The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopaedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping [...]

Sorry we are running late today, but hey better late than never. Plus there is a ton of cool stuff out this week that hopefully will help make up for our delay. Arc In The Round; Arc In The Round Arc In Round; Spirit Pink Skull Remix. EMA; Past Life Martyred Saints EMA; Anteroom Other Lives; Tamer Animals [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Arc In Round, Asobi Seksu, Greg Brown, Brown Bird, Peter Case, the Clutters, EMA, Gang Gang Dance, Gardens, Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies, Kyp Harness, Helado Negro, Here We Go Magic, Inzinzac, Joan Of Arc, Daniel Knox, Liturgy, Man Man, Jared Mees [...]

Here at 20JFG we quite obviously find music an incredibly evocative experience. We dabble in what appear, quite often, to be ludicrously extended and intricate metaphors - but what are in fact despatches from our hyperactive subconscious...that also serve as ludicrously extended... Occasionally, a nameless force reaches out to us. My Frozen Spirit begins with the aeons-old bass thump from deep beneath a looming cyclopean peak - transported from the rocky continent of Antarctica to the more geographically convenient region of the Artic. A growling electronic oscillation rises with it, like the Elder Ones, spreading their [...]