January 2012
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strippertweets:
GQ: How were you feeling...
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I sold Jimmy Page a Graphic Novel
rockandrolltedium:
I used to work in a bookstore in Central London whilst I was at university studying.
One day I looked up from my computer to see a small, very tanned, white haired man wearing a long black coat holding out a graphic novel to buy. It was none other than Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
by Benjamin Law Smith
And now the only thing I’ll be able to do with my brain...
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PAZZ/JOP
Here’s my batshit whackadoo ballot, in which my dorkdom for fuck-a-genre EDM (Modeselektor, Katy B, Egyptrixx), nu-indie druganaut rap (Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T., Danny Brown) and oil-stained dirtbag rock (Kurt Vile, Black Lips, DJ Shadow kinda sorta I guess, Justice effing definitely) is hopefully made less contradictory and inexplicable by the inclusion of motherfucking...
Ley Lines: andrewtsks: “I haven’t got far into Rod... →
ley-lines
Listening to various versions of Jorge Ben’s “Taj Mahal” for years now has made hearing “…Sexy?” strange. At first I couldn’t hear the Ben without hearing Stewart’s lifting of it (annoyingly so), but now that process is happily reversed. I’m pretty sure Reynolds mentioned “Taj Mahal” in Retromania, so I’m slightly surprised he didn’t make the connection more explicit here, since...
"Jesus Fever," Kurt Vile. 132 plays. One weekend... →
marathonpacks:
Pay it forward!
I capriciously reset my play counts a couple times over the course of the year, so my results aren’t entirely accurate, and if they were, they’d be skewed by some personal soundtrack listening based around a criticism-unrelated independent writing project I’m working on in my spare time.
That said: 20 plays for this.
December 2011
31 posts
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“David Roth: I wish William Friedkin would make a gritty, rainy-looking movie...”
– Roth/Raposa again, at Baseball Prospectus of all places. I have made this threat before; it is a bit less idle this time.
“What’s obvious in all this is that it should not require high-level statistical...”
– Eric Nusbaum.
(Second in a series about things I inevitably feel compelled to compare to contemporary music criticism.)
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“For the first time in a long while, I’m not an authority. I don’t want to be an...”
– El-P.
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“So much of comics — and I’m thinking the whole industry, not just...”
– Tucker Stone. (While we’re on the subject of what comic critics and music critics have in common…)
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Blue Lines Revisited: I wonder what other r&b... →
tomewing:
maura:
Sorry if this sounds snobby! It’s just, ugh, this is all reminding me of how Eminem gets airplay on rock stations. Cultural signifiers and aesthetic preferences becoming confused and elevating stuff for possibly weird reasons.
One of my favourite ever ILX moments (and favourite rockcrit moments!) was when Nate P listed - w/o much editorial context and no real-finger...
“So perhaps pop music is becoming like comics—a minor artform, fiercely loved by...”
– Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part II: PJ Harvey, Jessie J, And The Post-Pop Character Landscape
This point by Tom Ewing may be a little obscure for most people, but it will ring very true for the people who are way into both comics and music. You might be surprised by how many well-known music...
NOBODY WINS
douglasmartini:
pussy-strut:
WHEN COMMON AND DRAKE HAVE BEEF
#it’s like if natty ice and coors light had beef
It’s like if Mike’s Hard Lemonade and Smirnoff Ice had beef.
“The Bitch in Yoo” was 15 years ago and I feel oh-el-dee.
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Two things that bored the daylights out of me this...
-The Bon Iver album
-People complaining non-stop about how critically acclaimed the Bon Iver album is
““The ’80s were a motherfucker!” Trotter was getting a haircut and talking about...”
– Don’t let the green grass fool you: The Roots are one of the most respected hip-hop acts in the world; why can’t they leave the sad stuff alone? | Capital New York (via iamdavidbrothers)
My Pitchfork review of undun gets cited in this article (among others), and in a way that I think underscores...
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“David Roth: The New York edition of Zagat’s is so suffocatingly New York....”
– It am finding it very difficult to keep myself from just turning this Tumblr into an aggregator of everything these two write. [The Classical]
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2011: The Year in Old
So last week I did what seems to be the requisite track-sharing thing for 2011 and threw a bunch of stuff up on Spotify. (And then I learned that Spotify is kind of dicey when it comes to sharing things that aren’t in their database and people don’t already have in in their libraries. Welp.) But of course I’d be lying if I said that my 2011 listening was entirely steeped in 2011...
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Budget Fashionistas: natepatrin replied to your... →
douglasmartini:
natepatrin replied to your post: The thing that sucks about Spotify is that a lot…
How does that work? I was able to hear it on your playlist, but does that mean it’s only possible because it’s on my hard drive?
You can listen to a track someone has on their playlist if it’s not in the system but it happens to be your own library. But one of the main reasons I wanted to make...
2011 tracks shortlist Spotify playlist thing
So hopefully this works. I’m a Spotify Idiot so I’m mostly just hoping that everything actually shows up. This is a selection of songs from 2011 that I will eventually pare down to 100, sort into some semblance of a mix, and leave up there on the internet for people. Right now it’s just a list with no real rhyme or reason, which means if you listen in order eventually...
“And then there’s the issue of inducting Freddie King as an ‘Early Influence’ —...”
– “Why Freddie King’s Induction as an Early Influence Makes a Mockery of the Entire Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Process.” (via marathonpacks)
My favorite line, re: the Small/Faces: “Maybe the Baseball Hall of Fame will combine the stats of all of the Molina brothers and put them in the...
small immunities: jakec:…Food for thought: what if... →
imathers:
Look, don’t get me wrong; like every other writer (or more generally, artist) when I look at the stuff I’ve done I can only see the flaws, the things I would change now. It’s one of the reasons I appreciate good editing and chances to revise. But I’ve always said that writing takes a kind of doublethink, where on the one hand you are painfully conscious of your weaknesses (or else...
November 2011
10 posts
