July 2010
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WatchA video of my cat.
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For the record
Favorite new Arcade Fire song: “American Girl”. No, wait, “Philadelphia”. #iloveit #but #someofthisrecord #soundslikeneilyoungandtompetty
-Larry Fitzmaurice, P4k wunderkind, 2010
Funeral is a much more distinctive record while the new one might as well be The Arcade Fire Sing! “American Girl.”
Me, 2007
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Turnabout Is Fair Play
Why not just be patient with them? It seems pretty obvious to me that they will eventually make “weirder” records, but this is the one they made right now, the one that expressed what they had on their minds, and what built on the strength of their earlier successes. This is kind of what Chris was getting at in that link — no one is willing to give a benefit of the doubt...
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A Top 5 Rawkblog Comment
Re: Maroon 5:
Espinoza1986 0 minutes ago
He bitched you out dude. you must feel like a bitch. None of the music you post is as good as maroon 5 anyways, so you can go fuck yourself with the rest of your snarky indie blogger shitfaces. have fun in your mom’s basement, BITCH
For sheer vehemence, this is great. My all-time favorite is still this one, though, re: arguing with Marc Hogan...
Los Angeles-Area Frozen Yogurt Rankings
1. The Bigg Chill
2. Menchie’s
3. Malibu Yogurt
4. Yogurtland
5. Yogurt Stop
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Pinkberry
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Update, 7/22: Yogurtland is way better than Menchie’s. My apologies.
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Wavves: Just A Sucker With No Self-Esteem →
I like The Offspring better (but not much at all) too, Nick.
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Pop Stars Tweeting About Indie Rock: A Brief...
And then, this:
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Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: morning roundup →
2004’s pitchfork-as-hippie, throwing out wild scores and daring points and freewheeling reviews and trying new drugs and living outside the music reviewing law is 2010’s yuppie, paying the mortgage and driving to work in something expensive but sensible like a Volvo i guess. obviously the days of like 2000-word instant message conversations between George Bush and Gandhi to explain a...
Vanity Fair: Mystery Solved: Why Pavement Wasn't... →
More amazing: that Vanity Fair broke this? Or that Pitchfork wrote this stuff in the first place back in the “nobody reads us” era?
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"Inception"/Best Coast
Can we, as fans of art/popular culture, all come to a place in our appreciation where we can say something is “really good with some minor caveats” or “pretty average, has some nice moments but the lyrics suck?” I know it’s less interesting to do this than say “This is the best movie of the year” or “This blows, I hate it forever, don’t talk to...
hardcorefornerds:
Youth Mass - ‘Only Cunts Buy...
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LA Weekly: The Women Of Pitchfork Fest →
Two things:
1) Obvs. this is sexist, let’s see the Men of Pitchfork Fest gallery already so us feminist bros can ogle guilt-free
2) Most of these girls aren’t particularly hipster-y! (Or that cute, but taste is taste.) Mainstream is winning, you guys! Then again, maybe it’s just summer. Looking forward to sweater weather.
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Vulture: How Bad Was Panda Bear's Set At The... →
Go backlash go
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CMG's Guide To Not Attending P4k Fest →
File under: the latest reason why you should be reading CMG, home of the Internet’s funniest, most passionate music writers.
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Watchyelyahwilliams:
Paramore working on their Loretta Lynn cover. Rad.
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Let's be honest, indie rock
The only differences between Lightning Bolt and Slipknot are the neon guitars and the absence of more masks
Sleigh Bells 4eva
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Los Angeles Bands on Bandcamp →
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So many "Inception" spoilers I want to talk about
I’ll wait a week. Go see it so we can chat.
lnscott replied to your post: Recommend me some headphones? Sennheiser HD 555 amazon.com/Sennhei… Sennheiser HD 595 amazon.com/gp/prod…
Do I need an amp for these, though? Will be using for laptop/iPod
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Also, recording dudes/dudettes, do I buy a new...
I have an old Mbox 1, I want to get rid of it in favor of something MIDI-compatible. Thoughts? Prices? I like Pro Tools but I’m happy to switch.
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Recommend me some headphones?
$100-$200 range? I already have a pair of Sony MDR-V6s (which I love). I listen to guitar bands.
“Blogs posted these songs would inevitably say something along the lines of:...”
– Mark Richardson in Pitchfork: Resonant Frequency #65 - Nine Fragments on Lo-fi’s Attraction to the Natural World
I missed this piece last November when it was published, but it sure is spot on. Tho we all hate to admit it, this about sums it up. I suppose I take solace in the fact that these tunes...
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MP3 Blogs 2010, Again
Posted without comment:
Cut Copy have just sent out an e-mail telling fans that they are giving away a new song called “Where I’m Going” away for free download, all for the price of an e-mail address. All you got to do to download it is go to Cut Copy’s website and hit download a new song. I also posted it below.
(Via)
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Today, I am a meme
Paste joined the Village Voice in blogging about my #p4kfestpickuplines Tweet
Might live-Tweet my dinner and see if I can get in Gawker
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One more
In my soon-to-be-pitched book about indie rock/the Internet/youth culture in the 2000s (literary agents: e-mail me), I think I’ll probably do #Trufflegate, Pitchfork Reviews Reviews and this NYT article as the coda
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This NYT Pitchfork Article →
Needs another 5,000 words
Surreal as hell, right?
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Hey Pitchfork Reviews Reviews
Sweet rolled pants in your New York Times photo. Socks are for suckers.
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On music discovery services on the web
Zoya: yknow, I think the issue w/this "music discovery" thing is that
Zoya: people think it means "listening to music you already know"
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Bands: This is what your e-mails to blogs should...
Subject line: [Band name] Releases [Album Name], “[Song Title]” MP3
Hi [Name of Blogger],
We’re [band name], a [location] [genre] band with a new album, [Album title]. We’re releasing it out on [record label] on [date]. (Optional: [Popular website] has called us [impressive quote]).
Here’s a link to our first single, [“Song Name”] — feel free...
This sentence
i never emailed him because my file-sharing ratio on OiNK was never high enough to get me an invite to the website
This might be the most poignant sentence in Pitchfork Reviews Reviews history
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Rawkblog Premiere: Miles Kurosky's "The World... →
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Pitchfork Reviews Reviews →
the other day i told someone how i was really excited for the conversation about this record and he said it would be interesting to see how critics position themselves around the record and around each other. records like MAYA are like that movie Battle Royale where all these ninth graders are transported to an island and each one is told they have three days to kill all the other ones and...
The Arcade Sound Ltd. Discog →
For free on their site: Memoryhouse’s EP, Magic Man’s album, both tremendous
Now That We've Seen Altered Zones
Hard to judge after a week, but just for fun, let’s take a look at the albums of the half-year post — a lot of the groups mentioned (Big K.R.I.T., Memoryhouse, Teen Daze) have been already reviewed and/or otherwise featured on the Pitchfork mothership, making their AltZonez inclusions seem superfluous. More importantly, though, most of this stuff is ’60s leaning lo-fi...
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Pet Sounds
Washing out the sour taste of the new Panda Bear single. Cokemachineglow’s Dave Ritter insightfully notes that Noah Lennox’s devotion to Brian and the gang is really only to one facet of their lead vocal style — the chest-puffing young protagonist of songs such as “That’s Not Me” — and completely misses the boat on the rest. Which makes making that...
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Women's Magazines
I’m writing up Elle Magazine’s interview with Drew Barrymore at work. It’s the third interview I’ve read in the last couple weeks (also: Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow) with a still hot, still successful 30-something actress that basically reduces them to Single and Aging. (In fairness, the Gwynster interview was for Vogue’s age issue, and she’s not single.)...
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Guys, if you haven't watched "Party Down" yet
Season 2 is on the same level of transcendent, awkward, incredible comedy that the best moments of Arrested Development, 30 Rock and The Office (flawless Season 2s across the board) also offered. 10 out of 10, an A+.
