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In the fourth installment of our "Seven Sins" series, we examine the ways that sloth has surfaced in music throughout the ages. Slate music critic Jody Rosen talks about blackface minstrelsy and mush-mouthed drug songs, and cultural critic Cintra Wilson shares her own batch of lazy and lethargic tunes.

During today's installment of our Seven Sins series, we heard how the sin of sloth – has a lot to do with melancholy. And few bands do melancholy quite like the British group Tindersticks.

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Every day I write stuff on the Soundcheck blog, usually because I’ve thought a bit about the subject of the show. Today I just didn’t feel like it. It’s not that I’m lazy, or slothful. It’s not because I haven’t thought long and hard about today’s program. I have. Quite ...

In the latest installment of our Friday series, “Seven Sins: The Deadly Medley,” we examine sloth – a “deadly sin” that walks the fine line between laziness and melancholy. Our guest Cintra Wilson shares this list.

-David Bowie/Brian Eno, "Warszawa"

In the latest installment of our Friday series, “Seven Sins: The Deadly Medley,” we examine sloth – a “deadly sin” that walks the fine line between laziness and melancholy. Our guest Jody Rosen shares this list.

Harry Fields, "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up ...