Rob Sheffield Shares His Cool With Nerve

Journalist/Author Rob Sheffield shared a little of his pop culture coolness with Nerve in a piece entitled "Improve You Taste With..." In the piece, Sheffield discusses films starring Charles Bronson and Ann-Margaret and LCD Soundsystem's recent album, This is Happening. Best of all, Oran "Juice" Jones' hit single and "One Hit Wonder or One Hit Blunder" entry, "The Rain," is best summed up by Sheffield by saying "They just don't do break-up songs like that anymore."

Monthly Mixtapes

I still believe in the mixtape. It can be romantic, autobiographical, funny, a way of expressing your self through words you dare not say to someone in fear of their thoughts and, most of all, it is a way to showcase some of your musical interests to a new friend or lover. Mixtapes are special in the sense that people take time to carefully pick out songs to describe themselves and for that person to then hand you the tape is a wonderful thing. I have handed mixtapes over to countless people (mainly girls) and have crafted setlists for what i would give people if i were to make them tapes (once again, girls). Hell, I have quite a few of them that friends have made for me that I still listen to (everything ranging from the Beatles to Screamin' Jay Hawkins). With that said, here is this month's mixtape. I've posting these for a while under my other Myspace alias but from here on, they have a new home.