February 2011
86 posts
January 2011
93 posts
“The first time the Knife received funding from the Swedish Arts Council was in...”
– Perfect Sound Forever: The Knife
I don’t know whether to be flattered that one of Christgau’s NYU students pretty much plagiarized some reporting I’m really proud of, or bummed that the Dean apparently didn’t notice:
The first time the Knife got money from the Swedish Arts...
“Roger Ailes could win … if the idea of a unified America lost. He could...”
– Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? - by Tom Junod -Esquire
this whole profile: SO GOOD
(of course, i’m way late on this, but maybe you are, too?)
The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling: “In...
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“The moon is my alibi. My tenders throw hissy fits.
My scalp’s at the foot of...”
– I Did This to My Vocabulary by Michael Robbins : Poetry Magazine
(via Harper’s)
I’ve been keeping my head down for a week or two and have fallen behind on my magazines, but I’m trying to get caught up.
“Gang of Four were always less interested in smashing storefronts than in...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Gang of Four: Content
“Jimmy Eat World soldiered on with drastically diminishing returns, Saves the Day...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The Get Up Kids: There Are Rules
(via desnoise)
I like how the only bad thing this dude says about the Promise Ring is that they broke up. Will Wood/Water finally get its due?
(via narrowsparrow)
from “this dude,” p4k’s Ian Cohen, who says he is...
“When I think of those records, I think about being a kid and I think of fun. You...”
– Pitchfork: Articles: Iron & Wine
really nice feature by Amanda Petrusich, of course— the bits that tug at your heartstrings come later, and all of the descriptions are awesomely vivid and eloquent, but I’m excerpting this quote from Sam Beam because it’s something I think...
“Jimmy Eat World soldiered on with drastically diminishing returns, Saves the Day...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The Get Up Kids: There Are Rules
Cohen and I used to listen to similar stuff!
“And Jesse Kivel has made fine, Air France-style beach fantasy-pop under the name...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Princeton: Cocoon of Love
glad to see a good review for Kisses on Pitchfork today, courtesy of one Paul Thompson. when i first heard the album, even before the above Princeton review, i was almost too close to the music to tell if it was any good or not— “hey,...
“MySpace really seems to have just moved specifically into launching bands,” said...”
– Online Fandom » Where MySpace Went Wrong And What It Can Still Do Right
“The first record came out of us listening to really rare records and collecting...”
– Who Are…Smith Westerns - eMusic Spotlight
“On the first tour through America, my spandex—I fucking hate saying, “my...”
– James Hetfield in the April 2001 Playboy interview with Metallica. (via mlarson)
“Chasin’ venture paper, like what Twitter get/Sick of arguing with white dudes on...”
– Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Rick Ross Lies, the Rolling Stones Plunder, and Taylor Swift Triumphs - Page 2 - Music - New York - Village Voice
@natepatrin SOUR PATCH KIDS!!!
“In 2010, the Most Popular Boy in the World came from somewhere close by: your...”
– Justin Bieber, Twitter Casanova - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice
love this argument (naturally; see also: guy drinking a beer)
“Lil Wayne’s slurring hyena gibber”
– Odd Future, Wiz Khalifa, and the Internet-Rap Atomization - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice
just when you thought we’d run out of ways to describe it, Tom Breihan is thankfully back in the pages of the Voice (he also says a lot of other good stuff!)
“The answer perhaps is that there’s just too much of the stuff, and that...”
– Leave Chillwave Alone - Page 2 - Music - New York - Village Voice
“Such sputtering speaks to music critics’ increasingly chaotic thought process—a...”
– The Wayward Crucifixion of M.I.A. - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice
“With our day-to-day, hour-to-hour agenda now set entirely via trending topic...”
– Cee Lo Green and the Year of “Fuck You” - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice
killer job by everybody on these P&J essays i’ve read so far. i will probably be quoting again, so sorry to those of you who already read this stuff anyway
“When Arcade Fire take aim at the shopping malls (“Sprawl II [Mountains Beyond...”
– Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to The Suburbs - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice
just me. thanks, Village Voice dudes! editing down my nonsense to halfway comprehensible quotes since 2010 (TM)
“there is a weird (for me atleast) way that i interact with “new” bands these...”
– do you see me an equal babe, or someone to hide? | blinds are like regulars
“How many people who don’t already agree were still reading this column by the...”
– Daily Howler: O’Reilly and O’Donnell played the fool on tribal cable last night
“There may not be an answer to our current state of affairs, where half-truths...”
– Guest column: How we might begin to listen rather than bully with our words | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
Sage advice I haven’t always followed, but I’d sure like to try.
(This is basically the genius of the writing style of someone like Nitsuh Abebe… When I...
“(To that end, I just sent off $39 to a site called ReviewYou.com that promises a...”
– Idle Thoughts, While Awaiting the Wrath of Critics…. - ARTicles
Watchpeterfeld:
I posted this last week for her 70th birthday, but here again are Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, age 22, singing “When The Ship Comes In” for Dr. King’s 1963 March on Washington. “And the ship’s wise men will remind you once again that the whole wide world is watching.” At the end, a brief excerpt of Dylan singing “Only A Pawn In Their Game,” about murdered civil rights leader Medgar...
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“If I were coming into it now, I don’t think I’d be making music. I wanted to...”
– John Darnielle (via hardlyart)
This is such a great interview, and when I’m reading the quote above I want to just say “Yeah!” and agree with every point. I totally appreciate, especially, the idea that an artist might not want to invite all the ridiculous scrutiny that the...
“Who he’s listening to now: The new Deerhunter album, and the band A Place...”
– Meet the new kid: Tanner Illingworth, 26 | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
i can tell that we are gonna be friends
Cr4Bdbgs: Xgau Sez #1 →
cureforbedbugs:
New stupid Tumblr project: search the text of Robert Xgau Consumer Guide reviews according to the “somewhat uncommon” word choices in a random word generator. INCREASE YOUR WORDINESS!
aberrant
From “Sincerity Is Never Enough” (1985) about Yoko Ono:
Before Double Fantasy, Yoko’s pop…
“Someone in the background said, “You’re free to go,” and with...”
– After prison, building a new life means more than just doing right
Alex Halperin, who I’m proud to call a friend as well as a former BusinessWeek colleague, has a fantastic article in this weekend’s Washington Post Magazine on the overwhelming challenges facing the more than 2,000...
“the Iowa State Fair, the Pella Tulip Festival and the downtown farmers market,...”
– Basu: In Iowa, the more things change … | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
“Historian Tony Judt traces the social, commercial and architectural history of...”
– Elbert: Train to Iowa City holds key to Iowa’s future | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
“We had Marc Hogan track down the devious duo for a Who Are… feature that we’ll...”
– fergus & geronimo at 17 dots
I wrote something for eMusic. Thanks, eMusic!
“A world without journalism is not a world without political information. Instead...”
– The Death and Life of American Journalism - Robert McChesney and John Nichols - Google Books
just requested this from the library
“They told me I have two minutes. I’m going to pop this Red Hot [candy, pops in...”
– Bill Murray delivers a speech (via harharhar)
“Niche media have created a balkanized ideological world, one that has made a few...”
– Moment of silence was long overdue for nation - USATODAY.com
“I don’t want him to be a suburban jump shooter, I want him to stuff the stat...”
– Hawkeyes stumble at home against Northwestern | Hawk Central
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Cat Stevens: “Sitting” (some...
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“It is a peculiar American dream, this notion that music can give you a new...”
– Alex Ross - Listen to This - Google Books
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“It isa peculiar American dream, this notion that music can give you a new...”
– Alex Ross - Listen to This - Google Books