This went up a few days ago, but HEY! better late than never.

Our very own Chris Barth went on BreakThru Radio and chatted with the lovely Mimi on her Anatomy of a Blogger show and talked about how amazing PMA is. No really. It’s a great concept.

Anyway, you can listen to the interview right here. And here is a breakdown of what Chris talks about/the official PMA-BTR Playlist.

00:00 DJ Mimi (Casablanca – So Cow)
01:34 She Moves She – Four Tet
06:13 Daylight – Matt & Kim
09:02 PMA on PMA
09:46 One Word Extinguisher – Prefuse 73
13:39 PMA on Animal Collective
14:16 Lion in a Coma – Animal Collective
18:27 PMA on Grizzly Bear
19:15 Foreground – Grizzly Bear
22:36 Sunlight – Harlem Shakes
25:27 PMA on Chris’ other blogs
26:03 Idiot Heart – Sunset Rubdown
32:10 Holland, 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel
35:22 PMA on Calvin Harris
35:34 The Girls – Calvin Harris
40:45 Mikey Rocks – The Cool Kids
44:06 PMA on other projects and special columns
44:48 Heart It Races – Architecture in Helsinki
47:41 Wake Up – Arcade Fire
53:11 PMA on The Antlers
53:21 Bear – The Antlers
57:15 PMA Signoff
57:22 DJ Mimi (Casablanca – So Cow)
58:05 Hearts On Fire – Cut Copy

Here is an interesting article Confusion posted up on Pigeons and Planes grading Hip Hop’s “Freshman Class.” Big names on the list include: Wale, Kid Cudi, Drake, and Mickey Factz. Confusion, a bit more au courant in the Freshman Class than I am, also grades J.Cole, Frank Ramz (contributor to his blog), Charles Hamilton (chicks can kick his ass, I hear), B.o.B. (or Bobby Ray now? He just sounds like he’s Hannah Montana’s Dad now…), Fuze the MC, and Izza Kizza.

Good article all around, but I do feel some talent (or whatever) is missing from this list. Maybe Asher Roth, Wiz Khalifa among others. Maybe there’s room for some aggressive expansion.

Read the Article Here

INTERESTING READS:

Idolator’s resident Hot 100 chart guru Chris Molanphy goes into incredible detail of why he suspects today’s major record labels are trying to bury the digital single. I love his weekly 100 and Single column on Idolator; his insight into the business is just captivating. Maybe I’m just a chart nerd. [100 and Single >> Idolator]

Hilarious alert: What Michael Jackson would look like if he was still black! Oh, and Happy Birthday MJ! [I'm Not Obsessed]

The 23 most annoying frontment in Rock [Metromix Chicago]

PMA had a bad case of hotlinking; here’s how I fixed it, just in case you ever need to do it yourself [elbo.ws forums]

This was inspired by Sheena Beaston’s 666th post! And I was uber bored waiting for this class to start.

I. 6 Pop Songs That We Consider Guilty Pleasures (of 08)
1. Lady GaGa – Just Dance
2. Ne-Yo – Closer
3. Pussycat Dolls – When I Grow Up
4. Chris Brown – Forever
5. Rihanna – Disturbia
6. Jonas Brothers – Burnin’ Up

II. 6 Band Names that Make Us Giggle Every Time We Hear It (of 08)
1. Pussycat Dolls (my mind’s in the gutter)
2. Lady GaGa
3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
4. Passion Pit
5. Lykke Li
6. Mr. Oizo

III. 6 Musicians You Might Not Realize We Think are Sexy and Totally Give us the Vapors (of 08)
1. The Streets
2. MGMT
3. Britney Spears
4. Vampire Weekend
5. Robin Thicke
6. Madonna

IV. 6 Albums We Couldn’t Live Without (of 08)
1. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
2. Britney Spears – Blackout (to this day, it’s constantly playing)
3. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
4. Lady GaGa – The Fame (the guiltiest, most pleasurable album I’ve heard in a while)
5. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
6. Lupe Fiasco – The Cool (repeat Blackout story)

V. 6 Newer-ish Artists We Can’t Seem to Quit (of 08)
1. Vampire Weekend
2. MGMT
3. Lykke Li
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah?
5. Santogold
6. Lady GaGa

VI. 6 Words or Phrases We Use WAY Too Much on this Site (of 08)
1. Amazing
2. OMG
3. Brilliant
4. Fucking
5. Download (haha)
6. Bangin’ (no one should ever say that)

Cheers!

I’M NOT ONE TO BRAG BUT… PITCHFORK GAVE PMA ONE HUGE SHOUT OUT (THAT SOMEHOW INFLUENCED TONS OF OTHER BLOGS — INCLUDING ROLLING STONE and STEREOGUM TO GIVE PMA SHOUTOUTS)! I’M FEELING PRETTY DARN COOL RIGHT NOW.