Remember when Buzzgrinder was good? You know, before we jumped the shark? Yeah, we don’t either. But we are going to crack open our archives once a week anyway, to see what we were talking about around this date in the middle of the decade, now that it’s almost over and all.

:: We scooped everyone and were the first to report on mewithoutYou writing the album that would become Brother, Sister. Reminds me of something that happened not too long ago with Sunny Day Real Estate, too.

:: Frantic Mantis was doing interviews. Almost forgot about that Frodus/Division of Laura Lee collab deal, what with FCI getting back together and all.

:: Pete Wentz and Brandon Flowers were getting ready to start slap-fighting. I don’t know for sure that it would’ve been that kind of fight, but it’s not like either of those dudes could punch — much less take a punch.

:: Man, digital music was skyrocketing in popularity, making up a whopping six percent of all music sales.

:: Sometimes I forget there was a time when Ok Go wasn’t known as “that Youtube band, you know the one with the treadmills.”

:: Just a reminder that I’m not the only Buzzgrinder staffer who is obsessed with The Simpsons.

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