Mike Powell's personal music blog — 'PBW is 10 pounds of teeth in a four-pound mouth.' Extended essays on songs, artists, and the experience of listening, from Daft Punk to the Boredoms to Feist. 146 posts from 2005 to 2007.
| the pbw summer sex issue |
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2007-05-31 |
| the feist thing: illogical, complicated, probably unsatisfactory |
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2007-05-18 |
| THE FIRST-EVER PBW POLL!! |
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(17) |
2007-05-02 |
| extremely specific answers to very pertinent questions |
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2007-04-24 |
| faceination |
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2007-04-17 |
| post-easter bloggerina bleats RESURRECTION |
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2007-04-13 |
| update |
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2007-02-13 |
| brian eno’s pubic grooming is everything missing from contemporary music |
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2007-02-07 |
| pt. 2: fall out boy has killed some unresurrectable part of me |
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2007-02-02 |
| (to clarify) |
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2007-01-29 |
| what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine pt. 1 |
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2007-01-26 |
| snowed in |
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2007-01-16 |
| I like to play it sometimes, too |
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2007-01-06 |
| The Skeeter Davis Center for Regressive Misogyny |
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2006-12-29 |
| The Straight Story, pt. 3 of the Year in Review |
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2006-12-25 |
| HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM PBW! |
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2006-12-22 |
| Bebes Have Soft Skulls, pt. 2 of the Year in Review |
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2006-12-18 |
| The Snowglobe, pt. 1 of the Year in Review |
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2006-12-12 |
| Jangles the Junkie Returns: A Dictionary for Curing Hella Seasonal Depression, Year Two, Part One of Three |
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2006-11-24 |
| Futures and Filigree |
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2006-11-20 |
| Trap Muzik Criticism |
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2006-11-16 |
| Mailbag: Soft Rock Against Phantasy |
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2006-11-08 |
| Humanity: Fuck You, Seriously |
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2006-11-07 |
| The Drip |
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2006-10-23 |
| The Glamorest Life (Sidebars) |
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2006-09-26 |
| More Old White Men Than the Academy: The Country Music Hall of Fame |
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2006-09-12 |
| Ambien Saves Pittsburgh (PBW Travelogue 1) |
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2006-09-05 |
| Current Events |
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2006-08-18 |
| Holy Shit |
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2006-08-09 |
| I Found a Reason |
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2006-08-04 |
| Midyear Mix Meme Madness |
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2006-07-21 |
| The Two People I Actually Love Decided to Move to the Midwest |
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2006-07-18 |
| (Spoiler: PBW Survives This Post) |
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2006-07-17 |
| Wherein Washington Phillips Saves Eternity |
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2006-07-05 |
| The Best Thing I’ve Heard Anyone Say In A While |
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2006-06-28 |
| Hey I Feel Better Now |
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2006-06-27 |
| The Art of Drawing Restraint, Feeling Horrible |
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2006-06-27 |
| An Ode To RobMac |
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2006-06-20 |
| “I felt so good, I couldn’t feel a thing”: Striking Revelations From Somewhere Near the Bottom of the Human Shitpile |
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2006-06-20 |
| (Housecleaning) |
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2006-06-14 |
| Categorically Unavailable, Bejar |
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2006-06-13 |
| Alfred Soto, PBW Pundit |
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2006-06-09 |
| Wrinkles |
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2006-05-30 |
| Why I Try To Be Open-Minded |
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2006-05-24 |
| Aperitif for Thought |
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2006-05-23 |
| So To Share With You May 18th |
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2006-05-18 |
| On Isms and Onanism |
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2006-05-17 |
| Incidental rock bands found in Saturday night Scrabble |
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2006-05-15 |
| Last Dance for the Bleeding Hearts, Etc. |
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2006-05-08 |
| Hot or Not: Brains |
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2006-05-02 |
| First/Last Ever Wednesday Wrrrap-Up! |
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2006-04-26 |
| Let’s Talk |
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2006-04-24 |
| (This is Going to Drive Me Nuts) |
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2006-04-21 |
| Takin’ It To The Trough |
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2006-04-19 |
| Paradise: Impossible? |
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2006-04-17 |
| O is None and a Circle and a Hole and It’s Whole |
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2006-04-04 |
| Mas |
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2006-03-31 |
| Backseat Eternally: Time |
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2006-03-29 |
| Breaking News Smothered in Breaking News |
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2006-03-23 |
| O! Me, Flower Wilting in Crack’d City Street |
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2006-03-22 |
| Croak or Hoot Under the Influence of Pan |
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2006-03-20 |
| Notes on the State of Virginia |
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2006-03-14 |
| “Holdin’ On Like a Hubcap in the Fast Lane”: A Dictionary For Curing Hella Seasonal Depression (N thru Zed) |
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2006-03-08 |
| “Holdin’ On Like a Hubcap in the Fast Lane”: A Dictionary For Curing Hella Seasonal Depression (A thru M) |
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2006-03-07 |
| A Half-Baked Cake: Year Zero (a) |
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2006-03-02 |
| Slipp’d Back Under The Mattress |
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2006-02-27 |
| Unclassics 2 |
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2006-02-24 |
| Willie Nelson: Gay Enough? |
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2006-02-20 |
| Apotheosis, Finale |
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2006-02-17 |
| Wherein The Question of “Who Let The Dogs Out?” is Once Again Tastelessly Referenced but Not Answered |
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2006-02-15 |
| Honey, That Frosting is Improbable |
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2006-02-12 |
| Lame, But |
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2006-02-10 |
| (Groan) |
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2006-02-07 |
| PBW Hit Current Channels |
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2006-02-05 |
| New York City: > Art? |
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2006-01-31 |
| Steel Cage |
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2006-01-25 |
| Faceless, Nameless |
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2006-01-24 |
| Unclassics 1/Stray Notes |
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2006-01-23 |
| A Brief Public Service Announcement |
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2006-01-18 |
| Never To Forget You, Cuddles |
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2006-01-18 |
| Nobody Gets Out of Here Until This Gets Settled |
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2006-01-16 |
| Fruitful Detours |
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2006-01-15 |
| Disclosure: Emotional, Messy |
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2006-01-13 |
| Big Think: Tracks and Traces, Absences and Ideals |
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2006-01-11 |
| Ducksinnarow |
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2005-12-29 |
| Like Tons of Feeling |
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2005-12-28 |
| Clipse en Español/Obligatory Destroyer Gush |
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2005-12-26 |
| “I Live in Sweat but I Dream Light Years” |
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2005-12-23 |
| We All Want To Love Big |
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2005-12-21 |
| Powerless to Resist |
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2005-12-20 |
| Friday Zenith, Three Flowers |
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2005-12-16 |
| Formality Regained |
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2005-12-14 |
| Bloodlet Your Blues Bleat Style |
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2005-12-12 |
| This Is Also Sort of About Lil Wayne |
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2005-11-30 |
| Peaks Lick Sky Like Flame Lick Sky |
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2005-11-30 |
| The State of Pop Music in 2005 |
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2005-11-28 |
| Our Fragile Erections |
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2005-11-27 |
| Joy-Wake |
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2005-11-22 |
| (Revision/Return/Remix) Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads |
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2005-11-19 |
| I Know My Lovers By the Height of My Flame |
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2005-11-18 |
| Kings of Memphis |
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2005-11-16 |
| You Speak the Jive So I Don’t Have To |
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2005-11-14 |
| Starstroked |
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2005-11-14 |
| Role Playing/C&W Treatise 3 |
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2005-10-11 |
| Oldham as Vital Repository/C&W Treatise 2 |
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2005-09-29 |
| Secrets, oooh/C&W Treatise 1 |
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2005-09-26 |
| The Marginally Huge Sugar Ray Diary Project |
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2005-09-21 |
| One Year Later, Clarity |
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2005-09-19 |
| Monday’s Pall |
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2005-09-19 |
| Dip Down + Beautiful Shit |
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2005-09-14 |
| Detour |
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2005-09-08 |
| Home of the Brave/Shots Called |
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2005-09-04 |
| Doubleouble |
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2005-08-21 |
| Knight Errant, In Sweatshorts |
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2005-08-17 |
| Lowercase Creatures So Hot Right Now |
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2005-08-12 |
| Faith Regained and Moisture Lost in Monday Midnight Shakedown |
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2005-08-09 |
| For Fear That Music Be the Only Thing To Cross Our Fragile Hearts |
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2005-08-09 |
| 2 MUCH MUSIC |
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2005-08-05 |
| Things I Learned Today on Television |
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2005-08-03 |
| Where From You Come, Go? |
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2005-08-02 |
| You Are (And Pretty Much Always Have Been) My Sunshine |
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2005-07-29 |
| Titularly Oriented, I Promise |
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2005-07-25 |
| When Two Days Become One |
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2005-07-21 |
| Dear Adam Green, If You Have a Back, I’ve Got It |
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2005-07-20 |
| Avant Composition + Sizzurp, Pretense + Purpose |
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2005-07-19 |
| Live and Direct From a Motorcycle Guarded Stoop |
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2005-07-16 |
| And My God, Her “Trousers” |
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2005-07-14 |
| Nightmares Piling Up |
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2005-07-10 |
| Curled Stripes and A Scrabble Victory |
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2005-07-06 |
| Tonight, a Car Backfired; Later, Another Car Fired Back (I’m Serious) |
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2005-06-30 |
| Instructions for How to Think Like a Child Again |
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2005-06-28 |
| Behold, Life (and Books) |
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2005-06-24 |
| Questions I Whisper to the Wind |
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2005-06-23 |
| (Pun regarding Belief, Believing in, etc.) |
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2005-06-23 |
| No Really, Swaddled in Technicolor |
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2005-06-21 |
| Somewhat Eventful |
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2005-06-19 |
| Here We Have a Season Called Summer |
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2005-06-13 |
| Once We Were as Sweet and Warm as the Golden Morning Sun |
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2005-06-11 |
| Slowly and Cautiously, the Strains of Surrender |
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2005-06-04 |
| The Triumph Circuit |
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2005-05-29 |
| No God, Only Religion and probably the Boredoms |
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2005-05-27 |
| Two studies in city street rhetoric |
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2005-05-20 |
| Everybody loves a letdown |
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2005-05-19 |
| V.A., Best Dinner Non-Music, Vol. 2 |
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2005-05-17 |
| They wore people’s skin, what have you ever done? |
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2005-05-11 |
| Inaguration with ring of chrysanthemum around my feet |
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2005-05-09 |
