April 2012
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“In America, Warner Bros. licensed Loveless and Isn’t Anything to Plain...”
– Kevin Shields But dude! It just sounds better on vinyl.
Apr 30th
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Freeleech, Music Day Project 2012, and Electric...
Wow, so! I woke up this morning hot and ready to write a capsule Music Diary Project entry. After I looked at the facts, it seems like Music Diary Project 2012 is actually about to start. Maybe I’m like the Music Diary Project groundhog? Probably not. But I did “see my shadow” (“‘end up’ ‘getting’ about 2,500 songs on Friday”), and...
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Listenmatt-t: Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and...
Apr 27th
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Does anyone want to recommend like one, two,...
Apr 27th
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ListenClams Casino “Benji B ‘Exploring...
Apr 27th
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Four Pictures Of Instagram
Last night and this morning I saw three music writers write on Instagram. I was going to reblog Perpetua, but I couldn’t upload photographs to the reblog, so this new post should suffice. Amanda Petrusich says, These days, instead of eschewing technology, we’re using it to deny itself — it’s figuring out a wash that makes fresh jeans look old, it’s pre-weathered furniture, it’s a...
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Selected Wisdom of Kool A.D.
To commemorate the release of Kool A.D.’s latest mixtape, 51, I have selected pieces of Kool’s, né Victor Vazquez’s, wisdom, via The World’s First Perfect Zine: IF YOU’RE USING A FRENCH WORD TO DESCRIBE IT, IT CAN’T BE ALL THAT “AVANT GARDE” NOW, CAN IT? […] PRINCE’S REAL NAME IS PRINCE. […] ART: AGE OLD RULING...
Apr 24th
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Listentheremixbaby: Two things I’ve wanted to do this...
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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"The Flaming Lips Could Never Happen Now" →
To go along with the amazing Flaming Lips record store day release, I figured I’d link to this thing. It’s an essay I wrote that never found its way to publication anywhere, so I posted it to my own website. I’m pretty happy with it. The idea is that the Flaming Lips were given so much rope, and that you don’t necessarily see that anymore these days. The big thing was...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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“Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times was saddled with the task of writing a...”
– Erin Gibson: “Pretty Funny (Minus the Funny)”  This is a pretty good (plus funny) take on TV takes.
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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“But here’s the thing: as far as female presidents go, Barbie is about the most...”
– I’m super LOLing at this piece Sady wrote about “I Can Be… President” (sic) Barbie.
Apr 19th
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sexartandpolitics asked: Did Louie follow a black woman around for an episode?
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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"I went to the bathroom and it smelled like...
Last Friday, I went to the Guggenheim to see Julianna Barwick and Grouper play the museum’s “Divine Ricochet” music series. On display in the Guggenheim’s winding gallery there were these pretty large, savage-looking sculptures made of crunched up car metal made by John Chamberlain. I liked the mix of people: it was a funny combination of people who were decidedly not...
Apr 18th
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Yesterday Was Dramatic. Today is OK.
Yesterday I wrote a post that I thought was a pretty clear satire. 1 I guess I’m mostly untroubled by it and the reaction I seem to have received. And since that reaction is part of my whole reason for writing it, I’ll share some of those. One person said, “This is the best takedown of the show I’ve read.” but that was almost immediately after I posted it, before I...
Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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I Watched "Girls", I Did Not Like "Girls", And I...
First, I once knew a girl like Lena Dunham. I did not like her. Wait. No, I’m getting ahead of myself. First (really), I hate New York. Not ‘New York’ New York, but the kind of New York depicted on television. There are 8.39 million people in New York, so why are you showing me only five or six of those people? Show me 8.39 million or don’t show me any of them. Second,...
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 13th
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Lil B Lil Boss Brandon McCartney Based God New...
Manifest Destiny In Reverse This guy is really onto something. Lil B has released two of my favorite rap mixtapes of the year — by far. It’s as if he’s slowly (but inexorably) gotten better at the thing he’s done every day for the last five years. Go figure. Lil B is a g-d damn American success story. Lil B loves people, and they love Lil B. Sort of. At the end of...
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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“Rich daddy left you with a parachute / Your voice sounds like money and your...”
– I have a feeling Stephen Jenkins of Third Eye Blind will have foreshadowed my ‘take’ on Girls when I see it.
Apr 12th
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“Fear not the great nor the mighty, but be wise and ever serene. Know the...”
– My theory is that about five years ago, Lil B took a huge hit of acid that was soaked into the “Father Zossima” chapter of Brothers Karamazov, and he hasn’t been the same since. Some people think “The Grand Inquisitor” is cool and real, but it’s not. This is cool...
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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“As I understand it, this guy takes the worst elements of Lil’ Wayne...”
– Someone is finally making sense about 2Laimz. [Edit: I should have read the OP a little more closely. Rather than skim for a solid burn on 2Chainz from what is my favorite rap blog, I assumed it was all 100% goody-good and not an aberrationally racist-sounding post.]
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Drake: 2005-2010
mattbarnesphoto: I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures… I cannot think of a better way to start off the week than a photographic retrospective, exhibiting Matt’s work with Drake over a five year spell. Their introduction came about through Toronto’s Urbanology Magazine, but has since spiraled to over ten shoots; shots from which have been published in Rolling...
Apr 9th
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“our brain works by filling in locations inverted snobbery or the moonwalk of...”
– From Erica Kaufman’s INSTANT CLASSIC, glowingly endorsed by Eileen Myles. (via millionsmillions) That’s a pretty strong endorsement.
Apr 9th
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“‘Facebook puts ads on the right-hand side, which people recognize as...”
– So rather than “kicking Facebook’s ass”, it seems more accurate to say that Twitter is better at deception, or at least capitalizing (literally) on people’s ignorance. Actually, that sounds like a pretty good business model.
Apr 9th
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“However, if we hate someone for disliking what we like, the world grows sick....”
– This essay by Tim Rogers called “How To Avoid Hating People (Even If They Wear The Wrong Color)” was like one of the most interesting things I’ve read online in a while. It really gets to some what you’d called ‘core issues’ concerning internet discourse, in ways...
Apr 9th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Heather Christle: Mark Leidner, Mark Leidner, Mark... →
heatherchristle: One of my favorite books from last year was Mark Leidner’s Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me. One of my favorite interviews from this week was Mark Leidner’s interview at The Rumpus, where he makes careful and astute and focused remarks, like: Irony is more like a necessary feature… I don’t think it should come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, but the...
Apr 7th
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