Me and Will are huge Streetlight Manifesto fans, so for the third episode of the ETCast, we sat down to rank our ten favorite songs by each band. (We also opened the cast with a brief review of the new Me First and the Gimme Gimmes album). Download link (you may have to right click and…
For the second episode of the ETCast, Grant and I sat down to reflect on the remarkable first season The OC ten years after it first aired. We discussed some of the highlights and lowlights, and tried to decode what made this show so memorable and original. Download link (you may have to right click and “Save…
Hello all – Colton and I recently sat down to record Earn This’s first ever podcast (Earn This PodCast = ETCast). We’re still working out the kinks of the format, but we’re excited to brave this new frontier. We make no guarantees about how frequently we post new episodes, but we’re going to give this a try…
There are few things we at Earn This love more than a good musical — particularly a well-animated or -choreagraphed Disney musical. “Let It Go” has yet to thaw from the Billboard Top 10, and we’re creeping up on the 25th anniversary of The Little Mermaid, a film that launched a thousand Buzzfeed “only 90s kids” articles.…
In our latest mixtape, Brian, Colton, Dan, and Grant have selected some of their favorite songs to listen to on rainy days. As usual, we’ve included a Spotify playlist for you to listen to as you read. Click play on the YouTube video above for full effect. The Doors – Riders on the Storm One of…
Here at Earn This, we are big fans of “countdown lists” — rankings of the best/worst of anything. “Rank This” is a recurring series where we rank and countdown our favorites and least favorites of specific items of specific categories. Rank This Articles: The Top 10 Most Iconic Pop Songs of 2010-14 (Dan) Ranking the…
The idea is simple — one or more of us select a category. Then, we each choose a few things from that category and write about those things. The categories can be broad or hyper-specific, selections can span one medium or multiple, entries can be short bullet points or huge diatribes. And that’s the point —…
Note: This is the “legacy” Mixtape page, which we are not updating anymore. We’ve since renamed the series to Mix This and expanded it to include collections in other media than music. ….. In the Mixtape series, Earn This writers choose about 20 songs (usually favorites) in a given genre or category and write their thoughts about…
Pop is the most widely beloved, enduring, and profitable form of music in the age of recording studios. Probably because of this, it doesn’t get a lot of respect from hipsters, which makes it easy to find online music hubs filled with nothing but loathing and pity for the millions blasting Top 40 on the…
This is the first in a hopefully-recurring feature where the writers of Earn This will choose some genre or theme, collectively pick twenty or so of their favorite songs under that umbrella, and write a few words about each song. If we’re motivated, we’ll even embed a Spotify playlist. For our first entry, Dan and…