Next door in The Onion‘s A.V. Club, Steven Hyden throws down a prov0cative test for musical greatness: Five consecutive albums of surpassing greatness. Those are my words; he never comes out and says whether the albums have to be classics, or just great, or can be very good if at least one is a classic. [...]
The news came today that Borders will be liquidated, and its passing saddens me. I’ve spent countless dollars at its stores on books and CDs starting when I was about 17, so much of what I’ve heard and read was something I’d acquired from there. The stores in Indianapolis (the biggest bookstore in the state) [...]