| Handle with Care: Numero Group reissues Pastor T.L. Barrett | October 13, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen takes a critical look at Numero Group's reissue of music by Pastor T.L. Barrett.
| Call Him Mr. Pitiful: O.V. Wright’s A Nickel and a Nail | August 3, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen sheds a tear with O.V. Wright, one of soul's most underrated weepers.
| Help Me to Remember: The Complex Disco of Patrice Rushen | June 18, 2019 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen looks at Strut's new collection of disco/R&B innovator Patrice Rushen's Elektra years.
Jordan Ryan Pedersen evangelizes about Johnny Mathis and Chic's long-buried "I Love My Lady."
| The Best Wrestling Matches of 2017 | February 26, 2018 |
At long last, the best wrestling matches of 2017.
| The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 | January 30, 2017 |
Douglas Martin, Doc Zeus, Jordan Pedersen, and Luis Paez-Pumar break down the best wrestling matches of 2016.
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: Vote on the Sweet 16 | April 28, 2015 |
Voting closes Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PST
| Très Boogie: A ’75–’84 French Disco Compilation | April 14, 2015 |
Not Kid-tested but Tony Parker-approved.
| Hate to Say I Told You So: The Grammys Are Designed to Piss Off Kanye | February 12, 2015 |
A wise man from Pawnee once said "I still think awards are stupid, but they'd be less stupid if they went to the right people."
| YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME: Big Sean – “Blessings” | February 3, 2015 |
Jordan Pedersen UGHHHHHHHHHHH Seriously. SERIOUSLY??? Big Sean. BIG SEAN. THE RAP GAME FORREST GUMP. IS MAKING. REALLY GOOD RAP MUSIC. Okay, yes “IDFWU” was great. Call it a fluke. An outlier. Two standard deviations away from the mean. The exception that proves the rule. But “Blessings,” man. “Blessings.” This shit is just *good* full-stop: Big […]
