Smooth Music That Rocks

If like me, you enjoy long form journalism about sports and pop culture, you should be hanging out for the launch of Grantland - the new website from ESPN’s Bill Simmons - also featuring the work of Chuck Klosterman and various indie blog luminaries.

They’ve got a preview site up now with a couple of articles from Molly Lambert (summer movies*) and Katie Baker (trials of following the NY Knicks) that I really enjoyed.

*There’s a superb Rocco Siffredi reference in there which bodes well if anyone else was worried about corporate intervention from the worldwide leader…