September 2011
http://emotionalbagcheck.com/topsongs.php →
I can’t tell how many of these are jokes
Emotional Bag Check →
I love this. I’m going to send everyone Jens Lekman songs.
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ →
Most of these are really heart-breaking Real America stories. Obama should read them on the Senate floor. (Although I can’t say I feel bad for the girl who racked up $200,000 in school debt and $35,000 in credit card bills. Go to a public school and live with your parents for a year like the rest of us.)
These Occupy Wall Street photos at the Atlantic... →
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Neutral Milk Hotel to play #occupywallstreet →
youngmanhattanite:
Stereogum confirms Hello Giggles rumor.
I laughed out loud
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Nitsuh Abebe, Radiohead fan
Still: For $600, you could go see 24 different bands playing similar music with very nearly as much talent.
Not that I would pay that much to see anybody (my last two Radiohead/Thom shows have been press pass’d), but if there’s any working band that’s “98%” as good as Radiohead, I’d love to know about it
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Best of 2011: September essentials →
My monthly Rawkblog list.
grungebook replied to your post: grungebook replied to your post: 14 Ways to Not Be…
See #11.
Touche. :)
grungebook replied to your post: 14 Ways to Not Be a Terrible Music Fan
Bravo (aside from the Steely Dan bit)!
Don’t diss the Dan!
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14 Ways to Not Be a Terrible Music Fan
A lot of people seem confused about this. Let’s set the record straight.
(Related: The Reasonable Person’s Guide to Supporting Music/The Reasonable Band’s Guide to Selling It)
1) You can like whatever you like.
2) Other people can, too. Even if they like Nickelback. It’s like how the Tea Party is allowed to be in Congress.
3) There’s no such thing as a guilty...
mlee525 replied to your post: Re: Mr. Rogers
I think a lot has to do with reader mentality (whether this is true or not). Seems like readers don’t have a problem about paying for clothes, but won’t hand over a tenner for an album. Still can’t believe he gets $250K in ad money. Ridic.
While that’s true (see also: food blogs, as discussed earlier this week), his traffic must be insane. The...
Fashion bloggers and money, cont'd. →
The Man Repeller made $10k in two months! (She remains repulsive.)
Re: Mr. Rogers
The fact that The Sartorialist makes allegedly over $250k a year in ad money just from American Apparel probably says everything you need to know about the financial viability of music blogs
Maybe we should all start posting pictures of chillwave musicians standing on street corners with the sun behind them?
So LinkedIn is basically JDate now, huh
“Click here to see who has viewed your profile!”
If Facebook ever releases analytics data the entire Internet might explode
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"As a social media professional, I am personally... →
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The New York Times writes about stubble →
Aspirational journalism
Jens Lekman tonight
Single-handedly making the world safe for beta males who embrace sex, aggression and physicality. He even has a new song titled “I Broke Up a Fight,” which includes the chorus, “I’ve never done that before.” Go see him, Matthew!
There was a point during the Kortedala dance party sequence when a group in the back was ironic iPhone glowsticking. It was maybe the most...
"Battlestar Galactica"
Loved the ending. Thought the very last scene was unnecessary but not too much. They had me worried for a while through S4 but mostly it was great.
perpetua:
2) This is a microcosm of a lot of what I am finding increasingly infuriating in indie culture, i.e., a total rejection of overt masculinity, and this feeling that anyone who is at all macho is the enemy. Why does this culture have to be entirely the domain of skinny, sniveling beta males? Why is aggression, sexuality and physicality in music automatically conflated with a bad scene? We...
A Flickr user also found that Dylan had copied six... →
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Corgi thick Fair Isle socks →
beencaughtsteezing:
Is this the year I spend $38 on socks? It just might be!
Been Caught Steezing is (occasionally) active again.
Labels that don't like Spotify
You might as well throw out your MacBooks, delete your Twitter accounts, quit Netflix, trash your Kindle. The future is here and it is one in which you are going to make less money. And I’m a journalist, so I’ll be joining you!
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Toyota is paying for the new Melvins record →
Gives new meaning to jamming econo.
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SPOTIFY PANIC: Three Labels You Don't Give a Shit... →
A Digital Music News investigative report
Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your... →
sarahspy:
Or, the short list: (1) Identify what’s most important to you. (2) Eliminate everything else.
…and I’m logging out of Tumblr
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Wool shoes #1
Clae’s “Bruce,” $65
Sperry Wool moc, $70
Seavees sneaker, $88
Converse Jack Purcell, $63
J. Crew wool Purcells (nicer) $85
Vans $65 (swap out the laces, maybe?)
Unrelated: Suede Tigers.
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The new Rihanna/Calvin Harris song →
Bloghouse crosses over at last (it’s not very good).
Related/terrifying:
Our girl Ri keeps the content farm rolling on. As Loud expires a new record rises. “We Found Love” is a first taste of what we can expect from Rihanna’s new project due in November. The tune features Calvin Harris on the boards and it’s sound definitely signals Ri’s embrace of the latest crop of electro.
Someday I’m going to play my kids my shitty demos and they’re going to be like, “Dad, how come no one ever blogged about you?”
jimmyjosh asked: You ever do the college radio thing?
Any questions out there in the Tumblrverse? →
Too tired to play Starcraft II, too scared to get my fiancee’s cold to go to bed just yet
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http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/users/lana-del-raekwon... →
Two more episodes of "Battlestar Galactica"
Episode third-to-last was totally a Lost flash-sideways which makes me terrified
Discussion tomorrow!
One writer's search to find Jonathan Taylor Thomas →
Amazing/hilarious. Wish Amy had tracked down his address and started hiding out in his backyard.
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rachael maddux: Thinking out loud about food and... →
rachael-maddux:
Spurred by this post of Dave’s! I’ve been thinking about this lately—why, when there are so many “personalities” and individual critics associated with music writing, have so few been able to establish online outposts specifically centered around their own personal music-related narratives? Why…
I think, for one, foodies are having a moment — just like menswear and...
Music blogging as personal vs. public
When the going gets tough, a lot of people like to say you should blog for yourself, not for an audience — i.e., for ad dollars — which is inherently false. I listen to music for myself; I write about it for an audience. If that audience begins to shrink, I’m actually wasting my time, not just feeling like I am.
The fact of the matter is very few people have ever...
Music blogs are dying →
A Twitter conversation turned into a Storify thing
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Terrible narratives about Ryan Adams Pt. 3 →
desnoise:
rawkblog:
The review that really stuck out to me was the Times’ review of 29 which called the album a “cry for help” and completely missed the best storytelling effort of his career.
Thanks! This was the sort of thing I was wondering about. It looks like you mean Los Angeles Times here? Based on Metacritic, this review still seems like an outlier; my sense is that many critics have...
Terrible narratives about Ryan Adams Pt. 3 →
desnoise:
OK! That was my original question, though: Who were these critics who did nothing but dismiss him as too prolific? Are they really such a problem, or maybe somewhere along the line did he alienate his fan base all by himself, and so it’s OK for people to talk about him in the context of his most widely acclaimed solo album? I dunno what’s average on Metacritic, but his work since then...
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Terrible narratives about Ryan Adams Pt. 3 →
desnoise:
This really just seems like a case of the intense fan being upset that people who follow an artist less intensely might have a different narrative (case in point: I had to Google “DRA”— and then I had to Google “DRA Ryan Adams”). “Best since Heartbreaker” is sort of Adams’ “best since Automatic for the People,” right? I agree he’s made a bunch of noteworthy music in the meantime, but...
Pitchfork scores I disagree with today
Wilco 6.9
Twin Sister 7.8
Twin Sister is probably a top 10 album for me. Obsessed.
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Terrible narratives about Ryan Adams Pt. 3 →
desnoise:
Who are we complaining about here, exactly? If it’s the usual elephant in the room, well, Pitchfork gave pretty positive scores to Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights (the latter was mine).
Not to bruise your ego, pal, but I don’t think anyone ever expected Pitchfork to be the leading authority on major label alt-country singers. 95% of print/old-school critics get the DRA...
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Terrible narratives about Ryan Adams Pt. 3
Stereogum:
All those tracks seem to promise a return to form, and now the entire new album Ashes & Fire is out there, streaming in full at NPR’s website. So: What do you guys think? Are we back in Heartbreaker territory now?
Me, yesterday:
9 out of 10 reviews for this album are going to call it a comeback, name-drop Heartbreaker, etc., as if albums like Love is Hell and 29 never...
GQ interviews Jesse Thorn →
Why did I not pitch this months ago, arghhh
