September 2010
What's really great about this PRR Das Racist Awl... →
hardcorefornerds:
rawkblog:
Everyone’s thoughts about music are funneled through a private set of inherent or built-up likes and dislikes and preconceptions and context; there’s nothing wrong with approaching criticism through an authoritative voice and one need look no further than Jonathan Gold to see how powerful it can be when someone is so secure in their judgement that they can use...
Marriage numbers on the decline →
In many big cities, never-married young adults are a strong majority among their peers. In San Francisco, 82% of adults between 25 and 34 had never been married in 2009,
How many young San Franciscans aren’t legally allowed to marry in California, TIME? Just a thought.
luckymess asked: Not asking anything, but I read this:
I’m having trouble finding the chart someone made of 1st/2nd/3rd/4th generation MP3 blogs.
Probably you're looking for something different, but this old MP3 Blog has a nice blogroll ordered chronologically: early adopters, class of 2004, 2005, 2006.
http://the-big-ticket.blogspot.com/
Man I get nostalgic...
I’m having trouble finding the chart someone made of 1st/2nd/3rd/4th generation MP3 blogs.
Probably you're looking for something different, but this old MP3 Blog has a nice blogroll ordered chronologically: early adopters, class of 2004, 2005, 2006.
http://the-big-ticket.blogspot.com/
Man I get nostalgic...
1 tag
What's really great about this PRR Das Racist Awl... →
Everyone’s thoughts about music are funneled through a private set of inherent or built-up likes and dislikes and preconceptions and context; there’s nothing wrong with approaching criticism through an authoritative voice and one need look no further than Jonathan Gold to see how powerful it can be when someone is so secure in their judgement that they can use qualitative words like...
IRL note
I’m in the middle of heavy-duty research on the history of MP3/music blogging (most of which I lived through, yes) for my In The City panel and also for the in-progress book proposal I’m hoping to start pitching by the end of the year. Have any great links or anecdotes? Send ‘em over. I’m having trouble finding the chart someone made of 1st/2nd/3rd/4th generation MP3 blogs.
The Matador 21 schedule
Sunday is going to be the best day of my, or anyone in history’s, life
Anyone else going?
1 tag
NP: Crushed Stars - 'Spies' →
Greg and I were discussing the Beach Fossils album the other night, and I got to thinking about luminous, arpeggio-driven guitar records. Prettier and more artful than the B. Fossil’s workmanlike debut, Crushed Stars’ 2008 release Gossamer Days offers the simple pleasures of aesthetic richness; with a new album by the band on the way, it’s well worth revisiting.
NEW GENRE/MEME ALERT
There’s a new CFCF mixtape available on The Fader. It’s called Do You Like Night Bus? CFCF is a boarder on Hipinion, a formerly Pitchfork-sponsored message board that sort of serves as the Jon Stewart to Hipster Runoff’s Stephen Colbert. “Night bus” is a parody sorta-genre invented by Hipinion. As CFCF says:
“night bus is a silly little term that originated on...
PRR dropped so much science about music criticism...
to me, writing “this song sounds like X and Y and this song sounds like Q and Z and this song sounds like R and X” is useless without pointing out why the artist made the song sound that way and why the record was made that way, especially to people who haven’t listened to it. fitzmaurice needs to go a step beyond the What into the Why, especially in places like this: “it takes a few...
The new of Montreal's return to heteronormativity
I really love this album, in part because Kevin wrote three-minute songs again, but also in part because he’s singing about getting with girls instead of singing about being a black she-male and that’s infinitely more relatable
This is a natural feeling but then I have conflicting GUILT EMOTIONS over wanting Kevin to rein in his pan-sexual embrace for my personal benefit
I’m...
sexartandpolitics:
For a generation that’s allegedly all about clinging to childhood, everybody i know feels like we’re getting old and running out of time.
You feel like this, but then you meet the right boy/girl and get the job you’ve been gunning for and life feels like it’s just starting again, you know?
Not drinking a lot helps. Or hurts, I guess, but it makes the mornings...
The new Deerhunter album
I mean, my God
Going to have to look up “dreamy” in the thesaurus if I’m going to get through the rest of 2010 in one piece
Thing I hate the most on the entire Internet
Numbered, painfully obvious self-help lists, especially the tech-oriented ones:
“10 ways to relieve stress”
“15 tips on being a better blogger”
“12 ways to be more efficient” (No. 1: Stop reading these lists and work, you schmuck)
“20 ways to suck your own dick for page views”
I suppose this is no different than the “13 ways to please your...
a grammar: offended by rank OBJECTIFICATION of... →
agrammar:
There is this thing currently going around tumblr about why dating a writer is good. I think it’s nice that this thing is going around, because I like writers, and lots of us could use more dates. As a writer who has dated people, though — including other writers — I would like to offer some…
Must-read.
Poorly considered comparisons
“I can’t see myself doing this 10 years from now. We’ve been a band now as long as the Beatles, and pop music is a young man’s game.”
— Win Butler, who probably should’ve recorded another 10 or so great albums before delivering this quote
The new Warpaint song
In a year of really tremendously great dream-pop, this is definitely the best
album anticipation just went up to 11
How yr indie rock viral marketing works
1) While surfing Bandcamp, I find the group Telenovelas. Per Hype Machine, I am the first person to blog about them. (A distinction I usually couldn’t care less about, but…)
2) They pick up steam. I Guess I’m Floating blogs the song “One and Only” and, kindly, links back to me.
3) No Modest Bear, a blog written mainly in Swedish (and thus, you know, probably...
can we talk about how good "lady daydream" is now,...
here is the actual link to the aforementioned... →
“Sometime in the ’80s, Bowie was being kept awake in his hotel room by someone...”
– - Pushing Ahead of the Dame: David Bowie, song by song
(incidentally, I also agree that the shorter US single version is the best one.)
Is it too early to make a Sufjan Stevens' "Age of...
On the considerable list of Sufjan Stevens musical skills, beat-making probably wouldn’t make the top five
The new songs are fine but this album seems inexorably heading for the 2010 Brand-Name Indie Band 3.5 Star Album Train
At this moment, Tokyo Police Club still have the indie rock album of the year, which is surprising but awesome
Signs of looming adulthood
The first girl I ever asked out, circa 7th grade or so, got married over the weekend
The first girl I ever saw topless (as part of an epic bet-gone-awry at summer camp involving some 50+ other teenagers looking on) is engaged
Not that I’m keeping track on Facebook or anything
This is happening
PANELS: Pitchfork founder and more added
Posted on 8th Sept. 2010
We’re pleased to announce the addition of seven more panels to the conference. For the full lineup of all the speakers and panels, see the link below.
www.inthecity.co.uk/speakers
Delegate passes for In The City conference are now £200 plus VAT and include full access to the conference and priority to all live events.
...
Teenagers on Tumblr
There are 19-year-olds arguing about whether Green Day is “cool” or not, guys! It’s still 1995!
Hey I wrote about the No Age album today, we can...
First Look: No Age – “Everything In Between”
They say you have your whole life to make your first album. That hasn’t changed, but no one makes first albums anymore. Bands make MySpace demos and Bandcamp EPs and limited edition tapes and Soundcloud embeds, half-ideas sketched on a laptop in hopes of impressing the Internet. Like Mad Men‘s Pete Campbell, they want what they want, when they want...
