February 2010
66 posts
January 2010
112 posts
The Magnetic Fields - “We are Having a...
Welcome to St. Louis! How to Socialize
yogisarah:
I’m trying out a new concept on my blog called Welcome to St. Louis! I’ve been back in St. Louis a little over a year now, so I think maybe I need to share my knowledge with people who are moving to St. Louis. I’ll tell you what to expect, and also how you should dress in order to “fit in.” Soon, you will be so St. Louis that you’ll find yourself converting to Catholicism!
Some...
“Isn’t it possible that, like I said before, a lot of people used to get paid a...”
– Scott Plagenhoef on the current state of music crit, Pitchfork, and Pazz & Jop.
songsthataregood:
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat...
Madvillain - “Accordion”
Stephin Merritt Writing Score to 20,000 Leagues...
twentyfourbit:
Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt is busy plotting a new synth-heavy record, prepping a documentary, and heading out on tour to support the release of Realism this week, but his calendar isn’t quite packed yet: “I’m working on a score for the 1917 silent film version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Merritt told Exclaim, adding later: “I’m going to try to musicalize it...
“Much like Scientology, Mad Men, and tumblr, marathons are just a way well-to-do...”
– Public School Intelligentsia » Blog Archive » America’s Pandemic: “I’m Running a Mararthon” is the New Meth
Right on!
(via veraville)
My neighbor’s training for a marathon. Won’t shut up about it.
pterodactyls:
yaldabaoth:
The Modern Lovers -...
Ten Updated Colloquialisms For The Modern Age →
tristn:
infoneernet:
Hindsight is always 1080p.
One #hashtag does not a trending topic make.
Too many hosts spoil the podcast.
That’s a hard act to unfollow.
140 characters to the wise is sufficient.
The bandwidth is always greener on the other side of the firewall.
Email, Twitter, and Facebook are three best friends and three worst enemies.
People who live in...
Other side of the music industry news:... →
(via inthejunkdrawer)
Great! Hopefully now I can pay convenience fees when I want to buy band merchandise, too.
Show Review + Setlist: The Fiery Furnaces at the... →
Lately I’ve been feeling very ambivalent about indie rock in general, and going to some concerts has felt more like a chore than a reward. But this show was like a car battery plugged directly into my neurons — brain-meltingly good even by my unrealistically high standards for the Fiery Furnaces. Seriously, if you’ve ever been a fan of this band, and they’re coming anywhere...
The Fiery Furnaces - “Clear Signal from...
The Fiery Furnaces - “Inca Rag/Name...
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P+J+P4K
So I finally got around to reading the “Music-Racism” and “Consensus” Pazz & Jop essays that everyone’s been crowing about all week, and have to admit that it’s a little discouraging that we’re still caught up in the same old, arguably incompatible narratives that (a) commercially successful records should be met with commensurate critical acclaim, and...
“Things aren’t as funny anymore. Have you noticed that?”
– Mrs Listerman, wondering if she’ll still find The Norman Conquests funny when it arrives from Interlibrary Loan. She’s pretty funny herself, and the comment was tinged with a bit of humor; she stopped as she was leaving, though, and added “You know, I lived through the second world war. Why I...
Townes Van Zandt - “Fare Thee Well, Miss...
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goodtimesgreatoldies:
A Minha Menina
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Pazz & Jop 2009 is up →
No surprise on album #1. Here’s my individual ballot.
Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers... →
oldauntamy:
robot-heart-politics:bmckinney:azspot:
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city...
oldauntamy:
Auto-reblog of one of the greatest...
“Instruments sound interesting not because of their sound but because of the...”
– On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer (via jomc)
The end of the office... and the future of work →
This shift has begun to trigger a more fundamental examination of what a job is and what we expect to get from it. Despite the vast diversity of the work people do, the traditional notion of a job has tended to be a standard bundle of responsibilities, roles, and benefits: We do our work for an employer to whom we owe our primary professional allegiance, and that employer pays us and provides us...
Don Covay - “Mercy, Mercy”
I’ve...
