Music

Favorites, 2025

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Getting towards the end of the year over here at V&V (and apparently everywhere else), and so it seems appropriate (like everywhere else) to post some favorites of the year. Here, in really no order, are some of my favorites of 2025. Now, note these are not “Bests, 2025.” I have not consumed all the media that was created in the past year, and I do not have the faculty to even judge these things on any semblance of objective scale. No, these are merely favorites. Things I liked, perhaps some more than others. Music Tunde Adebimpe...

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Here are your official 2015 V+V Summer Jams

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This year we opted to not just try and predict which jams would be summer jams as they were released at to just wait and see what came to be. Now that July has come, it’s time to decide. It’s been a pretty great summer for summer jams, all told. In fact, here are two. One is better, but the other would easily win were it not for the first. The official winner is “Staring Contest” by Mates of State. A Summer Jam has to be happy, catchy as hell, floating and lush, and about that kind...

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Watch: This amazing and creepy Teletubbies/Joy Division mashup

Inspired by this tweet (nightmares), here’s an incredible and eerie video mashup of the Teletubbies in black and white accompanied by Joy Division’s “Atmosphere” by Christopher G. Brown. Here’s more on its creation. Maybe the Teletubbies already kind of freak you out, but either way, you’ll never be able to unsee this. Pleasant dreams. And, another one:

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