Category: Buy It, Burn It, Skip It

BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Actress, Melvins, Born Ruffians

[Photo by Will Bankhead]

As we all know by now, new releases hit record store shelves and digital download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re curious (Burn It) and something you should avoid at all costs (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Beach Fossils, Karen Elson, Marina and the Diamonds

Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils

As we all know by now, new releases hit record store shelves and digital download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you should avoid at all costs (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: LCD Soundsystem, The Black Keys, Band of Horses

LCD Soundsystem @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Photo by Jen Maler

As we all know by now, new releases hit record store shelves and digital download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you should avoid at all costs (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Flying Lotus, The New Pornographers, The Hold Steady

[Photo by Timothy Saccenti]

As we all know by now, new releases hit record store shelves and digital download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re curious (Burn It) and something you should avoid at all costs (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Caribou, Javelin, Cypress Hill

Caribou

[Photo by Nitasha Kapoor]

As we all know by now, new releases hit record store shelves and digital download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re curious (Burn It) and something you should avoid at all costs (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

And because we’re not above acting totally juvenile, this week’s column is a special 4/20 one…

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Sam Amidon, Prins Thomas, MGMT

L to R: Sam Amidon and Shahzad Ismaily at the Bedroom Community compound in Reyjkavik

Photo by Andrew Parks

It’s been a while since we last issued a Buy It, Burn It, Skip It column—eight months to be exact, mostly because our associate editor (Aaron Richter) was busy relocating to our art department. Lame excuses aside, we couldn’t remain silent any longer; not with this blatant rip-off happening every week at Vanity Fair.

To be clear, Aaron came up with the Buy/Burn/Skip rating system while he was at Giant magazine, and we started filing our version of it a couple months before Graydon and his gray-haired minions “coincidentally” starting doing the same thing, albeit with one word change. So, yeah: Conde Nast, we’re watching you…

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Reigning Sound, Box Elders, Black Mold

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By Aaron Richter

As we all know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Ty Segall, The Dead Weather, Discovery

Words and Photo by Aaron Richter

As we all know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Mos Def, Sonic Youth, Miike Snow

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By Aaron Richter

As we all know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: J Dilla, Patrick Wolf, Franz Ferdinand

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By Aaron Richter

As we all know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. That’s why self-titled presents the following every week: a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the curious type (Burn It) and something you might have heard about but probably should avoid (Skip It). Simple, ain’t it?

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