I know you need new music for the holidays. DJ kthread is here for you. This one is a little uneven, but with punchy, beautiful resolution (much like this time of year). While the playlist began as full of lads, the final version below attempts to represent a wider circle of cheer; the Mountain Goats [...]

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A real vacation, we said, and this time last week, we were hiking through rainforest on a small Caribbean island. The forest floor was mossy, that greenest of green, strewn with leaves as big as both our hands, as if the trees were operating on another scale as they grew from the volcanic rock, and [...]