With 10 new tunes from the shapeshifting electropop unit out this week, Thorburn shares an equally important “islands” list.

10 songs organized by how badly we’d like to party like it’s the year they’re singing about.

In case you were wondering how will.i.am stacks up to Venetian Snares.

A track-by-track ranking of the album that made me realize it was OK to be anxious.

We ranked ’em pre-“Lover,” so now it’s time for a follow-up.

The power pop songwriter lives every artist’s dream and ranks ten of his stunning “Born Hot” self-portraits for us.

She’s practically an architect.

There’s a new Peggy track called “Jesus Forgive Me, I Am a Thot,” and it hardly breaks the top ten.

In a time when profanity-laden band names have cluttered the blogosphere, TFS’s Gareth Liddiard lets us know which bands are worth of the meatspace they occupy.

The proggy psych septet destroyed any traditional conception of a release cycle last year, but each of their five LPs are worth talking about on their own.