Choruses by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus is a good album, and I like it. It's also a mouthful of a title. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/ge...

White Christmas by Bing Crosby is a good album, and I like it. It's also a good movie that came out nearly a decade later. Crosby conveys the gravitas of the more Christian tracks and the drunken joy of the more secular ones with equal skill. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/bi...

Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad

A Music Box Christmas is a bad album, and I don’t like it. Thoughtless, grating, unworthy of your consideration. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/a-...

finally all the old blog posts are up in case you wanted to read my scintillating reviews for such albums as “Celtic Woman”, “Putumayo Presents Celtic Women”, “Celtic Women 3 Ireland”, and “Piano Music For Your Dog”

The Bridge by Billy Joel is a bad album, but I like it. Too-cute lyrics smothered by awful production and nails-on-a-chalkboard e-piano, but there are a enough bright spots to keep me from throwing it out. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/bi...

Sing the Sorrow by AFI is a good album, and I like it. It’s their transition point between horror punk and mainstream rock success. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/af...

Mariah Carey’s \#1s is a good album, and I like it. It does not have All I Want For Christmas Is You on it - that would have tipped it over 75 minutes and onto two CDs. Her catalogue is deep and broad enough that I only mind a little. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/ma...

Metallica by Metallica is a good album, and I like it. The fact that it became the blueprint for decades of self-absorbed rock radio to follow shouldn’t be held against it. doublebinary.neocities.org/blog/2024/me...

really all I want is for Anthony Fantano to interview the drummer of the Crash Test Dummies/his long lost brother Michael Dorge

I'm gonna finally do it. I'm most of the way through reposting my old goalie fight reviews onto doublebinary.neocities.org. The next batch should go up on Thursday, and all the christmas reviews will go up on Monday.

tonight on AEW Dynamite: two former ROH World Champions pretending that they’ve never won a singles title in their life

does anybody else ever think about how hilarious and abrupt the last page of the Abominable Charles Christopher was

@theonion.com on pi.fyi www.pi.fyi/rec/cmixb08k...

i am feverish and housebound so I might as well finish uploading the missing blogs to doublebinary.neocities.org

For a game set in Torrance, Dispatch has distressingly little Joyce Manor on the soundtrack

Availability bias is the only one I'm familiar with so it's my favorite

I bought ads for my Emo band in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's strike paper, the Pittsburgh Union Progress, three years ago. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals just said the Block family has to submit to the strikers' demands.

In South Jersey, they call it “Sweet Potato Roll”

GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...

he only wanted me for my data-driven solutions :(