Ranpitsu

As for everyday players, [Giants general manager Brian] Sabean remains pessimistic about trading for a corner infielder, saying, “I don’t know how much more we can spin the Rubik’s cube.

Whether pop music’s critical elite this year anoint Kings of Leon, Fleet Foxes, TV on the Radio or even Glasvegas, the message is clear: The populist rock movement is dead and gone. The pop music panorama in the 21st century is a bleak landscape of commercial songwriters and professional producers who long ago traded away creativity and imagination in favor of craft and cunning. Artists working in anything less than the lowest common denominators have been marginalized into micro-categories and cut out of any access to mainstream audiences.