After the break, check out the latest episode of Beat Connection! Nate, Marty and Tucker enter the 2016 War Room, and hash out the Factual Opinion’s Top 10 Albums of 2016, as is the custom. For those of you who... Continue reading

After the break, there's a new episode of BEAT CONNECTION hungry for your affection. Nate Patrin has some opinions on the synthesizer, including but not limited to the idea that it is more important to the evolution of popular music... Continue reading

After the jump, your friends Nate Patrin and Marty Brown go in on the robust year in music so far, diving into The Life of Pablo, untitled unmastered., Hella Personal Film Festival, and The Carrollton Heist. You can download episodes... Continue reading

After the break, check out the latest episode of Beat Connection, with guest Kathy Fennesy! Film critic Kathy Fennessy (The Stranger, Video Librarian) joins Nate and Marty for an epic conversation about music documentaries. In Part One, they look at... Continue reading

After the jump, a very special bonus episode of Beat Connection in which the immortal Tucker Stone blesses Nate and Marty with his opinions on select Action Bronson lyrics. One thousand verbal fire emojis. Action Bronson songs talked about on... Continue reading

20. Travi$ Scott - Owl Pharoah Prior to May’s release of Owl Pharoah, G.O.O.D. Music affiliate Travi$ Scott’s pedigree mainly consisted of a couple down-the-roster production credits on last year’s label compilation, Cruel Summer. When Yeezus dropped in June, Scott’s... Continue reading

Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Half of what Kanye West has done in 2010 has been straight hypnotism. He gave away most of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy before he put it on sale. He turned his stream-of-consciousness... Continue reading

Das Racist Shut Up, Dude/ Sit Down, Man Victor Vazquez has what you’d call a fat beard. Sometimes, the beard gets a little grizzly—it shrooms out on the sides. Sometimes it’s trimmed closer to his face. He has long, curly... Continue reading

For the second year in a row, we polled everyone at The Factual Opinion headquarters to determine the top fifty songs of the year. It was a three-part process: Each participant nominated his or her favorite songs from 2010; Tucker... Continue reading

Guido Anidea The first striking thing about Guido is his affection for pop music. One of few dubstep producers who values songs over sounds, his debut album, Anidea, contains some of the hottest buttered soul since Isaac Hayes covered Burt... Continue reading

Gil Scott-Heron I’m New Here “On Coming from a Broken Home (Part One),” the opening track from I’m New Here, finds Gil Scott-Heron memorializing Lily Scott, the grandmother who raised him. He speaks over a loop of the intro to... Continue reading

For the second year in a row, we polled everyone at The Factual Opinion headquarters to determine the top fifty songs of the year. It was a three-part process: Each participant nominated his or her favorite songs from 2010; Tucker... Continue reading

The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt / Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird EP Kristian Matsson, The Tallest Man On Earth, has very little in common with Bob Dylan. He’s too empathetic, for one thing; too... Continue reading

Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid More than a concept album, Janelle Monáe composed The ArchAndroid as a piece of theater. There are two acts and an intermission. It begins with an overture and ends with a curtain call. There are characters,... Continue reading

Screaming Females Castle Talk Marissa Paternoster sings about mostly pedestrian things. On Castle Talk, the fourth album by her band, Screaming Females, her version of romance is holding hands, counting hours, falling asleep. She fears rejection on the basis of... Continue reading

For the second year in a row, we polled everyone at The Factual Opinion headquarters to determine the top fifty songs of the year. It was a three-part process: Each participant nominated his or her favorite songs from 2010; Tucker... Continue reading

Jamie Lidell Compass “I don’t want to be closed,” Jamie Lidell sings at the beginning of Compass, “But opening up has left me completely exposed.” Then things go haywire. His voice is crystalline—light, sharp and precise—as the music opens up... Continue reading

Just because music coverage on The Factual Opinion was sparse this year doesn’t mean we haven’t been paying attention. Nope! This year at Factual Headquarters, in preparation for our 2010 year-end music wrap-up, we’ve logged more man-hours listening to more... Continue reading