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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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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Himanshu - Nehru Jackets
dasracistilluminati:
Nehru Jackets, the solo debut of Himanshu was released a few hours ago via SEVA NY website.
The album is entirely produced by Mike Finito. In addition to the appearances of established indie rappers such as Action Bronson or Danny Brown and Greedhead affiliates, this project also includes collaborations with SEVA youth members that sing and rap in Punjabi. The art cover,...
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