January 2012
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“Hell, you can find elements of this background, this bundle of stylistic ideas,...”
– Nitsuh Abebe on the long-term influence/residue of scene/emo/MySpace trends
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“Birth rates in America were sagging low in the mid-70s… in raw numbers,...”
– Nitsuh Abebe wrote this great column about someone who called My Chemical Romance my generation’s Nirvana, our boom of MySpace bands, and how Skrillex is a weird outgrowth of that.
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I feel like I missed out on the part of my...
listen to Fall Out Boy
drink Boone’s Farm
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coming clean
Me: [walking into my living room, to my roommates, Adam and Zach. Zach is playing Zelda] Right now I'm downloading the first two Fall Out Boy albums, and the second My Chemical Romance album. Because of reasons.
Adam: Why? Are you studying shitty music?
Me: I'm trying to make sense of some things. [Exits]
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you know that really famous Kerouac quote from 'On...
“The only people for me are the mad ones… the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but zingzangzippypowwhooosh… and I followed, as I always do after people that interest me” or something like that.
I remember being fifteen and reading ‘On The Road’ for the first time and mentioning this passage to my Mom, thinking it was pretty great, since I was...
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re: Cloud Nothings
I think what I said yesterday about Cloud Nothings was received as a premature diss towards the band
bmichael said: sit down man CNs is great been listening to the new album for like two weeks now its awesome
goldensoundz said: Really? I’ve been listening to the new album on repeat all day. To each their own I guess.
when what I meant was that I just hadn’t listened to much of them...
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Alright, I'm gonna figure out what all the fuss...
There’s like this invisible tournament bracket in the back of my mind that tracks with all the buzzbands that I don’t listen to. Then I finally listen to them when I see them mentioned enough times by enough different people I respect, and based on how appealing their name/schtick/general sound are.
I’ve been hearing the name “Cloud Nothings” for like a year now,...
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“All I wanted to suggest, my dear hipster daughter, is to stand by the artist,...”
– My darling father during an email discussion about #LDRSNL (via midwesternmiscreant)
Jeanette’s dad feels sorry for LDR
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Day Two of Thurston Del Moore:
For those of you just joining me, yesterday I attributed a quote from Thurston Moore calling for a radical takedown of the music industry, to Ms. Lana Del Rey.
It has since been reblogged by an actual Lana Del Rey fantumblr and is rightfully causing a little bit of rage as well.
By the way, it was kinda Jeanette’s idea:
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holy shit, that Lana Del Rey thing I made is...
(just to be clear, that quote I posted earlier was said by Thurston Moore, not Lana Del Rey. It was a joke, perhaps a little heavy on the irony)
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girls like status by the hold steady
it was song...
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WatchWill King from Don’t Stop Please plays a new song, “Blue Hallelujah,” on the way to last night’s show at Stickyz, which was amazing.
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Top Hipster Runoff descriptors for Bon Iver
bestrooftalkever:
‘boring cool dad overgrounder music’
‘field-wave’
‘walden-wave’
‘meaningfulcore music’
‘cool dad-NPRwave’
‘rural wave’
‘snooze wave’
‘haunting soft-rock-wave’
‘unabomber-manifesto-wave’
‘lamestream dad’
‘sub-prime mortgage buzz loan vibes in ruralwave’
‘ruralwave’ is my favorite
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some thoughts re: Donald Glover
(because this is what Tumblr is for, right? The SOPA blackout makes everything you post feel trivial)
I think that “Camp” was more or less a total failure, but I believe in him as a very smart guy who has a way with words and comic timing, so I want to think that he could make something very good eventually.
The tone of “Camp” (and what made it so unbearably...
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absurdistaudio:
Portlandia is like if tumblr was a TV show.
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gonna start wearing Angostura aromatic bitters as...
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i’ll believe in anything (wolf parade cover)...
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bmichael:
St Vincent “Cheerleader” (Acoustic)...
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“We’re in the Top Five least-trusted professions in the world, along with...”
– My PR professor on the second day of class
This semester, we’re putting together a PR campaign for a nonprofit that helps homeless people, which will forever soothe my guilt for never giving money to homeless people.
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theblueprint asked: damn, a year ago i'd have gone HAM for a heems solo. but post "relax", it's so unbelievably evident that victor has left heems in his lyrical dust that i'm just kind of "eh" on this...
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