Pop Finally Eats Itself, Classical Bores Itself, and The Decade is Nailed Shut Before It's In the Ground

Interesting insights abound this time of year, some late to the party.

**K-Punk on the fight for RATM's Christmas 2009

**Rogue's Foam with another intensely long dissection of many of the more unfortunately true stereotypes of 21st century classical music

**The Quietus has a mostly great series of "Wreath Lectures" on the ending decade worth your time

**The Wire also has a remarkably unirritating list of bests for 2009 with Broadcast and the Focus Group and Oneohtrix Point Zero (whose double disc I just got and am spinning madly) at the top!