RIP Dinosaur Jury

It's time to prematurely shutter Dinosaur Jury's meteoric rise to prominence, and Kyle Byers [pictured above] is fully to blame. Grin. He can now be found here doing this. He created a custom icon that appears next to his blog's name. He's very proud of it, so be sure to compliment him.

Thanks for checking us out. We had a blast. I'll be this-a-way, blogging to my baby.

Summons: I'm Single

Track: I'm Single
Album: No Ceilings
Artist: Lil' Wayne



Randy: A feature of his 2009 mixtape, No Ceilings, Weezy/Lil' Weezy/Weezy F. Baby grates his way onto Dinosaur Jury once again, largely due to the release of a mixed-lo-fi-and-stock-model-footage video. Tired as I am of this guy's prolificacy, I'm oh so pleasantly surprised by I'm Single's heavy-lidded, REM-sleep instrumental and lean-back attitude. Verdict: [B+]

Kyle: Lil' Wayne breaks new sonic ground with this R&B snoozer, backed by an instrumental track so hypnotic and slow it sounds like it's actually running backward. Sighing, synthetic muted brass tones cast a depressing shadow over the entire song, even as Weezy lays out his exploits in terms like "I falls in that p*ssy like quicksand." I'm not used to Wayne putting me to sleep, much less breaking my heart, but he succeeds in doing both in this relationship dirge disguised as an anthem to philandering. Verdict: [B+]

Dinos break 1M glass ceiling

Randy: With no small help from our childishly differing opinions and playground spats, Dinosaur Jury has broken the 1 million global ranking mark in Alexa. I have no idea if I said that correctly. Kyle will be in here in a moment to add a bunch of hyphens to that statement. But as an added bonus, we're now more relevant in the United States than five other websites owned by our day job corporate masters. Sux0r it, Musician.com, Giardinelli, PrivateReserveGuitar, GuitarSale, and 4lyons. Not bad for a month-and-a-half's worth of pithy arguments.

Kyle: But we can't take full credit for our massive victory. No, a slice of our popularity pie must be served to you, our loyal audience. If it weren't for you, quivering with anticipation each day, your hungry mouths frothing anxiously to see what we "genius bloggers" will come up with next, we could never have toppled the mighty beasts of e-commerce Randy mentions above.

So while he and I will each take a bow and accept your gifts, we do so with humble hearts. For though there is only room for two thrones in this castle, the kingdom, truly, is owned by its peasants.