January 2012
3 posts
BRB I just saw that Lambchop is playing here in...
(for other shows too, so the T ride is worth it for saving the TM fees)
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I should probably start doing this again
I read my dashboard (just about) every day but haven’t really been posting here regularly since the summer. I’ve written a few things on my other blog, but largely I haven’t been writing or sharing a ton of things (generally how I use my Tumblr). As much as I’d like to write more, I’ve been enjoying just reading and listening around here.
Anyway, hopefully more from...
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
yourmandevine:
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
VERY, VERY important.
December 2011
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November 2011
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“I could not perform “Everybody Hurts” for the last time in London with 30,000...”
– Michael Stipe: Why R.E.M. called it a day
Michael on why the band never deliberately went out for a final tour. “The idea of doing some kind of victory lap or final farewell tour just felt — and still feels — like it would have been completely mercenary and exploitative and impossible.”
(via...
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October 2011
5 posts
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September 2011
5 posts
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R.E.M.: America's Greatest Band →
marathonpacks:
Wrote this for the Atlantic today. I’m sure everyone will completely agree with me and we can all go about our merry ways. As you were.
I’m extremely biased, so take this with a grain of salt, but this is a thought I’ve spent a lot of time considering and came to the same conclusion (only not as well-supported or stated).
“People love to complain that R.E.M. should have broken up when Bill Berry quit...”
– R.E.M. R.I.P.: Thank You for Running It Into the Ground | Rob Sheffield | Rolling Stone
Rob Sheffield is a man who gets it.
(via perpetua)
August 2011
5 posts
“Because culture shouldn’t be a pacifying thing. It shouldn’t be...”
– Interviews: Jarvis Cocker | Features | Pitchfork
(via 15 Years of Pitchfork Interviews)
July 2011
11 posts
$50K for Pulp →
perpetua:
According to this booking company, it would cost approximately $50,000 to book Pulp for a concert at a college in the United States, but only in November of 2011. This would seem to indicate that Pulp indeed have plans to play shows in North America later this year! (More commentary/context from Maria and Heather.)
So who’s starting the Kickstarter?
"The whole point of Beavis and Butt-Head's video... →
maura:
Assigning Jess Harvell a piece on Beavis and Butt-Head: Another thing to check off the “to do in life” list.
A great piece, and this bit about the subject of B&B’s “viewing,” for lack of a better word, makes total sense. I guess this puts the link between Beavis and Butt-Head and something like The Soup a lot closer than I ever considered.
I think this is one of those things where Maura... →
perpetua:
“At first, she was talented enough to get by. Live performances, although slightly edgy, were strong enough to forgive the fact that she’d obviously had a few before she went on stage. But eventually, even this all proved too much for her adoring fans and just a few months ago, the quality of her performance was so poor she was booed off stage in Serbia. There are so many parallels here...
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Watch“Holy Holy” - Wye Oak on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
I saw Wye Oak last Friday night (in a tiny theatre room in an art museum!) and they were terrific. If anything, they were a little loud for the room, but this is a band that gets such a complex sound out of two players, not to mention writes some really exceptional tunes.
I didn’t make it up last night to watch them on Late...
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Mobile app won't let me reblog the entire post, so... →
I am thrilled to be there tonight.
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down: People sometimes... →
People sometimes refer to this era as my “early years,” which is always pretty funny to me. When I began playing solo and heading toward the making of this album, I was pushing 30 and had been at it since my teens. I went through the 90s wringer with Chisel, and (at the risk of being too emo)…
June 2011
8 posts
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How I Know I'm Grumpy
When I read about another deluxe anniversary reissue (this being the 4CD+DVD Nevermind) and think that it’s less about paying tribute to the album and more about wringing a fanbase out of another $40.
“If Clemons will be remembered by a single musical moment, it will likely by his...”
– R.I.P. Clarence Clemons | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club
Pitchfork: Kanye West Says "Mama's Boy" Is "Bogus" →
So if I take Kanye at his word here (and for the record I don’t think this is “bogus,” I think it’s either the wrong word or he means it in the Bill and Ted sense of “this leak is the opposite of awesome”), I would like to know who produced this track and would like to hear more things from said producer.
On a related note, I’ve listened to this song at...
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Another time, remind me to tell you about my... →
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it in this space yet, but I’m writing about Ted Leo and the Pharmacists for One Week / One Band this week. I’ve really been enjoying it! And I’ve been working hard trying to do justice to (probably) my favorite band (not to mention balancing this with work, but wah wah there, right?), so all of my spare energy has gone into writing and...
May 2011
13 posts
“I think this record is depressing to you because it makes you feel that you’ve...”
– Liz Phair to Chuck “Guy Among Guys” Klosterman, “The Exile Factor,” Spin, July 15, 2003
This entire interview is golden, meaning filled with Klosterman being the kind of douche for which Liz has no patience, and Liz, in fact, having no patience for him as he tries to bait her into insulting her own...
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““The secret of Adele’s success? No festivals, tweeting - or selling out. Soul...”
– Lefsetz, today, proving my point about “authenticity” arguments being put forth by blowhards. (via shutuplefsetz)
It’s just as I predicted!!
(via maura)
This is bad enough for all the reasons Maura outlined in the Voice the other day. It’s worse for the idea that an individual’s...
“The Internet has developed a tabloid-ish tendency to identify people who...”
– Just North of Something Important: Just don’t look
More truth from Mike Barthel
“For this Sunday’s show, how did you determine which bands would cover which...”
– Paris Review – Michael Azerrad on ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’, Dawn Chan
(This whole interview is terrific.)
“Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me either out or...”
– To my fans and followers | Bob Dylan
(Via the 33 1/3 blog too)
“(My one change is that I don’t think his songs are novelties; I think...”
– A Snack and an Ego Stroke: Me vs. The Crowd at Childish Gambino
I came across this post on Twitter and it hit on something bouncing around my head that I haven’t been able to articulate. I saw the Donald Glover / Childish Gambino show Friday night and came out of it thinking that it was fun...
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“Stipe: I’ve never written a song that’s hopeless. I’m not a...”
– Michael Stipe - Page 4 - Interview Magazine
Hearing Michael Stipe describe this quality in his songwriting, combined with my obsessive love of R.E.M. during my formative years, explains a lot about my taste in art, I think.
This entire interview is terrific too. (Thanks Matthew)