March 2012
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I just got "hired" as a "publicist" by a band.
I will be paid in beers on the band’s tab.
February 2012
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“…the cathartic power of ‘Pinkerton’ is second to none. While...”
– Ian Cohen writes about Weezer’s Pinkerton, and some of it is really fantastic.
However, Cohen does portray the album as being sort of sinisterly puerile and deviantly childish, which is a reasonable reading of the album on paper, but I never really heard the record that way. For instance,...
re: Radiohead, just for the record:
I never really connected with Radiohead on an emotional level. That’s all.
They’re a very talented, innovative band who totally changed music and I’ll totally go to bat for them against anyone who says they suck or something.
But for the most part, their music doesn’t do much for me - the intensely cerebral, paranoid futurist stuff doesn’t really connect with...
A Letter To Myself At Age 17:
Dear 17-year-old Andrew,
Please enjoy being a horrendous douchebag about the music you listen to right now, because you’re going to (mostly) grow out of it sooner than you think, and you’re going to miss it a little bit, so enjoy it while you can.
Much love,
- 21-year-old Andrew
P.S. we still like most of the same bands, so don’t worry about it.
P.P.S. stop pretending to...
“There was a time when only a few people out there were out there. Nikola Tesla....”
– aberjona (in a Tumblr post I had trouble reblogging properly) has some insightful things to say about a certain tired, useless cultural term.
This is a topic I hate to keep bringing up, but I really want to keep this quote somewhere.
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“…I remember something Louis Armstrong once said, after being asked to give...”
– Patton Oswalt, in a new column for SPIN
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Jamieson Cox wrote this great review of Tennis'...
jamiesoncox:
I enjoy watching bands mature, develop, and reach their potential, even if it’s only for a song or two. It feels very personal to earmark a young artist or group as “people worth watching”; if they eventually deliver on the promise you assigned to them, it validates your interest. I’m struck with a bit of pride every time that happens: “I knew they were going to make it.” We turn a...
It seems that I accidentally found the ageist Joni...
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“I don’t like his fucking voice. I don’t like what he talks about. I don’t like...”
– DMX, on Drake (via thallydraper)
DMX is back to save us all
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if you listen to Bon Iver's most recent album sped...
“Perth” has some double-kickdrum action that is totally metal
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I was really thrilled to see this →
Scrolling through today’s new reviews on Pitchfork and saw that the wonderful B Michael Payne has a great review up on Dustin Wong’s new album and was totally thrilled for him.
finally found a use for my "personal Tumblr"
which I never keep up - I’m going to start using it as a place to put some of my (better?) phone pictures, since I feel like they could use some kind of online home, in case they get lost or something someday.
Here it is, if you’re interested.
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bills bills bills (harmonimix) by destiny’s...
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radar detector by darwin deez
is it time for SXSW...
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Someone should make a Mortal Kombat-style game...
you can play as different musicians and settle various beefs with fisticuffs and specialized fighting moves based on their musical qualities.
I just wanna play a video game where Skrillex and James Blake fight, and they can ‘drop the bass’ on each other.
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at last (skrillex remix) by etta james
just in...
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“I live in Berlin, which means that in order to watch the Grammys, I needed to...”
– Philip Sherburne is a guy who is really serious about dance music, and the long, beautiful, historical traditions that come with it.
Philip Sherburne sounds like a guy that you would accidentally get stuck talking to at a bad party.
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man, it just doesn't get any better than when...
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Nitsuh also said, re: "Why Does America Love...
“the massive, grainy bass blurts … giant, wobbling shudders that go wubwubwub and activate the same part of the brain that makes 10-year-old get excited about explosions.”
So doesn’t this answer the other question “Why The Rest Of Us Hate Skrillex?”
I think that a lot of intelligent people are really uncomfortable with that part of their brain (or psyche, I...