It’s not easy being a white-shirt-and-tie-wearing corporate drone. We are employed by an old-school company where you can’t, for instance, play “I’m So Bored With the USA” by the Clash really loudly in your office. Not even on a Friday. But honestly, we’re a little bit old-school ourselves. Suburban husbands and dads with kids and dogs and mortgages and, as far as we know, no tattoos or piercings. But we appreciate a good tune, and we know what we like and what we don’t like. Recently, MK was gushing about Jenny Lewis, the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, while CG expressed a similar fondness for Neko Case of the New Pornographers. Both bands had new albums out, and we joked that we should attend one of their performances and toss our underwear on the stage as a sign of appreciation.

Not big fans of disrobing in public (and recognizing that neither singer approaches the beauty of our own wives), we decided against it. But we came up with an alternative way to express our musical opinions: a blog, where we could write brief album reviews with a rating system representing the virtual underwear we would have tossed at the likes of Jenny and Neko. Hence, Album Briefs.